The shopping malls around here are always busy, and sometimes they are so jammed you’re lucky to find a parking place. After a few trips around the giant lot looking for an empty space, and it all starts to look alike. If you don’t make a concerted effort to find a landmark, you may find […]
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When is the last time you gave much thought to mice? No, not the critters with beady little eyes, I’m talking about the mice you use with your desktop and laptop computers. Other than wireless, there really hasn’t been that much innovation in the input device that millions of people use every day. Until now. The
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Amazon announced today that its voice-activated personal assistant, Amazon Echo, is now available to everyone. Previously, you needed an invitation to buy the device. The Echo uses Amazon’s cloud-based voice service, Alexa, to instantly provide information, answer questions, play music, read the news, and more. You can also use the Echo to control external devices,
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When a company has a successful product launch and needs funding for follow-up products, more and more of them are turning to funding sites like Kickstarter. Kickstarter has been responsible for many successful product launches; the most famous probably being Neil Young’s PONO music player. In 2013, I reviewed the Torque t103z in-ear-headphones and was
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Have you noticed that, in addition to the white plastic charger instead of the metal charger, the Apple Watch Sport also is missing the colored dot on the top of the Digital Crown that’s found on both the Watch and the Watch Edition models? It doesn’t change the function of the Digital Crown, but it
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Why have a boring black or white computer mouse when you can have a colorful Logitech Play Collection Mouse? The mice are covered with bright animal designs or with geometric designs. They fit comfortably in your hand, and they track precisely and accurately, thanks to Logitech’s 1000 dpi Advanced Optical Tracking. They are compatible with
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If building LEGO robots, race cars and spaceships don’t excite you anymore, you need to take a look at Beautiful LEGO: Wild! by Mike Doyle. This is a 232-page book that features nature related LEGO sculptures from artists around the globe. Full-color pages show animals, flowers, insects, landscapes and more made entirely of LEGO bricks.
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One of the biggest issues a gadget enthusiast faces on a daily basis is battery life. As our devices capabilities increase, so too does their power consumption. One of the more common solutions to this problem is to purchase a power bank. I myself own a few power banks; however, I never remember to bring
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I consider myself an ordinary person and like most ordinary folks I am always looking for ways to save a buck or two. One of my household’s biggest expenses, especially in the summer, is our power bill. I do consider myself fortunate as my power bills do tend to be on the lower side for
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Before I got married, I found some pieces of neon light tubes and a power supply at a local “junk” shop, and I assembled them into a really beautiful, abstract art piece for my living room. When I got married, I realized this huge light sculpture above my fireplace didn’t exactly mesh with our new furniture,
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The folks who created the Baggizmo (and its Kickstarter project) want you to think about how you look when dressed nicely for a meeting with your client, and then replace that polished image with how you look for that meeting after you loaded up your pants and jacket pockets with all your daily-carry gear. Ladislav
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So you’ve got two computers on your desk. Windows, Mac, or one of each? OK, now what if you wanted to move files between the two? Instead of flash drives, setting up a home network and storage, or even emailing yourself a file (we’ve all done that before!), how about just one USB device that
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Happy Sunday morning or as I like to call it: Ughday. Why Ughday? Because there’s only a few more hours of the weekend left before it’s back to work. So make the most of it by doing something really fun like catching up on your favorite site – The Gadgeteer! Check out this list of
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This isn’t a product you can purchase; it’s a wonderful, Portable LEGO Creation Station that an Instructables author named Tez_Gelmir designed and built for his very lucky LEGO-obsessed son. The station is seen closed on the left. I had to crop the original pictures to get them to fit on this page, but the station
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As earphones become ubiquitous in our daily lives for music on the go, it becomes more important than ever to consider sound quality. Are we getting the best sound for our money? Probably not. Is there better audio available than what we get from our stock ear buds that came free with our smartphones? You
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As I’ve stated before, I love smart home products. I’m not entirely sure if it’s laziness or the cool factor, but I love having the ability to control things from my smartphone. Nest recently announced a redesign of its Nest Protect fire alarm. I have the original Nest Protect at home and was excited to
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Well, it doesn’t actually distinguish red from green, but it does indicate the amount of redness in red, orange, and purple objects by a series of stripes superimposed over the object. The Red Stripe app uses the device’s camera to view the objects in question and overlays stripes on those objects with a red component.
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Growing veggies on your counter is neat. I love the idea and will probably try it very soon, but growing full-sized plants indoors, hydroponically, organically, and controlled by your smartphone? I’m in! Niwa has pioneered the first interactive system that controls the growing conditions 24/7 and lets you interact via a smartphone app to grow whatever you
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Amazon this week announced an update to its popular Kindle Paperwhite. The updated ebook reader now boasts a resolution of 300 pixels per inch, the same resolution as Amazon’s more expensive Kindle Voyage. The new Kindle also comes with Amazon’s new font, Bookerly, which claims to give readers a better reading experience — faster reading
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I am a huge advocate for the use of screen protectors. I have been a fan since the beginning; starting with those overpriced, thin sheets of plastics to the messy liquid applied protectors to tempered glass and now engineered systems to keep your smart device’s round-edged screen safe and protected. The engineers at Bodyguardz have
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