If you live in an apartment where you can’t make permanent changes or in a 60-year-old house with 4″-thick plaster-and-lathe walls that make finding the wall studs impossible like I do, you may have thought a wall organizer unit and desk like the one in the photo was impossible for you. Usually this type of […]
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Being a techie junky, I’m always on the lookout for a good satchel or briefcase-type bag to carry all of my gear. I’m a computer technician, so something sturdy and roomy with lots of pockets is something I always need for work. I was given the chance to review the Bridle Leather Briefcase from LederMann
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The Buddha Board is a specially designed art board that you paint on with an included brush and water. That’s right, you don’t use paint or ink… just water. The zen aspect is that as the water evaporates your image will completely disappear. This is supposed to teach you to live in the now. Draw/write
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You’ve no doubt heard of a spork which looks like a spoon with short fork-like tines on the edge. Campers and EDC fans like them because they combine two tools into one. Enter the Knork which looks like an ordinary stainless steel fork till you take a closer look. The outside tines have been beveled without being
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I recently converted from an iPhone 4S to the HTC One, and with any new phone comes the joy of looking for a new case. Julie offered the Draco One Aluminum Bumper by Draco Design to review so I asked to give it a try. SHARE ON TwitterFacebookPin It
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When I was a little kid, we had a large fish tank. My memories of it only include a plastic diver guy accessory that moved up and down and a baby shark. I don’t think it was an actual shark, I think it just looked like one. Over the years I tried having my own
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If you’ve ever had an interest in geocaching but thought it would be too expensive to buy a handheld GPS and then too hard figure out how to load cache coordinates into it, here’s a GPS device for you. The Geomate.jr from Brand 44 Colorado comes preloaded with 250,000 geocaches covering all 50 states (or
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If you own a smartphone, it’s likely that you no longer carry around a point and shoot camera too. Not only are p&s cameras just another item that will take up space in your gear bag, but they really aren’t needed for casual snapshots now that the cameras built into our smartphones have gotten so
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Are you a musician who likes to use your tablet device to record or practice your craft? Do you find it is difficult and inconvenient to do so because you lack a decent work surface where you want to record or practice? The Tab Station from Castiv may be what you are looking for. The
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It’s too late to have this in hand to give Dad for Father’s Day, but it’s not too late to gift him with a USB charger that has a backup battery with its own solar charger inside. Just print out a picture of the PowerTrip and include it in the Father’s Day card and have
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This little device might look familiar to those of you who are active members of the Kickstarter community– WakaWaka Power originated in that forum, scoring over 800% of the project’s original funding request. So what is this little Droid-y looking thing exactly? This is WakaWaka Power, a portable, personal solar charging station and lamp light.
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This little doodad can keep things neater while you’re working in the kitchen. The Silpoura spout was the brainchild of a couple who are avid campers and needed a way to dispose of cooking grease without dumping it in the woods. Gail suggested there should be “a ‘Thing’. Like a spout. That you could clip
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We’ve been seeing a huge influx of portable wireless Bluetooth speakers on the market in the last year or two, but now there’s something new on the horizon that will make streaming music from your mobile devices even easier. The Musemini DBoom portable speaker connects to your smartphone via NFC (and Bluetooth if you don’t
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The Satechi USB Portable Humidifier is a small screw-on device that fits on most brands of bottled water and can be used as a humidifier, mister or aroma diffuser. Just fill the bottle with purified water, screw on the device/filter and plug in to a USB 2.0 or 3.0 port. The USB Portable Humidifier will
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The iPhone has a decent camera, but the built-in flash isn’t always up to the job. ThinkGeek has a setup for your iPhone 4/4S with a powerful LED light to brighten up your photos. The Manfrotto ML120 LED panel has 12 LEDs that are more capable of spreading a little light on your subject (color
The market is flooded with all sorts of quality, mid-range priced earphones. It seems that every brand has its gimmick, including the company that sent me their latest headphone to review. Munitio may be better known for their 9mm shell casing and bass-boosted earphones, but the SV Mobile Performance Earphones have a more traditional look,
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No matter how many electronic gadgets you carry with you, sometimes you just need to write something down on paper. With the Ideal Notepads, you can attach a notebook to your iPhone or iPad so one is always with you if you need it. They have elastic bands that slide over your device and leave
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‘The LEGO Build-It Book, Vol. 1: Amazing Vehicles’ is the latest how-to LEGO book by Nathanäel Kuipers from No Starch Press. Available next month (July 2013), this 136 page book offers step-by-step instructions with full-color renderings for 10 vehicles ranging from a simple go-kart to a rescue truck. The idea is to use your existing
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Summer’s here, and it’s already hot here in the south. A good way to stay cool is to play in the water, but what can you do if you don’t have a pool? You can have a water war, of course, and you don’t have to limit yourself to water balloon grenades, either. With the
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Why is it we feel a need to cover over our gadgets? Designers spend thousands of hours perfecting the look and feel of the enclosures for these little pieces of glass, aluminum, and plastic, and yet, we cover them up in the name of protecting something we’ll almost never see. My first iPad rarely went
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