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12V Solar Charger charges your motorcycle, ATV, snowmobile battery

Practical and useful gadget to insure that you’ll have a backup plan should your battery die in your motorcycle, snowmobile, ATV, etc. This Sunforce solar powered 12V charger prevents discharge or overcharge of your battery. Weighs only 1.6lbs and measures 19.5″ x 5 7/8″ x 1.5″, it comes with battery clamps, wiring and O-ring conectors [...]

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Realistic Battery-Operated Candle is Safe and Cost-Effective

Like candles, but are a bit wary of accidentally torching your room or worse your house? Check out these battery-operated candle that mimic a real candle with it’s triple-LED flickering light. Operates on 2 AA batteries and works for 300+ hours. In addition to the safety factor, that’s should net you a 75% savings on [...]

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Kid’s Wireless Remote Controlled Light Switch Kit

If you have a small child that is still afraid of the dark, but you’re trying to get them used to sleeping in the dark, perhaps the way to do it is to give them control of the light switch, so once they feel comfortable they can turn it off on their own. This remote [...]

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Child Locator alerts and finds your wandering kids

Got a small child? Worried that they may wander off (which they have a tendency to do)? Then take a look at BrickHouse Security’s Child Locator. Attach a small mini homing tag to your kid’s clothing or on their wrist and use the handheld locator to pinpoint their location.

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Perfect Portions Nutrition Scale breaks down food info like a packaged box

Here’s how this nutrition scale rocks – its display looks just like the side of any box you pick up at the supermarket with data on fat, carbs, protein, sodium, etc. For those of that do look at the sides of boxes, this is easy to understand. Built into its thin little brain is a [...]

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Human Touch’s AcuTouch 9500 Massage Chair can be controlled with your iPhone

One of our first gizmos we ever featured was the iJoy Robotic Massage Chair. Fast-forward a few years later and Human Touch and massage chairs have not stood still. In fact, take the AcuTouch 9500 Massage Chair, which interfaces with your iPhone or iPod Touch via Bluetooth. Download the HT-Connect app and control the AcuTouch’s [...]

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Xambox Anywhere digitizes, auto-files and makes your paperwork accessible from the Web

Xambox is an automatic paper filer for both your physical and digital docs. Just scan your paperwork and it automatically creates a PDF version along with a description of where you’re storing it (ex: box #10, blue folder, 6th page).

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Tocky, Clocky’s Brother, is an Alarm Clock that Runs Away

Remember Clocky, the alarm clock that goes off and rolls itself away and off your night table?! Well it has a new sibling, Tocky. Tocky is round and also jumps off your nightstand and rolls away too. It has a few new features, such as the ability to upload MP3s or perhaps your own sounds. [...]

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Livescribe retools Pulse Smartpen, new version: Echo Smartpen

Livescribe has an updated version of its Pulse smartpen, the Echo. We reviewed the Pulse last year and absolutely loved it.  In case you So what’s new with the Echo? The Echo is functionally very similar to the Pulse – you can use the same apps and notebooks, but it has some nice new upgrades. The [...]

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Pivot Power bends so all of your adapters get plugged in

What a great concept. This power strip bends and pivots (hence the name) so that you can get all those weird-shaped power adapters plugged in without having to skip an outlet or 2. PivotPower is another  community-developed product over at Quirky. It has 6 outlets, surge protection, and comes in versions for both American (110v) [...]

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