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Free iPads scheduled for landing at airports

If you enjoy the ritual of sitting down at your departure gate to kill some time with your iPad while waiting for your flight to board, you might want to avoid flying out of LaGuardia, Minneapolis-St. Paul, or Toronto airports in the coming months.

That's because airport restaurateur OTG will be deploying thousands of Apple tablets at the airports over the next year-and-a-half, and your iPad chillin' time could be taken up by your less tech-savvy travel companions who will likely have all kinds of questions for you about operating the blasted contraptions.… Read more

The Gizmo Report: Monster Power's Outlets To Go

I usually carry a cheap extension cord when I travel-- the kind you'd get at a hardware store, with a three-wire plug and three outlets molded in plastic at the other end. Hotel rooms often hide outlets behind the bed, and sometimes all of the outlets are in use; even a very short extension cord can solve these problems.

But on my last few trips, I've been dissatisfied with the cord I've been carrying around, and I've had my eye open for a better one. I just got one, and it looks pretty good. It's the Outlets To Go OTG400 from Monster Power, one of the many brands of Monster Cable.

I'm not entirely happy with Monster. I think the company sometimes… Read more