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  • Lunch n’ Learn This Week: Cameras & GPS

    This week you can learn all about digital cameras, and then find out how to get home if you get lost taking photos.
    First, on Wednesday, March 26, the expert from Panasonic will help you choose a digital camera, and then learn how to edit your masterpieces. The noon seminar is full, but an additional [...]

  • NEAT Receipts Help You Get Organized For Tax Time

    Does your desk look like a bomb hit it? Is tax time causing mega paper clutter? NEAT Receipts can help. NEAT Receipts Scanalizer is a scanner with special software that gets rid of paper piles by scanning directly into a database on your computer.
    The portable scanner weighs less than one pound, measures [...]

  • Video Gets Simple with The Flip

    Sometimes less is more. And this certainly is the case with The Flip. This simple little camcorder by Pure Digital is so well-designed that it’s astounding.
    The only moving part is a USB connection, which flips up when a button is pressed– that’s why it’s called The Flip. Just turn The Flip on, [...]

  • The New Nokia N95 8GB Is Here

    Nokia N95 users are proud. Understandably. The N95 8GB is a truly special smartphone, so packed with features that Nokia calls it a multimedia computer. The new N95 (also known as the N95-4) has 8GB of built-in Flash memory. With easy access to music, email, advanced web browsing, a 5-megapixel camera, [...]

  • Take Perfect Pictures with the Quik Pod Pro+

    No longer do you have to ask strangers to take your picture. No longer do you, the photographer, have to sprint over to take your place in the frame. No longer will your priceless picture be ruined by the camera falling over.
    Enter the Quik Pod Pro+, the hand-held tripod from Fromm [...]

  • Celeb Spotting at J&R: Rudy Giuliani

    It’s no secret that America’s Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, loves opera. Our former mayor has been spotted many times in J&R’s classical department browsing for his favorite opera CDs. Mr. Giuliani was shopping recently at J&R, as chronicled by Rush & Molloy in the Daily News.

     

  • The Soundolier Speaker Lamp

    Yes, we said speaker lamp. Is it a stylish floor-standing speaker or a sweet-sounding floor lamp? It’s both.
    The Soundolier Wireless Speaker Lamp is first of all a lovely floor lamp that just happens to have a built-in 5-1/4” full-range speaker with 360-degree sound dispersion. Because of this all-in-one design, there is [...]

  • The Perfect Pushup

    Pushups can sometimes strain your joints and muscles. That’s the secret of the Perfect Pushup. A Navy SEAL designed the Perfect Pushup to stabilize and strengthen the shoulder joint and rotator cuff muscles, while you are building up arms, shoulders, chest, and back.
    The softly rotating handles allow your arms to move naturally when [...]

  • New York Magazine’s Best Bet

    Sound quality. That’s what you want in a Bluetooth headset. And to enhance the sound quality, the Jabra BT8040 includes Active Noise Reduction and Intelligent Volume Settings, and, guess what, they work. The BT8040 has lots of other features going for it, like A2DP support and extremely light weight.
    Active Noise Reduction — [...]

  • J&R’s Lunch n’ Learn

    Learn something useful on your lunch hour. Attend the free J&R seminars and be informed about Blu-Ray DVD, Wi-Fi, surround sound, GPS navigation, digital cameras, satellite radio, even how to remodel your entertainment center!
    First, register for the seminar of your choice on the Lunch n’ Learn page. Then, at noon of the seminar day, [...]

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