CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Every Gadgeteer loves gizmos and gadgets. Combining them into unlikely solutions was the artistic inspiration for Rube Goldberg. The board game Mousetrap brought that creative opportunity to the game-playing masses. Makeway has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to let you do a little of that creative magic yourself on any magnetic vertical …
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NEWS – One of the more common traffic accidents is getting rear-ended by distracted drivers, especially in the case of an emergency, or even a quick stop. If only there was a way to get the attention of the driver behind you. Enter Braking Bar! Braking Bar is a battery-operated brake light that mounts via …
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REVIEW – Light helps. It helps us see. It helps us feel better. It helps set a mood. Light is a good thing. The ability to control light is also a good thing. Making it brighter, dimmer, change colors, pulse to a beat, light specific areas – those are all things we like to do. …
NEWS – Do you have a pup that needs to get in and out regularly? If you have a pup, of course, you do! Wayzn thinks they have a better way for you and your pooch to handle that need with their new IoT sliding glass door opener. According to their website, advanced sensors within …
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REVIEW – Big screen TVs are great and all that, but what if you want to go really big? You can snag Samsung’s 8K 98″ QLED for a cool $60-grand. Of course, for that price, you could also grab a nicely equipped Chevy Suburban or nearly cover a loaded Tesla Model 3. Plus, if you’re …
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NEWS – Do you want to stop unnecessary waste? Do you like wine? Do you appreciate a unique timepiece? Do I have a deal for you! Vinotive, a seller of all things wine-related, openers, stoppers, glassware, and so on, has added a line of innovative timepieces with cases and straps fashion from up-cycled wine barrels. …
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CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Many board games and role-playing games (RPG) involve rolling dice. Rolling dice means adding numbers and writing scores. If you’re an RPG player, that can mean serious adding. If only there was a better way! Particula has launched a Kickstarter campaign for GoDice – connected dice and an app that does all …
REVIEW – Intelligence, artificial or otherwise, seems to be in short supply these days. If we can apply intelligence to our communication, it would be a great thing, right? TaoTronics it trying just that by offering the world’s first real-time artificial intelligence (AI) based voice enhancement to your phone calls. While it won’t add …
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CROWDFUNDING NEWS – No, not THAT kind of topless! Draft Top is building on their previous successful Kickstarter campaign in 2016 with a new version of their aluminum can top removal tool. Why would you want to do this, you ask? Draft Top allows you to completely remove, or at least push in, the tops …
NEWS – Do you swim for exercise? If so, how do you keep track of how far or how long you swim? Counting laps is tedious and very easy to lose track of. Wrist activity trackers can work, but some folks don’t like to add something on their wrist while swimming. Most regular swimmers wear …
REVIEW – Back in the day, if you wanted to take photos, you had to lug around a camera. Way back in the day, you had to take your film to the pharmacy or photomat, wait for a week or more, get back your prints, decide if any were worth enlarging, take in your negatives, …
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NEWS – Do you drag after lunch or even first thing in the morning? Pepsi wants to get you cranking with a new high-caffeine offering called Pepsi Café. PepsiCo, the caffeine experts that bring us Gadgeteers Mountain Dew, is again venturing into the coffee/cola blend arena with Pepsi Café, coming in April 2020. Pepsi Café …
CROWDFUNDING REVIEW – Cameras. Does anyone use them anymore? Well, I do, specifically for nature and long-range photography, but for nearly everything else, I just use my phone. The cameras on phones these days are pretty amazing. Their one shortcoming is that phones just are not easy to hold steady in a lot of shooting …
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REVIEW – Electricity is an essential commodity for us Gadgeteers. Everything takes power, and there simply are not enough places to plug in our gadgets. Power strips are nice, but with so many gadgets coming with wall-wart style plugs, it’s hard to use a power strip fully. Add to that a large number of USB-powered …
REVIEW – It’s that time of year where we risk life and limb to decorate for the holidays. For many of us, that involves lights and the requisite swearing that comes from burned-out strings. LED lights have definitely reduced that, but they’re still just lights, right? Twinkly says “NO”! Lights can be more! What is …