NEWS – A while back, I wrote about Amazon’s Project Kuiper – a plan to launch over 3,000 satellites into low Earth orbit to provide broadband access to underserved areas. SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space venture is preparing to launch the first 60 of nearly 12,000 Starlink satellites. The photo above shows the 60 satellites strategically […]
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REVIEW – The keto diet – everyone is on it. Thanks to my loving wife, and my extended middle, as of May 1, I am as well. I wanted to be able to tell if I am successfully into ketosis, so when the opportunity to test the KetoCoach blood ketone meter came up, I jumped
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REVIEW – We need to address the elephant in the room. And when I refer to the elephant, that is a thinly disguised reference to me. May 1, my loving wife said that we are going on the Keto diet. In one day, I found out that by “we”, she really meant “you”, as she’s
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REVIEW – Recently, I had the opportunity to review Skylum Software’s Luminar Flex photo editing plugin which offered much of their full Luminar product’s AI-based (Artificial Intelligence) editing available in Photoshop or other supported software. Skylum has been in the lab and has released Luminar 3.1.0 with their new Accent AI 2.0 logic for one-touch
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CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Are you a DIYer that needs to keep things on the level? This can mean hanging things, building things, installing plumbing lines and so on. Lots of things are simply better if they are straight side-to-side or up-down. Kickstarter project LumiLevel looks to level up your game with their new digital level.
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REVIEW – If you believe what you see on TV, cameras are everywhere. The police dramas regularly use surveillance video to get the bad guys. We have also seen all the fun video on Facebook and Youtube from home cameras, catching the family pets, or the family themselves, doing cute, funny, and even dangerous things.
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NEWS – Gadgeteers always have a critical eye for detail. Do you have some time off this summer and are you looking to travel the US and Canada for free, and pocket a cool $10,000? Behr Paint Company, one of the largest manufacturers of paints, primers, decorative finishes, stains, and surface preparation products in the
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REVIEW – We all count on our phones. We count on them for different reasons, calls, texts, social media, calendars, cat videos, games, and so on. No matter what your particular reason is, the underlying common denominator is that all those activities drain your battery. The MyCharge Unplugged10K can help alleviate dead-battery anxiety by giving
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REVIEW – Lots of folks have an “every day carry” (EDC) kit – things that they take with every day so they are prepared for whatever the day may throw at them. For many, a flashlight is one of those things that go in the kit. The Folomov 18650S is a new contender for an
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CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Do you like wine? Do you like to take wine with you and try to keep it cold? Do you like aerating your wine to improve the flavor? Carivino has created an innovative solution that handles all those things and also includes wine glasses and a corkscrew for good measure. Carivino is
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NEWS – Ever wanted to take a detailed, beautiful photograph and scale it down to a 1-bit black and white 244 x 144 pixel low-resolution image? Me neither. But someone did and created Etch-A-Snap. Etch-A-Snap is controlled by a Raspberry Pi processor. It takes a regular image and then downscales it to one-bit black and
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REVIEW – Cameras today are amazing. Phone cameras, point-and-shoots, mirrorless, and full-on DSLRs all produce pretty jaw-dropping images, right out of the camera, all on automatic. You can certainly tweak them in-camera by changing ISO, aperture, shutter speed, and white balance, but that definitely requires a deeper knowledge of photography and the specifics of your
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CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Dive deeper into your gaming and movie experiences with Feelreal VR headset add-on. The patented design attaches to your existing VR headset and can simulate smell, rain, wind, vibration, punches and more. Weighing in at only seven ounces, the unit magnetically attaches to your headset. It can generate up to 255 different
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REVIEW – It seems that every few days, there’s an announcement about yet another new Bluetooth speaker. Today’s entry is the Tronsmart Element Force. Is it worthy of your consideration? Read on! What is it? The Element Force is a Bluetooth 4.2 speaker with up to 15-hour battery life. It is relatively small and portable
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NEWS – April 11, 2019, I got to watch history – at least part of it, as SpaceX launched its second Falcon Heavy from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. I did this from my driveway – or more correctly, a friend’s driveway down the street, which is pretty darn cool. Disclaimer – most
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NEWS – Not content to just sell everyone on the planet everything they need, Amazon wants to help you with that process by providing global broadband internet access…from space! Project Kuiper is an ambitious project to launch 3,236 satellites into orbit at three different orbital altitudes: 784 satellites at an altitude of 367 miles; 1,296
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NEWS – Ikea, the king of unusual product names, and Sonos, the whole-house WiFi speaker gurus, have teamed up on a new product line called Symfonisk. Planned for an August 2019 release, the Symfonisk line will offer two speaker products, a bookshelf speaker and a table lamp speaker. Both products are fully Sonos enabled and
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CROWDFUNDING NEWS – The team behind the WildCard multitool is back at it again with the Hyper Thin 440 (HT-440) and 420 (HT-420) every day carry wallet multi-tools. Every part of the tools are useful, and there are laser-drilled holes all over to reduce weight. Both are incredibly thin and light. Specs Width: 3.15in Height: 2.17
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NEWS – Have you ever had a…let’s call it “rough visit” to the restroom, and discovered that there are only a few sheets left on that all-important roll? Charmin can wipe out that problem with their Forever Roll. Claimed to last a month or longer, the Forever Roll is so large, it needs its own
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NEWS – Are you the type that whips through your laundry chores, only to have fresh, clean clothes sit unfolded until the next time you wear them? FoldiMate can fold an entire load of laundry in just five minutes, all automatically. FoldiMate is a smallish refrigerator-sized device that will fold most of your laundry items
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