Garry Kolb - The Gadgeteer

Coal at Christmas can be a good thing with the Masterbuilt Gravity Series grill/smoker

By Garry Kolb / October 21, 2019 / News / Cooking, Grilling / 2 Comments

NEWS – Grilling and smoking food is an intensely personal thing. Propane and natural gas grills have been lauded for their simplicity, but barbeque purists maintain nothing is better than old-fashioned charcoal for that perfect grilled flavor. Masterbuilt, a leader in the grilling and smoking world, just introduced a new line of gravity-feed charcoal grill/smokers […]

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Wasserstein Aqua Dew Alexa shower speaker review

By Garry Kolb / October 17, 2019 / Reviews / Alexa, Bluetooth speaker / Leave a Comment

REVIEW – There’s nothing like a hot shower to wash away the day’s troubles, or simply to ease some aches and pains if you don’t have any troubles. What could make that better? Music, of course! Anything else? Sure – your old pal, Alexa, ready to do your bidding as you wash, rinse and repeat.

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ZMI PowerPack Aura 20K USB-C PD power bank review

By Garry Kolb / October 15, 2019 / Reviews / Batteries and Chargers / Leave a Comment

REVIEW – Power. Our portable devices can’t get enough of it. Phones, cameras, drones, laptops, tablets, MP3 players, earbuds – you name it, they all need power. If you’re going to be out and about all day using your devices, how can you keep them all happily charged and ready for use? The answer is

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Spigen Essential 3-in-1 USB charge/sync cables review

By Garry Kolb / October 13, 2019 / Reviews / cables / 4 Comments

REVIEW – I hate searching for charging/sync cables. This device uses USB-C, that one – micro-USB, the iPod – Lightning. I always grab the wrong one since they are all intertwined in my backpack or desk drawer. I do have snap-on micro-USB to USB-C adapters, but those are tiny and I lose them. What’s a

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Reduce kitchen clutter with the multi-feature ChopBox cutting board

By Garry Kolb / September 26, 2019 / News / Cooking, Crowdfunded, Food, Home and Kitchen / 10 Comments

CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Kitchens never have enough cupboard, drawer or countertop space to hold all those kitchen gadgets that we gadgeteers need to create our culinary delights. ChopBox thinks they have a way to tidy things up with their new cutting board that brings many other tools to the counter. The ChopBox is made of

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Dezzio Mariner beach bag review

By Garry Kolb / September 22, 2019 / Reviews / Bags / Leave a Comment

REVIEW – Beach trips require stuff. Lots of stuff. Sunglasses, something to read and/or listen to, sunscreen, towels, drinks, drink opener, flip-flops, and so on. How do you shlep your stuff? You grab whatever bag you have at-hand. Then, you come home with a bag full of your stuff plus enough sand to fill a

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Uten 1088TS air fryer review

By Garry Kolb / September 12, 2019 / Reviews / air fryer, Cooking, Food, Home and Kitchen / 34 Comments

REVIEW – Most of us are trying to be a little more health-conscious these days. Usually, eating healthier means giving up fried foods. But, they are oh, so delicious! Air frying otherwise deep-fried foods helps make them healthier by significantly reducing, and in some cases, eliminating the oil or fat used to fry. OK –

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ASTI LectroFan Micro2 sleep sound machine / Bluetooth speaker review

By Garry Kolb / September 5, 2019 / Reviews / Sleep / 2 Comments

REVIEW – Sleep. We all need it, but for many of us, we don’t get enough. Sleeping in hotel rooms is especially problematic. Loud climate control systems, aircraft or traffic noise certainly contribute to the issue. My favorite are these two: the ever-present “I don’t care that this isn’t my house and I’ll talk as

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Dine in style with Enso Essential pure titanium cutlery

By Garry Kolb / August 27, 2019 / News / Crowdfunded, Cutlery / 3 Comments

CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Single-use plastics are in the news a lot lately for their non-environmentally friendly status. What is a responsible person that loves eating fast food or Asian take-out to do? Hop on over to Kickstarter and take a look at the Enso Essential pure titanium cutlery set. Titanium offers several benefits. First, it

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EP Design Lab E.P.Light review

By Garry Kolb / August 21, 2019 / Reviews / LED lighting / 2 Comments

REVIEW – Lightbulbs have been around for years. Thanks to Thomas Edison and his publicity and marketing genius, we are all familiar with the traditional, screw-in incandescent lightbulb. Of course, lately, incandescents have fallen out of favor due to their inherent energy inefficiency and have been all but replaced by LED bulbs. These satisfy our

