Here’s a great addition to your Everyday Carry kit. The Emergency Fire Starter Kit from Zippo has everything you need to start a fire – a reliable Zippo lighter and waxed tinder sticks. The Zippo lighter is made of metal – naturally – and is a matte Safety Orange to make it easily visible in [...]
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everday carry,
Firestarter kit,
Zippo lighter
Today’s LogicBUY deal is for the newest 13.3” Lenovo IdeaPad Z370 laptop starting at $549.00. Features: new 2011 Intel 2nd generation Core i3/i5 cpu, blue or brown color. Optional GeForce 410M 1GB discrete graphics and more. Cheapest Core i3 IdeaPad Z370: $899 – $230 off – $120 web-use stackable coupon = $549 with free shipping [...]
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Users of the Behance Action Method can now combine their organizational system with the convenience of Levenger‘s Circa notebooks. Levenger now has a line of products for the Behance system, like this letter-sized Circa Action Method Notebook. Inside are 66 Action Method sheets for project planning (33 each of blue and orange) and 33 Dot [...]
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Behance Action Method,
Circa notebooks
The generous people at Etronixmart are offering to give one lucky Gadgeteer reader their Day/Night CarCam device which Bill reviewed last month. The CarCam allows you to record your vehicle travels in the day or night. It even has anti-shake technology. Full contest details after the jump. Pin it
A lot of modern electronics are not ‘friendly’ to people with special needs, including those associated with aging. Small buttons, small print, confusing labels, low volumes, high-pitched sounds, and so on can cause real problems for a good chunk of the population. The Amplicom AB900 Amplified Answering Machine offers a solution as far as answering [...]
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amplified,
answering machine,
elderly,
hearing,
Phone,
Telephone
Although you would be hard pressed to find it on their site, the Ozaki iPod bicycle mount could be a nice addition to help make your commute on Ride Your Bike to Work Day enjoyable. It’s a bit pricey ($50) but for those who live by the iPod it appears to be a solid holder [...]
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iPhone
If you are too young to remember Woodstock – or you were there but just need your memory jogged – the On the Way to Woodstock iPad app could be the reference book you need. Over 100 hours of music and video narrates the musical and cultural journey from the 50s to the 60s. There’s [...]
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iPad app,
Woodstock
Today’s LogicBUY deal is a buy one, get one free promotion on the Cisco Umi Telepresence Media System for $399.99 (720p). You can do video calling and recording using the Umi Telepresence Media System and your HD television and broadband internet connection. Features: motorized pan, tilt, and zoom; create and share your own videos on [...]
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I love music. I used to listen to music every waking hour, but I find that I don’t listen as much any more. We have a small house, so my loud music can interfere with someone else watching TV or doing something that needs concentration. I find most earphones uncomfortable, so I just don’t listen [...]
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Headphones and earbuds
Many of you have commented on my pen reviews, as to who would pay $100+ for a ‘ballpoint’ pen. I still believe in many of these cases that you get what you pay for: a finely machined, ultra-durable writing instrument designed to last a lifetime. That said, I was dancing the Net this morning and [...]
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Pen
Today’s LogicBUY deal is 25% savings on the Buffalo DriveStation Axis 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (model # HD-LB1.0TU2) for $59.99. Features: fanless design, can be positioned vertically or horizontally, energy efficient, improved transfer speeds, Mac compatible. Best deal found by LogicBUY: $79.99 – $20 off = $59.99 with free shipping This deal expires [...]
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Colorware is now enabling you to personalize the color of your fancy new iPad 2. ColorWare’s coloration process allows you to customize your iPad 2 however you want: coloring the Apple logo, back panel, and/or the front home button with their extensive palette. This is a permanent, polymer-based coating that looks great and (supposedly) lasts [...]
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iPad 2
Plug your iPhone or iPod touch into the WOW-keys Keyboard from CompuExpert, and you can charge and sync your iOS device (iOS 4.X) using a USB connection on your computer. You can enter text into your iOS device using the QWERTY keyboard, and there are hotkeys that let you control your iPhone/iPod’s functions while it’s [...]
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iPhone/iPod touch keyboard,
Mac and PC keyboard
These Altec Lansing Orbit USB Stereo Speakers are small enough to carry with your laptop. They pack compactly together into a cylinder to fit easily into your gear bag. They use USB power from your laptop, netbook, or computer to significantly amplify and enhance the sound. The speakers have stands that let you aim the [...]
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Portable speakers
You know how you have a choice of 3 different iOS device sizes/types? There’s the iPad, the iPhone and the iPod touch. Now you have that same choice when it comes to Android devices. Samsung has the Galaxy Tab tablet, a huge selection of Galaxy smartphones and now they have the Galaxy Player 50 for [...]
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You’ve probably seen those cloth neck coolers for bipeds and I bought one for my dog last year but of course it would not stay on: you have to tie it like a scarf and with one swoop of his paw my dog could strip if off faster than the Gentle Leader. The people variety [...]
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Pets
For those who feel that the mp3 player killed the mix tape, you should head over to the app store immediately and look up the Stereolizer app by LesMobilizers. It turns the iPad into a full fledged 80s stereo complete with volume dial, tuning dials, audio output meters…and a digital, fully functioning “tape deck”. The [...]
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iPad app,
radio tuner,
stereo
The Smart Cover is great for protecting the iPad 2′s screen, but it leaves the aluminum back vulnerable. HyperShop has a series of TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane) back covers that protect the parts left uncovered by the Smart Cover. The HyperShield Back Cover is only 1.4mm thick, and it protects the iPad 2 against scratches and [...]
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iPad 2 cover
Today’s LogicBUY deal is the Dell Vostro 230 Mini Tower with a 3GHz Intel Dual Core cpu and a 22” Dell E2211H LCD monitor for $399. Base configuration features: 3GB DDR3 1333MHz memory, GMA X4500 graphics, 250GB hard drive, Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit), Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services (15 month subscription), and a [...]
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I’ve always wondered if a reason that I’ve gone through 3 laptops in the past five years might be because they’re running too hot. For the most part I use a laptop as a desktop replacement and rarely take it on the road. It either sits on the kitchen counter or on a desk in [...]
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Laptop