The Nest Protect, from the makers of the Nest Thermostat, aims to change the way your home smoke alarm works. The Protect monitors smoke, heat, and carbon monoxide levels in your home. It’s smart about how it alerts you to possible emergency conditions, too. You tell the Protect what room it’s in, so a human […]
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“It was the best of speakers, it was the worst of speakers”. With apologies to Charles Dickens, that pretty much sums up my experience with the Damson Twist Wireless Portable Bluetooth Speaker. To say that this speaker will surprise is an understatement. There is no speaker on the Twist speaker. Yes, you read that right.
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No matter how tech-savvy or bleeding-edge you are, there are times when going “old school” should at least be considered. There is no doubt that the Gadgeteer Kid and I do enjoy our tech-gear, but he is also an aspiring artist who loves to draw. A digital tablet or loose sheet of paper just does
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You want to learn to play your new favorite song, so you start looking for guitar tabs for it on the internet. Those tabs are only as good as the person who created them, though. If you want to be sure you get the correct tabs, you need the Capo 3 app for Mac. The
We’ve told you about USB monitors before, but the CINQ includes a special clip that allows you to mount the 10.1 inch 720p monitor right to the side of your laptop’s display. The monitor is compatible with PCs and Macs and has a max resolution of 1280 x 720. It features a matte / anti-glare coating,
CINQ adds more screen real estate to your laptop without needing any table top space Read More
I recently reviewed the Belkin WeMo Smart Home Automation Switch, and I’m still happily using four of them everyday to control my table lamps and the Fake TV. There are some rooms, like the bathroom, that don’t have table lamps, but I’d still like to be able to remotely control my ceiling fixture in there.
Now you can control your light switches with WeMo controllers Read More
Mobile devices are great. They help save us time, enable us to communicate and entertain us, and so we take them everywhere. But their batteries sure don’t last long enough, do they? While we’re on the road we need a way to charge our mobile devices and preferably to charge more than one at a
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I’ve been looking for lamps recently, and I stumbled across this. It may not be the statement I want to make in the living room, but it might be perfect for the home office. With the Alien Abduction Lamp, it looks for all the world as if old Bossie the cow is being abducted
The Alien Abduction Lamp – I want to believe! Read More
During my vacation planning this year, I decided that I was going to leave my 13in Macbook Air laptop at home and only take my Nexus 7 2013 Android tablet. I figured it was a good way to keep me from wanting to do real work while I was supposed to be relaxing on Sanibel
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Baseball, tennis and golf are three sports where it’s all in the swing. But how do you get that perfect swing, or even that better swing? Coaching is a good method, but you always have to work around their schedule and the cost! I know folks that video tape themselves, but it is hard to
Put some zip in your golf, tennis or baseball swings with the Zepp sensor Read More