REVIEW – The front of our house faces to the south, but it’s angled slightly towards the southeast. The result is that during the summer months, the evening sun peaks around the side of our house and floods into our back porch. I’ve been looking for a way to reduce the sun as well as […]
SmartWings Outdoor Shades review – motorized, solar-powered, and HomeKit-enabled! Read More
REVIEW – Everyday carry knives have a 101 uses, whether I’m in the house, out in the yard, or out hiking a trail. I’ve been looking for a good quality knife to keep handy, and I’ve found it in the newest version of the Vosteed Nightshade LT Pocket Knife. Read on to learn more! What
Vosteed Nightshade LT Pocket Knife review – the past perfected in the present Read More
CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Ever have one of those all-day-long couch potato days? If so, check out the 2hold, a couch table. It comes with three containers for snacks and one for a glass. It has a place for your napkin in front and for a bag of chips in back. And if you’re also one
2hold Couch Table – for the hopeless couch potato Read More
CROWDFUNDING NEWS – The one thing that has stopped me from buying a Keurig is the cost of the pods. While they are convenient, they are ridiculously expensive compared to grinding my own coffee and using a drip coffee maker. What if I could have my cake and eat it, too? That’s what the Podmkr,
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NEWS – If you have leftover pizza, the Pizza Pack is the perfect place to put it. It’s like a Tupperware container, but it’s expandable. This allows the slices to be stacked on top of each other and thus efficiently uses space in the fridge. It comes with five little trays to separate the slices,
The Pizza Pack – a place to store your leftover pizza slices Read More
REVIEW – Every night before going to sleep, my wife recharges her iPhone and her Apple Watch. She reaches over to her nightstand, finds the lightning cable and connects it to her phone, and then finds the magnetic charging cable and connects it to the watch. It seems like there should be an easier way
REVIEW – Summer is here! That means it’s time for picnics in the park and barbeques on the beach! When gathered together outdoors with family and friends for food and fun, it’s a great time to put your phone away and pull out a lawn game or two for some friendly competition. In this review,
TowerBall Bundle review – a casual yet highly flexible lawn game Read More
REVIEW – Earlier this year I tested an air fry toaster oven for the first time. I really liked being able to replace two gadgets, an air fryer and toaster, with a single gadget, especially since we gained all the functionality of a toaster oven as well. While my wife and I have been using
PARIS RHÔNE Air Fryer Toaster Oven Combo review – the almost perfect toaster oven Read More
REVIEW – Last year I switched from a standard IKEA IDASEN desk to a standing desk from Flexispot; I like this desk and continue to use it. This spring, our daughter got married, and her new husband decided that he would like to replace his computer desk with a standing desk. In this review, I
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REVIEW – I’ve been a teleworker for ten years. I’ve managed to kit out my home office with about everything a software engineer could want: A nice sit/stand desk, a large monitor, a great dock for my work laptop, a cool mouse, a drive to backup my files, and so on. There’s one thing that
Vari Mobile Glass Board review – massive yet moveable whiteboard Read More
REVIEW – Like most young couples, my wife and I started our marriage with a cheap set of pots and pans. They got the job done, but they didn’t last forever. As we began to look for better quality cookware, and we eventually discovered cast iron. Over the years we’ve purchased a handful of cast
Buydeem 3-Quart Enameled Cast Iron Dutch Oven review Read More
NEWS – Summer is here! And that means it’s time to start planning your next trip to the beach. If you’re heading that way, take a look at the new cooler that Igloo recently announced, the KoolTunes Boombox Playmate. As the name suggests, it’s a cooler with a built-in boombox, all the way back from
A cooler for jamming on the beach! Read More
REVIEW – Battery-powered lawn mowers have several benefits over their gas-powered cousins: No more trips to the gas station, no need for oil, no worries about burning off all the gas before storing it away for the winter, less noise for your neighbors, and so on. Last year was the first time that I used
REVIEW – Last year my wife and I did something that we’ve never done before: We built a paver patio next to the deck in our backyard. It’s not perfect, but we’re really happy with how it turned out. It’s an amazing place for us to unwind after a long day, grill some burgers, and
Pit Command Commander and Talon review – quality fire pit tools Read More
REVIEW – Robotic vacuum cleaners are one of those gadgets that you don’t realize how useful they are until you’ve had one for a while. I live in a single-story house, and I have been using yeedi’s k700 for the last two years. I really like this little robot, who I named Mopi when I
REVIEW – The most important knife in any kitchen is the chef’s knife (aka the cook’s knife). Described as “the workhorse of the kitchen,” it’s a versatile utility knife used for cutting and chopping, slicing and dicing, everything from vegetables to fruit to meat. If you find yourself spending a lot of time doing prep
Vosteed Morgan Chef’s Knife review – a western knife with an eastern design Read More
REVIEW – Our daughter is getting ready to move into her first apartment, and she’s a bit of an organizer. When she saw the Marklife P11 label maker that I had reviewed for my wife, she decided that she needed one for herself; thus, I’m going to be trying the L1 label maker from MakeID.
MakeID L1 Label Maker review – a lot of labeling in a little package Read More
CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Last year I reviewed an electric scooter by MICROGO. It’s top speed was 18.5 MPH, which I thought was plenty fast. I was wrong. I need a scooter that is way faster, and so do you. Or at least that’s what the good folks at Segway believe. Yeah, that Segway. The boring,
Your scooter is too slow (and so is mine)! Read More
CROWDFUNDING REVIEW – I love growing things. Flowers, grass, veggies, you name it. While I’m pretty good at growing things outdoors, I’m a lot less good at growing things indoors, which is why I am excited about an upcoming Kickstarter by Elecrow. Their new gadget is called the GrowCube, and it’s an automatic watering system
Elecrow GrowCube review (part 1) – Will it give you green thumb powers? Read More
REVIEW – You’re familiar with standard alkaline AA batteries from companies like Duracell, and you are probably familiar with rechargeable NiMH AA batteries, like these from Energizer. They are all the same size (diameter 14.5 mm, length 50.5 mm) and have a standard range for voltage (1.2 to 1.5v), though their capacity can vary widely
EBL NiZn Rechargeable AA Batteries with Charger review – a different kind of battery Read More