Bill Henderson

Creative Director for a large Children's publisher. I play all day and they pay me for it.

Tribit StormBox Blast 2 Portable Bluetooth Speaker review – Tribit gets louder—and better

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REVIEW – When reviewing portable Bluetooth speakers, it’s hard not to develop a favored brand. One of my favorites is Tribit. I was immediately blown away by the first Tribit speaker I reviewed—the StormBox Micro followed by the improved StormBox Micro 2. These small speakers sound waaay bigger than they are. I still use one […]

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Treblab HD-360 portable Bluetooth speaker review – Go ahead, get two for wireless stereo!

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REVIEW – Tribit. Tronsmart. Treblab. Notice any similarities? They all make Bluetooth speakers and are competitors in both price and features—but do their names need to sound alike? Even I—a reviewer—sometimes get confused. I can only imagine how a regular customer looking for an affordable Bluetooth speaker might feel. To clarify a bit, this review

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Brane X Speaker review – It’s (not just) all about that bass

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REVIEW – The cynical side of me just loves it when a product is hyped to be something it isn’t—and yet is. Reviews of the Brane X speaker from Brane Audio have touted how it “bends the laws of physics” with its ability to supply bass that was only possible from much larger speakers. Heck,

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Huion Kamvas 13 (Gen 3) display review – It’s a premium beginner’s drawing display

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REVIEW – If you’re starting out in digital art—or even thinking about it—you’ll need a graphics display. You might be thinking, “But, I already have an iPad.” and that’s fine—but I want you also to consider adding a graphics display to your digital arsenal. Why? Unless you do all of your art on an iPad,

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iStorage diskAshur PRO3 Portable SSD Drive review – How much is your data worth?

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REVIEW – Years ago, I bought an external hard drive with a whopping 740 Megabytes. Not Gigabytes, not Terabytes—just Megabytes. It cost hundreds of dollars, and now I work on individual files that are twice as large! How far we’ve come. Today, many hard drives aren’t even drives at all; they’re SSD chips that read

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Edifier NeoDots True Wireless Earbuds with Active Noise Cancellation review – a standout among under-150-dollar range

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REVIEW – Even though I enjoy reviewing various products, my heart has always warmed when it comes to audio. I can’t quite pinpoint the reason behind this but let me tell you, I’m not musical. I can’t read music, or play an instrument, and if I dare to sing in the house, my wife (who

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Bowers & Wilkins Pi8 In-ear True Wireless Earbuds review — who knew an improvement could feel so good?

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REVIEW – It’s hard to imagine that as little as 7-10 years ago, most earphones were wired requiring them to be physically connected to an iPod or other portable music player. Today, however, wireless IEMs (in-ear monitors) are as common as ever. It seems everyone owns at least one pair—or more. And most of them

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Onlyfly Bird Feeder Cam review – A feeder AND camera for birds—and squirrels

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REVIEW – While I can appreciate birds flying around our backyard, my wife is a bird nut. She can identify most—if not all—Florida birds. She gets excited when a bird shows up that is not usually seen in Florida or is arriving out of season. Me? I can’t tell a cardinal from a blue jay.

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Solaris 718 Space Heater review – It looks as good as it works

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REVIEW – Last June, I reviewed a Fall/Winter jacket—in Florida. As crazy as that sounds, I’m reviewing a room tower heater in September—in Florida! It makes no sense to me either, but Dreo—who makes great fans—decided to send out a heater/fan for review. So here I sit in my heavily air-conditioned house in Central Florida

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Fender X Teufel Rockster Go 2 Bluetooth Speaker review – A little German engineering plus a little American design equals a decent speaker

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REVIEW – Back in 2016, I got to review the Teufel Raumfeld wireless speakers. Teufel—a successful European Audio company— was trying to enter the US market with the Raumfeld system. Their Stereo M speakers were some of the best I’ve ever heard. Unfortunately, the speakers only worked with Teufel’s Wifi system and not Bluetooth. As

