I got an iPhone and want to know what accessories and cases I should get. What’s your favorite app?Cutegeek Fans give me your advise and tell me what has worked best for your iPhone?!

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IAM BACK AGAIN! I got an iPhone and iPad and want to know what accessories and cases I should get. Cutegeek Fans give me your advise and tell me what has worked best for your products?! XO Neeners

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I was so excited when I got my first new product after E3 and it was these SUPER cute ear buds and in ear headphones from Roxy/ JBL. First off I love bright colors, I am not sure if it is because I am in California or that I am blind and frankly colors stick out more…

Radiris and I  make amazing partners in crime; we both have different technology preferences! CUTEGEEKS UNITE (imagine Radiris and I running to each other in slow motion [because everything is better in slow motion]and high fiving like big geeks)! As most of the population knows not 1 woman is the same…Radiris loves the On Ear Headphones and I love the in ear headphones/ ear buds.

I realize we have said in the past not everything needs to be pink b/c not all women love pink; Radiris loves the color black and looks smashing in it.. I love pink and admittedly my shuffle is….gasp…PINK! When I got the pink and orange ear buds from Roxy/ JBL  in the mail I was S-O-O-O-O pumped! I did a one foot happy dance (still sporting the boot cast). They matched my lil’ shuffle perfectly and the sound was AMAZING!! A true geek at heart; I do get excited when I get products that look fabulous and impress me technology wise…literally the sound quality was A-A-A-M-M-M-A-A-A-Z-Z-I-N-G-G (sing with me world)!!! I love to jam out to rap/ hip hop and I always have to turn the volume on my other ear buds all the way up but not with these little Reference 230 miracle buds…And I love that they are smaller than the apple shuffle earbuds…who wants their ears all stretched out…not me…

So you want the specs right? Any geek would…

Power: 2 x 20mW

Frequency Response: 20 Hz- 20kHz (-10dB)

Dimensions: Diameter- 15mm/ Wire length 1250 mm

Weight: .38oz (11grams)

The in ear headphones reference 250 are cool too. Basically you can receive calls while listening to your MP3s and not interrupt your music list… pops you inbetween your phone and MP3 player. These little buds are a perfect size and smaller then the ear buds. It took me some time to get use to them but once I did I was impressed with the sound quality.  So again Nina give me the specs (shut up already right?!)…well here you go! 

Power: 2 x 5mW

Frequency Response: 20 Hz- 20kHz (-10dB)

Dimensions: Diameter- 13.5mm/ Wire length 1182 mm

Weight: .42oz (12grams)

And Chloe also had to try them on, the girl just loves new toys…I played no music though of course (do not try this at home kids).  She is just so curious about technology too!  Again no music was played while she tried them on!!

I know allot of people want to hear me rant (for those who know me…my rants tend to be funny) so I had to sit here and think (think Nina think think think think)…what would be a standard complaint? I love these things way too much and I believe ear buds truly are my generation’s technology fashion accessory.  After a couple glasses of “grape juice” I found minor and I mean minor items that bugged me…

Rant #1 the noise cancelation on the in ear headset is so strong I cannot hear over my voice when I speak. I used it on Skype and literally had to take one bud out…I hate my inside voice (you know the one only you hear and thank goodness for that). I think I am one of those weird people that does want to hear my surrounding…This really isn’t a complaint considering everyone else in the world would love it!

Rant #2, the pouches for these though super cute it doesn’t stop me from throwing my ear buds in my purse. This starts the downward spiral on the demise of my day, having to untangle little bitty wires. I have actually not used my shuffle if my wires are tangled. I have yet to find the miracle solution for having your buds not tangling; I have broken all the retractable ones. One would assume I would just put them away but NOOO…I don’t…if I was rich I would hire a professional de-tangler if there is such a thing! Again I think this is a Nina problem…I am one hot mess I tell you!

Lastly, I think I need the other color Roxy/ JBL  b/c I am running out of pink items to match with my ear buds and I hate doing laundry or worse…dare I say I hate repeating an outfit…Opps, I’m always thinking of fashion first even if I am a technology geek!