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Wallaroo Hat Company Seaside women’s sun hat review

By Garry Kolb / August 18, 2019 / Reviews / Clothing / 2 Comments

REVIEW – We live in Florida. Florida is known as the sunshine state. Let me tell you, after living in Michigan for most of my life, and in my wife’s case, her entire life, the sun down here is a different kind of intense. We both wear hats nearly all the time when we are

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Pizza by peddle – Dominos partners with Rad Power Bikes for delivery

By Garry Kolb / August 16, 2019 / News / Electric Bike, Food / 4 Comments

NEWS – Dominos, the largest global pizza company (based on retail sales), and Rad Power Bikes, North America’s largest e-bike brand, have partnered to provide your pizza fix by peddle (and electric) power. Pizza delivery in the US is generally done by car. Around the world, however, and in some large US cities, bikes rule

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HOMIEE BP1003 blood pressure monitor review

By Garry Kolb / August 13, 2019 / Reviews / Health and fitness / 15 Comments

REVIEW -Remember in The Lion King, when the hyenas, Shenzi, Banzai and Ed, say, “Mufasa” “Ooooo, do it again” “Mufasa” “Ooooooo” “Mufasa, Mufasa, Mufasa” It’s just fun to say. Kinds of like, “sphygmomanometer”. OK, maybe that’s a little more difficult than “Mufasa”, but it’s still a fun word. What is it, you ask? That’s the

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CookPerfect wireless meat thermometer review

By Garry Kolb / August 12, 2019 / Reviews / Cooking, Home and Kitchen / 2 Comments

REVIEW – Is anything better than a perfectly cooked meal? The main course, done exactly to your liking, makes for the perfect dining experience. But, how do you know when your main course is done? And, what if folks like things done to different levels? CookPerfect can help with its dual-probe wireless meat thermometer. What

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Leatherman Free T4 pocket multi-tool review

By Garry Kolb / August 11, 2019 / Reviews / EDC, Knives, Multi-tool / 10 Comments

REVIEW – How many times have you needed something – a screwdriver, knife, something to pry with? One solution is to carry the well-known Swiss army knife, but those tend to be bulky and heavy. That need led to the creation of multitools – small, pocketable tools and Leatherman is at the forefront of that

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You can’t improve bubble wrap. 3M, hold my beer and watch this…

By Garry Kolb / August 2, 2019 / News / 4 Comments

NEWS – Bubble wrap – arguably the greatest invention for protecting packages, not to mention providing hours of satisfying popping fun. How could you possibly improve on that? I mean, shipping items is pretty simple – get a box, put in your item to ship, pad it completely with some bubble wrap, get out your

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2020 Corvette goes mid-engine and high-tech

By Garry Kolb / July 21, 2019 / News / Car Gear / 2 Comments

NEWS – Chevrolet has finally announced the long-anticipated 2020 Corvette with a brand new mid-engine design. Moving the engine behind the seats changes the overall weight and balance of the vehicle for better overall performance. This has long been the case in exotic supercars like Ferrari and McLaren for the well-healed that can afford $100K

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Relive all your web frustrations with User Inyerface

By Garry Kolb / July 11, 2019 / News / Leave a Comment

NEWS – Have you ever visited a frustrating website? You know what I mean – the one where the buttons don’t work, hint characters don’t clear from text boxes, tab order doesn’t work and so on? The folks at Bagaar have built a shrine to poor web design with their User Inyerface web page. Once

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Sony’s new WF-1000XM3 wireless noise canceling headphones give you all of the music with none of the noise

By Garry Kolb / July 7, 2019 / News / TWS earbuds / 4 Comments

NEWS – Sony is bringing their “A” game with their new WF-1000XM3 headphones. Fully wireless, the earbud style headphones are fully wireless, provide long battery life and my holy grail for headphones – noise cancellation. With dual microphones on each earbud, the headphones pick up noise in both the forward and backward directions along with

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Masterspace Pacum multifunction vacuum/pump review

By Garry Kolb / July 4, 2019 / Reviews / Travel Gear / 5 Comments

REVIEW – Airline fees. I hate them. A lot. But, they’re here to stay so we need to deal with them. One of the most annoying is baggage fees since most of us take some sort of bag with us when we travel for more than a day. Yes, you can fly Southwest with two

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