Gadgets posts

Nokia has been sliding dangerously close to oblivion for some time now. The former king of mobile phones underestimated the rapid rise of smartphones and bet too high, too long on feature phones. Now, they’re scrambling to catch up but their flagship Lumia line of phones has not been doing well. In an effort to improve their footprint and expand the datasets available to power their new Here map application, Nokia is going to offer them to iOS users. After the disastrous launch of Apple maps on iOS 6, Nokia tried to cash in a bit by comparing their maps to the maps of the two current kings of smartphones,…

This amazing t-shirt will looks like a flashing digital computer screen on your chest as it lights up and flashes to the sound of your favorite songs. The shirt is sound activated that is powered by an easily hidden battery pack.  This electro luminescent shirt will have you standing out from the crowd and would make for a great conversational piece at any party. …

Sure Apple improved the size of the iPhone with its release of the iPhone 5 but it still doesn’t give the effect a movie lover would like when watching a featured film from their smartphone. Many people love the ability to curl up with their devices and watch a movie or catch up with commercial free television. …

There has been great stride in preventing wasteful paper such as banking online and recycling (to state a few) however, we are still struggling to help the environment when it comes to what we receive in the mail. From flyers to unsolicited mail, paper is still being wasted and that means so are thousands of trees. Paper is still used in schools and offices and though deemed necessary, in some cases we literally just waste paper. …

Storage is a necessity as we have become more reliant on our computers to hold too much information and now we require a backup method for the saved information that is of value to us. Or we need to relocate data from one computer to another. There are literally a ton of various USB drives/sticks out there, but this is one that will grab the attention of any 80’s kid or geekster like me. …

In our pockets, we have a communication device that can be used for voice, text, email, chat, and just about every other form of chatter. We have a device that can surf the internet, play music, play videos, take pictures, and dozens of other tasks that once required multiple devices that were normally much bigger. This device, the smartphone, has replaced many things in the past couple of years. For many, it’s replacing the credit card and shopping trip. M-commerce is becoming “a thing”. This infographic breaks down some past and current stats that point to where we’re going in the future. Infographic…

Nothing gets you quite out of bed like the smell of coffee brewing in the air and breakfast filling your airways… stomachs they will turn and can even be more effective than an alarm clock. Sometimes we have to eat and run and leave notes behind along with the breakfast goodies we cook up to ease the absence, but nothing reads quite like toast. …

As much as I long to believe that I have precision eyesight, when I attempt to cut anything freehand it always seems to look like a two year old got a hold of a pair of scissors. …

Winter is coming… It sure is approaching fast, some areas of the country have already seen snow and then there is Canada. The brisk winds chill us to the bone and a big pet peeve is cold feet, especially when having to stand in wet snow for any length of time. …

We all need our own space to think, unwind or to clear or heads;  some of us create den’s or man caves to label a spot within our homes to call our very own. What if we were able to go beyond the escapism of a computer, a mouse and an external experience and instead become the interface? Combining our need for time alone with the advancement of technological features that span farther than our imaginations, would you be intrigued? …