REVIEW – Most external monitors (even the fancy ones) don’t have built-in webcams, and if they do it’s nothing to write home about. Most laptops do have one built in, but they’re almost always just “good-enough”. Even a great, built-in webcam cannot match what’s possible for a webcam with a cutting edge image sensor, gimbal, […]
DEAL NEWS – Today’s deals will upgrade your office (home or otherwise) meeting and conferencing tech with new gear from EMEET. Their Luna conferencing speaker (shown above features 360° voice pickup with noise reduction and a mute indicator. It also has the ability to daisy chain 8 devices for really large conferencing rooms. Where to
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REVIEW – The Poly Studio P15 Personal Video Bar is an all-in-one solution for those who need to add video conferencing to smaller conferencing spaces. What is it? Some readers may not be familiar with the Poly brand, but will recognize the names of the two companies that combined to create Poly: Plantronics and Polycom.
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REVIEW – Splitting time between home and workplace offices has created a number of new challenges for workers these days. One issue is making sure you have the best equipment to do your job available in both locations. For me, this means completely duplicating my technical setup. Webcams are something I usually don’t put a
Annke WX810 4K Ultra HD Webcam review – Sleek design and 4K clarity for your WFH needs! Read More
CROWDFUNDING NEWS – If you work from home then you need this gadget in your life. I’mOn will keep your computer from locking the screen or setting your status to ‘Away’ when you’re not sitting at your computer. But there is no point just looking like you are online if you do not respond to
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REVIEW – I’ve been a teleworker for ten years. I’ve managed to kit out my home office with about everything a software engineer could want: A nice sit/stand desk, a large monitor, a great dock for my work laptop, a cool mouse, a drive to backup my files, and so on. There’s one thing that
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REVIEW – I have a lot of video meetings. Several a day. I know how important eye contact is, and it’s even more important when everyone is remote. So I tend to stare at the camera, positioned as it usually is at the top of my large monitor. But this means that I’m not looking
REVIEW – Many of us are still working from home due to the pandemic. I recently retired from my day job with Cummins Inc after 34+ years, but I did WFH for 2 years and continue working full-time on The Gadgeteer. I know I sit for too long in front of a computer each day,
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REVIEW – Are you still perfecting your home office setup? Did you recently upgrade to a convertible desk like we did earlier this year? If so, then you might be thinking of investing in monitor arms to keep your screens firmly in place and just where you want them. The dual-monitor arm from Vari is
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REVIEW – During my normal WFH day, I spend at least 7 hours sitting in a chair. I try to remind myself to get up and walk around, but that does not always work. When I want to get up it always seems to be the time someone pings me through an instant messenger at
WalkingPad A1 Pro foldable under desk treadmill review – walking while I work! Read More
REVIEW – Standing desks are a healthy alternative to sitting all day but some standing desks need an existing desk and other standing desks are large and need dedicated office space. If you’ve been looking for a smaller standing desk, today’s review might be exactly what you’re looking for. It’s the Victor Tech High Rise
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REVIEW – Working from home has been the best thing to happen in my career as a children’s publisher art director since—I don’t know when. However, as good as the transition to work-from-home was, it does present some challenges you don’t face in an office environment. One of the biggest challenges—for me—is getting the optimal
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REVIEW – As most of you have heard by now, one benefit that has been a result of the Covid pandemic is more options for remote work. Just recently, my wife started a new WFH job that is just about 100% remote and so virtual meetings are now par for the course for her. Her
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REVIEW – The HAOYISHU Video Conference Laptop Light is a light to give your WFH ZoomMeetSkypeWebExGoToMeeting viewers a chance to see your face clearly during videoconferences. How often do you see videoconference participants in dimly lit rooms, or with a light beside or behind them, or sitting in front of bright windows? If they only
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NEWS – If you’ve thought about adding a platform to your treadmill so you can get a little extra exercise/activity in your day while you work, I found a potential solution. The WALK-i-TASK is designed to fit almost any treadmill and adds a height-adjustable work surface for your laptop. You can even adjust the angle
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CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Mobile Office for Travelers – (MOFT) has a new product, the Smart Desk Mat. I have backed several of their past projects personally, and have found the products to be very interesting. Since I’m not traveling as much as I did 2-3 years ago, however, the need has not been as
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REVIEW – With Working From Home becoming the norm for many, what do you do if you don’t have a full-time space to devote to your work life? Rent a hotel room every day? Kick one of your kids out of their bedroom? Or use the dining table, and deal with tearing down the makeshift
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REVIEW – It has been more than a year since the Covid pandemic started, and shortly after it started, I began working from home. As time passed, teleworking and video conferencing have become the norm, and devices that support these types of meetings via Microsoft Teams, Zoom, etc have been in demand. In response to
REVIEW – Since working from home became the standard for me, along with millions of others, I’ve started to upgrade a lot of the equipment I use most frequently for my job. One item that has long needed upgrading is my webcam. I’ve been working remotely and attending endless daily video meetings for close to
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ARTICLE – Like so many others, COVID has changed our daily routines in a big way. For me, I’ve been working from home since the middle of March 2020. Before then, I rarely worked from home during the 33 years that I’ve worked for Cummins Inc. After a few months it started to feel like
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