Previously I have reviewed three different gadgets with the intention of giving them to my daughter as she headed off to her first semester of college: the Osprey Tropos everyday backpack, the Kensington Thunderbolt 3 Nano dock, and the BunkTrunk PhD footlocker. At the time of these reviews, I believed that each of these would […]
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REVIEW – I saw a t-shirt on Etsy that said, “A bad day flying is better than a good day working,” and in the middle was a picture of a quadcopter drone. I love my job, but after a couple of weeks of flying Altair Aerial’s Outlaw SE, I’m inclined to agree with that t-shirt.
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REVIEW – We live on planet Earth. We are stewards of our world, and as it’s the only world that we have, we should probably take care of it. In our culture, there’s a growing awareness that as individuals and families we should live a manner that damages the Earth as little as reasonably possible.
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REVIEW – Want to know how long I’ve had my alarm clock beside the bed? Over 25 years. Not kidding. It’s got to be the most durable gadget I own, but it’s also rather short on features and way behind these technological times. My plan for coming into the present is to replace my old
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NEWS – Xiaomi has designed the Moestar Spaceship Smart Pet Nest, a rocketship-looking little pod for small cats and dogs that gives them a comfortable place to hang out. It has interior LED lighting and heating and cooling; it can monitor your pet’s sleep cycle and detect any accidental poop. All of these features can
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REVIEW – Around here, we’re big fans of the Butcher Box. It’s a monthly meat delivery service that sends boxes of meat straight to our house. Their beef is 100% grass-feed, and their chicken is free range organic, things that are important to us. When it comes to cooking meat, especially thick cuts like briskets and
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REVIEW – Without a doubt, the two most important components of a good gaming system are the video card and the monitor. The monitor is what gamers are looking at while playing, and the video card is what renders the games on the monitor. When I designed my current system, I included a GeForce GTX
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REVIEW – When our family first started buying mobile devices several years ago, I purchased an Anker USB charging hub and put it on our pie safe. This created one central location in the house where everyone could put their gadgets for high-speed charging. These days, however, it seems that we always want to keep
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REVIEW – My daughter is heading off to college this fall, and she needs a backpack. All the buildings that she will use (dorms, classrooms, cafeteria, gym) are on one main campus, which means that she will be doing a lot of walking. She needs a backpack that is strong enough and large enough to
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CROWDFUNDING NEWS – The ZeroLemon Charging Station from Lauco is a small charging station that can simultaneously charge two USB-C devices and two USB-A devices while wirelessly charging a phone that supports the Qi wireless-charging standard and an Apple Watch. It has a 130 W for full-speed charging for all devices, 90 W for the USB-C,
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REVIEW – My daughter is heading off to college this fall, and like every other college student, she needs a laptop. We bought her a new MacBook Pro, and while these are nice machines, they don’t exactly have an over-abundance of ports. In fact, the 13-inch ones have exactly two Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports, one
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REVIEW – Fried okra? Yes, please! Chicken-fried steak? Of course! Fried chicken? You betcha! When it comes to home cooking, it seems that I’m a bit of Southern boy. But while I love fried foods, I don’t like cleaning up the mess that frying makes, and I really shouldn’t be consuming all that oil. What
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REVIEW – Our family computer is a MacBook Pro that lives on the kitchen table but floats around the house wherever it’s needed. It’s not a particularly powerful laptop, but we only use it for ordinary things, like banking online, writing documents, and checking Facebook. In general, our setup works, but it does have a
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NEWS – VAIO recently announced a new laptop, the SX12. What’s unusual about this computer is not the 12.5 inch screen, the 8th generation Intel processors, or its less than 2 pounds weight. What’s unusual is the number of ports. It has USB-C (for charging), 3 USB-A, HDMI, SD card, headphone, Ethernet, and VGA ports.
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REVIEW – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that American adults engage in at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise each week. This roughly translates into taking 10,000 steps a day. The Mayo Clinic, however, estimates that the average American only walks 3,000 to 4,000 steps a day, far short of what
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NEWS – So let’s say that you have an extra Segway MiniPRO laying around that you aren’t using. Yeah, no, I can’t really relate to this either, but work with me here and pretend. You have an extra Segway MiniPRO laying around, and you wish there was something really fun you could do with it.
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REVIEW – When the whole family wants to watch a movie or see the big game together, we gather around the large screen TV in the living room. When I want to catch a Dota match on Twitch or see the latest Dude Perfect video on YouTube, I use my iPad. Is there room in
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REVIEW – Recently I reviewed the Bunktrunk footlocker for my daughter. It came with a cute, little Bluetooth speaker about which I wrote, “It may not be loud enough to fill my house with sound, but it will be plenty loud in a dorm room.” Looking back, I think this is how I thought about
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REVIEW – I have a confession to make: Although I have a nice gaming rig and a set of quality peripherals, I’m still using a Logitech H570e for my headset. While this $35 device might be fine in the office for making the occasional Slack call, it’s not exactly a high-quality gaming headset. It’s time
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NEWS – I wrote previously about Razer’s upcoming toaster, but if a venomous green, gaming-inspired toaster is not for you, then maybe you should take a look at Mitsubishi’s new bread oven. It’s a toaster that looks like a waffle-maker and works by sealing in a single piece of bread and transferring heat through two
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