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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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REVIEW – “A katana is a Japanese sword characterized by a curved, single-edged blade with a circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands…It was used by samurai in feudal Japan and worn with the edge facing upward.” While authentic katanas, made in Japan using old-fashioned metal-working methods, are insanely expensive and
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REVIEW – It’s winter, and it’s cold. That means the heat is running a lot, and the air in our house is getting dried out. This irritates my skin and makes it more difficult to breathe, especially at night while I’m sleeping. The solution to this problem is simply to run a humidifier during the
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REVIEW – I have a tactical flashlight that I keep beside my bed for emergencies around the house and yard, but I’ve wanted one for my car as well. Maybe I get a flat tire at night, maybe I run out of gas and have to hike to the nearest gas station, or maybe I
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REVIEW – Winter is here! Temperatures have been unseasonably cold this January, sometimes dropping into the 20’s overnight. This means that my bathroom is inevitably much too cold in the mornings, and I need something to take the edge off. In this review, I’ll be looking at the newest space heater from PARIS RHONE. What
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REVIEW – In our kitchen, we have a limited amount of counter and cabinet space, so there’s only room for so many appliances. When new appliances come along, some find a place in our kitchen, but some do not. Two of the appliances that we use regularly are an air fryer from Cosori and a
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