Better on-camera lighting usually starts with a single premium panel, and that panel often turns out to work in only one spot. A fixed light mounted above a desk can look excellent on a scheduled video call, but it does little for a product photo shot from overhead, a clip recorded across the room, or […]
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Hunching over a laptop for hours leaves your neck stiff and your machine overheating. A good stand fixes both by raising the screen to eye level and letting air flow underneath. You do not need a $200 ergonomic rig to see the benefits; plenty of solid options cost less than a takeout dinner. Whether you
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The cable behind your desk used to be a wad you ignored. Now magnetic cable management is its own category. Magnets, modular silicone, anodized arches, and VHB-mounted tracks have turned the under-desk into a design surface, and you can feel the shift in the comments under any clean desk-setup video on YouTube. What’s driving it
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Big desk gadget launches have been quiet in 2026. But five smaller corners of the workspace are still moving fast. Programmable keys, smart lighting, dock storage, wireless charging, and air quality tools are each changing in their own way. Together, they make today’s desk look a little different from a year ago. This is a
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REVIEW – If you’re feeling claustrophobic working from just your laptop display, a display extension system may be the productivity boon you’ve been looking for. While you could just plug into an external monitor, these systems are purpose built for portability and modularity. We’re having a look at the Redalf Laptop Screen Extender kit to
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REVIEW – I haven’t used a desktop computer as my main computer in probably over a decade, maybe more. The convenience of a laptop is just too useful for me to be tied down to a desktop. But the small screen real estate is something that you live with when you choose to work with
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REVIEW – I think we’ve got at least a dozen random power banks at this point scattered around our house, with quality and usefulness varying wildly between them. Most aren’t capable of charging anything larger than a tablet though, and even the ones that can charge laptops do so very slowly until you get to
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REVIEW – Over two years ago I reviewed a portable monitor that attached to your laptop and provided a second screen. While the functionality was impressive, the small size of the monitor and the necessity to attach semi-permanent magnets to the laptop lid was a downer, and I ended up not using it for very
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REVIEW – I’ve been using a MacBook as my main computer for many years now. It’s a workhorse that I enjoy using on my lap and at a desk. But like all laptops, the screen can sometimes feel cramped when I am trying to compare two documents or open two browser windows. When I’m using
REVIEW – I am always fumbling for my phone while I am working. It’s awkward. But look at me now! My laptop and my phone are living in perfect harmony thanks to the Rolling Square Edge Kit. This kit not only mounts my phone next to my moneymaker, but it adds some extra features as
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NEWS – I’m a child of the 70’s back when classrooms had chalkboards instead of whiteboards and teachers used overhead projectors. The MirrorMeThis is a new take on that classic tool, but this time it’s an adapter that is so small that it can fit in your pocket. It’s made of plastic with a mirror
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CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Anna and Eli Jay, filmmaker, project engineer, and siblings, turn to Kickstart to fund a product they created called DriveSlide. Aptly named, the DriveSlide is a sleek two-piece, “slide & lock” laptop attachment to keep your hard drive as safe as the data backed up on it. What is it? DriveSlide, is
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REVIEW – By now, everyone reading this post probably has a piece of opaque tape over the webcam on their laptop. We’ve seen the horror stories, TV shows, and news articles about cameras being hacked, as well as the famous picture of Mark Zuckerberg with tape over his laptop’s webcam. Now, rather than this ugly solution,
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If you like to use aromatherapy while you work or surf on your home computer, you need a USB Aromatherapy Diffuser. The one in the image is from Sharper Image, and it requires you to use your own essential oils. You put a drop or two of the oils on the scent pad, place the
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Plug the Kensington VeriMark Fingerprint Key into a USB port on your laptop and you now have an easy way to sign-in to Windows and websites with the touch of a finger.
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If you use your laptop outdoors for work or recreation, you may find it’s impossible to see your screen on bright, sunny days. Throw a Pixel Sunscreen V2.0 in your gear bag, and you’ll be able to work outdoors, no matter how sunny the day is. It’s made of polyurethane-coated nylon and ripstop taffeta, and
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If, like my husband, you have a laptop that you plug into a monitor, connect to WiFi, and maybe attach a couple of USB peripherals, you’ll find connecting and disconnecting everything to be a pain. At work, Butch plugs in a monitor, network, and a disk; when he needs to work from home, he only
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Most external batteries can charge up your phone or your tablet, but you’re out of luck with your laptop. The BatteryBox is only 0.98″ x 2.63″ x 3.55″ and just under 9 ounces, but it packs 50Wh of energy – enough juice to power your MacBook with enough left over to charge your mobile device, too.
Come on, you know you have felt it if you own a laptop. You’ve felt it in bed or on the couch maybe even when traveling. Admit it, you have felt the heat on your lap coming from your laptop computer. It can be more than discomforting – it can down right burn. The Comforter
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Anyone who’s sat working with a laptop computer on their legs for any length of time realized how much heat they put out. The heat can cause permanent damage and discoloration to the skin on your legs, and it can even adversely affect male fertility. It’s not just heat you have to worry about, though.
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