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NEWS – It’s time to take a break from your weekend activities and check in with The Gadgeteer. Here’s a list of the articles, reviews, and news from the past week. I’m sure there’s something that you missed, so take a look and enjoy! Articles Gadgeteer Team EDC 2018 updates – Andy Jacobs by Andy Jacobs […]
Team EDC updates, Zanco Tiny T1 phone, and more – Weekly roundup Read More
NEWS – Have you ever wished that your Google Home Mini voice assistant looked less like a speaker and more like everyone’s favorite cartoon mouse, Otterbox has just what you need with their new Den Series. I don’t quite understand the naming concept, but who cares about that when you can turn the charcoal colored
Otterbox turns your Google Home Mini into Mickey Mouse Read More
NEWS – Do you wish there was an easy way to hang curtains in windows that also have mini blinds? For example, maybe you have a metal kitchen door with a mini blind over the window. You’d like to add a decorative curtain, but you don’t want to drill more holes in the metal. Install
Hang curtain rods without needing any tools Read More
NEWS – These bar glasses are for the mathematicians and scientists. The set of four glasses feature mathematical constants and their expanded formulas. You’ll choose from Pythagoras’s constant (√2), the golden ratio (Φ), Euler’s Number (e), or pi (π). The graphics can serve two functions: 1) identify which glass is yours, and 2) let you
Wait, was I drinking from Euler’s Number or from the Golden Ratio? Read More
NEWS – Halloween is less than two weeks away, so there’s no better time to show your holiday spirit. Stance can help you do just that with their Legends of Horror collection. They’ve brought back some of your favorite horror film icons and put them on a pair of socks. The Legends of Horror collection
The Stance Legends of Horror collection puts iconic horror film villains on your feet Read More
NEWS – If you use a coffee maker like the Aeropress, Kalisa, Hario v60, or a small pour-over dripper, the Basal Filter Coffee Traveller is the perfect travel case for your coffee-making kit. In the image above, the case is holding an Aeropress, a manual grinder, coffee, and a mug. The interior of the lid
Basal Traveller is the perfect carrying case for your coffee equipment Read More
NEWS – If you carry a laptop bag to work, you probably don’t want to carry that huge thing when you go out for lunch or to run some quick errands. You could use the Outpac Daysafe Tech Crossbody as your wallet and carry it inside your bigger EDC bag. When you only need a
Travel light and handsfree with the Outpac Daysafe Crossbody Read More
NEWS – Most of the bulbs in my house are Philips Hue bulbs or light strips. I have a lot of Hue Tap switches scattered around to operate my lights, and they work well, but a couple of them require you to walk down a dark hallway to reach the switch. I need to add
Control your Philips Hue lights by simply entering a room Read More
NEWS – Cats like to climb, and if you don’t give them something to climb on, they’re likely to climb your curtains. If you don’t have enough floor space to dedicate a chunk of it to one of those big climbing trees, you may think you have no other options, but that’s not true. The
Give your cat a climbing structure even if you don’t have a lot of free floor space Read More
NEWS – I love working out, and an essential part of my workouts includes listening to music, so a good pair of headphones is a must. Over the ear, Bluetooth sports headphones are nothing new, but the Flex Sport Wireless Bluetooth Headphones from JLAB Audio may be the perfect workout headphones. The Flex Sport Wireless
The new JLab Flex Sport just might be the ultimate on-ear fitness headphones Read More
NEWS – You take your nice, crisply-ironed dress shirt, carefully place it in your suitcase for a trip, and pull out a wrinkled mess when you get to the hotel. You’ll have to iron that shirt again before your meeting tomorrow – unless you’ve packed your shirt in a PackTidy Shirt and Tie Commuter Travel
PackTidy keeps your shirts from getting crushed and wrinkled in your luggage Read More
NEWS – People are already accustomed to streaming TV shows and movies, and Xbox is bringing that capability to games, too. There’s no word yet on pricing for Xbox’s game-streaming option — known as Project xCloud — but the brand plans to launch public trials of the service next year. Open to Third-Party Developers In
Xbox’s new game streaming service: what you should know Read More
NEWS – Year round, my husband wants a big fan running in our bedroom at night. In the summer, I don’t mind it so much, because it helps keep the room cooler. In the colder months, I don’t want it running because it can make the room too chilly for me. My husband needs it
Let Bose Noise-Masking Sleepbuds help you sleep better at night Read More
NEWS – Make sure your costume stands out this Halloween by wearing a cool LED mask that turns music or rhythms into amazing electro-luminescent animations. The masks feature a layer of phosphorescent ink and a state-of-the-art rechargeable sound-responsive lithium modulator that converts sound waves into pulsing patterns of pure organic light on your face. This
Get noticed this Halloween with a sound-reactive LED mask Read More
NEWS – Most emergency lighting is designed more for function than for beauty. That’s why you often have to go searching for flashlights and emergency lanterns in the dark when there’s a power outage, because you’ve hidden them away in drawers or utility rooms. This Carrier Portable LED Lamp will always sitting out and adding
This LED table lamp also serves as an emergency lantern Read More
NEWS – Actually, those countertop air fryers are basically little convection ovens, because they just use moving, heated air to dry “fry” your food. They aren’t sized nor shaped to be useful for cooking many other items, though. And granted, any convection oven could actually do the same job as a countertop air fryer, but
Cuisinart combines a toaster oven and an air fryer into one appliance Read More
NEWS – Technology startup 1-Ring Inc. has created the smart home hub called Moon. The first thing anyone (who hasn’t been under a rock for 41 years) will notice is that the camera part of the hub looks like the Star Wars Death Star. Then again, the first thing people may notice is that the
Obi Wan, it is a Moon, and also a smart hub with levitating camera Read More
NEWS – If you like to change your Apple Watch band to match your outfit or to better suit your activities for the day, you probably don’t keep your extra bands hidden away in a jewelry box or drawer. If you’d like to keep a few of your favorite bands close at hand for quick
Anden’s Valet charges your Apple Watch and organizes your extra bands Read More
NEWS – We were busy this week with a dozen reviews, four articles, and fourteen news posts. I’ll bet you haven’t read them all so I challenge you to browse through the complete list below just to double check. ARTICLES Gadgeteer Team EDC 2018 updates – Michael Strange Gadgeteer Team EDC 2018 updates – Elizabeth
More team EDC updates, Gerber Dime multitool, NYC Comic-Con, and more – Weekly roundup Read More
NEWS – Who doesn’t like pistachios? Absolutely no one, that’s who. Let’s face it the little green nuts themselves are great, but the shells, not so much. Unless you have the Pistachio Pedestal. The Pistachio Pedestal is a two-tiered solid wood pistachio server designed to offer a solution for storing discarded shells. Aside from being
The Pistachio Pedestal is an elegant solution for storing discarded shells Read More