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Tactile Turn Mover & Shaker pens will make you feel like you’re in the fast lane

By Julie Strietelmeier / January 29, 2014 / News / Crowdfunded, Pens, Pocket Gear / 1 Comment

The pen guy Will Hodges is back with his 3rd Kickstarter project. This time it’s for his newly designed pens, the Tactile Turn Mover & Shaker pens. You might recall my review last summer of Will’s EiMIM pens. Those were great quality machine turned pens made of anodized 7075 aluminum. His new pens have a similar look, but instead […]

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Mouve M01 watch is a bold, automatic timepiece

By Andy Jacobs / January 28, 2014 / News / Clocks, Crowdfunded, Watches and Clocks / Leave a Comment

Surveys may show that wristwatches are less popular than ever due to people carrying mobile phones, but I for one am glad they are still around. My favorite watch styles tend to be big, bold and heavy-duty. That’s why the Mouve M01 caught my eye. Currently in a crowdfunded Kickstarter campaign, the Mouve M01 features a 27-jewel

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Show your pop culture status with the Popcord portable microUSB or Lightning charging cable

By Larry Geisz / January 23, 2014 / News / Batteries and Chargers, cables, Crowdfunded / Leave a Comment

Cable, cable, where is my charging cable? I have sung that song on many occasions while on the road, not being able to find my phone’s charging cable. Popcord, a Kickstarter project from Powergoat, may be able to silence my blues. The Popcord is a compact charging cable designed to hook on to your keychain

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Prelaunch.com is an alternative to Kickstarter

By Julie Strietelmeier / January 22, 2014 / News / Crowdfunded, Shopping / 4 Comments

Prelaunch.com is a new site for established brands like Epson and Scosche to offer their latest products for pre-order before they are released in the traditional channels. Each product has a specific pre-order period that ends prior to the product being available in stores. Prelaunch.com also works with brands to offer limited edition products, brand-sponsored

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Make a stand for your smart device with the Bpen

By Larry Geisz / January 18, 2014 / News / Crowdfunded, Gear, Pens, Pocket Gear, Styluses, universal phone stand, Universal Tablet Stand / Leave a Comment

Multi-functional pens – how many are out on the market today? How many of us have them? The common themes among multi-functional pens is the ability to be used with today’s smart phones. They’ll have a pen on one end and a stylus on the other or on a cap. So how do you catch

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The Clean-Cut Wallet: leather + elastic = slim

By Andy Jacobs / January 12, 2014 / News / Crowdfunded, Wallets / Leave a Comment

I’m a fan of the slim wallet craze. I’ve tried a few of them, and it’s been good to minimize the amount of clutter in my wallet and to be able to carry it in my front or back pocket easily. One drawback of many of these slim wallet designs is that you miss out

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Kickstart your dead phone with the JUMP battery pack

By Larry Geisz / January 12, 2014 / News / Batteries and Chargers, cables, Crowdfunded, External power supply / Leave a Comment

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “I was on the road and my phone’s battery died”. Oh, you have heard that one before; then you have probably seen a lot of news and reviews on backup batteries as well. So why am I doing another one? The simple answer is that the JUMP,

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Make your tablet stand and be seen with the Plinth pocket stand

By Larry Geisz / January 6, 2014 / News / Crowdfunded, Gear, Pocket Gear, Stand / Leave a Comment

Ah, the world of tablet devices. I love my iPad, but my problem with it is that it is not always convenient to use on the go. While I do have a Smart Cover for mine, it has its limitations, such as not being able to use your iPad in portrait mode. Plinth, a Kickstarter

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Don’t write that fancy letter without an INK machined pen

By Larry Geisz / December 21, 2013 / News / Crowdfunded, Gear, Pens / 2 Comments

I don’t know why, but I have a fascination with unique or different writing instruments. To be honest, I do not really like writing by hand, and some would say my penmanship is horrendous. But if I had to guess, I would have to say I appreciate what pens and pencils represent. A time when

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Ovision underwater housing for iPhone review

By Ryan Chapman / December 20, 2013 / Reviews / Camera gear, Crowdfunded, iOS, iPhone accessory / 3 Comments

In this day and age, many young people have given up using a point and shoot camera and rely solely on their cell phone cameras for taking pictures. With the advances in camera technology in phones, minus having zoom, the quality can be on par with many point and shoots. But what happens when you

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This iPad cover incorporates a Bluetooth speaker for improved sound

