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Ditch batteries forever with the NX-ECO Battery-Free Wireless Notebook Mouse by Genius

The Genius NX-ECO is a 2.4GHz wireless mouse that doesn’t have a “battery” inside. At least not the typical type of battery that we’re all familiar with. It has a built-in gold capacitor which fully recharges in just three minutes using the included micro USB charging cable. The cable stores inside the mouse when not […]

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Most of the time it is the little things….

By Dave Rees / June 22, 2013 / News / iOS, iPhone accessory / 2 Comments

…that make all the difference. Even though I get the opportunity to try/review more than my fair share of very nice smartphone cases and accessories, I prefer to keep my iPhone as minimalistic as possible – using my iPhone ‘naked’; embracing how Apple designed it to feel and operate while accepting/living with the risk of

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Get the world’s thinnest portable mobile charger in the Jackery Air

By Ryan Chapman / June 22, 2013 / News / Batteries and Chargers, Crowdfunded / Leave a Comment

When I first saw the Jackery Air on Kickstarter , I thought it looked like every other portable charger. That is, until the picture of it side by side with the iPhone 5 came up. This charger is as thin as the iPhone 5 and looks to be nearly the same width and height as

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Celebrate 20 years of Bill Nye the Science Guy!

By Janet Cloninger / June 21, 2013 / News / Apps, iOS, Kid Gadgets / 2 Comments

It was 20 years ago when Bill Nye introduced his PBS TV show that taught kids about science. His show may be off the air now, but your kids can still learn from him with the newly introduced app for iPhone and iPad. The Bill Nye the Science Guy app is free in the iTunes

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The perfect Oxford shirt for tech users

By Janet Cloninger / June 21, 2013 / News / Clothing, Gear / 1 Comment

This Summer Oxford shirt from VoyVoy is perfect for the gadget user. While it looks like a typical Oxford, this shirt has a couple of extra features. When you use the tail of this shirt for cleaning your glasses or touch screens, you’ll have a microfiber cleaning patch to make cleaning easier and possible less

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Hide your valuables in plain sight

By Janet Cloninger / June 20, 2013 / News / Home and Kitchen, Security / Leave a Comment

This wall clock acts as a wall safe for your small valuables. It doesn’t have sophisticated locks or alarms, but it camouflages your items behind an actual working wall clock that could be found in any room. The Embassy JB4985 Wall Clock With Hidden Safe is 10″ in diameter and 3″ deep, so it won’t hide

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Bring on the adventure with the Ti2 Sentinel X Aluminum Cache

By Larry Geisz / June 20, 2013 / News / Aluminum, Crowdfunded, Outdoor Gear, Water Bottle / 1 Comment

Hiking, fishing, white water rafting, geocaching – these are all things I do not do on a regular basis. I do travel a bit though, and when I do I am always looking for neat, multi-purpose, rugged, functional products to take with me on my adventures. The Ti2 Sentinel X Aluminum Cache, a Kickstarter project

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This may be the most beautiful iPad bag ever designed for women

By Janet Cloninger / June 19, 2013 / News / Bags, iOS, iPad cases and bags, Tablets, Ultra Portables, Universal tablet accessory / 5 Comments

The Brahmin “Theo-Melbourne” iPad Crossbody Bag is the most beautiful iPad accessory I’ve seen. The bag is made of crocodile-embossed leather, and it has two exterior pockets (one open and one flap-covered). Inside the front section are organizer pockets for your phone, cards, and pens, a zippered divider pocket, and room for more of your

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A watch that can tell you how drunk you are

By Janet Cloninger / June 19, 2013 / News / Watches and Clocks / 1 Comment

The new Kisai Intoxicated Breathalyzer Watch from Tokyoflash Japan has the normal watch functions: time, date, and alarm. It also includes a breathalyzer function that can give you an estimation of your intoxication and a Sobriety Game that tests your reflexes. The time has an always-on LCD and is shown in the negative spaces. The

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Every car can be the Millennium Falcon

By Janet Cloninger / June 18, 2013 / News / Car Gear, Star Wars / 5 Comments

Okay, this is a little hokey, but it’s perfect for the die-hard Star Wars fan. This Plasticolor 003700R01 Star Wars Accordion Sunshade keeps your car cooler, and it makes it look cooler, too! The accordion-fold sunshade is made of plastic, so the colors are more sun-fast than those cardboard sunshades. It’s $21.99 at Amazon. That’s a