I love these ear buds though and honestly I am the happiest little girl right now rockin my JBL/ Roxy  pink ear buds…even if I am not matching on the streets of San Francisco!  Don’t judge; if you heard the sound you would be rockin’ pink ear buds too!

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On day 2 I woke up sore, I forgot to let you all know I am pretty sure I sprained my foot.  I was limping all through E3 and like a dummy I walked around on it. So day two was a late start (my nick name was gimpay)  but we headed off to the convention center for our first meeting.  Check out one of the displays in front of the convention center, this year truly had some creative outdoor displays and games.

Our first meeting was with Logitech and the first thing I tried was the Logitech® Wireless Guitar Controller and though I am not a Guitar Hero pro and never play the guitar I loved how this instrument played.  It seemed more authentic especially since the neck is real wood. It has a wireless range of up to 30 feet and virtually silent controls, NICE!

My most favorite thing I first tested out on day 2 is not yet released  from Logitech and I cannot give any information on it YET. What I can tell you is it MADE my E3 experience; I fell in love with it and didn’t want to leave after seeing this! I had a perma grin for hours and Radiris had to literally drag me out of the room!! Keep on reading my blog b/c I am hell bent on testing this out and telling you how AMAZING Logitech is! Love love love it! It may have resolved so many gaming issues I had in the past regarding my neighbors!

 HOWEVER I am able to discuss the Logitech G940 Flight System which is AMAZING! Here is the live DEMO from E3! One of my dearest friends flew in the war and also is a pilot now for a major airline so I have so much more interest in this! And yes she is a female pilot; did I just get cool points by association?

So the force feedback effects allow you to feel its movement as well as its reaction to wind shear, buffeting, turbulence, and g-forces. It controls multi-engine aircraft using the two 8-way hat switches or you can lock the levers when you need to operate your engines in sync. It also has true-to-life rudder control, which is needed when performing defensive maneuvers and crosswind landings, or piloting helicopters.The interactive buttons help control and illuminate red, green, amber, or off to indicate the status of critical aircraft systems—gear up, flaps down, and etc.

We also checked out at some Logitech mice.  One model was the V220 which is in a variety of limited-edition patterns and colors; priced at $29.99.

Next we went to City Interactive to test out some new games and my first one to demo was Chronicles Of Mystery: Curse of the Ancient Temple on DS and I have to be frank this game on a plane is Perfect!  We next tested out Chronicles of Mystery: The Three of Life on the PC and Redneck Chicken Riot on Wii; both very cool interactive games.  The ghosts in Redneck Chicken Riot were funny and spooky all at once!

Next we went to the MTV booth again; being a child of the 80′s I honestly cannot get enough MTV! But one of the most thrilling of my E3 experience is PLAYING THE DRUMS FOR THE BEATLES ROCKBAND!! Check out the all chic Beatles Rockband youtube video, I am rockin the drums!  At home I have the standard 4 pod rockband drums but I was up for the challenge and even played on medium first time around. Self hug b/c I rocked it and it was cool to have all chicks the first time! This game is a perfect party game, I should know…I love to throw parties! Nina jammin on Rockband Beatles Drums!

I then ventured over to the PSP Rockband demo…not only do I now need to get rockband Beatles…now it’s a PSP! Michael told me I looked like a huge dork jamming under the PSP Demo pods b/c noone can hear what you are playing! I imagine this is what I will look like once I get this device and you see me on the streets nodding my head with maybe bust out a little dance move…movin’ here and there…who knows! I loved hearing my Rockband songs and being able to play portable was amazing. I want this toy! My birthday is coming up…any takers?! ANYONE?! Its the first of many big 29′s!  (I can’t believe I am admiting this to you all, I was told no women should reveil their age but I think 29 is a big deal or party…ok back to E3)

