NEWS – A few years ago, I reviewed the Keurig 2.0 Model K550 coffee brewer. That was soon after the Keurig company was purchased by the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters company and when the patent on the K-Cup coffee pod expired. Because a coffee company had no interest in allowing other coffee companies to make […]
Keurig’s new K-Café™ is a single-serve coffee, latte, and cappuccino maker Read More
NEWS – The Longhorn Bicycle Rack is a whimsical piece of art for your walls when it’s not in use. It’s a convenient rack to hang your bike out of the way when needed. The Longhorn was created by Phillip Stone and is handmade in his Oregon workshop. It’s crafted of Oregon fir, a vegan leather
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NEWS – If you’ve ever wanted to learn calligraphy, the Ensō Parallel Pen Set from Pilot can help you on your way. Pilot says these pens are a major breakthrough in calligraphic pen design: “The nib consists of two parallel plates and allows for sharp, monoline writing with the narrow edge, and expressive, calligraphic writing with
NEWS – Philips latest smart lighting product is the Play light bar. You choose from 16 million colors to enhance the atmosphere of your room. The light bar integrates into your existing Hue lighting and pairs with your Hue bridge. It can then be controlled by the Hue app or by the variety of 3rd party
Philips announces the new Hue Play light bar for your TV Read More
NEWS – Tired of having a pocketful of loose coins? The Delta Coin Pouch’s mission is to help you take command of your change. The pouch’s shape is inspired by the Delta badges of the original Star Trek series. The spiral insignia screen-printed on the front of the pouch is the Operations insignia used in
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NEWS – Most DIY solar landscape lighting seems to be the sort installed in the ground to light a pathway or to wash a wall or a plant in lights. These Falove solar-powered lights can be attached to your house’s gutters to light up an area where you could never plant them in the ground
Add solar lighting to your house gutters with this set from Falove Read More
NEWS – If your favorite workout involves lifting beers, then this is the beer glass for you. These glass “dumbbells” are marked with the “Yes, I do workout… Lifting Beer” slogan, as shown. The beer glass holds 24 ounces of your favorite beverage. You know about weights and reps, right? Heavier weights, fewer reps; lighter
Working out is more relaxing with these beer glass dumbbells Read More
NEWS – Some time ago, I read about a woman who had gotten a serious infection from wearing an elastic hair tie on her wrist. The glitter in the cover of the tie embedded itself in her wrist skin and caused a potentially life-threatening infection. (Huffington Post, 12/02/2015) Although I warned my daughter about the
This bracelet is an undercover hair accessory Read More
NEWS – The Gaston Floating Secretary Desk is a perfect addition to a bedroom, small living room, or even a tiny home – anywhere you need a desk workspace but don’t have room for one. This desk mounts to the wall and folds away when you don’t need to work. When needed, the front folds
The Gaston Floating Secretary Desk gives you an office even when you have no room for one Read More
NEWS – We’ve shown you lots of ways to cool your potent potables, including chilled stainless steel balls, but this is the first time we’ve featured an ice cube that may provide a Zen experience for you. The Skaxi 3D Laughing Buddha Silicone Mold produces four ice cubes that will bring a new peace to an
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NEWS – Recently, we told you about the Tech Folio from WaterField. It was one of the products of their Next Generation Gear Case community design project, in which WaterField surveyed many of their gear-loving customers to help them design gear bags that people actually want and can use. The Tech Folio was a large pocket
WaterField’s Tech Pocket is for the minimalist who carries only a small amount of gear Read More
NEWS – Philips has announced a new fixture that can replace both the mirror and the over-mirror light in your bathroom. It can be used as general lighting for the room, and it can provide task lighting for shaving or applying makeup. The new Philips Adore bathroom mirror adds to your existing Hue bridge that
Philips announces the Adore mirror with smart Hue lighting Read More
NEWS – Even when you prepare every meal from home from scratch, there’s a lot of food waste. I’m not even talking about packaging; I mean the peelings and trimmings from fresh fruits and vegetables. In nature, food materials take only 1-2 months to decompose. If you throw those food trimmings into the garbage, they’ll go
Save the world, one meal at a time, starting in your kitchen Read More
NEWS – What do you do with your bike helmet when you get to your destination? If you don’t have some sort of storage container on your bike, you have to carry it with you. Add the Buca Boot to your bike, and you’ll have storage for books, bags, helmets – whatever you might need
The Buca Boot adds storage to your bicycle Read More
NEWS – Coffee snobs connoisseurs know you only use freshly ground beans to make coffee. And everybody knows that the key to great coffee is a precisely even grind of the correct coarseness for your type of brewer. There are a variety of grinders on the market you could choose from in your search for
Grind your own coffee beans with the Handground manual grinder Read More
NEWS – The Echo Dot is a cost-effective way to add Amazon’s Alexa to your smart home, but you’ll find it doesn’t have the best built-in speaker for listening to music. And sure, you can use Alexa to set a wake-up alarm, and you can ask her the time, but a middle-of-the-night time check might
Add a speaker and an alarm clock to your Amazon Echo Dot with iHome Read More
NEWS – For one glorious moment, I thought this necklace was going to change to show the current moon phase – but then, such a necklace wouldn’t be as affordable as this beauty. The Moon Phase Necklace from Moonglow is made of pewter and has a customized crystal to show a moon phase. The pendant
Show a loved one that they hung the moon with this necklace Read More
NEWS – Need a new backpack? Check out the Game Theory before settling for a regular bag. The Game Theory bag, like many you’ve seen on the market, is quality-made with a water-resistant exterior, reinforced stitching, padded interior, and an ergonomic design with breathable back support. But Game Theory ups their… well, game… with both anti-theft and travel-friendly
Is the Game Theory bag the perfect anti-theft travel bag? Read More
NEWS – Nightstands are usually small, so you need to maximize the usefulness of anything you keep on them. The Twelve South HiRise Duet packs a lot of utility in a small footprint to earn its place there. It charges your iPhone, charges your Apple Watch, and puts the Watch in Nightstand mode to serve
Charge your iPhone and Apple Watch in half the space with Twelve South Read More
NEWS – Have you noticed how some organizer bags are filled with fiddly little straps that require you to carefully wrap your charging cables before you can fit them in? Or how some pockets are sized exactly to fit one particular brand, but you don’t have that brand and your gadget doesn’t fit? With the
Organize your gadgets and accessories in the Tech Folio from Waterfield Read More