I saw something really cute today that I’d never seen (or heard of) before… We went over to Jeanne’s (roomie’s) brother’s house to see the Suzuki mini truck that he bought yesterday. He bought it to help haul wood up from the back of his property. These 2 seater 4×4 stick shift vehicles are not […]
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Are you the type of person that prides themselves as always being prepared for any situation? You know the type, they pack 5 pairs of socks and underwear for an overnight trip. They carry a first aid kit in their car, stow extra house keys at work, etc. Well, if you fall into this category, then I think you will be very interested in the FlareSafe flashlight from FlareBrands Limited. What’s that? You say you already carry a flashlight with you? Ok, I knew that… But does your flashlight double as a smoke detector and a distress alarm? I didn’t think so!
I seem to be on a roll lately with posting reviews in sets or themes. First it was the Bluetooth products theme week, then last week it was products that have to do with sound or audio. Now this week I’m on a roll with flashlight reviews. So my question for you all is this:
Themes, Love Them Or Hate Them? Read More
Discount LED Lights and Knives recently sent me several really nice Coast flashlights to test and review. I reviewed the V6 Stainless Steel 6 Chip (LL7732) earlier this week and now the one I’m going to introduce to you today is the Coast LED Lenser V2 Power Chip (model: LL7461).
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IntelliProbe Bluetooth Wireless Temperature Probe makes any pocket PC with Bluetooth support a temperature logging and monitoring device. SHARE ON TwitterFacebookPin It
Spotlight Gadget: Bluetooth Temperature Probe Read More
I’m really starting to develop a ‘thing’ for flashlights. Not just any old flashlights do it for me though. They have to be both bright and unique. Lucky for me, that Discount LED Lights and Knives sent me several really nice Coast flashlights to review. The one I’m going to introduce to you today is the Coast LED Lenser V6 Stainless Steel 6 Chip (model: LL7732).
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We interrupt The Gadgeteer to bring you an off topic story… Around 2am Monday morning, we were awakened by a dog barking in the back yard. After listening to that racket for several minutes, my roomie got up and shined a flashlight out the window at the dog, which startled it away. We figured it
Dogs and Cats and Trees Oh My! Read More
If you are like me, and victim to the snooze button, then you
should definitely get your hands on a Clocky!
If you haven’t heard
of him, he’s the alarm clock that jumps from your night-stand and
runs around your room, making funny/cute sounds along the way, as
if desperate to get you up. Kind of like a pet. Because you don’t
know where he’ll be, you have to search for him to turn him off and
viola! you wake up in the process.
I usually don’t post too many news items or press release type posts in my Gear Diary, but I’ve received quite a few noteworthy items this past week that I thought you all might benefit from reading. So here we go! Speck Products is having a Speck-tacular Spring Sale. They are selling cases at speckproducts.com
Links And News From The Past Week Read More
One of our readers sent in this picture of a cute handmade iPod Nano cover that their sister-in-law had made. It got me wondering, how many of you out there have created similar covers, cases, etc for your gadgets? I recall back in the early days of PDAs, I had a PSION 3a that I
Just a quick note to let you all know that the automated new review announcement mailing list is back in order. The only problem is that if you want to receive these emails, you’ll have to sign up again. Sorry, but we couldn’t import the current subscribers list into the new installation of the mailman
Mailing List Is Back In Business Read More
At the end of 2006, I had the opportunity to review 2 digital audio players from Best Buy’s house brand of products: Insignia. I really liked both of these players and was happy when I was asked if I was interested in taking a look at their latest version of the NS-DV video player. Let’s see what has changed…
Insignia NS-DVB4G Video MP3 Player Read More
Matchbox sized portable scan tool used to diagnose vehicle problems. Available with a USB or Bluetooth interface. SHARE ON TwitterFacebookPin It
Spotlight Gadget: OBDKey Read More
Don’t you just hate it when you need to write something down and you don’t have a piece of paper? You’ll never have that problem again with this pen. It has a roll of paper in its cap. SHARE ON TwitterFacebookPin It
Spotlight Gadget: Memo Pen Read More
Does your mobile phone double as your audio player? If so, do you fumble to remove your stereo earbuds when a call comes in through your phone while you’re listening to music? A possible solution to that problem is the Pulsar 260 Stereo Bluetooth Headset from Plantronics. Let’s take a closer look.
Plantronics Pulsar 260 Stereo Bluetooth Headset Read More
In keeping with this week’s theme of music / audio related reviews, I wanted to tell you about a nifty product for geeky musicians. It’s SoundTech’s LightSnake. At first glance you might dismiss this $40 10ft long cable as a regular old 1/4 inch phono style guitar amplifier cord. Look a little closer and you
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From an early age, I wanted to learn to play the guitar. I took a few lessons here and there through the years, but for the most part taught myself from books and tapes. I never was a very good player, but that hasn’t stopped my love of the instrument and music. I’ve had several guitars, from electric to acoustic, to even a mini electric that I built myself using a kit. I even had a dial up BBS back in the day completely devoted to TAB (tablature files) that was named CrossRoads BBS.
Miranda S-250 Travel Guitar Read More
This software review is on PhatWare’s CalliGrapher which has to be on the “must-have” list of utilities for any serious PDA junkie’s collection. Setting aside the Casio B.O.S.S. I used only briefly, I consider my first handheld to be the Apple Newton MessagePad. What was the big attraction of the MessagePad device? It was its handwriting-to-text translation, the earliest ancestor of today’s CalliGrapher. The inventors of that software was not Apple but actually some creative Russian programmers and the company they eventually formed called Paragraph International.
PhatWare’s Calligrapher v8.5 – Windows Mobile Utility Read More
I’ve decided (because I can…) that this week’s reviews (after tonight’s) will be music and/or audio and/or sound related. Yay, another theme week like the Bluetooth week ;o) Are we excited yet? And just to get things started on a musical note: If you can’t decide how you would like to carry your 2nd generation
Five Ways to Carry Your Nano And Other Equally Exciting Info Read More
Just a heads up that the automated announcement emails for new reviews is currently offline for a day or two. The move to the new server is 100% complete now. Well except for the announcement emails ;o) Thanks to everyone that sent me notices about little glitches that they noticed during this transition. I hope
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