As anyone with an ebook reader with an eInk screen knows, there is no backlight in these devices. If you want to read in low-light conditions, you have to provide an external light source. There are a multitude of clip-on book lights available, and someone has naturally developed one for the Kindle from Amazon.com. The Kandle is a […]
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Recently, we told you about the Pet’s Eye View digital camera you could attach to your pet’s collar so you could see what he does while you’re out. Now, here’s some information about how you can get your dog online and tweeting. Mattel has announced Puppy Tweets, a plastic tag that will attach to your dog’s collar, will
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If you’d like to travel with a surge suppressor but don’t have room for one in your laptop or gear bag, the Tripp-Lite travel-sized surge suppressor may be your answer. The Traveler3USB has three A/C outlets, with room for one large transformer without blocking the other two outlets.  It supplies 120 V A/C, 50/60 Hz, 15A
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My daughter, Rachel, has asthma, so a clean environment can be a great help in keeping her lungs in good shape. She has allergies to various pollens and foods that can trigger asthma episodes. Every time she gets a cold, she also has problems. Dust can also cause a lot of problems for her. Dust
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Shinnorie makes gear bags and cases that you can customize to make them your own. They offer laptop bags, travel bags, and cases for small electronics in leather or nylon, all customizable to some degree. Sometimes you can only choose the color, but sometimes you get to select size of the case and the colors for
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Levenger has a new line of gear bag/laptop bag organizers. The organizers are all made of nylon with blue zippers. Shown is the Organizer bag. The Organizer bag has a center compartment to hold a netbook, files, or books. There is a variety of nylon or mesh pockets on the outside to hold electronics, cables,
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Thomas Pink, a British clothier, has entered the tech clothing field with the Commuter tie. The ties are 100% woven silk in a variety of solid colors for $105. The back of the tie has a small pocket and a fabric loop designed to hold an iPod nano. An extra loop keeps your earbud wires
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Over the years, The Gadgeteer has reviewed a couple of Kill-A-Watt products – most recently, the Kill-A-Watt EZ by Julie. Now P3 International is offering the Kill-A-Watt PS, a powerstrip that protects your equipment while monitoring their energy usage. Instead of monitoring a single device, the powerstrip collects data from all devices plugged in to the six regular
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It seems like most everyone, even young children, have portable mp3 players of some sort. The big concern with the in-ear buds that come with most of these players is hearing damage. Ultimate Ears is making a line of earbuds for children that can help prevent hearing damage. The LoudEnough earbuds uses an “energy dissipating
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The Pet ‘n’ People water dispenser is a cost-effective way to have safe, clean drinking water without filling up the landfill with plastic bottles. It dispenses cool, hot, or room temperature water, and it can use 3 or 5 gallon bottles – just what you’d expect from a water dispenser. What you don’t expect is
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Most of the US is COLD now, even in the south. It’s too cold to go outside without a coat, hat, and gloves. But people with iPhones and other devices with capacitive screens have to decide between frostbite and using their devices. Dot Gloves are designed to let you use your device and keep your
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At least it’s a watch for the amateur astronomers! ThinkGeek offers the Astrodea Celestial watch for about $600. It’s pricey, but the face revolves to show a real-time display of the position of stars and the sun. The watch displays 1109 stars (brighter than +4.8 magnitude) and 169 galaxies. Sorry, but it’s only accurate if you are near
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Have you ever fried a keyboard because you spilled a drink on it? Do you have to share a keyboard at work and you wonder how clean those keys are – especially now when everyone is concerned with preventing H1N1? Unotron makes a line of waterproof, washable keyboards, mice, and even card readers. They offer corded
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The Korg Pitchjack is a chromatic tuner for guitars and basses. It allows for tuning seven-string guitars (7B through 1E) and six-string basses (low B through high C). It plugs into the instrument jack and has LEDs that show the string number and tuning status. It even allows for flat tuning. It’s angle is adjustable, it has a
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ThinkGeek has a watch with Bluetooth 2.0 that pairs with your cellphone so you can see caller ID information right on your wrist without having to take your phone out of its case.  When your phone rings, the watch vibrates against your wrist to let you know you have a call.  There’s even a button
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Apple’s iPod and iPhone are great personal music players, but sometimes you want to listen without earbuds or you want to share your music with friends. There are a variety of speaker accessories you can buy at various price levels and offering different options. The inMotion Classic from Altec Lansing offers portability and a rechargeable
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If you have a lot of old cassette tapes, vinyl albums, 45s, and even 78s, you’ve probably had some sticker shock realizing how much it would cost on iTunes to convert all that music to digital files – if the songs are even available.  The Crosley Songwriter is a nostalgic-looking media player that can playback
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Do you ever wonder what your cat or dog does while you’re at work?  Clip the Pet’s Eye View camera to his collar and get an idea of what he’s been up to while you’re gone.  The camera can take photos at 1, 5, and 15 minute intervals.  It can record up to forty 640
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Recently, Julie posted that she still gets a lot of interest in the old MailStation email device more than ten years after it was reviewed. Â People still want to provide some method for getting email to older relatives who have no interest in using a computer. Â The HP Printing Mailbox uses the Presto service used
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Recently we had a post about a digital frame with a built-in scanner.  Now here’s the iMo Photo Frame with a built-in printer!  Pictures display on an 8″ 800 X 600 pixel LCD screen.  The frame has 1 GB internal memory, and it has slots for USB, SD, CF, and other memory cards.  The built-in printer
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