Garry Kolb

After a successful 35-year career in information technology in mid-Michigan, I am now happily retired and living the dream life in The Villages, Florida with my fun-loving and very tolerant wife of 39 years. When not playing golf, pickleball, or water volleyball, I like amazing our neighbors with our automated home and fiddling with new gadgets.

BenQ PianoLight piano eye care lamp review

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REVIEW – If you are a keyboardist, one of the toughest things to do is to properly illuminate your keyboard and sheet music without over-lighting your performance location. BenQ’s new PianoLight is specifically designed to illuminate just your music and the entire width of your keyboard without spilling light elsewhere.  Is this a bright idea, […]

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Let your Rube Goldberg imagination run wild with Makeway

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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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Keep time with some boozy up-cycling with Barrique Design watches

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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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TaoTronics SoundLiberty 79 Smart AI Noise Reduction earbuds review

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  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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Just Mobile ShutterGrip 2 Bluetooth transforming phone grip review

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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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iClever Bootstrap power tower review

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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

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Twinkly Strings 400 LED multi-color lights review

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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

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Tote no more with the Gita hand-free carrier

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NEWS – Since we are still in control of our eventual robot overlords, it’s time to stop carrying your crap and have a robot schlep your crap for you! Piaggio Fast Forward (PFF), Piaggio Group’s division responsible for researching the future of mobility has introduced Gita, a personal transport robot for carrying small loads. Gita

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