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Edifier D32 Tabletop Wireless Speaker review – More retro than retro

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REVIEW – When you look at the current crop of wireless speakers, it becomes obvious that they tend to resemble each other—lots of speaker grills showing with controls lined up along the top. The new Edifier D32 Wireless Speaker eschews that look and travels back in time to when speakers were also radios and looked

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Huion Kamvas Pro 19 graphics display review – When bigger isn’t better for you

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REVIEW – Last June (2024), I reviewed the excellent Huion Kamvas Pro 27 graphics display. It’s big, has a beautiful 4K screen, and it’s expensive at $2,000. However, if that price is a budget buster, there are two good choices available from Huion—the Huion Kamvas Pro 24 (4K) or  the new Kamvas Pro 19—this review. 

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XPPen ACK08 Smart Keyboard review – It will elevate the XPPen Magic Drawing Pad experience

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REVIEW – More than half of my gadget reviews have been written on my iPad using an external keyboard—usually the Brydge Pro+ iPad Pro Keyboard that I still use—and like. Recently, I reviewed the XPPen Magic Drawing Pad (think Android-based iPad mated with a portable drawing display) and appreciated XPPen’s first effort. It’s a nice

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TCL 65QM851G 65” QM8 TV review – A lot of features equals a great TV

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REVIEW – I’m old enough to remember shopping for a “tube” TV. In the mid-1980s, I drooled over the huge 36-inch Sony Trinitron, but could never afford one at around $1000 ($2,700 today). Now, TVs are much larger, much better, and less expensive than anything in the recent past. We are all better off today

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Coolme Stage GoFree Portable Bluetooth Speaker review – If it’s retro you want . . .

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REVIEW – So many portable Bluetooth speakers, so little time. Yeah, I know, first-world problems. But if you are looking for an inexpensive portable speaker that has decent sound, can get wet, and doesn’t cost much, where do you look? Reviews like this one are a good start, but search around and read (or watch)

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Tribit StormBox 2 Portable Wireless Speaker review – Two of them are more than the sum of the parts

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REVIEW – When you see a Tribit speaker, your first thought might be, “That looks like a (insert speaker model here) speaker. Maybe that’s part of Tribit’s genius. They make some of their speakers look like another brand without downright copying them. For instance, The Tribit StormBox Flow resembles the Bose SoundLink Flex. The Tribit

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Bowers & Wilkins rethinks personal audio – the new Pi6 and Pi8 Earbuds

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NEWS – Today, Bowers & Wilkins is introducing two all-new true wireless earbuds, the Pi6 and Pi8, developed by the same team responsible for the popular Px7 S2e and Px8 headphones. With their all-new industrial design and completely revised mechanical, electronic and acoustic engineering, Pi6 and Pi8 are the most comfortable, fully featured earbuds B&W

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Bluetti AC50B Portable Power Station review – same look, double the size and power

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REVIEW – Last December, I reviewed the newly designed Bluetti AC2A Portable Power Station. I said then that it was small, powerful, yet simple. It still is. The folks at Bluetti must be pleased with their efforts with the AC2A because they’ve released a bigger brother version—the Bluetti AC50B, a more powerful 700W larger twin

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HiBy Digital M300 Pocketable Android Digital Audio Player review – A hi-end music player in a smartphone world

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REVIEW – Remember when the Apple iPod became a thing and changed how we listen to music? As you may know, Apple no longer makes the iPod. It’s been replaced by the more practical and much more important iPhone. The iPhone—and other smartphones—can play unlimited music and perform numerous functions. Smartphones are—literally—pocket computers. Yet, despite

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Poly Voyager Free 20 True Wireless Earbuds review – made for calls but stay for the music

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REVIEW – Back in the Jurassic period of earphones, there was Plantronics—known for in-ear communication devices wirelessly (and wired) connecting to smartphones or corporate landlines. Created for the airline industry, these (usually) single-ear devices consisted of an earphone connected to a long wrap-around mic that sat near the user’s mouth. Over time, these were made

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