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If you’ve been spending all your waking hours surfing for holiday gift ideas and deals, then you probably missed out on some of our gadget news and reviews this week. So take a break from all that shopping stress and catch up on The Gadgeteer. Click through for a list of everything we’ve posted in […]
it bed, Brevite rucksack, WatchAir antenna and more – Weekly roundup Read More
To celebrate the holidays, we are giving away some awesome products including a messenger bag from WaterField Design, a rugged Bluetooth speaker from Jam audio, a carbon fiber wallet from Identity and many more. And this time we have two sets of prizes so that more than one person gets a chance to win. Entering is
Holiday 2016 gadget giveaway! Read More
Still trying to come up with gift ideas for family members but not having any luck? Starting today, Friday 12/16/16, if you’re on the Verizon network, you can get a brand new iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, Pixel, Phone by Google, Pixel XL, Phone by Google, Moto Z Droid, Moto Z Droid Force, Samsung S7,
Verizon offering smartphones with no up front fees with trade-in Read More
If the Fitbit Charge 2 and other sporty wearable activity trackers aren’t fancy enough for you, consider WiseWear. WiseWear offers 18K gold and palladium plated smart bracelets that both looks good (if that’s the look you’re after) and offers several baked in fitness and safety features that include tracking your activity (steps, distance, calories burned
WiseWear’s fashionable bracelets track activity and keep the wearer safe Read More
Amazon’s Alexa voice service sure gets around. She started out in the Amazon Echo, then the Echo Dot, then other speakers like the Invoxia Triby, more recently Martian watches. Now you’ll even be able to talk to her with a pair of headphones from ONvocal.
These new headphones from ONvocal have Alexa baked in Read More
There are quite a few tech clothing options for men that include jackets, pants, caps and more. And now women are finally getting some choices too with the new Travel Wrap Skirt from Clothing Arts. The Travel Wrap Skirt has five hidden zippered pockets and an adjustable waist built into a lightweight, quick-drying, water &
The Travel Wrap Skirt by Clothing Arts lets women ditch their purses Read More
Can you believe that there are only 15 days till Christmas and only 21 days left in 2016? If that freaks you out as much as it does for me, I know the perfect way to calm down and relax. How? By reading this week’s articles from The Gadgeteer. Click through to browse a full
Hoverboard gocarts, Harry’s razors, HDTV antennas and more – Weekly roundup Read More
With so many power-hungry gadgets out there, small, portable power supply devices are all the rage. Sometimes I wish I had something that I could just strap on and have at the ready to power my GoPro or top off my iPhone or my DSLR. The GO PUCK folks must have been inside my head because their
GO PUCK offers rugged, portable, wearable chargers Read More
Go ahead, tell me you don’t wish—on a daily basis—that you had an on-hand way to translate Aurabesh (the Star Wars alphabet) into English. No? Well, I do. OK, maybe I don’t. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want one of these super-cool translator rings from Retroworks. In addition to the Aurabesh-to-English one shown above,
We’ve reviewed quite a few smartwatches including ones from Martian (see related links at the end of this post), but this is the first smartwatch that I’ve heard of that has Amazon Alexa cloud-based voice service built-in. Like the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot, the Martian mVoice watch can be used to ask Alexa to
New Martian mVoice watches puts Alexa on your wrist Read More
Remember the classic Pong game? If you’re a millennial, I’m talking about the arcade game and not the drinking game! If you would like to relive the golden age of video games, you can do so with this kit from Haynes that will give you all the tools and skills (foundation of electronics and soldering)
Build your own retro Pong handheld arcade game Read More
This week I have two Kickstarter crowdfunding campaigns and three Indiegogo campaigns for your crowdfunding shopping pleasure. Click through to read this week’s list of crowdfunding projects that have caught my eye.
Earlier this spring I reviewed the Blink Wire-Free HD Home Monitoring system and since then they’ve gone on to sell over 250,000 of their battery powered security cameras. Today Blink is announcing the addition of a new camera. The Blink XT is an outdoor version of their battery powered camera which features a two-year battery
Blink announces new battery-powered outdoor camera Read More
We’ve been busy this week with 24 posts. That’s a lot of reviews and news. Did you get a chance to read all of them? If not, click through for a handy list of all the posts.
Smart LED bulbs, ergonomic keyboards, light sabers and more – Weekly update Read More
Even though my Nexus 6P doesn’t have wireless charging, I’m still a huge fan of the oh so convenient method of charging called Qi. If I was shopping for a new monitor AND my phone was Qi capable, I’d be seriously interested in the new AOC P2779VC 27 inch monitor. The P2779VC features a Plane
AOC announces new 27in monitor with a Qi charger in the base Read More
The Trucker’s Friend is a tough, all-purpose tool that was designed for truckers, but it looks perfect for walker (zombie) head splitting, nail pulling, tree chopping, ice scraping, etc. This tool is made of heat treated steel with a shock absorbing fiberglass handle. It combines the essential functions of an axe, claw hammer, nail puller, crow bar,
Trucker’s Friend is a tool that will help you survive the zombie apocalypse Read More
The picture above might look like a Kindle or another eReader device, but it’s not. It’s the reMarkable, a tablet that has been designed especially for reading, writing and sketching. You might say “Julie, we already have tablets that can do that, they are called an iPad”. You would be right… partially. You can read,
reMarkable is a dedicated tablet for reading, writing and sketching Read More
Two years ago I reviewed the SnapPower SnapRays Guidelight outlet cover night light and am still using this product throughout my home. SnapPower has recently released a new version of this outlet cover night light that has been designed with child safety in mind. It’s the SafeLight night light outlet cover and it features sliding
SnapPower releases SafeLight outlet cover night light Read More
Now that the smartphone has pretty much conquered the world, I guess it’s time that we upgrade everything else to “smart” status: our homes, appliances, cars, and our headphones. Yep. It’s time for smart headphones. Muzik One is the “smartphone of headphones” according to the Muzik website. It has a touch control panel to pause,
Muzik One headphones are smart headphones Read More
For those of us that love our gadgets, but also love or need to use pen and paper to take notes the old fashioned way, the Rocketbook Wave Smart Notebook could be the link between both worlds we’ve been looking for. You simply take your notes on the pad with a Pilot Frixion pen, then
A smart notebook you can erase in the microwave Read More