Techcitement

Techcitement is an online tech magazine. The term techcitement is defined by the feeling that comes over you when discovering new (or even old and unfamiliar) tech. Techcitement also relates to the idea of any use of technology that proves to be interesting, from politics to social media to fitness. If a story excites us, we want to share it with you. Techcitement.com

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Review: Does The Amazon Echo Reverberate With Buyers?

Nat Gertler is the author of this article and such acclaimed about-the-author paragraphs as the ones on The Peanuts Collection, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel, and The Licensable BearTM Big Book of Officially Licensed Fun!. Through his publishing line, About Comics,...

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Immigration, The H-1B Visa, And The Tech Industry: Why It Matters

Guest article by Jason Finkelman. Jason Finkelman is an Austin immigration attorney focused on serving international individuals and domestic and foreign businesses in a variety of business-based and family-based immigration matters. Finkelman Law works with entrepreneurs, investors, startups, a...

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On The Cheap Alert: Amazon Prime One Day Sale

Amazon Prime is a heck of a thing. You get two-day shipping at no additional cost,video streaming, all-access music streaming, unlimited photo storage, and access to the Kindle lending library. It’s also not cheap, running $99 a year. Sure, that’s $8 a month, but what if it were ...

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CES 2015 Brings The Nostalgia Factor With Polaroid, Sony, Dell, and Palm

You may have noticed a lack of CES 2015 coverage on Techcitement. To be honest, it’s all been a bit overwhelming. So far many of our favorite companies have announced impressive new devices. We’re dying to test them all. One thing that’s struck is though, is how many devices at...

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New Phone Or Tablet, Make This Your Tech New Year's Resolution

Now that we’re safely in the new year, there’s something I want, nay something I must share with you. A good portion of you probably received a new tablet or phone this holiday season. Flurry.com reports a slim majority were iOS devices, but even if you were in the minority, you ...

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Review: Adonit Wants You To Take Stylus In Hand With The Jot Touch and Script

For these stylus pens, we asked an artist to do a guest review. Travis Hanson is an Eisner-nominated fantasy illustrator with a huge imagination. His works include comics, children’s art, fantasy and just fun illustrations that encourages the need for people to be creative. For m...

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Review: Doppler Labs's Dubbs Want To Save Your Ears

Every now and then, Techcitement will get something a bit different to review. In this case, it’s Doppler Lab’s Dubbs. Despite what you may think, these are not earplugs. Get that thought right out of your head. Rather, these are “acoustic filters”, which is completely...

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Techcitement Review: Amazon Fire TV Stick Has A Few Kinks To Work Out

Guest review by Nat Gertler Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick is the e-tailing giant’s entry into the TV-streamers-on-an-HDMI-dongle market, facing up against Google’s Chromecast and the Roku stick. Like Chromecast, the Fire TV Stick is an affordable piece of electronics, a $39 item in...

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Review: Sharp's AQUOS Crystal Has One Clear Advantage

While smaller companies keep trying to beat Apple and Samsung out for at least a level of brand recognition, for the most part, those two companies rule the roost while HTC, LG, and Motorola vie to keep up at the edges as Kyocera, ZTE, and Alcatel battle it out for the mid-range and low-end. ...

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The Obsolescence Of The DSLR Camera

SLR cameras have long been a staple of photography, dating back to the days of film. Short for Single Lens Reflex, the SLR gets its moniker from a spring loaded mirror behind the lens which reflects the view from the lens back up to the user.  When the shutter button on an SLR is pressed, the ...

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Safety Tech: Self-Security In The 21st Century

Recently, a video was released of a woman, Shoshana Roberts, walking through the streets of New York, being harassed as she goes. Putting aside issues (and there are issues) of the races that were edited out, it’s important to note that her experience was quite sadly typical for a New ...

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On The Cheap: Amazon Fire Stick; Shoots Special Price At Prime Members

Despite Apple still calling the AppleTV a “hobby”, TV streamers are big business. Amazon has been doing a great job of selling the still-fairly-new Fire TV system. Voice search and integration with Prime Instant Video have been big points in favor – but not so much the $99...

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Samsung Bringing A True Wrist-phone To The U.S. This Fall

The headline really says it all, folks. Starting this fall, you can get an actual smartwatch phone on all four major U.S. carriers. Unlike Android Wear devices or the Apple Watch, the Samsung Gear S is a full-featured mobile device rather than a companion device. Another way the Gear S is ...

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Drop Aims To Make Your Kitchen Measurably Smarter

Confession – when we saw the Drop being demo’edat a recent event, we almost walked right past. A connected scale? Big deal. Except the Drop is more than just a scale that shows results on your tablet (iOS only for now, Android coming soon). The goal with Drop isn’t just connectivity, ...

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HP Brings Quality To Budget Computing With The Stream Line

For the last few months there’s been a rumor that HP was going to announce a laptop for under $200. People were let down when the initial 14″ Stream was announced at still-pretty-good-if-you-ask-me price of $299. It turns out HP wasn’t done just yet. The Stream was not a...

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ScanSnap Serves Up Image Capture Options In Grande, Vente, and Trenta

Way back in 2011 we got to run the ScanSnap S1100 through the paces. We were impressed and actually still keep it handy for sudden scan needs. Except as you all know, tech doesn’t sit still. What has the company been up to since? For one thing, there’s the impressive looking update ...

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