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.

Round and round – Roto-Q 360 mechanical rotisserie

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CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Who doesn’t love rotisserie-cooked food?  Spinning your food while it’s cooking reduces fat and evens out the cooking.  But rotisseries are a little complicated and typically involve routing electric cords into your grill.  Trying to rotisserie cook in an oven is even harder. Kickstarter campaign Roto-Q 360 wants to bring rotisserie cooking […]

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Help hydrate and save the planet with Hitch

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CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Reusable water bottles are everywhere.  You can always see ecology-minded folks toting their water bottles, keeping their body properly hydrated while not adding to the mountains of waste going into landfills.  But, these same people can also be found at their local coffee shops, drinking their morning caffeine in single-use cups with

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Make your Taco Tuesday healthier with Taco Toaster

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NEWS – It seems like every single week, there’s a Tuesday in there, somewhere, and that means Taco Tuesday!  Soft taco shells are healthier than hard shells, since hard shells are fried, and that means more calories and fat. But hard shells are fun with their crunch and texture. What if you could enjoy crunchy

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Wi-Fi to expand to 6GHz as FCC approves new bandwidth

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ARTICLE – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unanimously approved an expansion of Wi-Fi signals to include 6GHz wavelengths.  Formerly only in the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, this marks a major expansion for Wi-Fi and a potential increase of about five times the available bandwidth. Wi-Fi demand continues to increase and the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands

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Zinstall WinWin software review – Windows PC migration made easy

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REVIEW – I hate getting certain new tech – specifically phones and PCs.  While I love all the shiny newness, I detest migrating everything from the old to the new.  It’s tedious and time-consuming and did I mention that I hate it? What if there was a way to make the process simple and hands-off? 

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Mendi brain training device review

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CROWDFUNDING REVIEW – Everyone knows that working out – lifting weights, running, etcetera, is the way to make your muscles healthier and stronger.  We all possess one body part that you simply cannot exercise in that way – our brain.  Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to exercise our brain similarly?  Science

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Play with your food with a building brick waffle maker

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CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Breakfast – reportedly the most important meal of the day. But, how do you build a better breakfast?  With Lego-like building brick waffles! This Kickstarter campaign is not affiliated with Lego, but the waffles the maker produces look eerily similar. Funded past their $7,500 goal in under 30 hours (it sits at

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Paraben’s Photo Backup Stick Universal review

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REVIEW – Photos – we all take them, typically with our phones, since that’s the camera we all carry every day. What happens if you lose your phone?  If you use cloud services like Amazon, iCloud, or Google, probably nothing as the cloud will protect your precious photo memories.  But, what if you don’t use

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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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NeckFix cervical traction device review

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REVIEW – Traction.  What comes to mind when you hear that word?  For many of us, we think of snow, rain, or gravel, when our vehicle tires lose adhesion send us into spins. But traction has another meaning. Per Merriam-Webster, traction is also a pulling force exerted on a skeletal structure (as in a fracture)

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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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Let them know you’re stopping fast with Braking Bar

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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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VANKYO Performance V630 native 1080P full HD projector review

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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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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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