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A charging station that costs more than many electronic gadgets do

By Janet Cloninger / June 18, 2013 / News / Batteries and Chargers, Charging station, Gear / 7 Comments

Hmmm. I thought the purpose of a charging station was to make your desk or tabletop look neater. The MultiPot Clear Charging Hub with LED Lamp from nova68 corrals the cords, but it doesn’t exactly hide the tangled mess of cables. This 9.25″ long x 7.5″ tall x 9.25″ wide plastic pot is a lamp with

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Build an organized home office without permanently modifying the room

By Janet Cloninger / June 17, 2013 / News / Computer furniture, Do-It-Yourself, Home and Kitchen / 8 Comments

If you live in an apartment where you can’t make permanent changes or in a 60-year-old house with 4″-thick plaster-and-lathe walls that make finding the wall studs impossible like I do, you may have thought a wall organizer unit and desk like the one in the photo was impossible for you. Usually this type of

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You’ve heard of zen gardening, but how about zen drawing?

By Julie Strietelmeier / June 17, 2013 / News / Art / Leave a Comment

The Buddha Board is a specially designed art board that you paint on with an included brush and water. That’s right, you don’t use paint or ink… just water. The zen aspect is that as the water evaporates your image will completely disappear. This is supposed to teach you to live in the now. Draw/write

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Knork – A friend for your spork

By Julie Strietelmeier / June 16, 2013 / News / Cooking, EDC, Home and Kitchen / 3 Comments

You’ve no doubt heard of a spork which looks like a spoon with short fork-like tines on the edge. Campers and EDC fans like them because they combine two tools into one. Enter the Knork which looks like an ordinary stainless steel fork till you take a closer look. The outside tines have been beveled without being

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An aquarium without the mess

By Julie Strietelmeier / June 16, 2013 / News / Home and Kitchen / 11 Comments

When I was a little kid, we had a large fish tank. My memories of it only include a plastic diver guy accessory that moved up and down and a baby shark. I don’t think it was an actual shark, I think it just looked like one. Over the years I tried having my own

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Geomate.jr – GPS preloaded with geocaching info

By Julie Strietelmeier / June 15, 2013 / News / GPS, Kid Gadgets, Outdoor Gear / Leave a Comment

If you’ve ever had an interest in geocaching but thought it would be too expensive to buy a handheld GPS and then too hard figure out how to load cache coordinates into it, here’s a GPS device for you. The Geomate.jr from Brand 44 Colorado comes preloaded with 250,000 geocaches covering all 50 states (or

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The Tab Station is a musician’s tablet’s best friend

By Larry Geisz / June 15, 2013 / News / Music Gear, Universal Tablet Stand / Leave a Comment

Are you a musician who likes to use your tablet device to record or practice your craft? Do you find it is difficult and inconvenient to do so because you lack a decent work surface where you want to record or practice? The Tab Station from Castiv may be what you are looking for. The

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Give Dad a USB charger with a backup battery

By Janet Cloninger / June 14, 2013 / News / Batteries and Chargers, USB charger / Leave a Comment

It’s too late to have this in hand to give Dad for Father’s Day, but it’s not too late to gift him with a USB charger that has a backup battery with its own solar charger inside. Just print out a picture of the PowerTrip and include it in the Father’s Day card and have

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Add a pouring spout to make life easier in the kitchen

By Janet Cloninger / June 14, 2013 / News / Home and Kitchen / Leave a Comment

This little doodad can keep things neater while you’re working in the kitchen. The Silpoura spout was the brainchild of a couple who are avid campers and needed a way to dispose of cooking grease without dumping it in the woods. Gail suggested there should be “a ‘Thing’. Like a spout. That you could clip

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Musemini DBoom portable speaker connects to your smartphone via NFC

By Julie Strietelmeier / June 14, 2013 / News / Audio, Video, TV, Bluetooth, NFC, Speaker / Leave a Comment

We’ve been seeing a huge influx of portable wireless Bluetooth speakers on the market in the last year or two, but now there’s something new on the horizon that will make streaming music from your mobile devices even easier. The Musemini DBoom portable speaker connects to your smartphone via NFC (and Bluetooth if you don’t

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