Words from Nerds #66: Home Improvement Tech

Need tools for your next home project? Tech can make that job easier, naturally. We’ve got you covered this week with tips from gadgets, to planning, to mobile apps.

Nerd News

• Radio Shack, Wal-Mart and Best Buy to Carry iPhone 4 on June 24
• Microsoft announces Kinect for XBox 360
• New Xbox at $300, available now
• Starbucks free Wifi on July 1
• Google music store could launch this fall

Feature Story: Home Improvement Tech

• add a laser guide to any existing miter saw
• cordless tools: cordless drills
• LiquidNails and pneumatic nail guns
• home design software: Punch Software Home & Landscape Design, Google SketchUp
• laser-guided levels
• www.behr.com for color testing and combos
• of course, there’s an app for that (iHandy Level free, among many others)

Nerd History

• June 14, 1938 – Action Comics issue one is released, introducing Superman.
• June 14, 1954 –  U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words “under God” into the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance.
• June 12, 2009 – American Digital TV transition