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The Bastron Transparent Touch Glass keyboard – now you see it, now you don’t

The Bastron Ver.3 Transparent Touch Glass Keyboard is a cool looking keyboard that is made out of tempered glass and has a gold colored aluminum frame. It is a USB keyboard (micro-USB cable included) that is touch sensitive, waterproof, supports gesture controls, and even has a blue LED backlight feature. If you enjoy an unusual twist […]

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Alxum 10-Port USB Smart Charging Station & Organizer review

By Kathleen Chapman / April 14, 2017 / Reviews / Batteries and Chargers, Charging station, USB / 1 Comment

I really love products that help me to organize my house and thus when the Gadgeteer was offered the Alxum 10-Port USB Smart Charging Station & Organizer, I jumped at the chance to review it. I have a side table in the living room that has been functioning as my kids’ gadget depository (four iPad

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Netatmo Welcome Indoor Security Camera review

By Kathleen Chapman / April 12, 2017 / Reviews / Home and Kitchen, Home Security / 6 Comments

I reviewed the Netatmo Presence Outdoor Security camera a few months ago and really, REALLY enjoy using it because it uses deep learning to tell the differences between people, animals, cars, and other motions thus virtually eliminating unnecessary motion detection alerts. In addition, there are no subscription fees because all the video is stored locally

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This catheter-guided single chip may someday provide 3-D imaging from within your heart and blood vessels

By Kathleen Chapman / March 31, 2017 / News / Health and fitness / Leave a Comment

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technolgy, Atlanta, Georgia and Electronics Engineering Department, Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey, developed this tiny chip (approximately 1.5 mm) on a flexible catheter (about 430 microns) that will allow heart surgeons to view a complete real-time 3-D image of heart and blood vessel blockages and allow the surgeons to attend

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Tell whether your faucet temperature is hot or cold at a glance with this LED faucet

By Kathleen Chapman / March 30, 2017 / News / Health and fitness, Home and Kitchen, Safety / Leave a Comment

When several people use the same faucet, you never know what water temperature you might experience when it’s your turn. With the LightInTheBox Temperature Sensitive Single Handle Centerset LED Lavatory Faucet, you no longer have to whip your hand in and out and risk scalding your skin to see if the water might be too

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Jaybird X3 Wireless Bluetooth Headphones review

By Kathleen Chapman / March 16, 2017 / Reviews / Audio, Bluetooth, Bluetooth headphones, TV, Video / 16 Comments

I love my MPOW Swift Bluetooth 4.0 Headphones and because of them, Bluetooth earbuds are all I use. I no longer wish to deal with wired earphones. And I’ve found that I like having earbuds over other types of headphones (on-ear or over-the-ear) because they are small and portable, don’t leak sound so as to

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Riveci Olympus – Bowie Pull-up Brown wallet review

By Kathleen Chapman / March 10, 2017 / Reviews / Wallets / Leave a Comment

I’ve discovered that I have a real affinity for leather wallets. They’re flexible, durable, attractive and they smell great. I’ve also discovered an affinity for those wallets that carry my plastic cards vertically rather than horizontally. The Riveci Olympus – Bowie Pull-up Brown wallet is such a wallet and I was given the opportunity to

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Epson WorkForce ET-16500 Wide-format EcoTank all-in-one printer review

By Kathleen Chapman / March 9, 2017 / Reviews / Computer Gear, Printer / 20 Comments

We’ve needed a new color printer for a while now and I was fairly sure that I would go with a color laser printer because of their dependability and beautifully clear print qualities. However, when the Gadgeteer was offered the Epson WorkForce ET-16500 EcoTank Wide-format All-in-One Supertank printer that will print large formats like 11″

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Axess “Superior” Extended Vegetable Tanned Leather RFID-blocking V-shaped wallet review

By Kathleen Chapman / March 5, 2017 / Reviews / RFID shielding, Wallets / 3 Comments

I am on a quest for a great leather wallet. I really enjoy using my Garzini Essenziale Finestra wallet, but are there others out there that I might like better? When the Gadgeteer was offered an Axess leather wallet to review, I volunteered to do so. I chose the Axess “Superior” Extended Vegetable Tanned Leather RFID-blocking

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An architect’s scale incorporated into a retractable ballpoint pen

By Kathleen Chapman / February 26, 2017 / News / Pens / 1 Comment

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This cool looking pen is the Acme Studio SCALE Retractable Ballpoint pen designed by Shigeru Ban. It has two functions – it is a pen and an architect’s scale (a triangular shaped ruler containing multiple scales used by architects and drafters when drawing up floor/building plans back when this was done by hand).

