News about interesting gadgets, gear, mobile technology and lifestyle products.
NEWS – Making coffee when staying in hotel rooms is easy. Making good coffee is darn near impossible. The tiny electric drip or pod based machines typically provided are generally not capable of making a good cup of coffee. Does it get the water hot enough? Who knows! How clean are the insides? Hard to […]
The Pakt Coffee Kit is a brewing system for the road Read More
NEWS – Summer is in full swing, and we have the temps here in the Midwest to prove it. If you’re going to be outside, you’re going to need a cold beverage or 5. And something to keep that beverage as cold as possible. The Pump2Pour Insulated Jug from nICE Cooler has got your back.
The Pump2Pour insulated jug keeps your favorite beverages on tap Read More
CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Here are four crowdfunding campaigns that caught my eye this week. Let me know if these products interest you too or if I missed a really good campaign that I should talk about. OmniFob™ Smart Remote Fob – Home / Auto / Security / Locator What is it? The OmniFob is a
NEWS – VAIO recently announced a new laptop, the SX12. What’s unusual about this computer is not the 12.5 inch screen, the 8th generation Intel processors, or its less than 2 pounds weight. What’s unusual is the number of ports. It has USB-C (for charging), 3 USB-A, HDMI, SD card, headphone, Ethernet, and VGA ports.
VAIO gets that more ports are more better! Read More
NEWS – The new Rocketbook Fusion is an endlessly reusable synthetic paper notebook that you write on with a Pilot FriXion erasable pen, marker, or highlighter and can erase the pages by wiping them with a damp cloth enabling you to use the pages over and over again. Each spiral-bound Rocketbook Fusion notebook features 42
Rocketbook launches new Fusion reusable notebook Read More
DEAL NEWS – I have 2 Neato Botvacs in my home and I highly recommend them. Amazon has a Prime Day lightning deal on the D7 model. Go check out my Neato Botvac D7 review and then go save 20% on the D7. This is a Lightning Deal, so it will only be live for
Amazon Prime Deals – Save BIG on NEATO, Roborock, and other robot vacuums Read More
NEWS – My dog has a beautiful black coat that gets super hot in the summer sun. I refill her water bowl an awful lot, but when I realized she was waking me in the night not for a potty break but to drink out of our pool, I decided we needed a better way
Keep your pet hydrated in the heat with gravity water dispenser Read More
DEAL NEWS – Here are a few good deals to check out for today’s and tomorrow’s Amazon Prime Day shopping extravaganza. Jabra deals The Jabra Elite 85h Wireless Noise-Canceling Headphones are normally priced at $299.99 and the Amazon Prime deal price is $249.99 which is a 17% savings. Read our review (hint: we really liked them).
Amazon Prime Deals – Save on Satechi, myCharge, Jabra, and more Read More
NEWS – Other than Black Friday, which comes in November, the biggest shopping day of the year has been Amazon Prime Day which launched 5 years ago. Prime Day has been one day in July where Amazon heavily discounts products exclusively for Amazon Prime members. This year, Amazon is giving Prime members 2 days of
Tomorrow is Prime Day, so make sure you’re ready for all the Black Friday in July deals Read More
NEWS – For many of us, the weekend is on the downward swing and Monday is fast approaching. Ugh. To take your mind off the impending workweek, relax with some fun gadget reviews and news. Here’s a handy list of everything we posted in the last seven days. REVIEWS OLFA Professional 18mm Heavy-Duty Aluminum Utility
NEWS – If smores give you a bellyache and fire-cooked hot dogs don’t please your palate, check out the Traditional Shake and Pop Outdoor Popcorn Popper from Wabash Valley Farms for your next campfire snack. My son and co-reviewer, Mason, just like his grandfather, needs a daily dose of popcorn. In fact, these guys opt
Shake your way to a healthy campfire snack Read More
NEWS – No one ever has enough Lighting cables, and no one who isn’t a land developer hates trees. What if you could plant trees and be given a free cable for your trouble? Nomad is offering exactly that in their Free Cable for the Planet program. Donate at least $5 to plant 5 trees
Nomad offers a free Lightning cable if you plant trees in the Amazon Read More
NEWS – Have you ever visited a frustrating website? You know what I mean – the one where the buttons don’t work, hint characters don’t clear from text boxes, tab order doesn’t work and so on? The folks at Bagaar have built a shrine to poor web design with their User Inyerface web page. Once
Relive all your web frustrations with User Inyerface Read More
NEWS – Supported by Verizon, Mobvio’s newly updated TicWatch Pro now comes in a 4G LTE version that is jam-packed with all the smartphone features you want and need, like GPS, NFC for Google payments from your wrist, built-in heart rate monitor, and activity tracking. It’s also IP68+ rated so you can wear it while
Mobvoi announces new TicWatch Pro 4G/LTE Read More
NEWS – I almost never use physical currency (coins and dollars) anymore. I use my phone (Huawei P30 Pro) with Google Pay wherever I can, or I use my credit card. That said, I do realize that there are places where coins are still needed to make purchases, like laundromats, self-serve car washes, parking meters,
The Dango Coin Capsule is something you never knew you needed until now Read More
NEWS – Strap this Qualcomm Snapdragon 2100 powered smartwatch on your kid (ages 5 and up), and they will have a full smartwatch on their wrist with a nice set of features. The main features of the dokiPal include video calling using the built-in camera, fitness tracking, an integrated AI voice assistant, and SOS location
dokiPal announces a 4G LTE and voice enabled smartwatch for kids Read More
GIVEAWAY – You need a Huawei MediaPad M5 Lite tablet in your life and one lucky winner will walk away with one! Entering is easy! Just answer one simple question in the comments section at the bottom of this post and if you’re willing to jump through a few extra hoops, you can earn up to
We’re giving away a Huawei MediaPad M5 Lite tablet! Read More
NEWS – Sony is bringing their “A” game with their new WF-1000XM3 headphones. Fully wireless, the earbud style headphones are fully wireless, provide long battery life and my holy grail for headphones – noise cancellation. With dual microphones on each earbud, the headphones pick up noise in both the forward and backward directions along with
DEAL NEWS – One of Amazon’s Gold Box Deals of The Day is for a Roborock S5 robot vacuum and mop. We’ve reviewed several Roborock vacs in the past including the Roborock S5. The normal price for this model is $569.99 and today’s special price is $398.99. That’s a 30% / $171 savings and is
Deal – Save $171 on a Roborock S5 robot vacuum and mop Read More
CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Here are four Kickstarter campaigns that caught my eye this week. Let me know if these products interest you too or if I missed a really good campaign that I should talk about. TRIO: The on-the-go dual & triple screen laptop monitor What is it? TRIO is a magnetic dual monitor setup