NEWS – If you’re tired of carrying a backpack, WaterField Designs has introduced a new Hitch Crossbody Laptop brief that has been designed to carry all your gear and look great while doing it. The Hitch Crossbody Laptop brief is made here in the USA in San Francisco and is available in either waxed canvas […]
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CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Do you ever need to set a timer or need to know how long it takes you to do a task? You can easily use the clock app on your phone for these functions, but once you see the Ticktime, you’re going to change your mind and pull out your wallet. What
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REVIEW – The Voamoko PD-016PT USB -C PD3.0+QC3.0 Quick Charger (say that three times fast, heck say it once without getting tongue-tied), is a lot of power in a small package providing up to 90 W (maximum combined power output) to keep your devices powered. What is it? The PD-016PT (hereafter referred to as “the
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NEWS – With the COVID-19 virus pandemic, sanitizing ourselves and the devices we use has become more important than ever. Washing our hands is easy, but it’s far more difficult to disinfect our phones. Totallee is looking to make that a lot easier with its new UV Phone Sanitizer. With it, you can sanitize your
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REVIEW – I’ve had a case on my iPhone going all the way back to my iPhone 3GS. Not only does a case provide some measure of protection from bumps and scratches, but it also allows you to express your individual style. I’ve run the gamut from uber-protective, Iron Man armor type cases to ultra-minimalist,
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NEWS – If practicing social distancing has you feeling bored out of your mind, the Inside 3 puzzles are something that can help you exercise your brain and will get your mind off the fact that you can’t go out with your friends right now. What is it? It’s a plastic box with a multi-floor
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REVIEW – In my opinion, pens are like money, you can never have enough! I feel the same way about EDC Gear, so a pen that is worthy enough to become part of my EDC is definitely worth taking a look at. Today I want to show you the keychain pen from Arrow & Eaves.
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REVIEW – Senstroke connected drumsticks lets drummers play, record and learn from anywhere. What is it? These drumsticks have sensors that allow you to rock out, even during a global pandemic and quarantine. Using the Senstroke app and your connected device, you can customize your virtual drum kit. There are even foot pedal sensors to
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REVIEW – We currently have a single flashlight in our household. It is rechargeable and has a nice base that it plugs into while waiting to be used. On the rare occasions where I do need a flashlight, I often find myself competing with the spousal unit (old Saturday Night Live Coneheads reference!) as to
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NEWS – Many companies have changed over their manufacturing lines to produce goods in support of fighting the COVID-19 virus pandemic. Allett, whose products we have previously reviewed here, is one of those companies, as they have transformed from making ultra-slim wallets to making washable, non-surgical masks intended to help protect from the highly-transferrable COVID-19
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NEWS – Back in December 2018, I reviewed several products from Bond Travel Gear and was impressed with all of them. Sometime between then and now, Bond Travel Gear metamorphosized into Lochby, a brand with products that appear somewhat similar to Bond Travel Gear’s in design, but have a much more classic, adventurous spirit and
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REVIEW – Most everyone whose work involves sitting at a desk (many in a home office during these challenging times) uses an office chair. But does anyone pay attention to what the chair sits on? Up until now, my home office chair has rolled around on one of those plastic mats that acquire dents when
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NEWS – In a bid to preserve our global sanity (and maybe do a bit of product promotion), Nikon is hosting several hours of on-demand photo training during our National Stay Home time. Currently set to expire at the first of May, you have less than a month to get in lessons on creating better
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(This post contains affiliate links. Please see my disclosure about affiliate links here.) REVIEW – Yup. That’s me… jumping rope for the first time in 30 years! The Crossrope is a jump rope system that combines excellent design, different levels of weighted ropes, and a fantastic app to satisfy experienced jumpers and newbies like me.
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REVIEW – When you think about cordless vacuums, what brand comes to mind? For me, it’s Dyson. The Dyson stick vacuums pretty much set the standard for cordless suction, provided your needs are mostly cleaning larger areas. Even with the shorter attachments, wiggling a Dyson into the nooks and crannies of your car, or even
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REVIEW – Photography has entered another new age. With each move, from glass to tin to film to electronic sensors, changes arose in how images were captured. Now, we are in an era of Computational Photography, where large-scale computing within our tiny phones can put together data from those sensors and construct images of nature
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REVIEW – Headphones are one of the most widely varying products I’ve used over the years, with many different features and focuses between brands and types. The HyperX Cloud Flight S Wireless Gaming headset promises premium audio quality with the added benefit of wireless charging. I’ve used everything from ~$20 headsets in college, to $200+
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REVIEW – I saw this review offer and thought that it would be the perfect item for diagnosing a couple of the problems that I know my truck has. What is it? The Innova CarScan Pro 5610 is a feature-rich OBD2 vehicle diagnostic tool. What’s in the box? CarScan Pro 5610 ODBC connection Cable App
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REVIEW – Although in my day job as an engineer I’ve begun to convert over to digital note-taking out of practicality, I still do take quite a few handwritten notes, and if truth be told, I enjoy it—there’s something quite satisfying about writing with a good pen in a good notebook. Over the past several
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REVIEW – In 2008 I had a unique and magical gadget called the Livescribe pen, which was my first foray into the world of digital handwriting. It was a huge, fat ink pen that used special paper and a camera built into the pen to capture what you were writing. It also had a microphone
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