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Organize your daily medications into individual packets with the PillSuite

By Kathleen Chapman / February 25, 2017 / News / Health and fitness, Travel Gear / 2 Comments

Have you ever gone on a trip and had to pack all your bottles of medications and supplements only to find they take up too much space? The PillSuite helps eliminate that problem. This system allows you to organize your daily pills into a pill organizer which has a spout on the lid so that

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Gadgeteer team EDC updates – Kathleen Chapman

By Kathleen Chapman / February 9, 2017 / Articles / EDC, gadgeteer / Leave a Comment

I have recently updated some of the items in my everyday carry bag (purse/gadget bag). In the past, I’ve carried a small purse because I like to carry as little as possible, but with all the gadgets I have accumulated over time, I needed to upgrade a few years ago to a larger bag. So,

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Colonel Littleton No. 18 Leather Hunt Bag review

By Kathleen Chapman / February 7, 2017 / Reviews / Bags, Leather / 2 Comments

I was introduced to Colonel Littleton products by Dave Rees who has reviewed a few of the men’s line of exquisite handcrafted leather bags here on the Gadgeteer. I had the opportunity last year to review the Colonel Littleton Bentley Tote which was absolutely fabulous. Now I’ve been given the privilege to review another of

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The EcoHelmet is a paper bicycle helmet made for bike share users

By Kathleen Chapman / January 31, 2017 / News / Bicycle, Health and fitness, Sports / 4 Comments

Cities everywhere have bike share programs, but the people who use them often do not use helmets. The EcoHelmet, designed by Isis Shiffer, is a recyclable, inexpensive solution designed to fill that need. It is made with “waterproofed [biodegradable coating lasts three hours] recycled paper in a radial honeycomb pattern” and one size generally fits

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Sync your handwritten notes to an app on your phone via Bluetooth using the Oree Stylograph pen

By Kathleen Chapman / January 29, 2017 / News / Pens / 3 Comments

As much as possible, I take notes using Evernote, but sometimes I want to draw pictures and add diagrams and calculations to my notes. In those cases, it is easier to use a pen and paper. Orée has come up with the Stylograph, a pen that works with special paper to digitize all your handwritten

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TouchJet Pond Touchscreen Projector review

By Kathleen Chapman / January 13, 2017 / Reviews / Computer Gear, Projector / Leave a Comment

I am a homeschool teacher and am always looking for ways to improve the flow of my instruction. When the Gadgeteer was offered the TouchJet Pond Touchscreen Projector, I volunteered to review it to see if it would do just that. It is a smart projector that runs Android 4.4.2, has a 16 GB internal

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FrostGuard review

By Kathleen Chapman / January 8, 2017 / Reviews / Car Gear / 14 Comments

We live in the Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas where most of the homes have only two car garages instead of three that you might find elsewhere (and they’re tiny too – first world problems). Because our garage is so small, we are forced to park one of our cars in the driveway, which means

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High on Leather Leather Hiking Backpack review

By Kathleen Chapman / January 1, 2017 / Reviews / Backpack, Bags / 10 Comments

As a home educator, sometimes I have to teach while out and about. During such times, I carry my teaching materials with me in a backpack. Some inexpensive backpacks don’t last very long while other more expensive backpacks last longer. One thing seems to be true of most of them – they all tend to

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Netatmo Presence Outdoor Security Camera review

By Kathleen Chapman / December 26, 2016 / Reviews / Home and Kitchen, security camera / 26 Comments

After reviewing the D-link HD WiFi Camera DCS-935L, the Zetta Z16 HD Wide Angle Intelligent Security Camcorder, and the DoorBird Video Doorbell, the overly sensitive motion detectors on the cameras of each device drove me crazy. Many security cameras also have subscription fees to store your recordings which I also find frustrating. I still wanted

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Firewater is a solar lantern/water bottle

By Kathleen Chapman / December 26, 2016 / News / LED lantern, Solar, Water Bottle / Leave a Comment

I love all things that glow which stems from my childhood days when I was fascinated with glow in the dark toys and fireflies. Thus, it’s not unusual that the Firewater Solar Bottle Lantern caught my eye. This unique 700-milliliter silicone water bottle (6.5″ x 4″ x 3.5″) doubles as a lantern that when turned on

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