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Motorized Coasting on an E-Go Cruiser Electric Longboard

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) When I hear the term, "e-vehicle" I usually think automotive or bicycle; not skateboard. The E-Go Cruiser longboard is changing my mind and forever changing casual sidewalk surfing. The E-Go Cruiser is a quality Canadian maple deck longboard that uses a 400-watt peak electric motor and a synchronous drive-belt transmission to power the wheels. The speed is controlled through a wireless hand-held throttle with two selectable top speeds depending on your style, either 10 or 20 kilometers per hour, or about 7 or 12 miles per hour. The top obtainable speed of the board is [...]

Proper Posture Meets Fitness Goals Using a Lumo Lift

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) Activity trackers usual focus on how much moving a person completes in a day and just as important to your overall well-being is how we sit or stand. Lumo Lift helps maintain proper posture for a more confident appearance while helping to reach daily fitness goals. Lumo Lift is a new type of activity tracker that goes beyond the typical metrics of steps taken and calories burned, it also monitors your upper body posture. Lumo Lift can be attached anywhere on your upper torso, including under other clothing or on a bra strap using a [...]

PowerUp Transforms Paper Airplanes with Flight Control

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) Flight is something most experience at a very young age when that first paper airplane is tossed in the air gliding back to Earth and for that moment in time, magic happened. With the new PowerUp module, your paper airplane stays flying under your inner child's control. PowerUp is a carbon fiber based control and power module for paper airplanes that allows pilots to fly the plane from an iOS smart device. Onboard the controller is a Bluetooth module with a range of about 180 feet providing precision control to turn, bank, dive and climb [...]

CaddieON Gives Golfers a Caddie on Their Smart Device

Getting serious about your golf game means keeping accurate score, recording distances, club selection and all kinds of game metrics frustrating the four-some behind you. CaddieON lets you focus on just your game, handling the details for you. CaddieON is a golf toolset that combines a wearable wrist device, a smartphone application and individual club RFID tags to track the details of every shot while on the course. It only takes a minute to set up the system, just insert the tags into the top to the club grip, select the course, power up the wrist device and you are ready to hit the links. The wrist device looks like [...]

Experience Sleeping Scientifically Better with a Withings Aura

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) Sleep is an important factor in how we perform the next day and our overall health. Several studies have confirmed this fact and now, the Withings Aura is hoping to forever change how we fall asleep and wake up, two important factors for better sleep in a sleep solution. The Withings Aura is a sleep solution system that combines an environmental monitor and a body monitor that work together to provide a better sleeping experience. The environmental monitor uses a combination of LED light and sound to relax you when going to sleep and to [...]

Charge and Sanitize Your Device with a PhoneSoap Charger

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) If you really want to gross yourself out, have a culture taken from the surface of your smart phone showing all the nasty bugs living there. If you want to do something about them, pick up a PhoneSoap Charger. The PhoneSoap Charger looks like a small tanning booth for your smart phone but acts as both a phone charger and sanitizer for your device. The specially designed curved inner shell of the case reflects light from two UV-C bulbs sanitizing the entire surface of the device with no more effort than the way you typically [...]

Stay Connected and Charge with a StrongVolt Solar SmartCharger

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) Solar panel mobile device charging is a great solution when there is no access to power or when the power is out, but even these devices have their frustrations. New technology from StrongVolt makes your solar panel charger more reliable, staying connected to your device as the environment changes. The StrongVolt SmartCharger system is a new kind of solar panel charging device that uses their SunTrack technology to keep your device connected during charging. Using this new technology, the SmartCharger automatically reconnects your charging device to the panel if there is a temporary shade spot [...]

Lono Puts Sprinkler System Control on Your Smart Device

It never fails that when you are at work or otherwise away from your home, it begins to rain and your sprinklers are scheduled to water your lawn. With Lono, you have sprinkler control anywhere in the palm of your hand, no more wasting water and money. Lono is an automatic smart sprinkler control system that replaces most current dial and switch manual control boxes and can cut water usage by twenty to seventy percent. The Lono system can control up to twenty zones and installing the system is as easy as switching your current zone control wires to the Lono controller, plugging it in, downloading the app and providing [...]

Piper Combines Security and Automation in a Small Package

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) You could pay an agency hundreds of dollars to set-up and monitor your home security, or, take control of your own security and automate your surroundings with a Piper security system. Piper is small home or business security system that combines security and monitoring with automation so you can interact with your home or business while you are away. Each Piper unit has a high-definition 1080p camera, speaker, microphone and a host of other sensors including motion and environmental, providing a complete monitoring picture. Setting up a Piper is as easy as placing the unit, [...]