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Your (anatomically correct) heart is a perfect gift for your favorite scientist

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NEWS – Wondering what to give your favorite scientist for Christmas this year?  No matter if they are chemists, biologists, engineers, or mathematicians, you’ll find something in their field at the Boutique Academia website.  As a mathematician herself, Maile Urbancic, founder and CEO of Boutique Academia, says this about her jewelry: “When I started my business, […]

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Nomad’s Rugged Case gives your AirPods a classic, yet bold new look

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NEWS – Nomad already makes Rugged Horween leather iPhone cases and Apple Watchbands. Now they’ve added a new case that adds style and protection to your Apple AirPods. This Rugged Case has a minimalist two-piece construction designed to tightly fit your AirPods this keeps your AirPods thin, allowing them to retain their compact nature. It also

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Funcl wireless headphones are for music lovers on a budget – Notable crowdfunding campaign

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NEWS – If you’ve been paying attention to our review lately, you’ve noticed that we’ve been doing a lot of wireless earbud reviews. That’s because Julian and I have been on a quest to find our next favorite pair. There are a ton of different earbuds on the market, but today Funcl launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding

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Own the wireless charging tray endorsed by Oprah herself

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NEWS – The Courant Catch:3 is a wireless charging station with a tray to hold your other EDC pocket stuff that is on Oprah Winfrey’s Favorite Things list this year.  You can see why it’s on the list:  it’s useful, and it’s beautiful! The Catch:3 is made of premium pebble-grain Italian leather and high-grade matte

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How do you get down off a bison? It apparently involves socks…

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NEWS – I know that geese have down that are used in making pillows, but I never knew that bison had down, did you?  Apparently bison down can be used to make warm, cushy, and durable yarn when combined with merino wool.  This yarn incorporates 18% nylon and 2% spandex with the 56% merino wool and 24% bison

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MARS season 2 premiers tonight on Nat Geo

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NEWS – I just finished binge-watching the first season of MARS, a 6-episode docudrama streaming from NatGeo TV. If your eyes just glazed over when you read that MARS is a docudrama, please unglaze them right now because this series is really entertaining if you have any interest in sci-fi, space exploration, science, etc. The

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Now your cooler can have an interior light, just like your home fridge

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NEWS – Well, it’s not just like the home fridge, because it’s not activated by opening the door.  The StarBright Cooler Light has LED bulbs and a rechargeable battery.  You turn it on and toss it into your Yeti, Coleman, RTIC, or other coolers of any size.  It’s not mounted to your cooler.  It lays

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Folding straws, backpacks, Bluetooth earbuds, and more – Weekly roundup

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Hey Gadgeteers, it’s time to make sure you didn’t miss any of our excellent content this week. Here’s a handy list of all of our articles, reviews and news from the past seven days. Enjoy! ARTICLES Step-By-Step Guide for Website Building with NING #sponsored on November 6, 2018 by Julie Strietelmeier REVIEWS Nonda ZUS Wireless Smart backup

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Forget fiber optics. Try the fiber vacuum brush attachment with your vac.

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NEWS – Most vacuum brush attachments have a single suction point and solid bristles.  This Universal Vacuum Attachment has 30 tube “bristles”, and each is a 7″-long hollow suction tube.  The tubes are flexible, so they bend and fit easily into corners or into small spaces.  The brush does a better job cleaning, because the

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Add a personal video message to your gifts from the London Sock Company

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NEWS – The gifting season is upon us, and it can be difficult to find nice gifts for the guys on our gift lists.  You don’t always know what to give them, so it often seems that ties and socks become the fallback position.  Sometimes, practical gifts like that are seen as impersonal and given

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The PowerPic wireless charger let’s your phone complete the picture

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NEWS – There are a plethora of wireless chargers on the market today. Twelve South maker of the HiRise charging stand for iPhone has created a wireless charger that’s pretty as a picture, literally. The PowerPic is a picture frame that wirelessly charges your phone. Hidden inside the New Zealand pine picture frame is a Qi

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No one will know you have a cat in your home with this odor-controlling cat litter waste disposal system

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NEWS – When my daughter was born 23 years ago, one of the first things we bought for her room was a Diaper Genie.  Unlike normal garbage cans, the Diaper Genie had canisters of plastic bag material inside that would twist around each diaper as you disposed of it to reduce the smell of the

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Aluminum + tempered glass = cool iPhone XS Max bumper case

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NEWS – We’ve seen and reviewed many metal frame bumper cases over the years for a variety of smartphones. But this one from Brando Workshop caught my attention because it has a sheet of scratch-resistant and fingerprint-resistant tempered glass built into the bottom half of the bumper. The glass protects the back of your iPhone

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The Avocado Sock quickly ripens avocados in the cutest way possible

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NEWS – Buying avocados is never an exact science. You either choose one that’s overripe or not ripe enough. And waiting for an avocado to ripen is never ideal. The Avocado Sock (that’s right I said sock) was made to quickly and perfectly ripen the little green fruit. The sock is made from pure 100%

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Give the gift of a diamond – decanter, that is

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NEWS – Back in 2012, John Walker & Sons produced 60 bottles of a limited-edition whisky to honor the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s ascension to the throne.  That whisky was bottled in a beautiful lead crystal decanter with a sterling silver collar set with a half-carat diamond.  The decanter was diamond shaped, similar

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