REVIEW – Our kids are in college now, but one day they’ll graduate—or so we hope—and they’ll head out on their own. They’ll get a job, get a car, and get an apartment. As a parent, I’m always trying to look ahead and help my kids to figure out what they’ll need to kit out […]
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NEWS – When Apple first released the HomePod, they designed it to be a Bluetooth speaker first and a smart device second. It had amazing sound but cost way too much ($350), and thus it was largely ignored while Echos and Dots sold like crazy. Most people didn’t care about a speaker that was a
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REVIEW – Over the years, my wife and I have tried a variety of different materials for sheets and pillowcases, including cotton, flannel, satin, silk, and microfiber. All have their place. Some are warmer, and some are cooler. Some are rougher, and others are smoother. For the past three weeks my wife and I have
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REVIEW – Part of being a writer for the Gadgeteer is also being a photographer. We have to take all our own pictures of the products that we review. I don’t know about the other writers, but I am not a professional photographer, so I’m always looking for ways to improve the quality of the
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REVIEW – I live in the south, and spring is coming. That can only mean one thing: Pollen! Every spring I’m inundated with floating yellow-green, powdery particles that coat my yard and car and find their way into my house. As members of our family are allergic to pollen, I need an air purifier that
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REVIEW – Over the last six months, I’ve read numerous reports observing that video gaming was at an all-time high in 2020. That makes total sense, as we’ve all spent a lot more time at home than we used to, due to COVID. Console gamers have the luxury of sitting on the couch to play,
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REVIEW – HyperX makes quality gaming gear for every type of video gamer, from professional to streamer to weekend warrior. Their gaming mice, for example, span the gamut from 11-button programmable to the wireless Pulsefire Dart to RGB lighting. HyperX recently announced the newest member of their gaming mice lineup, the lightweight Pulsefire Haste. What
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REVIEW – I live in a neighborhood that’s out in a more rural part of the county. There are not many streetlights here, and it’s rather dark at night. I’ve added a pair of motion-sensing lights for the driveway and a solar-powered, motion-sensing floodlight for the back porch, but there’s still a lot of my
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REVIEW – It’s that time of year again. It’s cold at night, and the central heat is running more often than not. This means the air in our house is very dried out, and my skin tends to get irritated. One solution to this problem is to run a humidifier in the house, which I
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NEWS – The Raspberry Pi Foundation has been building mini computers for years now. I have one on my local network that hosts PiHole. Recently they’ve decided to dip their toes into some new water: microcontrollers. They just released the Raspberry Pi Pico, a small microcontroller board that only costs $4! If you’re ever wanted
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REVIEW – Earlier this year I was able to upgrade to a new 16-inch MacBookPro for my work computer. I love this laptop; it’s fast, powerful, and responsive, a perfect computer for programming and engineering work. Like all Apple laptops, it suffers from a shortage of ports; it has four Thunderbolt 3 ports with USB-C
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REVIEW – Winter is here! Temperatures are dropping below freezing at night! That can only mean one thing: It’s entirely too cold in my bathroom when I want to take a shower in the morning. I’m hoping that the solution to my cold problem is Gladle’s new space heater. What is it? The Gladle space
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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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