We aren’t too proud to beg over here at Urban Monarch and now Skullcandy’s smokin buds headphones are en route.  We’re excited to give these reader recommended headphones a spin around the Denver mass transit system.

I’m currently in the market for an LCD TV.  I’m currently looking for sizes 23-28″ to fit on some built in shelving that I proudly installed myself.  As I look at the prices jump dramatically as the size increases by just a few inches, I began to wonder how much Urban Monarch readers value their […]

I’ve gone through a few mice in the short time I’ve had this computer.  The mouse it shipped with was a roller ball which should have stopped being produced after 1998.  Replacing it with a gamer mouse (a slickdeal), I thought I was set for a while.  However, the changable hand weights and molded plastic […]

Who imagines this lovely seal is a stun gun? It gives an electric shock to a naughty guy trying to touch you.
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If you don’t know anything about Japanese culture, let me clue you in on one thing: Japanese men are perverts. I’m not talking regular grade, all American, 33 porn DVDs (R.I.P #34, sometimes […]

Hey Skullcandy,
Recently I wrote an article asking our readers advice for noise canceling headphones.  One commenter suggested skull candy as a great all round headphone for travel or personal use.  Cash and I would both like to get our hands on a couple pairs to review.
-Greg

Being online at least 50% of my waking days and nights for maybe the last 7 or 8 years has taken its toll.
There are certainly some positive aspects to this;  I can’t recall the last time it took longer than 2 or 3 minutes to find something.. ANYTHING, I may have been looking for.
Whether a […]

With all the love we’ve been dishing out lately for Apple/Steve Jobs/Mac I need to take a moment to give a big ups to the fine folks at.. GASP - Microsoft!  No, really.

I’m in the final stages of completing my first 4HWW muse (it’s an eBook).  Up until two days ago, I’d been writing and […]

I knew people were fanatics about Apple products, but I didn’t realize people were equally amped about out dated mac products.  Enter, cubeowner, a site dedicated to all things Power Mac G4 Cube.  Warning, you may quickly be tempted to fish $200 out of your pocket for a used one on ebay.

In what may well be the dorkiest thing I’ve ever posted here on UM (yet!), I present to you some dood’s sweet steampunk versions of Star Wars action figures.
I don’t care where you’re from, R2D2 looks bad ass.
If you’re not familiar with the whole ’steampunk’ concept, a quick wiki overview:

Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy […]

Thanks to longtime reader Jess for another great guest post!
ProQuo is a free service which has the primary aim of greatly reducing the amount of junk mail, credit card offers, etc that you receive in your normal snail-mail box.  Additionally, they’ve recently added a feature to do the same with catalogues, too (honestly, who still […]

Back in December, UM fan and friend Jess wrote a great review of online telephone number-juggler Grand Central.  I was hesitant at first, but finally set myself up.
(There is a short wait to get a number, as they’re in ‘beta’.  I think it took about a week to receive mine). 
Being that they haven’t yet integrated […]

Recently I purchased an adjustable height stand for my laptop.  This allows me to position the display of my laptop in line my external flat panel monitor.  Operating in extended desktop dual monitor mode, I’ve been adding a few tools to increase the productivity.  This one though is purely for aesthetics.
Display Fusion
My laptop video card […]

I put a time limit on my business computers.  2 years on a laptop and 3 years on a desktop.  Occasionally I’ll even sacrifice them earlier in favor of a beefier upgrade.  My Dell laptop, having made the last 22 months triumphantly, is getting ready for an upgrade.  One option I’m considering is an Apple […]

The United States Postal Service recently announced a 10 city trial run of a free recycling program for used electronics.
From the press release:

The “Mail Back” program helps consumers make more environmentally friendly choices, making it easier for customers to discard used or obsolete small electronics in an environmentally responsible way. Customers use free envelopes found […]

Last Minute is a travel site whose sole focus is on deals happening in the next two weeks.  Great for procrastinators and the spontaneous alike.
Sample price?
Denver to Phoenix, next weekend, air+hotel: $250

I found out about ‘Nabaztag’ after one of their Google ads appeared on UM.  How Nabaztag is considered ‘contextually relevent’ to our content is a mystery.
Not so mysterious? 
That pre-teen girls and gay men everywhere are shreiking with delight because of it.
Seriously though, gadgets like this are the future of the internet, and foreshadow a complete […]

A report out of Tokyo about a new breed of robots designed to watch children is fascinating and freaky in equal parts.
The fascinating:

If parents want to leave their children with the kid-sized machine, they arrange for the youngsters to wear special badges that bear codes which the robot can read.
The robot can then identify the […]

One of the best things about upgrading to a Mac (hopefully within a month or so!) will be the seamless upgrade of iTunes when new versions are released.  There have been SEVERAL window’s iTunes updates that have practically crashed my computer, given me general heart failure, and sent me scrambling to roll back.  This sometimes […]

Getting more excited by the day about my pending upgrade to a mac mini, I’ve been coming across all sorts of cool stuff online.
For instance, this steampunk mac mini mod that Dave Veloz made as a wedding gift for his bride to be.
It’s a jawdropping work of art that reminds me of one part Mirror […]

As the wikization of the entire world continues; those techie gurus over @ Wired dish up one that actually matters:  The Wired How To Wiki.  Featuring articles ranging from “How To Cheat on the Need to Sleep” to Card Counting and beyond, Wired will learn you real good.

Not having cable / satellite service has its pros and cons.  Pros; not being able to spend all night watching mindless drivel on my TV.  Cons: not being able to spend all night watching mindless drivel on my TV.
Let’s face it; sometimes after a long day’s work there’s nothing more appealing than collapsing on the […]