Nest Protect Modern Home Warning Safety System
Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) Smoke and carbon monoxide detectors are vitally necessary but they can be the most annoying device in your house with false alarms and chirping. The new Nest Protect really redefines what home smoke and carbon monoxide detectors should be and it has features that will get you excited about your family's safety. Nest Protect brings smoke and carbon monoxide detectors into the modern home with a wide range of features that keeps your family safe. Nest connects to your home network and remembers [...]
Rideye Dashcam Evidence Witness for Bikers and Cyclists
Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) Dashcams are becoming more popular in vehicles as the best eyewitness to an accident or incident is an impartial video recording. Rideye is finally bringing video monitoring to bikers and cyclists in a full feature black box bicycle camera package. Rideye is bicycle camera that you mount to your bike or helmet that records your road trip forward from the handlebars or behind from the seat post. Riders simply press a button to start recording in 1280 by 720 resolution at 30 frames [...]
The Friends of Hue Complete Ambient Lighting Options
Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) LED lighting is redefining how we light our living spaces by conserving power and offering longer product life and now, the Phillips, "Friends of Hue" line is giving us more Hue lighting ambient color options. There are two new products in the Phillips Friends of Hue lighting line: the LivingColors Bloom and LightStrips. Just like the original Hue bulb, both new products connect wirelessly to a Hue Bridge controlling up to fifty lights and interfacing with your home network. Both products are compatible [...]
iDoorCam is a Door Peephole for This Century
If you have ever wondered who is at your house or office door when you are not around, the iDoorCam is a smart doorbell that turns your smart phone into an intercom system. iDoorCam is a combination doorbell, camera and intercom system that uses a smartphone app to see who is at your door. Installing is as easy as hooking up a new doorbell using your existing doorbell wiring to power the device and then connecting it to your home Wi-Fi network. When someone comes to the door and presses the button, a video and audio feed is [...]
Stream Media to Any HDMI TV with Google Chromecast
Check It Out or Buy on Google.com A smart television will let you see internet content without being at a computer, which is fantastic if you have a smart television. For those of us who own a high definition television before internet connectivity, Google Chromecast is a small device you can use to connect to see that content. Google Chromecast is essentially an HDMI dongle for televisions without streaming capabilities. With the device, viewers can watch web content available through their Chrome Browser, YouTube, Netflix and any purchased music, movies or television [...]
Set Your Turntable Speed Perfectly with a UFO
Vinyl music is making a comeback as more and more people realize there is just no way to get that sound from an MP3 file. To make sure your turntable is delivering, Hagerman Technology has developed a cool little device, the UFO. The UFO, short for Uniform Frequency Orbiter, is a small calibration tool you place directly on your spinning LP to fine-tune your turntable speed. The system was originally designed to replace the two-piece hand-held strobe and disc pattern by combining the two in an easier to use and visually appealing self-contained unit. Using a push button [...]
OnBeat Solar Headphones for Mobile Tunes and Power
For portable solar energy harvesting, it makes perfect sense to place solar panels on top of your head. That is the thinking behind the OnBeat Solar Headphones that collect energy while you enjoy a walk with your favorite tunes. The OnBeat Solar Headphones are designed to collect the sun's energy so that you can charge your portable devices. They work by using a high-powered flexible solar panel positioned across the top of the unit creating an active solar area. The system does not directly charge your mobile devices; the energy collected is stored in two lithium-ion batteries located [...]
Button TrackR Finder Keeps You from Losing It
I hate losing it, whatever, "it" is. Car keys, a wallet, my backpack. It is not that I am forgetful; sometimes all of us have looked around the room and wondered where we left an item. Button TrackR, coming later this year, is going to end the hide-and-seek game for losing, "it". Button TrackR is a small bi-directional finder device that can affix to most items and is about the size of a quarter. It uses Bluetooth Low Energy technology and when combined with their TrackR app, can locate your lost items within 100 feet. Button TrackR helps [...]
Pairasight Point-of-View High-Definition Streaming Glasses
Point of view videography usually involves holding a camera or attaching a small camera to a helmet or other headgear. The Pairasight Project is bringing point of view video capture and streaming to a glasses camera. Pairasight is a wearable dual five megapixel glasses camera system that looks like a pair of glasses. The platform is a light, convenient and a non-disruptive solution that finally solves the problem of having someone else miles away see and hear what you are experiencing. Pairasight can capture and stream 1080p high-definition video and audio wirelessly through a smartphone or other internet [...]