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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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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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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1964 Ears is a small company who make custom in-ear monitors. The in-ear monitor business is very competitive, and you might think that this process would be kept as secret as possible. Well, they obviously want to brag about what they do and how they do it, so who are we to keep a secret? If
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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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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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The Shomer-Tec Sap Cap may look like a regular baseball cap, but it’s really a self-defense “weapon” that you happen to wear on your head. The fact that it looks exactly like an ordinary cap means attention won’t be drawn to it. Hidden in the back is a special pocket that holds a pouch of metallic
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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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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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When Julie asked if we were interested in some stuff from Arctic, I was more interested in their four-port USB charger that I recently reviewed, but was pleased to see the Arctic P402 headphones in the package. Many headphones these days are either mostly plastic (which means they break easily) or huge and bulky (which means they
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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 , 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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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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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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I like fancy, expensive pens more than is good for me, but I have to admit that few pens I’ve used can rival the smooth ink lay-down of those iconic Bic pens. A medium-point, clear barrel Bic with blue ink is my absolute favorite for doodling. This Classic Pen Stylus from SUCK UK (I know,
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Do you like to always stay connected, but your phone is always in your jacket or bag? Then take a look at the COOKOO watch – a project originally funded on Kickstarter by Peter Hauser. The COOKOO watch is a smart looking and useful watch that always stays connected to your smartphone via Bluetooth 4.0,
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The Wireless Multifunction Mini Router / Repeater from Satechi really earns the “multifunction” label. This little 2.9″ X 0.9″ X 2.9″ device is small enough to fit in a gear bag, and it offers features found in much larger devices. The Wireless Multifunction Mini Router / Repeater has five functions. It can serve as your main
With the Lightning port on new iOS devices, many of our old docks became obsolete. The only way around this was to get an adapter or buy a new one. Thankfully, the major audio manufacturers have been churning out new docks to accommodate us. In December, Philips introduced the DS1155 Bedroom Speaker Dock. It is
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The Electric Imp is now out of beta and shipping developer kits. The Imp is an SD-card sized WiFi (802.11b/g/n) module with built-in antenna, 6 I/O, Arm Cortex M3 Micro-controller, and a Cloud-based infrastructure for programming and control. The I/O supports serial, I2C, SPI, A2D, D2A, and PWM interfaces. The Imp uses the Squirrel programming language,
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If you’re still searching for just the right cover for your iPad mini, check out the slim folio for iPad mini from Toffee. Toffee is an Australian company, but they offer free international shipping. They even have a toll-free phone number for US customers. The slim folio has a genuine leather exterior and a custom
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