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With the Lumsing 11000mAh 5 x USB External Battery Pack, you can charge up to five phones or two tablets simultaneously. The 11000mAh lithium-ion battery holds more than enough power to keep a gear bag full of mobile devices going during your longest trip. The five 5V USB ports output between 0.6A up to 2.1A. The integrated […]
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You work hard to make beautiful, tasty pie crusts, cookies, and other pastries, so you should be proud to have everyone know you made them. With a Personalized rolling pin from ValekRollingPins on Etsy, you can have a rolling pin custom engraved with your name. The rolling pins are made of beech, and they are
Mark your baked goods with your name Read More
Since we updated the website layout at the end of last year, I’ve tried a couple different search plugins that didn’t end up working very well, so I finally decided to go back to using Google’s search because it’s faster and works better than all the others I’ve tried. Here’s a quick tutorial that I
How to find past product reviews and articles on The Gadgeteer Read More
If you use your laptop outdoors for work or recreation, you may find it’s impossible to see your screen on bright, sunny days. Throw a Pixel Sunscreen V2.0 in your gear bag, and you’ll be able to work outdoors, no matter how sunny the day is. It’s made of polyurethane-coated nylon and ripstop taffeta, and
Sunscreen for your laptop Read More
Hey everyone, welcome to my desk this time! My room – er, I mean, office – has way more gadgets in it than these couple of photos show. I figure I’d stick to my main space to keep it short and sweet.
Gadgeteer: Show us your desk series – Elizabeth Read More
I use my iPhone as my only alarm clock these days. Combine being blind as a bat, early-morning grogginess, and not remembering exactly where I put my iPhone on my night table before falling asleep, and I have to do some serious fumbling to find the phone and shut off the alarm in the morning.
Keep your phone in your pocket – even while you sleep Read More
If you are a musician using amplified instruments, a DJ, or the tech guy who sets the equipment up, you’ll want to have the Electronic Musician’s Emergency Adapters kit in your gear. The kit includes a variety of adapters – male audio plugs, female audio jacks, and couplers in 1/4″ and 1/8″ sizes, cables, XLR
An emergency kit for electronic musicians Read More
The Sabrent 4-Port Compact USB Wall Charger can charge smart phones, tablets, and other USB-chargeable devices. One port is rated for up to 2.4A to charge tablets quickly. When you have multiple devices plugged in, the charger will balance power output at each port to keep the total load to 12.5 watts. Has built-in over-current protection and
Charge up to four devices simultaneously with this USB wall charger Read More
You’ve just come home to a dark house and your arms are full of groceries. With the wave of an arm or hand over the iON capacitive switch, you can turn on (or off) your lights without having to set your groceries down! And for the germaphobes out there, you no longer have to touch
Magically turn on your lights with a wave of your hand using the iON capacitive switch Read More
Timbuk2 bags have been featured on The Gadgeteer. They make great bags to carry your gear or even your pets, and they’ll even allow you to customize your bag with special fabrics or color combinations. For this new offering, they’ve joined forces with TerraCycle (a New Jersey-based business that makes consumer products from pre- and post-consumer
Timbuk2 and TerraCycle join forces to create this messenger bag Read More
I reviewed the mophie juice pack air case for my iPhone 5 recently, and I liked it a lot. If you’d prefer to use your iPhone case-less but want to keep a backup power source at hand, you should check out mophie’s power reserve. mophie packs 1350mAh of reserve power in a package only 1.50″ X 2.84″
mophie’s keychain power reserve for iPhone and iPod Read More
If you are serious about your gaming. I mean REALLY serious, I’m not talking Angry Birds or Flappy Bird serious. Then you’re sure to drool over Logitech’s latest gaming peripheral. It’s the G502 Proteus Core Tunable Gaming Mouse, and it looks like a gamer’s dream gadget. This is a customizable mouse with the world’s first
Logitech launches the G502 Proteus Core Tunable Gaming Mouse Read More
The Brooks Saddles Challenge Tool Bag was first designed and patented in 1896, and it’s been keeping bicyclists’ tools handy since then. These gorgeous leather bags attach to the saddle of your bike with leather straps; the buckles of the straps are located inside the bag for greater security. The strap that buckles the Tool
Brooks leather tool bag for bicyclists Read More
The selfie craze has swept the nation, it has been determined that some people are even addicted to taking selfies. With smartphones having front-facing cameras, I guess this phenomenon was pretty much inevitable. Heck, I was taking selfies with my little Olympus Stylus pocket film camera back in the 1980’s, when I’d actually have to
Now they’re just enabling you: GabbaGoods #TheSelfie Camera Remote Shutter Release Read More
This post brought to you by Fellowes, Inc. . All opinions are 100% mine. In the past couple of years, I’ve read stories about two medical clinics in my area dumping patient records. They didn’t shred them; they just set boxes of records full of patients’ personal and medical information out by the dumpster behind
Keep your personal information safe with a Fellowes shredder Read More
My hands are always drier than the desert, and the skin on my knuckles is usually cracked and often bleeding. This used to happen to me only in the winter, but it’s a year-round thing for me now. I slather on lotion, but it’s cold and stings. The Heated Lotion Dispenser from Sharper Image will
Pamper your dry, itchy skin Read More
This coin from 5ive Star Gear might look like an ordinary Kennedy half dollar, but I assure you that it’s not. Go ahead, take a closer look… The genuine US coin has been modified into two pieces that pull apart to reveal a razor-sharp Japanese steel blade. This covert escape coin has been designed to
This 50 cent piece might help you escape from evil doers Read More
If, like my husband, you have a laptop that you plug into a monitor, connect to WiFi, and maybe attach a couple of USB peripherals, you’ll find connecting and disconnecting everything to be a pain. At work, Butch plugs in a monitor, network, and a disk; when he needs to work from home, he only
Elgato announces their new Thunderbolt Dock Read More
Love your Chromebook as much as I do? Now there’s another device to use the super fast and browser based Chrome OS. ASUS has released a new Chromebox model, the M004U. This nifty looking Chromebox has 4 USB 3.0 ports, Gigabit ethernet port, 802.11 b/g/n dual-band wireless, HDMI output, Displayport output, combo micrphone and headphone
There’s a new Chromebox in town Read More
You know Wil Wheaton, right? He’s an actor famous for playing Gordie in Stand by Me, Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and many more, including a slightly evil(er?) version of himself on The Big Bang Theory. He’s also a writer and a gamer, and the host and co-creator of a web show
Keep Wil Wheaton at the TableTop Read More