REVIEW – We didn’t travel much in 2020 due to COVID; instead, we chose to be cautious and hang out at home a lot. Hopefully things will look better in 2021, especially if these vaccines work well. If they do, then we’ll definitely take a vacation or two. Maybe we’ll head down to Myrtle Beach, […]
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REVIEW – HyperX recently announced a new high-end headset that is targeted at “the elite PC or console gamer.” Gamers are the typical audience for HyperX—their motto is “we’re all gamers”—but in an interesting twist, the webpage for the Revolver says that it’s great for working from home and for online education. I’m a teleworking
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REVIEW – I’m a light sleeper, so small noises around the house tend to wake me up at night. To combat this problem, I’ve turned a fan on every night for years. Recently I’ve been trying something different to help me sleep at night, the White Noise Machine by ICETEK. What is it? The White
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NEWS – Are you big of drones and quadcopters and other flying machines? Here at The Gadgeteer, we are certainly are! We’ve reviewed three different drones this year (along with one other I’m-not-really-sure-what-it-is). If you’re into drones, you’re probably already familiar with the name DJI, a maker of high-end drones. What you might not know
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REVIEW – This holiday season our social calendar is a lot emptier than normal, but we still have a few folks coming over. Any time we get together with family and friends is a good time to break out a party game, so this year we’ve been testing the 10th Anniversary Edition of PlayMonster’s 5
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REVIEW – I’ve used Apple TVs for several years, and I really like them. The hardware is high quality, and the software is easy to use. There’s one thing about the Apple TV, however, that I really don’t like: The remote. It’s so minimalistic that it’s often a pain to use. Entering text at a
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REVIEW – One of the bedrooms in our house needs to serve two purposes: For most of the year it’s my office, but when the kids come back for the holidays it’s a bedroom. Half of the room has my desk with my computers, and the other half needs a bed. I haven’t bought that
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CROWDFUNDING REVIEW – Power strips are just power strips, right? There’s nothing interesting or amazing about them. Some are wide, some are tall, some are round, some are square, but they are still all basically the same. Along comes ESHLDTY, and they put some modifiers on a power strip that are not expected, words like
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REVIEW – Many years ago I had a Kensington Orbit trackball, like this one. At the time, I thought it amazing. It was more precise than the mice of the day, it was comfortable to use, and it took up a lot less space than a mousepad. Then someone invented the scroll wheel, and it
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We have a small hot tub in the backyard, and some nights while we’re relaxing in it we’d like to catch up on one of our favorite YouTube channels, like Dude Perfect or How Ridiculous. I plan to set up a pavilion over the hot tub, put a curtain on one side, and project videos
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REVIEW – We live in a world where most gadgets are made from plastic or metal, and where they are often more functional than beautiful. Last year I reviewed a pair of handmade, leather wallets from Godbolé, and I fell in love with their craftsmanship and the beauty of full grain leather. Can this same
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REVIEW – In the evenings I like to kick back and relax by watching videos on my iPad. Usually I’m watching a movie on Netflix or Amazon Prime, videos on YouTube, or a Dota 2 tournament on Twitch. For my audio, I typically use a pair of Apple headphones, the older wired variety. Lately I’ve
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REVIEW – I work from home. On my desk I have two computers, one that’s personal and one that’s for work. To keep my desk as clutter-free as possible, these computers share a monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse. I have a plan to reduce clutter even further by removing the switch selector that connects
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NEWS – The holiday season is upon us, and it’s time to begin thinking about putting out lights on our porches and on our lawns. If you’re looking for a smart plug that you can use to control those lights from inside your house, then you might want to take a look at Belkin’s newly
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NEWS – Previously I had written about an app that Apple had released that allowed users to control their AppleTV from their iPhones. Apple recently removed that app from their App Store, because they have built it into iOS14. To find the remote, swipe up to display the Control Center. Look down near the bottom
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REVIEW – I am a teleworker. On my desk I have two computers, a 16-inch MacBookPro that is my work computer and a Mac mini that is my personal computer. To save on space, I want these computers to share a single monitor, keyboard, and mouse; I just need some way for the peripherals to
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REVIEW – Recently I was looking at the mess of cords and cables below the desk in my home office and decided that it was time to do some organization. Part of the problem was that I have a lot of things that need power, and I was plugging in my gadgets anywhere I could
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NEWS – RazerCon 2020 was a “digital celebration for gamers. By gamers.” It was also a chance for the gaming company to hype a bunch of new gaming items, which they did. The Blade Stealth 13 is a new gaming laptop with an 11th generation i7 processor and a 120 Hz panel. The Seiren Mini
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REVIEW – This is the second part of my review of the XP-Pen Innovator 16 Graphic Display . The first part of the review was technical and focused upon the tablet itself. This part is more artistic and focuses on the reactions of three young artists who used the Innovator for the first time. They
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REVIEW – Artists who transition from physical mediums, like paper and canvas, to the digital world quickly learn how inadequate a mouse is. It just doesn’t feel natural in the hand compared to a pencil or a paintbrush. To overcome this issue, an artist can draw on a graphics tablet with a pen (aka a
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