One thing that made me curious was Xfire.com. Myself being new to gaming besides PS3 the entire explosion of this really cool website/ software Xfire is astonishing. Basically its similiar to facebook’s social media but gaming ONLY instead and also you can create “clans (ie: communities)”. The site has 13.5 million members all over the country! WOW!  We met with the VP of Marketing who was ultra cool (plus uber cute) and he was completely in tune with his audience; he gave us the entire back story. Ideally this site is for those who do online interactive gaming. It has so many short cut tools to continue gaming without even leaving the game! Including and not limited to Chat rooms, voice recording, video broadcasting, web browsing and etc. Also this whole creating clans is a fantastic creation!! Kuddos to you guys! In fact us cutgeek girls will be creating a xfire clan for all you gamers to follow us super cute geeks…I feel like I just became cool even though I am a GEEK! In fact we may even do a demo on building our own little clan and xfire profile.

Overall I had a blast at E3!  I feel like I saw some of the coolest shazza (yeah I said it…shazza) on day 2 and cannot wait to test out some of these amazing products!

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Its only just begun everyone see us Cutegeek girls at E3 on youtube. See some more new post of Ms. Radiris and I at E3 playing games. Radiris on Guitar and Nina on Drums!

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This year was my first experience actually attending E3. I had planned it for others before but never attended until now! As I walked into the LA convention center I was blown away immediately with a HUGE Pepsi Rockband stage with fellow rockbander rocking away, check out the video here!  I then walked into the south hall with my cutegeek partner in crime Radiris and I was AMAZED as you can see in my video here you can listen to my excitement plus see my girl!

My first observation, this was not like CES at all. There were so many women gamers and women executives at E3; I loved it! I believe women gamers truly showed themselves at E3 especially with Rockband, Guitar Hero, Wii Fit, Dance Revolution and Disney.  Of course we had some booth babes in gamer costumes; but I frankly thought they looked GREAT!

Our first stop was Disney Interactive Studios and I had a feeling Radiris would be in heaven! The Toy Story Mania game was fun check out Michael from Hardwaregeeks and I playing one of 25 games on this video. The Hannah Montana: Rock Out the Show (PSP), G-Force (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii) and Disney Sing It: Pop Hits (Wii, PS3)was fun as well! Oh and yes Radiris and I sang along with Sing it which also has vocal lessons as part of the game as well…How Cool!  Gforce was also a fun game to watch; check out Radiris in her GForce Demo…I think she rocked it!  See more toy story demo here!

My next stop and I was so excited Riiflex for Wii , check it out the awesome demo of Riiflex! Basically its 2 and 4 pound actual weights for your Wii wand and nun-chucks plus an interactive work out video which is intense as you see in the demo.

What I found amazing is that you cannot slack on this game, you have to work out and hard. Apparently the reason this product was developed was due to an executive whose wife loved WiiFit but needed a new challenge and a change to her workout routine! And Taaa Daaa…I think the husband majorly delivered. This product rocks and hope to test it out once its released.

Next and one of my favorite’s was the Beatles Demo! First off well done Harmonix and MTV the Abby Road House replica as the booth was amazing! We then walked into a theatre where we had a live demo of Rockband using all instruments. I have to be honest Harmonix, your employees love their job after seeing this demo!!

So what’s so cool? First off you get to vocally harmonize with other players. Second the new Beatle’s drums rock! Third they created the game so that if you are a beginner you will not fail out. How many times do you have a party, bust out rockband and you have to restart b/c apparently your friends aren’t gamers like you. Which is cool but I want to get through a song dang it!

This is the fun part to read so listen up! I got to DEMO it! OH yeah baby! First on day one all I did was I sing. I am a former singer but I hate singing, however to the Beatles, I loved it! It brought me back to a simple time in life!!!

So I missed the Alienware demo due to schedule conflicts (us cutegeeks cannot be everywhere all at once) BUT kudos Alienware, your booth rocked! Being a former Dell employee and into convention/event planning I loved what they did; two story booth, amazing gamer lights, modern/ sexy looking and a live DJ. Plus they had super official secret service Alienware agents! I also had the lovely opportunity to run into some old Dell friends from my past; always great!

