Exercise is a difficult thing to work into your life sometimes. Gym closings over weekends or holidays, changes in work schedules, and travel for work or pleasure can cause you to miss your workouts. Traveling with equipment more bulky than a few resistance bands and running shoes becomes quite bothersome as well. Enter the Koreball. This […]
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This model of the Star Trek Enterprise is more than just a collectible – it’s a working bottle opener. It’s also more than just a utilitarian beverage opener – it also has fun sound effects (red alert, warp drive engines, and the bridge door opening sound). It’s 6″ long X 5″ wide. It will look
Boldly open bottles no one has opened before! Read More
Flashback to several weeks ago… It’s 3:30pm and I race home from my day job so I can work on Gadgeteer reviews for 90 minutes until Jeanne gets home from work. I sit down in front of my MacBook Pro for some quality writing time when the phone rings. I answer the call. It’s Jeanne. “Can
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You can take three of your favorite beverages with you in this luxurious Daines and Hathaway Triple Bar Set. The round case is made of premium leather with a suede lining; it has a shoulder strap for easy carrying. Perfectly fitted inside are three stainless steel flasks and three stainless cups. The strap can be
If you don’t travel without your potent potables… Read More
The 13″ MacBook EDC Kit is a sleek, minimal bag that’s big enough to carry a 13″ MacBook laptop, iPad, phone, mouse, cables, chargers, and other things you need to make it through your day in the internal pockets. The outside front of the bag is covered with Molle webbing, where you can stash everything
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When I was a kid, I loved taking things apart to find the magnets, gears and other cool little components. I even had my own little toolbox which I kept under my bed where I stored tools and parts that I had scavenged. I would have loved a multi-tool in those days. The folks at
Leatherman LEAP is a multi-tool designed just for kids Read More
In keeping with the whole Throw back Thursday thing that we see on other sites, every Thursday (or Friday if we forget) we take a look at some of our older reviews to let you know if the products are still working for us or if they’ve been shoved in the back of a junk
LG G3, LandingZone Dock, Coalesse PowerPod, Roku and more – Gadget review updates Read More
In the continuing expansion of the Bluetooth speaker market, I have noticed a few trends. There are those designed for personal, near-field listening. These boost the sound from your tablet or smartphone enough that you can hear it as a bubble around your person, but those further away hear it as tinny noise. Next, there
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Carry this little lollipop-shaped device with you, and you’ll always have the ability to turn your iPhone into a photographic light meter. It has a CNC milled high-grade aluminum housing, so it will last for years. Inside is a hemispherical diffuser, cardioid-type silicon photo diode light receptor element that measures the range of 0.15 – 250,000 lux
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Do you ever feel that you have written so much that it must measure in miles? With these pencils from Lyon & Lyon, you’d know that you had written six miles when you’ve used up one of these Six Mile Pencils. They are made by Chambers, one of the last remaining pencil manufacturers in England.
And I would write one thousand miles… Read More
Last week I posted a gadget diary entry with a long overdue update to my EDC (every day carry) gear. That was my before post and today is my after post. I performed an audit by consolidated and simplifying the gear I actually use. Here are the results. SHARE ON TwitterFacebookPin It
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Home cooks with hand dexterity issues can now chop vegetables with ease using the Cibocal cutting board. These 15 ½” x 11” x 1/2” cutting boards feature a special spring loaded bar that you can wedge the tip of your cook or chef’s knife under to provide a pivot. Your knife then becomes a lever
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Key rings have been around for quite a while and a whole lot of us carry them in our pocket or purse every day, so there can’t be a whole lot new with them, right? Not so fast, gadget fan! Have a look at Flex-O-Loc. It’s a short length of plastic-coated cable that can hold
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All you’ll need to clean your kitchen, even your greasy stove, is some tap water and the Zabada Kitchen Glove. The Glove is made of two microfibers: one side is for cleaning up grease, and the other for general cleaning. The grease side is for cleaning stovetops, ovens, range hoods, and appliances; the grime side
Clean your kitchen without any harsh chemicals Read More
This clock is designed to look like three planets orbiting a sun in a tiny solar system; it reminds me of the Emerald Observatory app for iPad that I wrote about years ago. The clock face is rubberized, so it won’t scuff as the planets move around to show the time. The planets look like
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When I’m considering a new pair of earphones, I usually skip the in-ear variety because they seem to always fall out of my ears and I don’t like the noise isolation feature that they usually possess. When Moshi Audio approached me to ask if I would be interested in reviewing their Clarus earphones, their ear loop
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Actually, the Smart 16-LED Warm White Light 3-Mode Fill Light for Mobile Phone works with iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch, Android phones and tablets, and with Windows 8 devices. You’ll need a headphone jack to plug the unit in, and you’ll need the iBlazr software to automatically fire the flash. Apparently, you can also just turn the
This 16-LED flash unit is the cure for dark smartphone photos Read More
Last year, we told you about some pretty Tory Burch accessories to make wearing your Fitbit Flex more stylish and less utilitarian. Of course those pretty metal bracelets and necklaces come at a premium. If spending $175-200 for a piece of jewelry – more than the Flex itself cost – isn’t in your budget, you
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Did you have a bell on your bicycle when you were a kid? Now runners can use a similar device to herd pedestrians out of their way. The light weight Runbell is designed to wear on your index and middle fingers and features a spring-loaded striker that activates with flick of your thumb to produce a
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Okay, I just recently declared the Bolse 5-port USB desktop charger my favorite gadget of 2014. Now along comes the Truffol Station 5 with very similar functionality wrapped in a handsome wood exterior. It could look great on my nightstand! Can a pretty face lure me away from last year’s true love? Let’s take a look.
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