By Janet Cloninger / December 17, 2013 / News / Audio, Video, TV, Bluetooth, Bluetooth speaker, Cases and Covers, Crowdfunded, iOS, iPad cover / 2 Comments

The one thing I don’t like about my iPad mini, and this is true of every iPad I’ve owned, is the wimpy sound from wimpy, back-facing speakers. I’ve tried various methods of increasing the sound, but I usually just cup my hand around the bottom of the iPad to redirect the sound toward me. Bluetooth

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Happy – and safe – trails to you with these Tail Lights

By Janet Cloninger / December 16, 2013 / News / Crowdfunded, Health and fitness, Outdoor Gear, Personal Safety, Pet Gadgets, Sports / 7 Comments

I always cringe a little when I’m driving along and see horses and riders sharing the road. It’s not because I don’t like horses or don’t want to share the road. It’s because I’m always afraid that something will happen and a horse or rider will be injured or worse because someone in a car

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Why use your fist to fix that problem when the Knuckler is at hand?

By Larry Geisz / December 6, 2013 / News / Crowdfunded, Pocket Gear / 1 Comment

So, you’re into gadgety multi-tools? Me too! The more functional the better is what I always say. But function and design have to come with a purpose, and the Knuckler multi-tool, a Kickstarter project from Jeff Morin (who also brought us the Parachute multi-tool), seems to have found its purpose. Jeff Morin has other successful

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In a world of hurt? Let the Fubar Baby help pry you out of that situation

By Larry Geisz / December 1, 2013 / News / Crowdfunded, Gear, Pocket Gear / 8 Comments

In the world of consumerism, we like to get the most bang for our buck. Take pocket multi-tools for example, we think the more things we can use it for the better and in most cases I would agree. But one designer has seen a short coming in one prominent feature of the pocket multi-tool,

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ZEROHOUR Tactical USB battery backup flashlight

By Larry Geisz / November 28, 2013 / News / Batteries and Chargers, Crowdfunded, Flashlight / Leave a Comment

There are a lot of multi-purpose flashlights on the market today with a lot of different options and sizes. So how do you make your multi-purpose flashlight stand out? The ZEROHOUR modular tactical USB battery backup flashlight, a Kickstarter project from Amy Truong and Aaron Son, does it by being versatile and modular. As the

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Slate is a bamboo lapdesk with style and function

By Julie Strietelmeier / November 26, 2013 / News / Crowdfunded, Laptops and Gear / 9 Comments

The Slate Mobile AirDesk is a new Kickstarter project that just launched yesterday and has already surpassed the funding goal of $6500. It is made in Tempe, Arizona from a solid block of hand sanded bamboo. A grid of holes has been drilled through the block to help with air flow and heat dissipation. There

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Foldio is a tiny, portable photography studio

By Janet Cloninger / November 25, 2013 / News / Camera gear, Crowdfunded / 4 Comments

If you need to take good pictures for items you sell on eBay or say, review for a website, you need a well-lighted, clutter-free spot for taking pictures. There are folding studios for just this sort of work, but many of them need a large flat space to set them up, and most of them

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Charge your phone with your power tools

By Janet Cloninger / November 22, 2013 / News / Batteries and Chargers, Crowdfunded, USB charger / 4 Comments

I have a handyman working in my new (to me) condo this week, and I’ve noticed his Android phone gets some use. If he needed, he could get a recharge by plugging his phone into a outlet in my house, but what if he were working on a construction site that may not have a

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ChargeDrive 3-in-1 device combines a charge cable, flash memory and a tripod

By Larry Geisz / November 16, 2013 / News / Batteries and Chargers, cables, Crowdfunded, Flash Memory / 4 Comments

If you’re a gadget lover, then you probably love multi-functional tools. Let’s face it, we love to get big bang for our tech bucks. But when it comes to multi-functional smart phone items, the list seems to be short and the useful functionality is often hit and miss. The ChargeDrive, a Kickstarter project by Idris

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Your friends may flip-out when they see the D180 Folding Pen

By Larry Geisz / November 10, 2013 / News / 3d printing, Crowdfunded, Pens, Pocket Gear, Travel Gear / Leave a Comment

Do you find that you never have a pen handy when you need one? Do you find that when you do carry a pen it is either too big to fit in your pocket or too small to use comfortably? The D180 Folding Pen, a Kickstater project from 3D Printed Concepts, hopes to change that.

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