Our next stop was Gamersfirst which is range of multi player online games as well as rich community features. I must be honest the dude who first gave me the demo bored the crap out of me, seriously I don’t care how to create a profile b/c guess what I already can figure that out dude (um not that hard).  I wanted to play and after this demo I was already looking around for new things to look at. Finally!  We meet a young marketing women of Gamersfirst (love it) who enlightened us on their products and how cool their games are.  She truly made me want to look more into their products and she was interested in social media! She related more to the female aspect of gaming and I admire their booth for that.

On a personal level I met up with a new friend at Rivera Restaurant in DT La which was an amazing hot spot. I had no idea DT LA was revamping itself!  After such I met one of my greatest pals from high school ten years later (I didn’t make it to my HS reunion) also in DT LA.  After drinks at a Whiskey bar…we had breakfast for dinner (love it) at Pantry Cafe where I swear to gawd the waiter was George Costanza’s dad.

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Original band members Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, along with Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison, came together today to kick off the 2009 E3 Media & Business Summit with the world premiere of The Beatles: Rock Band.

See Presss Release Here!

Tomorrow will be a huge day for me as I will be testing out the New Beatles Rockband with my fellow cutegeeker Radiris!  I hope to video tape or have our unboss video tape us testing it out!  Follow my tweets and facebook as I embark on my first E3.

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Radiris Diaz*
• General Partner and Editor in Chief
• January 2
• Senior Advisor in Financial Services Ernst & Young LLP
• Graduate of Carnegie Mellon University
• Born and raised in NYC but travels across the country and world for work
• Known as the gadget girl at work
• Favorite websites: ruelala.com, facebook.com, hautelook.com and retailmenot.com – what can I say, I love to shop!
• Loves listening to music and dancing!

Maya loves American Girl, Justin Bieber and the going to the Opera. Music picks range from Beethoven’s fifth to Lady Gaga (thanks YouTube!) and Andean Flutes like her grandfather plays. She loves create art, play the Wii, listen to audiobooks on the iPad, choreograph puppet shows and learn anything new about greek myths and Frida Kahlo.

Maya is Wendy Wick’s daughter – if you are interested having Maya to review items, please email Wendy@CuteGeek.com

* Disclaimer: The postings by Ernts & Young on this site are her own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions.
** Disclaimer: The postings by Nina on this site are her own and do not represent the positions, strategies or opinions of HP, Edelman or other associated entities.
*** Disclaimer: The postings by Wendy Wick on this site are her own and do not represent the positions, strategies or opinions of IBM or their clients.
**** Disclaimer: The postings by Cecilia on this site are her own and do not represent her employer’s positions, strategies or opinions.

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Radiris Diaz*
• General Partner and Editor in Chief
• January 2
• Senior Advisor in Financial Services Ernst & Young LLP
• Graduate of Carnegie Mellon University
• Born and raised in NYC but travels across the country and world for work
• Known as the gadget girl at work
• Favorite websites: ruelala.com, facebook.com, hautelook.com and retailmenot.com – what can I say, I love to shop!
• Loves listening to music and dancing!

Maya loves American Girl, Justin Bieber and the going to the Opera. Music picks range from Beethoven’s fifth to Lady Gaga (thanks YouTube!) and Andean Flutes like her grandfather plays. She loves create art, play the Wii, listen to audiobooks on the iPad, choreograph puppet shows and learn anything new about greek myths and Frida Kahlo.

Maya is Wendy Wick’s daughter – if you are interested having Maya to review items, please email Wendy@CuteGeek.com

* Disclaimer: The postings by Ernts & Young on this site are her own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions.
** Disclaimer: The postings by Nina on this site are her own and do not represent the positions, strategies or opinions of HP, Edelman or other associated entities.
*** Disclaimer: The postings by Wendy Wick on this site are her own and do not represent the positions, strategies or opinions of IBM or their clients.
**** Disclaimer: The postings by Cecilia on this site are her own and do not represent her employer’s positions, strategies or opinions.

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