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Xistera 8 Bundles iPhone Accessories And Other Tools In One

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Buying a lot of accessories for your iPhone is par for the course, so a multi-tool that performs different functions you’d otherwise have to buy individually makes perfect sense. That’s exactly what the Xistera 8 brings to the table. Designed to work with the iPhone 5, it’s a multi-function contraption that looks like a slightly more elaborate kickstand from the picture frames of old. It’s compact and sized to fit into your pocket, so you can carry just one extra [...]

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Square Stand Turns Your iPad Into A Full-Featured Cash Register

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You use Square with an iPad to manage the cash register at your store. While that works well enough, it just doesn’t look as official as when you have a full set of point-of-sale gear sitting in your counter. The Square Stand changes that, providing a sleek payment processing center to make your ragtag of a store look plenty more dignified. Consisting of an iPad stand with an integrated credit card reader, all you need to do is set the [...]

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JVC Kenwood MDV-737 HUD Projects Your NAV System Next To The Rearview Mirror

GADGETS, WHEELS

That turn-by-turn NAV system on your smartphone sure works great. All that looking down to check it, though, means you’re spending even more time with your eyes off the road. The JVC Kenwood MDV-737 HUD can help with that, giving you a see-through heads-up display right next to the rearview mirror. Instead of looking down, you have just to look slightly upwards, so you don’t have to lose sight of the road ahead. While that doesn’t sound like a giant [...]

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Look Ma No Keys! Kevo Bluetooth Enabled Deadbolt Lock Opens With Just A Touch

GADGETS, HOME

We’ve seen add-ons for locks, such as the Lockitron, that allow you to control them via smartphone. But why opt for a retrofit solution when a lock with built-in smart features is available? That’s exactly the case with the Kevo. Made by Kwikset, it’s a smart deadbolt with a Bluetooth 4.0 radio built-in that allows it to communicate with your smartphone. Just install it in place of your existing locks and you’ve got yourself a smart locking system that doesn’t [...]

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Automaxx Klamp Boasts Auto-Adjust Technology

GADGETS, HOME

If you spend a lot of time in the workshop, locking clamps should be part of your toolset. How else are you going to keep those slabs of wood in place when your hands are busy hammering, warhammering and otherwise doing whatever you do in the shed? And while there’s a healthy selection of clamping tools in the market, we’re really quite impressed with these Automaxx Klamps. Made by Kreg Tool, these clamps come with auto-adjusting technology that allows it [...]

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Thunderbolt Express Dock Is A Glorious All-in-One IO Hub

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Apple’s Thunderbolt ports are pretty great, with the simultaneous 10Gbps upstream and downstream capabilities. At this day and age, though, it’s really still rare we’ll need to transfer that much data over cables, so might as well use that port to tidy up your mess of a work desk. That’s exactly what the Thunderbolt Express Dock will allow. Made by Belkin, it’s an IO hub that connects to your Mac’s Thunderbolt port then offers all the ports and connectors you [...]

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Siva Cycle Atom Is A Kinetic Power Generator For Bicycles

GADGETS, WHEELS

Taking your Glow-in-the-Dark Bicycle to work is one of your smartest ideas ever. It helped you get in better shape, saved you a small fortune in gas, and allows you to act like a stuck-up treehugger while only feeling half-pretentious. Now, if only it can get you laid, too, it will be your smartest idea ever. While the Atom can’t help with that, it will let you reap one more benefit from your daily bicycle runs: using all that pedaling [...]

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Tactical Fire Striker Pen Can Set Your Words On Fire

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When I hear people in battle raps rhyme about putting their pens to paper, I always wonder whether they’re exercising poetic hyperbole or if they really write their bars old-school style with a pen and paper. While I still don’t know the answer to that, anyone who actually still writes with a pen will probably be best served by this Tactical Fire Striker Pen. You know those old-school writers worked, right? Mess of dried ink stuck all over [...]

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Blue Laser Lamp Illuminates Your Room With Hundreds Of Shooting Lasers

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Want a fancy lighting system that turns your room into a moody scene straight out of a horror/sci-fi flick? The Firefly Blue Laser Lamp is your best option for doing just that, dispersing hundreds of blue laser lights flying around you. A portable lamp, it comes shaped like a giant dice out of a role-playing tabletop game with over two dozen sides, allowing it to spread the lasers in all directions from where it sits. The result is a bunch [...]

