Swann Wireless has developed an indoor/outdoor doormat unit that is simply placed under a mat or carpet at your home or business entrance. The chime unit is to be placed within 100 ft (30 m) of the mat. It features three customizable chimes that can be adjusted to the volume of your liking. The doormat […]
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Back in the 70s, American Tourister had a commercial showing a piece of their luggage being thrown about by a gorilla to demonstrate how tough their product was. Here at the Cloninger household, we have a similar test for earbuds. We throw them in our teenage daughter’s room. So far, none have emerged intact –
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Verizon has officially announced the Droid 3. The key features of the new phone include: 5-row keyboard. (dedicated number row). 4-inch display Dual-Core 1 GHz processor Front-facing camera Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) It looks like a very strong upgrade. Yet another high-powered phone without LTE. This also seems very geared towards business. It is global ready,
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The Creative ZEN Style M300 MP3 player only has a tiny 1.45″ TFT screen, but it packs a lot of features into its small frame. The M300 has Bluetooth 2.1 wireless (A2DP & AVRCP profiles) so you can listen to your music with Bluetooth headsets or speakers. Touch keys around the screen control playback. It’s
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I bet you have never read a title like that one have you? The GymyGym (pronounced like: jimmy gym) is a great looking office chair that doubles as a workout machine. It has built in bungee type straps for your hands and feet so that you can do 16 core exercises to strengthen and stretch
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Is their anything more exciting than a cordless phone system? OK, I can think of a few things, but this new DS6421-3 system from VTech offers up some very cool additions to this old product segment. Even if you have cut the cord, and no longer have a land-line, you can use this system. It
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Maroo makes a beautiful leather case for the Apple wireless Bluetooth keyboard that is a bit different from other keyboard cases I’ve seen. This book-style case isn’t just for storage; the OTAGO is a “play-through” case. The keyboard is held in place with the SG Bumper system, and there are a couple of corner elastics
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The iBamboo speaker is now officially funded over at Kickstarter, but in the event a hunk of bamboo in your living room clashes with your decor, head on over to etsy.com. The seller YellowGlueBlues has a shop full of wooden speakers with the similar concept of amplifying the iPhone’s speaker through a hollow wooden base.
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I’m on a Moleskine kick lately, and I found that Levenger has a beautiful leather cover for the pocket-sized Moleskine notebooks. The Soul Skin cover is only available in black. The cover is held closed by a pair of loops that can accommodate a pen up to 5/8″ thick. The Soul Skin is $75; you
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I generally use my Smartphone for non-game activities, but I like to keep an assortment of good games around- backgammon, mah jong, solitaire, and so on. One of my old Palm favorites was a Pop Cap game called Bejeweled. I played it and some clones (mostly a nice version called JewelLust) but the game play
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The Noon Solar company was started by two Chicago-based women in 2002. They began using recycled vinyls, but they soon realized that using naturally-tanned, vegetable-dyed leathers better fit their desire to reduce the reliance on petrochemical-based products. They make a line of bags with this leather and hand-dyed hemp canvas that incorporate solar panels to
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All types of people love Molekine notebooks – writers, artists, tech-lovers, and everyone between. Moleskine eventually realized that people even wanted a way to make their electronic devices look like their notebooks, and they issued official covers for iPad, iPhone, and Kindle. Now they are introducing gear bags that are inspired by their iconic notebooks.
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There’s nothing more horrible than tangled earbud cords. Ok, there are many things more horrible than tangled earbud cords, but for the purposes of this news post, let’s pretend there isn’t. 😉 The iANGLE is a 2 in 1 iPhone and iPod touch accessory that’s an earbud cord keeper and a viewing stand for your
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You’ve probably heard the term “Vampire Power”? It’s the power that some electronic devices “suck”, when they are plugged in, but not being used. One example of such a device is an AC adapter that charges your gadgets. In addition to being a huge waste of energy, Vampire power is something that you pay for
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I have been a long-time Sony Reader fan. I loved my PRS-500, and jumped at the chance to get a PRS-700 for its promise of a built-in light. Turns out the light was not so great a feature, but I quickly became addicted to the touch screen. I have been hoping that Sony would update
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The Cinemin Slice pico projector from WowWee works with most any personal media device. The Cinemin has an Apple docking connector that lets you plug in an iPad or iPad 2, iPod, or iPhone (docking adapters included). If you don’t have an Apple device, you can plug in most personal media players using the Mini-HDMI (1.3)
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The new 8″ Android tablet from Vizio is now available for pre-order. The VTAB1008-1 tablet will have the V.I.A. Plus interface on the Android 2.3 platform. It has 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth, and a built-in GPS. It has the usual tablet features: capacitive multi-touch touchscreen (1024X768), front-facing camera for video chatting, accelerometer, and 10-hour battery life.
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If you keep your mobile phone in a purse or pocket, this Bluetooth bracelet from My Transformer Toys will alert you with vibration and a Caller ID display for incoming calls. It’s more feminine than similar products we’ve looked at here on The Gadgeteer, and doubles as a clock. It’s available in Red, Pink, Gold,
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I used to think my cable box offered all the programming I needed. As cable prices keep rising, I’ve come to the conclusion that those multi-media boxes and an $8/month subscription to Netflix are a better deal. While I haven’t gotten rid of cable yet, I have pared down some of the programming from Time
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I am currently in my forth decade of running…..tens of thousands of miles. But I have never run a marathon and prefer to run by myself versus running with the masses in organized races. Well, as the story goes….my wife is turning 40 next year and I have agreed to run the DisneyWorld marathon with
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