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.

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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Black Friday deals are already available for the Airfree IRIS 3000 air purifier

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GIFT IDEA NEWS – Air – we all use it.  Sometimes, the air we use is less than perfect, filled with dust, odors, allergens, and other nasty things.  Airfree produces a line of residential air purifiers that aim to improve the air that we breathe. Their top-of-the-line Iris 3000 is designed to handle areas of

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Give kids a jump start on coding skills with the iRobot Root

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NEWS – Getting kids into creative pursuits is always a good thing.  If your kids have any interest in learning to code, iRobot has a new product, Root, to get them into coding, starting at age four or five. Root offers three programming modes: Level 1: Graphical Coding. Graphical blocks teach essential logic skills of

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Theragun G3Pro percussive therapy massager review

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  REVIEW – Ageing sucks. I mean, it beats the alternative, but wow – who knew so many things can all hurt at the same time?  As a nearly 60-year-old, I find that bowling, playing golf, pickleball, and water volleyball regularly makes various body parts and areas hurt.  Am I just supposed to make various

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Anyware PhoneBook looks to up your cell’s productivity

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CROWDFUNDING NEWS – With many of us carrying around massively powerful smartphones these days, maintaining a separate laptop as well almost seems like overkill.  Phones have enough processing power to handle most laptop tasks, but using them is infuriating.  Relatively small screens when compared to a laptop, no keyboard, and no mouse limit the phone’s

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BESTEK Universal Travel Adapter review

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REVIEW – Traveling is one of the most rewarding things you can do.  Experiencing different cultures and environments is an incredible thing. For those of us that travel with power-hungry tech, powering that, given the differing electrical standards throughout the world can be a challenge. BESTEK has a solution with their travel power adapter. What

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

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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

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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

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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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Reduce kitchen clutter with the multi-feature ChopBox cutting board

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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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Uten 1088TS air fryer review

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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

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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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