My daughter will be going to college in the fall, and we’ve already started thinking about the things she’ll need to take with her. She wants a footlocker, and I agree it will be great for transferring stuff from home and for storing things in her dorm room. I had a footlocker when I was […]
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If armbands for you phone or MP3 player aren’t for you, maybe you’d prefer to carry your gear on your chest. With the Power Pouch Long Tank from Gracie’s Gear, you’ll have a three-compartment zippered pocket on your chest that can hold your phone, MP3 player, key, ID, or whatever you take with you. The
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If, despite your best efforts, you have an unsightly cable hanging out in plain view, why don’t you use these cute clips to make that cable a design element? The Wire Blooms Cable Tidy Clips are little plastic cable clips that hammer into your walls with small nails and hold your cable to keep it
Bird on a wire – and it won’t be ruining your car wash Read More
Why limit yourself to taking selfies in your bathroom? With the Samsung NX Mini camera, you can photograph yourself anywhere in the world. You can always see what you’re including in the shot, because the 3″ LCD touchscreen view screen can flip up and face forward. The camera is slim (0.9″) and light (5.6 ounces),
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There are a lot of fitness trackers on the market to encourage adults to work on their fitness, but there hasn’t been such a product for children before now. LeapFrog’s new LeapBand is a fitness tracker for children ages 4-7 that encourages active play and healthy habits with a customizable pet pal. Audio instructions help non-readers follow
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Because there are limits to the number of carry-on bags when you travel by plane, do you ever find yourself taking a bag big enough to hold what you need to carry on that’s way too bag for daily use once you get to where you’re going? Or maybe you pick up too much documentation
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Like to travel light, but don’t want to deprive yourself of needed gadgets? With the Pebble Aria, you’ll have a 3500mAh backup battery and a portable speaker in one small package. The reserve power is enough to charge a phone up to two times, or it’s enough to power the speaker for up to seventy
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Apple announced the release of the MacBook Airs, and Waterfield announced the perfect case for the 13″ MacBook Air. Their Outback Solo MacBook Air Case is perfect for carrying the Air, its charger, your phone, wallet, and keys – everything you need for your day without loading yourself down. The Outback Solo is made of waxed
Are you getting one of the newly-updated MacBook Airs? You’ll need this case. Read More
As always, I’m happy to try out new cases for my electronics, especially when they are as well made and beautiful as Oberon Design products are. When Oberon offered The Gadgeteer a chance to review their new leather iPhone cases, I asked Julie if I could try them out. I was thrilled when I received
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You can add up to 128GB of additional storage to your MacBook without having to have a new disk installed. With the Nifty MiniDrive, you can add storage to most recent models of the MacBook with an SD card slot. The MiniDrive is essentially an SD card adapter for microSD cards, but it’s designed to fit
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If you have the Cat Hammock from ThinkGeek, it may not be the impossible dream any longer. The Cat Hammock is designed with non-slip loops to fit on the four legs of small tables or chairs (leg spread of 18-27 inches apart on each side). It’s made of nylon and polyester fleece, so it’s machine
To dream the impossible dream – keeping the cat off the furniture Read More
If you have tuning problems, it may be the strings and not your guitar, according to the folks at String Stretcha. There are ways to stretch the strings using your fingers, but pulling on them at random places results in uneven stretch and using the “thumb and fingers” method takes a long time and causes
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Simon & Schuster created a new website, called Off the Shelf, that’s intended to help to maximize your reading enjoyment by helping you discover books – cult classics or best sellers – that you may have missed over the years. It’s brought to you by “passionate editors, authors, and others inside the book business”, and
Discover (or rediscover) great books, and get a free eBook if you act soon Read More
The new Notifier watch from Martian Watches still has the attractive analog watch face that makes telling time a snap. It also has a 96 X 16 pixel graphic OLED display that’s used to display notifications from your iOS or Android smartphone – “caller ID, texts, Facebook, Twitter, Weather, Email, Calendar, Instagram, Pinterest, favorite games, your
Martian Watches introduces their new Notifier smart watch Read More
If you’re in the market for some rugged yet quality earbuds, Woot! has the deal for you. You can get a pair of Klipsch Image S4i Rugged In-Ear Headphones in blue, yellow, orange, or red for $34.99 (MSRP $99.99) until April 28 at 9am CT. The S4i earbuds have a all-weather ruggedized design with rubber moldings that
Klipsch Image S4i Rugged In-Ear Headphones at a 65% discount for a limited time Read More