Janet Cloninger

Carry Your DSLR Hands-free with the Black Widow Holster

black widow camera holster

Keeping your camera at the ready can be a pain in the neck – literally.  A camera that feels light in your hand can feel like it’s breaking your neck after wearing it on a neck strap for a while.  Spider Holster makes camera carrying systems, including the Black Widow Holster designed for entry to […]

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Take Pictures from Any Angle with the Samsung MV800

samsung mv800 camera

Samsung‘s new MultiView MV800 camera has a 3-inch LCD flip-out touchscreen display that can be angled from 0 – 180 degrees.  You’ll be able to take pictures from eye level or waist height by angling the view screen, or flip it completely up so you can see to take perfectly- framed self-portraits.  The MV800 has

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Skytex S-series Tablet PC Runs Windows 7

skytex windows 7 tablet

Skytex Technology and EXOPC have partnered to produce a tablet running Windows 7 Home Premium (Professional is also an option).  The Skytab S-series tablet has a dual-core Intel Atom N550 processor with integrated Intel GMA3150 graphics, 9.7″ capacitive multi-touch screen (1024 X 768 resolution, 132ppi)  with up to 4 points of recognition, 320GB 5200rpm hard

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2.1 Home Theater Sound Bar System with Subwoofer from Sharp

sharp home theater audio

Sharp introduces a new audio system to complete your home theater setup.  Their HT-SL70 system includes twin sound bars and a subwoofer.  The sound bars can be used vertically beside the TV on their included stands or placed together horizontally in front of the set like more traditional sound bars.  Each slim sound bar produces

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A Tube Full of Power for Your Smartphone or Tablet

mipow power tube

The Power Tube 6600 from MiPow looks like an oversized pencil, but it contains enough power to double the battery life in your iPad.  Inside the tube is a 1000mA lithium-ion battery with a 6600mAh capacity.  The tube comes with an AC charger; it can be recharged 500 times.  It has 10 adapter tips so

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Bring Art to Your Photography with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

Everybody has read about the technical specifications of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. We know that it runs the latest version of Android, so it will have access to the world of Android applications. We know we can connect to the world via cellular systems, WiFi, and Bluetooth – and navigate the world with GPS.

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Spy Camera in a Chewing Gum Pack

chewing gum spy camera

Here’s another camera for your espionage games or nanny surveillance.  This HC-GUM Covert Gum Stick Camera/DVR from Smarthome looks like an old-style pack of Wrigley’s Doublemint gum – if you don’t look too closely.  (They have the look right, but for some reason it’s marked with “Dangerous Material” and described as a lighter.)  It takes still

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Logitech iPad 2 Case Has a Full-sized Keyboard Built-in

logitech foldup keyboard ipad 2

Most keyboard cases for iPad 2 are hard-to-hold book-style cases or have the keyboard in a separate piece that snaps over the iPad 2.  The new Fold-Up Keyboard for iPad 2 from Logitech fits over your iPad 2 like a silicone case would (top image), though it will add more thickness and weight than silicone

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World’s Smallest Camera for Your Spy v Spy Games

hammacher schlemmer smallest camera

Hammacher Schlemmer calls this the World’s Smallest Camera, and they’re probably right.  This camera is so small, it looks like you might have gotten it from a gum ball machine, but it is a working auto-focus 2MP camera.  It captures still photos as JPEGs at 1600 x 1200 resolution and captures AVI video at 30

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EdgeStar Deluxe Mini Kegerator & Draft Beer Dispenser

edgestar mini kegerator

We aren’t beer drinkers here at the Cloninger house, but this cute Deluxe Mini Kegerator and Draft Beer Dispenser from EdgeStar makes me wish Sprite Zero came in 5-liter mini kegs.  It may be small, but the Mini Kegerator uses DraughtKeg™ carbonator pressure technology so you’ll get a “pub-quality pour” every time.  It has precise temperature

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Language Isn’t a Barrier with Vocre

vocre translation app iphone

Star Trek’s Universal Translator is here!  The Vocre iPhone app from myLanguage “listens” to your sentence, translates it into the selected language, then speaks it.  It’s not instantaneous like the Universal Translator, but it’s close.  You can choose a male or female voice to speak the translation.  The speaking voice sounds like a human, not

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Built Neoprene Tote Bag for 13” Apple MacBook Pro Review

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I sometimes have back pain and carrying heavy gear bags often makes things worse.  I’m constantly on the lookout for a sturdy, protective bag that’s big enough for my computer must-haves but won’t add a lot of weight itself.  We’ve used neoprene lunch bags from Built NY for years.  These lunch bags wear like iron,

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Jabra Supreme Is the First Mono Bluetooth Headset with Active Noise Cancellation

jabra supreme headset

As the headline says, Jabra is introducing a mono Bluetooth headset that has active noise cancellation to remove ambient noise for the user wearing the headset.  The Supreme has a 24mm speaker that delivers clear, clean sound.  HD Voice technology makes your caller sound great, and wind noise reduction technology allows you to make clear

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Netflix Announces They Are Splitting into Two Services

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Every Netflix subscriber – and most everyone else who reads or hears the news – learned a couple of months ago that Netflix was drastically increasing their rates. (Scroll down to July 12th’s entry.) Instead of $7.99/month for one DVD at-a-time or $9.99/month for one DVD at-a-time plus unlimited streaming, the DVD mailing service would

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