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The Remotely Controlled WeMo Switch Connected House

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) Being able to turn anything that plugs into an outlet on or off from anywhere has practical and security applications for your home. It also got me thinking of all the creative things I do with such control. Belkin's WeMo line of products gives you that control. WeMo is a system that works off your home's Wi-Fi network to control anything that plugs in. The WeMo Switch plugs directly into any outlet and then the device into the WeMo Switch. To set it up and make it work, you need an iDevice for now but [...]

The 3Doodler is a Pen Inspired 3D Printer

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) 3D printers can be a lot of fun, but unless you have a technical understanding of often-complex modeling software, you are restricted to templates you can only load and print. If only it were as easy as picking up a pen and drawing in 3D space with some kind of 3D pen printer. That's the thinking behind the 3Doodler 3D pen printer. It works like any additive printer, material is fed into the device, and it is heated to a melting point and then layered creating a 3D model. Unlike other 3D printers, this one [...]

You Can Take It with You with the Seagate Wireless Plus Drive

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) I don’t usually get excited about an external hard drive or mobile storage, and then I heard about the Seagate Wireless Plus. This is the perfect family accessory for storing your streaming media, photos or music. The Seagate Wireless Plus offers one terabyte of external storage, meaning it can hold almost 500 movies or shows, thousands of music files and an unthinkable amount of photos and documents. The device broadcasts its own wireless network so transferring files is as easy as dragging and dropping them from your PC or Mac or you can use the [...]

The New Sonos Playbar Delivers High Fidelity Sound Wirelessly

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) To truly enjoy high definition television you need high fidelity sound and that is exactly what you get with the new Playbar wireless speaker system from Sonos. The Playbar features a nine amplified speaker architecture – six mid-range and three tweeters - in a low profile design that can be placed flat in front of your television or mounted to the wall. The left and right tweeters are angled and a Class D amplifier that is tuned perfectly to the design drives each speaker. You only need two cables to hook up the system, an [...]

The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Fitbit One

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) There are a number of things you can do to improve your overall health, and as the saying goes, “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. The Fitbit One will help you track that goal. The Fitbit One is the newest clip-on 3-axis accelerometer activity tracker in the Fitbit family. The device gives you insight into your daily distance traveled, steps taken, floors climbed and calories burned. It will also tell you how well you are sleeping. Slip it on your wrist before you hit the sack and it will keep [...]

The Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter Development Kit from Bitcraze

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) Bitcraze is releasing the Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter Kit in small batches, a few hundred at a time, and its, "coolness" factor is getting it a lot of attention. The assembled kit sets my imagination running with ideas for buzzing friends and coworkers. However, before you grab one of these thinking you will have the coolest toy flying around the office, there are few things you need to know. Bitcraze is selling this as a development platform, not a toy, meaning you will need some experience in a development environment, including an understanding of schematics, source [...]

Rip and Flip the Lenovo ThinkPad Helix

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) The Lenovo ThinkPad Helix release was delayed until later this spring, which got me wondering, "What’s a Helix?" The Helix was introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show and is being marketed as a, "Rip and Flip" mobile computing platform. According to Lenovo, it is primarily an Ultrabook with the added benefit of a removable and very light tablet. The tablet can be removed or, "ripped" and flipped on the base for presentations. This also allows users to fold the device down into a usable tablet while keeping the connectivity of the base and its ports. [...]

The Razer Edge Pro is the Most Powerful Tablet in the World!

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) I am a huge PC gamer. So if I were to tell you I have an Intel Core i7 1.9GHz dual core system with 8 gig of DDR3 RAM, a two gig NVIDIA GeForce graphic card and Dolby Home Theater sound would you guess I was talking about my tablet? Believe it! The Razer Edge Pro is more than just a tablet. This is a mobile PC in every sense. It comes with Windows 8 preloaded. If you need a keyboard, they have you covered with a docking station converting the Razer to a notebook [...]