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Crazyflie Nano-Quadrocopter: Your Army Of Mini-Drones Is Here

ENTERTAINMENT, GADGETS

Your Parrot Drone may be awesome, but there’s nothing stealth about it. The thing’s just too big to fly without drawing massive attention. If you want a smaller, stealthier drone to satisfy your whims, you may want to turn your focus on the Crazyflie Nano-Quadcopter instead. Sold as a kit, it’s not exactly the fun-out-of-the-box experience you’ll get with other toy quadrocopters in stores. If you’re the type who likes to fiddle with your toys, though, this is about as [...]

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Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Brings Quality HD Video In Super Compact Size

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That Blackmagic Cinema Camera is about as compact a cinema-quality video shooter as you can ask for. At least, that’s what we thought. Apparently not the case, though, with the new Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera. Yep, that awesome video rig you’ve been using for shooting pro-quality amateur music videos now has a smaller brother. And it’s even more grab-and-go, sporting dimensions no different from many point-and-shoots, all while packing some serious talents. Billed as “the world’s most compact Super 16 [...]

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TREX RC Robot Lawn Mower Is Built Like A Tank

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Robot lawnmowers aren’t exactly new. However, we doubt that your Robomower is capable of clearing the grass off the side of a hill or a steep-sloped backyard. That’s what the TREX is for. Made by Evatech, it’s not actually a smart robot that can execute its work autonomously like your Neato or Scooba. Yep, operation isn’t hands-off, although the radio controls mean you can chill out in the shade while putting the mower to work, which is a heck of [...]

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Vamp Makes Any Speaker Wireless By Adding Bluetooth

ENTERTAINMENT, GADGETS

You invested a small fortune in your audio system from back in the day. That’s why you still use it even as everyone else in the neighborhood have upgraded to wireless streaming set ups. If you’d like to bring some of that wire-free modernity into your entertainment gear without investing in new hardware, you need The Vamp. A small device, it’s designed to magnetically attach to the speakers, so you can put it on top, on the side or on [...]

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HomeKite Lets You Fly A Kite Indoors

ENTERTAINMENT, GADGETS

There are plenty of good reasons why you will want to fly a kite at home. Maybe you hate leaving the house. Or are afraid of the sun. Or there are zombies outside. Or the weather is never good enough to let you fly a kite out in your town. Whichever of those serve as your motivation of choice, the HomeKite should let you do just that. Made by Takara Tomy, it’s a kite designed to be flown indoors. Since [...]

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Samsung Game Pad: Tactile Gaming For Samsung Galaxy Owners

ENTERTAINMENT, GADGETS

When Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S4 during its press event, they brought along a bunch of accessories with it. One of the more interesting of the lot is a handheld controller that turns the phone into a full-fledged tactile gaming console. And that accessory, the Samsung Game Pad, is now up on the Galaxy S4 website. Sporting a layout and color scheme that looks based off the Xbox 360, it comes with a complete set of tactile controls — two [...]

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Automatic Turns Your Smartphone Into A Very Useful Car Computer

GADGETS, WHEELS

Many fancy new cars come with fancy on-board information systems. But you can’t afford a fancy new car, so you make do with the econobox you bought second hand two years ago with no fancy computer in the dash. Don’t miss out on modern tech with Automatic, a plug-in solution that turns your smartphone into a modern car computer. Looks like a must-have cool gadget for car enthusiasts. Using a small dongle called Automatic Link that plugs into your car’s data port [...]

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Bartendro Is A Precision-Mixing Robot Bartender

GADGETS, HOME

Cute bartenders are a thing because how else will you get me to sit in a bar and pay for overpriced drinks all night long? That’s why I’m suspicious about the potential for success of robot bartenders — they are just not that hot looking!. Still, if you’d rather have automatons pouring drinks in your party for whatever reason I can never fathom, now you can with the Bartendro. A robot drink dispenser, it will make every drink exactly the [...]

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MYO Wearable Gesture Controller Armband Needs No Cameras

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Now, here we were thinking camera-based gesture controls were the definite future of computers. While that may still be a probability, it could very well be pushed to the side by devices like the MYO Gesture Control Armband. Worn around your forearm like an armband, the gadget uses proprietary muscle sensors and a six-axis motion sensor to track your movements. The muscle sensors detect the changes in hand and finger gestures, while the motion sensor tracks your arm’s position, enabling [...]

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3Doodler Is A 3D-Printing Pen

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Home 3D printing is hot right now. Problem is, the learning curve isn’t quite that low — you’ll need to understand 3D modeling at a competent level to really get anything done. The 3Doodler lowers the bar on the skills front, letting you produce 3D-printed creations by simply doodling with a pen. Unlike other 3D printers, this isn’t a tabletop rig hooked up to a computer. Instead, it’s just an unusually chunky pen that contains all the hardware, software and [...]

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