Taylor Digital Scale & Measuring Cup simplifies cooking

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Any cook worth his/her sea salt knows that weighing ingredients results in better, more consistent food.  It’s a pain, though, to have to drag out your digital kitchen scale, tare the cup, measure the ingredients, then start again for the next ingredient.  With the Taylor Digital Scale & Measuring Cup from Williams-Sonoma, you won’t need […]

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Pebble E-Paper Smart Watch for iPhone and Android review

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year, you’re probably familiar with the very successfully funded Pebble E-Paper Smart Watch for iPhone and Android Kickstarter project.  I too got caught up in the hype and paid $115 last May 18th for the privilege of supporting this project.  After multiple missed ship dates, it

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Play your vinyl records and convert them to MP3 with the Pyle Retro Belt-Drive Turntable

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The Retro Belt-Drive Turntable (PVTT2U) from Pyle reminds me of the old suitcase-style record players of the 1960s.  Inside the suitcase is a 3-speed (45, 33-1/3, and 78), belt-driven turntable, a ceramic stereo cartridge, and speakers; you can playback your records with no other equipment.  If you want to convert the music on those vinyl records

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Whiteboard – never leave home without it

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If you’re like Dr. Sheldon Cooper, you spend a lot of time working in front of a whiteboard.  If you hate finding yourself with a thought but no board upon which to expand your thoughts, you’ll want to check out the Noteboard Foldable Pocket Whiteboard from ThinkGeek.  When folded, it has the same footprint as a

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Get big savings on the Levenger Bomber Jacket Electronics Phone/Note case

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If you liked the looks of the Levenger Bomber Jacket Electronics Phone/Note Case I reviewed last November (see the related links to read the review) but it didn’t fit into your pre-holiday budget, take another look at it now.  This week, Levenger is offering $30 off the price of this great little “go to lunch” wallet.

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American Express and Twitter let you pay with #AmexSync

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American Express recently announced that consumers who use Twitter will be able to pay for items using a special hashtag for certain products and websites.  After tweeting them what you want, you get a confirmation hashtag.  You then need to tweet back the confirmation hashtag, an email will be sent to you, then you need to confirm

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Energizer Recharge Value AA/AAA NiMH Battery Charger review

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How many devices, toys and gadgets do you own that use AA or AAA batteries? Do you feed these devices standard alkaline batteries, or do you use rechargeables? I personally prefer to go the rechargeable route mainly because it’s easier and less expensive for me to pop a set of drained batteries into a charger

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Personalize your device cases with Snupped

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At Snupped, you will find a variety pouches designed to protect your laptops, tablets, or smartphones.  You can choose from zippered horizontal or vertical laptop sleeves (top image), Socks (open sleeves) designed for tablets (bottom, left), or the Mini for phones (bottom, right; showing exterior and interior fabric selections).  Cases for laptops or tablets are

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Unlock your inner Jedi with Vault Edition of The Jedi Path book

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Now, I know what you are thinking, how does a book rate a mention on a gadget site? It does when the book is The Jedi Path:A Manual for Students of the Force and comes in a mechanical vault. This Vault Edition of the Jedi Path comes with: hardcover version of the book letter tracing the

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Casio G-Shock G-Aviation Mutli-Mission Combi (MMC) watch review

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After a long stretch of wearing mechanical, self-winding watches, I got the urge for a state-of-the-art timepiece.  An international trip where I needed to keep track of multiple time-zones was the final straw.  After a lot of research and window shopping, I decided on the Casio G-Shock G-Aviation Mutli-Mission Combi (MMC), the GW3500B-1A (#5173). SHARE

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Barrett Alley Smuggler’s belt

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Carrying cash and worried about pickpockets? Need to smuggle that micro-fiche past those foreign border guards? (oops micro-fiche… am I showing my age?)  The Smuggler’s Belt from Barrett Alley may be your friend.   It’s made of 10 oz (4 mm) US vegetable-tanned cowhide, 1.25″ (3 cm) wide and hand-cut and sewn in Texas and has an individually

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The F1 Micro Workstation, the tablet bag with a need for speed

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Tablet bags come in a myriad of sizes, shapes and configurations, but the F1 Micro Workstation from Fusion Bags USA brings a dual standard to the table. The first part of the F1 Micro Workstation is the main bag with the Fusion “Zip-away” feature. The “Zip-away” feature allows the front of the bag to zip

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BiteMyApple.co is the one-stop shopping location for successful Kickstarter projects

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Ever wonder what happens to Kickstarter projects after the funding period because you saw something you wanted but didn’t pledge, and now you don’t know where to purchase it?  BiteMyApple.co is a new internet store that sells only successful Kickstarter products, and all the products are those either developed for Apple gear or at least

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Adafruit Gemma miniature wearable electronic platform

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Adafruit , run by the 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year Limor “Ladyada” Fried, has announced the Gemma, a wearable micro-controller board with just a 1” diameter. The Gemma uses an Atmel Attiny85 and is programmable with the Arduino IDE through a micro-USB cable. It has three programmable I/O pins, one analog input, and two Pulse-Width

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Weird Kickstarter project of the week – CHERRY on the bag

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I knew this was going to be an odd Kickstarter project the moment I saw the company name – CHERRY on the bag. I expected the product to have a cherry logo or at least be Red in color. It has neither… What is it? CHERRY on the bag is a collection of Black full-grain calfskin

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In a pinch for a minimalist wallet? Take a look at a CINCH wallet

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From the ever growing minimalist wallet Kickstarter projects comes the CINCH wallet by Portsmith Co. The CINCH wallet consists of the backbone, made of either stainless steel or oak, and a black elastic keeper that wraps around the backbone to keep your wallet items together. The stainless steel version has the added benefit of being

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