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Traeger wants to make you a ‘smarter’ griller this summer with their new Timberline grills

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The weather is warming up and that means sun, fun and grilling season. This year Traeger wants to make your grilling and smoking even easier. With their new Timberline 850 and 1300 model grills they’re introducing WiFIRE control. With WiFIRE you can control your Timberline grill from your phone. So you can adjust your grill […]

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Burn that old fanny pack and get a HipS-sister waist band gear holder

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Remember fanny packs (Sorry Aussie visitors)? I had one… I think it’s still up in the closet that houses my gear bag collection. Fanny packs were very convenient because they let you carry your everyday essentials without burdening your hands, pockets or shoulders with bag straps. Sadly, they went out of style about the same

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Grocery Gripps let you make one trip from car to house with all your bags

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Every Friday Jeanne goes to the Kroger grocery store after work to grab the items that I don’t buy from Walmart when I get the bulk of the groceries. And every night I hear a thump thump thump on the front door signaling that she’s home and doesn’t have the ability to open the front

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Lenovo Smart Assistant releases this May with integrated Amazon Alexa

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The Amazon Echo costs $179.99.  Would you like the same functionality (and then some), but save $50?  Of course!  Introducing the Lenovo Smart Assistant, featuring Amazon Alexa.  This will be released by Lenovo in May 2017, at a cost of $129.99.  Don’t want a giant black tower in the middle of your room?  The Lenovo

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Night Shift available now on the Mac desktop

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Apple has finally rolled out Night Shift on the newest update to macOS Sierra. Night Shift is a program that gradually removes the blue light of your display to help relieve eye strain and help you sleep better. A similar program, f.lux, has been available cross-platform for a while now, but Apple decided to include a

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Pelican bottles, standing desks, earbuds and more – Weekly roundup

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It’s Saturday evening, and you know what that means… The week is over in just a few short hours. To make sure that you don’t miss one of our reviews, articles or riveting news posts, I’ve made a list of everything we post this week. Click through and enjoy all the listy goodness.

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Norton Core router protects you at the network level – FINALLY!!

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Finally!  A network router that protects all of your connected devices at the START – the point of entry!  No more buying piecemeal software for every device, every year!  It does have a subscription plan; $9.99 per month, but the first year is free.  And it’s from Norton, one of the best recognized, highly-respected names

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These jeans have a pocket especially designed to hold your smartphone

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It’s about time that we start seeing pants with a dedicated pocket for your smartphone. Japanese brand Muji is now offering a new line of 100% cotton denim slim jeans for men that have a pocket on the back right hip. The location of this 6th pocket helps prevent the wearer from inadvertently sitting on

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This catheter-guided single chip may someday provide 3-D imaging from within your heart and blood vessels

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Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technolgy, Atlanta, Georgia and Electronics Engineering Department, Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey, developed this tiny chip (approximately 1.5 mm) on a flexible catheter (about 430 microns) that will allow heart surgeons to view a complete real-time 3-D image of heart and blood vessel blockages and allow the surgeons to attend

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Tell whether your faucet temperature is hot or cold at a glance with this LED faucet

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When several people use the same faucet, you never know what water temperature you might experience when it’s your turn. With the LightInTheBox Temperature Sensitive Single Handle Centerset LED Lavatory Faucet, you no longer have to whip your hand in and out and risk scalding your skin to see if the water might be too

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There’s no need for a guard dog when you have a GuardPeanut!

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I got a giggle out of the thought of this gadget because I was imagining an angry little peanut screaming at the dog in a tiny voice, “There’s a new sheriff in town!” while protecting my bag of Doritos or something. However, after reading what it can do, I can definitely see how it could be

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Prometheus Design Werx Solo Jacket will make you more gorgeous than scruffy

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With the success of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, it’s cool to be a Rebel again (like it ever wasn’t). And although he didn’t appear in Rogue One, Han Solo is certainly one of the most popular Rebels, so who wouldn’t want to imitate him? Prometheus Design Werx must agree, because they’ve released the Solo

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Creative gets creative with gaming speakers

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Creative is known mainly for SoundBlaster sound cards and speakers. I’ve reviewed their wonderful Roar wireless speaker series. Creative’s newest speaker is the BlasterX Kratos S5 is a 2.1 gaming speaker system with Aurora Reactive lighting system. It comes with powerful 4” satellite drivers and a 6.5” subwoofer in wooden enclosures, delivering clear highs, detailed

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Using Catchall could get you accused of being an organized person

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It’s that time of year when decluttering and spring cleaning is at the forefront of everyone’s minds and procrastination with a side of stagnancy has been removed from the menu.  I feel the pressure and I don’t like it. How about this? In lieu of all that organizing and cleaning that I so dread, I’ll

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This giant “ball bearing” will soothe your aching muscles

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If you’re an athlete or you work out on a regular basis, you know what it’s like to have sore muscles. Even I get achy muscles with my lame attempts to keep in shape. Finding a way to soothe your aches and pains is important if you want to be ready to tackle the next

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Get one free Android app from Google every week!

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Google recently quietly rolled out a new section on Google Play. It’s called Free App of the Week and it is wonderful! Both Apple and Amazon have had similar programs for years now, highlighting a particular paid app and providing it for free for a limited time. Google has finally caught up and created a program for

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Charge your gadgets when you’re off the grid with 1 tablespoon of water

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Portable backup batteries are handy to have when you’re away from an electrical outlet and need to charge your devices. But they are only good for a limited number of charges before they need to be recharged themselves. Solar chargers are another backup power solution that works great as long as you’re in an area

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Headphones, video adapters, wallets, PAX East trip report and more – Weekly roundup

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We published 25 posts this week including 11 reviews, 11 news posts, 2 articles, and several updates to some of our older reviews. Did you read all of them? Make sure you didn’t miss something by clicking through to see a list of all our news, reviews, and articles from the past week.

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