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Native New Yorker Michael Trei loves both new and vintage technology, travel, and great food. A passionate audiophile and music fan, he shares his Manhattan apartment with 12,000 vinyl records and a sizeable collection of turntables. When he hits the road, he can usually be found plying the highway in one of his vintage Mercedes-Benz cars.

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BulbDial Clock updates a truly ancient technology

Michael Trei

Saturday, April 5, 2008 - 11:58am

There's nothing quite like taking a beautifully simple piece of technology and making it incredibly complicated, and few devices are quite as simple as a sundial. The problem is that sundials only work when it's sunny out, and their...

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Show your school pride with ion etched hair

Michael Trei

Saturday, April 5, 2008 - 8:56am

We've seen some pretty wierd places to print things before, but this one is new to me. A team headed by Dr Ray LaPierre at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario, used a focus ion beam microscope to etch the...

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The cell phone celebrates its 35th birthday

Michael Trei

Saturday, April 5, 2008 - 6:06am

On April 3rd 1973 inventor Martin Cooper of Motorola placed the first ever cellphone call from a New York City sidewalk. Who did he call? The president of Motorola? No, he called Joel Engel, his rival at Bell Labs;...

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World's most expensive car wax cleans both your car and your wallet

Michael Trei

Monday, March 31, 2008 - 4:08am

If you thought paying $99 at the local Buff 'n' Shine for a wax and detail was a bit of a rip, you've probably never come across the products from Swizöl of Switzerland. Their top of the line Divine...

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This Mercedes S Class gets 43 MPG; let's just hope they want to sell it in the USA

Michael Trei

Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 12:03pm

I travel to Europe on a regular basis, and have noticed the way most Europeans drive modern high performance Diesels that get amazing fuel mileage. Now Mercedes has combined this technology with the hybrid approach favored in the USA,...

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Nerds have more fun. Here's proof

Michael Trei

Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 12:07pm

Remember those guys in high school who wore the pocket protectors and ran all the AV gear? Well, we might have been laughing at them back then, but now they seem to be having all the fun. Here's a...

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The Herbeau Creations Dagobert toilet is a throne truly fit for a Queen

Michael Trei

Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 9:08am

Have you ever wondered what kind of loo Her Majesty plops her bum on when nature calls? Now that I've planted that unsettling picture in your head, here's what I would have guessed. The very retro Herbeau Creations Dagobert...

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Retro GPS radio won't let you get lost on the way to the classic car show

Michael Trei

Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 6:05am

I love classic cars and even own a couple of them, however, there are a few car gizmos that we tend to take for granted these days that simply weren't invented a few decades back. Becker Autoradio has been...

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New Samsung phone lets you avoid a phone-nail color clash fiasco

Michael Trei

Monday, March 24, 2008 - 4:08am

For all the ladies out there who think that picking up a phone that doesn't match your nails would be a major fashion faux-pas, Samsung has come to the rescue. The SGH-G600 Belle comes in a rather fetching shade...

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Reef Rider underwater sea scooter looks cool until you read the fine print

Michael Trei

Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 12:02pm

Zipping around underwater while being pulled along by a sort of personal mini sub, sounds like a great way to do your own impersonation of James Bond in Thunderball. Just make sure that your henchmen don't dive deeper than...

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Michael Trei

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BulbDial Clock updates a truly ancient technology

Show your school pride with ion etched hair

The cell phone celebrates its 35th birthday

World's most expensive car wax cleans both your car and your wallet

This Mercedes S Class gets 43 MPG; let's just hope they want to sell it in the USA

Nerds have more fun. Here's proof

The Herbeau Creations Dagobert toilet is a throne truly fit for a Queen

Retro GPS radio won't let you get lost on the way to the classic car show

New Samsung phone lets you avoid a phone-nail color clash fiasco

Reef Rider underwater sea scooter looks cool until you read the fine print

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