REVIEW – Most people love music, and many wish they could make music, but feel it is too difficult. Like everything else, it seems, learning music is easier if you are young, but a full-sized guitar is often larger for little hands and is also quite an investment. Enter Loog, a company that seeks to […]
Backstage with the band – Loog guitar for kids and guitar learning system Read More
REVIEW – Small EDC lights are a huge market. The number of different models, just on this site alone, is staggering. So, how does a company innovate and bring more to the party? AceBeam has decided to add a palm-sized unit with three different types of light sources, with an easy-to-use magnetic ring around the
AceBeam K1 EDC flashlight – Light three ways Read More
REVIEW – Recording sound with your phone is very easy – there’s a mic built in to the phone, right? But what about if you want to record while you’ve stepped back from your phone? Or what if you want to have a conversation with someone else and you’re in a place where there is
BOYA Mini 2 microphone review – Recording to go Read More
REVIEW – Most mammals have hair on their bodies. We humans have evolved to mostly have it on our heads. (My bald friends say “There are only a few perfect heads – the rest are covered with hair!”) Keeping this in check is a huge market for all humans. Barbers can be expensive, especially
MaxGroom Premium Barber Clippers Trimmer Set review – A little off the sides Read More
REVIEW – Power. Seems like every few days, we are offered a new form factor of portable battery. Today, we have one that I find really interesting. It’s not a pocket-sized one for your phone, or a bowling ball-sized one that can run your entire camping setup, but it’s a little larger than a pint
EnergyQC Power Bank review – Charging all the things Read More
REVIEW – Flashlights keep evolving. There is a strong, active group of companies that keep pushing things forward in the EDC light category. (Search for “EDC flashlight” if you don’t believe me!) Today’s entry from Wuben is their X4, newly shipped from their Kickstarter. It features an adjustable brightness level, and side lighting. Let’s dig
Wuben X4 flashlight review – This EDC light dials up the brightness Read More
REVIEW – Always wanting to help us protect the Naked Robotic Core™ of our phones, case makers have embraced Aramid fiber as a material lately. Today’s model is from Pitaka, who make a lot of unique products for mobile computing. (I’ve had their carbon-fiber iPad mini case on my unit for years now and love
Pitaka Tactile Woven iPhone case review Read More
REVIEW – If you’ve worked or even seen the inside of any type of modern office in the last 15-20 years, you’re familiar with the idea of standing desks. Most information workers expect them and use them without thought, but getting one in your home office has, until recently, been prohibitively expensive. Until today’s desk
Boulies MagVida standing desk review Read More
REVIEW – Charging our phones on the go is a constant thing. (I laughed at a dating site that asked “Phone battery level” as a profile question. The choices were “Always charged”, “50%”, and “Always in the red”. Has this become yet another way we codify our place in society?) To mitigate this (and possibly
Pitaka Aramid Fiber Magnetic Power Bank review Read More
REVIEW -Who doesn’t need a tiny flashlight from time to time? With the advent of high-output LEDs and powerful rechargeable battery technology, however, the landscape for this niche has exploded. Today’s review item is one of the smallest yet most versatile lights I’ve reviewed – the Wurkkos HD03. It packs a flood and spotlight into
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REVIEW – Having a case on your phone is almost a given. Android users, too, rarely leave their phones exposed as the Naked Robotic Core™, but instead opt for some sort of outer protection. Today’s case is a heavy-duty metal-edged beast from Beeasy, their iPhone 16 Pro Max Waterproof Case with Shockproof. (Yes, I’m listening
Beeasy iPhone 16 Pro Max shockProof and waterproof case review Read More
REVIEW – I love sitting outside eating, writing, reading, or just enjoying the coolness of the evening. Unless it is raining, snowing, bitterly cold, or over 90º, I’m gonna try to have a late dinner on the deck, and hang out there with a drink and some screens until the evening is over. (Rarely until
Zafferano Olivia Pro lamp review – Brighten any corner of your home Read More
REVIEW – The constant complaint about the Apple Watch is that it needs to be charged daily. If you’ve got one and wear it regularly, however, you just accept that and deal with it like other daily maintenance routines. And you have chargers everywhere. Today, I am reviewing YAAWC (Yet Another Apple Watch Charger) that
JoyRoom Apple Watch charger review – A dedicated travel charger for your Apple Watch Read More
REVIEW – For the past six or eight years, I have had a keyboard for my Mac that I loved. It was just the alphanumeric keys, with an inverted “T” arrangement for the arrow keys, and, most importantly, I could switch between my Mac, my iPad, and my iPad mini or my phone in a
Seenda Battery powered keyboard and mouse combo review Read More
REVIEW – We do a lot of stuff on our phones. Even non-gadget folks are nearly joined bio-mechanically to these slabs of glass, silicon, and metal. Due to my habitual enjoyment of biking (I’m not addicted! I can quit any time I want to!), I was really excited when Julie offered the team a motorcycle-quality
JoyRoom ZS-288 handlebar phone mount review – The road made less bouncy Read More
REVIEW – LEDs continue to replace incandescent bulbs in more and more locations. My new house has no ceiling fixtures in the bedrooms (why not?), which was a drawback that I am in the process of rectifying. I replaced the very decorative fixture that the lady who owned my house previously had over the front
LIFX Oval Capsule LED ceiling light review – Add some sunlight to your ceiling Read More
REVIEW – When upgrading the outdoor space of your domicile, lighting can quickly transform a space. Extending sitting time into the dusk and evening, setting a mood, making unseen steps or other dangerous areas visible are just a few of the reasons to consider lighting. But until relatively recently, wiring those lights was much of
Gigalumi Solar Deck Lighting review – Keeping the glow alive Read More
REVIEW – Using multiple devices was once an odd thing to see. No more. Between laptops, smartphones, and smart watches, we all are carrying around one or more (sometimes many more!) devices that are more powerful computationally than what Alan Shepherd entered space with in Freedom 7. And the more we want to do with
ProtoArc XK01 folding keyboard review – An EDC keyboard that does origami Read More
REVIEW – Normally, when folks are looking for a phone case, it’s just for the basics: corner protection in case of a gravity incident, maybe a little lip to prevent scratches when placing face-down on a table, nice grippy sides and/or back to keep it from skittering across the dashboard in that swerve to avoid
Catalyst Waterproof iPhone case review – Ultimate protection Read More
REVIEW – The curse of having technology that you carry around everywhere is that you eventually have to park it somewhere to charge it. (Well, unless you want to also carry a battery pack around! Hey, no judgment! I’ve been that guy.) If you have a desk, table, or nightstand where you sit your devices
Infinicore T3 Pro 3-in-1 Qi2 charging stand review – One charger to rule them all? Read More