Belkin has announced some connected light bulbs in their WeMo home automation line, but they have been “coming soon” for a long time now. I discovered some other internet-connect LED bulbs while checking on the status of the Belkins recently. The Connected by TCP smart lighting system consists of 11W LED bulbs, a gateway to […]
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If you play guitar or another stringed instrument, you probably have a guitar tuner of some sort. There are a few different tuners around my house, but most of them are pretty large. They’re certainly too big to keep in your pocket, for example. The Seiko Chromatic Tuner Keychain is small enough to use as a
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I am a mild-mannered chemistry teacher most of the year but for two weeks out of every year I visit the Great Plains in search of the most intense weather Mother Nature can throw at us. I have been bringing a Kestrel 4000 weather meter with me to measure the temperature, dewpoint and wind speed
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If you find that the battery in your shiny new HTC One M8 Android smartphone won’t get you through a long day of tweeting, texting and selfie snapping and you don’t have a convenient way to charge nearby, consider the Brando Power Jacket. The Power Jacket is a two-piece case that protects the back and sides
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Someone once said that your best camera is the one you happen to have with you. Sometimes your iPad is the camera you happen to have, and for some people, the iPad is the only camera they have. The iPad’s back camera is pretty good, but it could be improved, and that’s the purpose of
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Jawbone has released an update for the MINI JAMBOX Bluetooth speaker that you’ll want to be sure to get if you own one of these little speakers. With the Multi Play update, you’ll be able to connect two of them to the same audio source. You’ll be able to use them in unison mode, where
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High blood pressure (hypertension) can be a silent killer that sneaks up on you with a POW! One minute you feel fine and then next minute you’ve had a stroke, a heart attack or kidney failure. To prevent these problems, it’s best to be proactive and check your blood pressure on a regular basis. But how
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The Prop Laptop Stand is made of two lightweight plastic pieces that almost look like sewing needles on steroids. Separately, they lay flat to slide into a pocket in your gear bag. When you want to use them, you just slot them together to form a laptop stand. It lifts your laptop up for a
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You know you’re supposed to change toothbrushes every three months for optimum cleaning – and more frequently if you’ve been sick to prevent re-infecting yourself. But do you ever feel guilty about throwing away all that plastic in the handle? With a GreenerStep toothbrush, you won’t feel guilty, because you keep the handle and replace
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I’m getting ready to go on a vacation / road trip and you know what that means when you’re a gadgeteer… It means it’s time to figure out what gear to bring on the trip. Which computer to bring, tablet, notebooks, cameras, and of course, which bag to carry it all in. I already have
RUNNUR – a shoulder bag for your gear minus the bag Read More
I am not a cook, chef, or even a glorified food preparer. In fact, I view cooking as nothing more than a DIY project with heat and chemistry. I’d like to also point out that I failed chemistry numerous times in school. Along comes the Wolfgang Puck Pressure Oven. Pressure oven? OK, you have my
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Earlier this year, I told you about the uber cool and equally uber expensive folding tables and chairs from Folditure. This is furniture that can fold up for easy storage – even by hanging in a closet. Folditure’s first tables and chairs were made of metal and looked very futuristic, meaning that they might not
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If you were interested in the Dyson AM06 Cool Desk Fan that Julie reviewed recently, you need to also check out the big, floor-standing model. The Dyson AM08 Air Multiplier Bladeless Oscillating Pedestal Fan is 17.75″ in diameter; it adjusts from 43-1/2″ to 55-1/2″ in height. It has a 20-ft air projection and 70-degree oscillation range.
This has been a busy week for The Gadgeteer. We’ve covered a luxury desk fan from Dyson that takes coolness to a literal level, an Android gaming tablet from Brando that lets you map physical controls for more enjoyable game play and a very nice watch from Citizen that would make a nice graduation or
The widespread fear of blank screens on the devices we have become so addicted to has led to a sharp surge in external battery products, also known as power banks. These products come to the rescue and resuscitate our beloved smartphones or other gadgets when their internal batteries are tapped out. The primary factors to
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I know bakeware isn’t a gadget, but even gadget lovers have to eat. I found these great glass baking cups on Amazon, and I’ve used them a few times now since I got them. The Libbey Just Baking Glass Cupcake Set has twelve glass baking cups. They are ridged inside, so they’ll easily release the
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Minimalist wallets seem to be the rage on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter. You know, those uber-slim, ultra-small wallets that help you carry less in a smaller, lighter-weight package (and avoiding the dreaded Costanza Wallet syndrome). Steven Elliot is no stranger to slim wallet projects, having already successfully run two of them, and his latest Kickstarter campaign, the
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I like wrist watches. OK, I said it and that probably makes me a dinosaur. Although I have a cell phone which I can reference for the time, to me there’s nothing like the convenience of having a timepiece on my wrist, and I don’t have to fish it out of my pocket to check
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If it’s time to get serious about what you put into your body, consider the Prep Pad from The Orange Chef Co. The Prep Pad is a smart food scale that pairs with your iPad and the Countertop iOS app to show the nutritional breakdown of food in a simple, easy to understand way. The
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Staplers work great while you’re stapling a stack of papers together; I guess that’s what they were actually designed for, right? But what about when your stapler is too short to reach to the place where you need to staple in that stack of papers? People use staples for other things, too, like stapling papers
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