REVIEW – Call me a barbarian, but I don’t have the water and ice thing in the door of my fridge. It was a conscious decision based on the fact that I’d much rather have another cubic foot of freezer space than have ice on demand. My family has adjusted to our primitive living arrangements, […]
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REVIEW –It’s gift-giving season and while I don’t want to oversell it, one of the best gifts I think you could give to your loved one is one less thing to do. What if you could give your significant other something that basically takes all the thinking out of cooking? Like you just toss groceries
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REVIEW – When I first saw a Solo Stove fire pit I was so intrigued. What kind of magic makes a smokeless fire pit? The only reason I didn’t buy one is that I didn’t have a great spot for it. Recently, though, Solo Stove introduced the Mesa Tabletop Fire Pit — a teeny tabletop
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REVIEW – I was at back-to-school night when another mother nudged me and asked me what calculator my son had because her daughter “had to get the same calculator.” Such was the buzz around the Casio fx-CG50 PRIZM calculator. I was a bit taken aback…I mean, when I was in high school it was
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REVIEW – You know when a watch comes up for review and several Gadgeteers “reply all” with “That’s a really good watch” that you’re in for something neat if you get to review it. Such was the case with the Mobvoi TicWatch E3 smartwatch, and I was lucky enough to get it and give it
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REVIEW – Sublimation is all the rage in the craft world, and while I didn’t know much about it when I opted for the Vevor Mug Press, I feel like an expert now! Let’s just say the learning curve is low and the Vevor Mug Press does all the work (mostly). What is it? The
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REVIEW – I’ll admit I’m a bit of a phone diva. I get suckered into the latest and greatest phone with shocking regularity, even though at this point I think we can all admit that innovation between models is marginal and the prices of flagship phones are ridiculous. With that in mind, I was curious
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REVIEW – Fun fact about me: back in the early 2000’s I had two insurance claims for over $100,000 that left me homeless for over a year. Both resulted from water damage. One case wasn’t particularly preventable, but the other one was. The water line to the icemaker came undone, and every time my freezer thought
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REVIEW – It’s late summer. Every part of me is hot, but unfortunately not in the sexy way. Even with our milder summer this year, middle age means I’m never cold. When I heard there was such a thing as a cooling pillowcase, I knew I was the perfect subject to test it. The Elegear
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REVIEW – A cooling blanket may seem like an oxymoron, but could a blanket make you cold? It’s a fascinating idea. The Elegear cooling blanket webpage is full of pictures of people wearing this blanket and drinking hot beverages, which only made me more curious as I waited for it in the mail. Once the
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REVIEW – I have a kid who has never really eaten a “normal” breakfast. It’s probably all my fault since I used to just toss him into his car seat in the morning with some dry cereal (he didn’t like it with milk) that he would eat like kibble on the way to school.
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REVIEW – If you’re gadgety like the gadgeteers, your desk has a lot of stuff on it. I’ve got a couple of pictures, my echo device, my extra monitors, my centercam, my fancy microphone, my phone charging pad, and my ring light. It’s just a bunch of stuff and the cord situation generated by all
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REVIEW – I keep hearing in the media how everyone is starting to bust out of their Covid seclusion and starting to travel, and I guess I’m part of that trend since I’ve had trips to Hawaii, Washington and Montreal all in June. The trips have involved a lot of air travel, and like most
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REVIEW – As a band mom, I’m called upon to do a lot of things, but probably the most important one is to help fundraise for the marching band. Pre-pandemic some of the band moms tossed around the idea of making buttons to sell, but none of us had any button making experience. I thought
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REVIEW – As a crafty, gadgety kind of person, I’ve always sort of wanted a 3D printer, but I’ve never really had anything I’ve really needed to print. Basically, I lacked a project. Enter my son. He decided he wanted to make an acoustic levitator and apparently it requires printing some parts. What is an
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REVIEW – Last year I named the TORRAS COOLIFY Neck Air Conditioner the best thing I reviewed in 2021, and that wasn’t just my opinion – I had a lot of friends who tried it and bought one. So when Torras said they’d made some exciting changes and were launching the COOLIFY 2, I knew
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REVIEW – Summer is almost here and I don’t know about you, but I’ve got a ton of trips planned. As a gadgeteer, I am always looking for the perfect accessory to make travel easier, and for me it all starts with the backpack. When Julie’s offer to review the Sol E Ciel Tulum backpack
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REVIEW -During the pandemic, I think a lot of us made some upgrades to our work from home spots. For my son, that was his room, and he decided to go “all in” on strip lighting. Basically, his room looks a lot like a Las Vegas hotel room. As a surprise addition to that aesthetic,
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REVIEW – We all have things that just ring our bells. Things that you can never seem to have too many of, and once a new one arrives you can’t help but rip open the package and try it out right away. For me, it’s earbuds. I’ve had to reign myself in since I started
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ARTICLE – At the risk of sounding a bit cranky, this will include references to my workplace that are, uh, not so complimentary. I’m a college professor and while some may think that means we’re smart or something, really it just means we are experts at one tiny little sliver of stuff, and we’re pretty
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