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Be the Greenest you can be for Saint Patrick's Day!

In the spirit of drinking green, going green, wearing green and buying green gadgets to celebrate the Holiday of St. Patrick’s you need a little something that is truly green in spirit and will power up all your gadgets!

Put the power of sunlight to use with a Portable SolarCharger from CaliforniaPC.com. Check out how to keep your phone charged, your GPS in the right direction, your Ipod rockin out with your favorite tunes and so much more…. Trust me you will be the coolest St. Patrick’s celebrator around! 

Below is a few of the gadgets you can keep powered up for the spirit of the holiday!

Paddy's Day, is a national celebration of everything Irish, from shamrocks and cabbage to leprechauns and the color green. The good news is you don't have to be of Irish descent to enjoy St. Patrick's Day, though you do have to like the color green to appreciate today's top 10 roundup. Among the green-colored gadgets we found are an interactive musical cushion, a USB frog massager, and a green laser pointer.

Green Laser Pointer II
Laser pointers are typically sold with red wavelengths, but ThinkGeek doesn't sell typical gadgets. The company is offering the Green Laser Pointer II, a 532 nm green laser based on the use of Diode Pumped Solid State Frequency Doubled (DPSSFD) laser technology. Its range is about 9,000 feet in darkness with a 1.1 mm beam diameter. Its common uses are for sky pointing, projection on low clouds, and signaling. The pointer takes 2 AAA batteries and is available in either black or white for $99.99.

USB Frog Massager
Feeling stressed at work lately? Then it's time to bring out the USB Frog Massager. It's great for working out those areas of tension, including your neck and back. To power on, connect it to your computer's USB port, press the frog's eyes, and its feet will begin to vibrate. It also runs on two A batteries when you're not near a computer. Ribbet your way to relaxation for $10.

Find more St. Patrick's day gidgets & gadgets at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2104401,00.asp

Don't let a great deal pass you by on a StarDot IP camera!

Get all the details at www.CaliforniaPC.com 

StarDot Technologies, based in Buena Park, California, has been designing and manufacturing remote imaging and video solutions since 1994. We have provided solutions to a wide variety of organizations, including the National Park Service, the FAA, NOAA and NASA. Applications include security, tourism, construction, education, government and many other users who need to view, record and export high-resolution video and images.

All of the engineering is done in USA. The product line includes four generations of NetCam (supporting resolutions up to 10MP), Express video servers (connect up to eight video cameras to a network) , StarDot DVR/NVR (IP-based digital video recording software), and an entirely new camera category, the MCLDC product line which uses digital television signaling to exceed the best qualities of all other common security camera types.

StarDot carefully engineers all of its devices so that they provide the most forensically accurate quality of image, preferring to produce images which retain the highest possible information content for use in solving problems, rather than simplified images which at quick glance appeal to the eye with distorted colors or details cropped off from shadows. The highly parallel nature of StarDot color processing allows more operations to be done on the finished images than any other camera solution in its class, with such exotic features as smart sharpening; an algorithm which by itself would use up all available processor power in CPU based designs. StarDot cameras are detail oriented, with real working autoiris logic rather than a simple voltage to drive such lenses fully open. StarDot engineers the operating system in their cameras to be standards compliant, with cross platform compatibility and light weight interface, making them usable across very slow and/or high latency connections. StarDot carefully selects any plug-ins for its web pages, so as to work with the most browsers. Other vendors maximize specific demonstration modes at the expense of usability in the real world.

Hello all, it's been a bit since our last posting, crazy busy with holidays and end of year reports can do that to you! But we are back in full swing and ready to hook you all up with great information, products, and new and exciting things coming your way in the year 2014!

To start lets revisit one of our passions, Portable Solar Chargers! We just love what can be done with this product, lightweight, portable, small to large capacity chargers and all the while staying green within the environment by the lack of loud motors, carbon emissions and smell of gas invading your camp site, picnic table, beach house, cabin or wherever you are!

Just remember spring is coming and it's time to start getting your camping, first aid & survival packs together for all those great outdoor trips you are planning for 2014!

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Now is the time to check out our fantastic selection of our California PC FLASH cards!

Can we truly unplug? Or is it enough to just plug in a different way?

If you had an idea for solar power while camping, hiking, climbing, traveling etc. and the means to do it would you? With the assumption that even when we are getting in touch with nature we are still plugged in to our technological driven society it only make sense that we should at least “plug in” in a more environmentally conscious way. 

A solar snow board that charges while boarding to then charge your phone, MP3 player, or whatever your device while you chill with your pals afterwards at the lodge?

A solar powered water purifier? Solar powered camping lights or lanterns? Imagine a Nook or tablet charging during the day while you are swimming, hiking or exploring, then ready to be used in the evening? 

What about the fact that anything that can be charged can basically be charged with a portable solar panel in one way or another?

What about a way to have your creature comforts for camping without the nasty loud generator emitting pollution and disrupting a camping sight? 

Would you use it? Would you encourage and be an advocate for a quiet camping experience in nature without going without? The sound of birds and water over gas powered generators and exhaust fumes sounds like a better deal to me! 

Creativity is endless and has infinite possibilities as does solar powered ideas, so why not be challenged? Be brave, be different, be inventive!

Boats, golf carts, lights, kayaks, cabins and cars are being lit, fueled and run by solar power, why can’t tents, RV’s, and motor homes? 

Isn't it all about being out in nature and letting go of “the daily grind” while you are out hiking, camping, communing, rock climbing, mountain biking, backpacking, sleeping, reading… whatever it is that lets you just breath out in the forest or wilderness or beach or lake?

Of course it is, however isn't it also true that we are all so hard wired these days of technology that maybe we can’t quite let go of it all? That even though we need the quiet and the birds and wind in the trees and sounds of rushing water, that at some point we will still need that “fix” of electronic gadgetry? 

Maybe it’s just one little game of Angry Birds, or a DVD movie on the laptop or some really great tunes while we cook over a fire… that is assuming there is no internet signal anywhere…but then what if there is internet service? Ahhhh do you feel that? The pull of needing to be connected is calling our names…to post, to tweet, to show, to text, to Tublr or StumblUpon. 

A little Instagram to soothe the soul or some Face-booking to show how in touch with nature you are and out of touch with the “in touch” world? hmmm Maybe just one quick tweet? 

If we are going to cheat a little bit, then we should at least do it using environmentally responsible and user friendly solar power. 

There are small kits, big kits, roll-able kits, fold-able kits, kits that are less than 1 lb and some the size of a banner and weight of a bag of sugar. Pack-able, portable, durable.  

They are easy. They are affordable. They are the future. They are your future. 

They are the right thing to do.

Be Solar Inspired.