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Review: Spy Tec Inventio-HD 720P Video Sunglasses

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Inventio-HD 720P Video SunglassesNew York City-based spy shop, Spy Tec, decided to enter the field of ‘spy glasses’ and build their own, the Inventio-HD video sunglasses. Here’s our detailed review.

Overview

The Inventio-HD glasses appear to be mid-ranged plastic-framed sunglasses in the style that you might see a mountain biker or perhaps a golfer or skier wearing, but not quite as stylish. But style is not the primary function of this gadget. You’ll notice the arms and frames are distinctly thicker than most sunglasses you’ll find today, but the electronics has to hide somewhere. On the bright side, they are not as ridiculously thick as the original MP3 sunglasses that Oakley put out years ago.

On the underside of one of the arms is a micro USB port and on the side of that same arm is a multi-function button that turns it on and off and stops and starts video recording. There’s no button on the other side, but given the symmetry, there could easily be one in the future, and I’m all for splitting up functions especially when a single button requires more complex sequences.

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Review: Doxie One portable scanner

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Doxie One scanning a photoI love the Doxie One. Paperless nirvana, here I come. I’ve dreamed of a paperless and more importantly, an electronic document repository, for a long time, but that has been mostly a dream as I’ve dreaded having to haul my papers over to my clunky all-in-one printer-scanner, then scan papers 1 or a few at a time.

I’ve used the Doxie One for the past 4 weeks and with a few exceptions that I’ll talk about, I love it. If your goal is to go paperless and stay that way, I can highly recommend the Doxie One as an essential component of your paperless toolbox.

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Review: Veho Muvi X-Lapse

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Veho Muvi X-Lapse British electronics & accessories maker, Veho, has a neat gadget called the Muvi X-Lapse that allows you to take panoramic time-lapse photos. I had a chance to test one out courtesy of accessories seller, MobileFun.

The X-Lapse itself is a fairly small, circular gadget that you can hold easily in one hand. By holding, the bottom white portion with the time markers, you can twist the upper black portion until you get to the amount of time and coincidentally the # of degrees of panorama you’d like to shoot. It’s hard-coded, so to speak, to go 360° in 1 hour, and similarly, 180° in 30 minutes, etc.

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Enter to win 1 of 10 free electronic magazine subscriptions from Zinio

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Bestof2012 300x250The good folks at Zinio have teamed up with us to offer 10 free electronic magazine subscriptions to our readers. So what we’re going to do is run this as a contest where we’ll randomly pick 10 lucky winners at the end of the entry period.

In case you’ve been living under a rock for about 10 years now, Zinio is the premier publisher of electronic magazines, as well as books and other docs. They have gorgeous apps for your smartphone, tablet and desktop computer. We featured them as far back as 2004!

For an idea of what Zinio offers, hit the link (or the image) to the right. Do check out their Editors’ Choices for the best of 2012, or if you can’t wait, take a look at the titles on sale now for 50% off.

Hit the jump to find out how easy it is to enter… …

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Review: r.pod Portable Solar Battery Pack and USB Charger with High Flux LED Flashlight

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r-pod-solar-chargerHere’s another entrant to the portable backup battery market, this one from Korean company Misemet. There are a couple of quirks to this one that makes it stand out: it comes with a solar panel to charge the battery pod, and the pod itself contains an LED flashlight. Yup, the flashlight part is definitely quirky.

Both pod and panel come in one of three colors, green, red or yellow, and the panel is wrapped in a soft silicon case for protection and texture. There is also a similar cap for the lightbulb portion of the pod that protects the glass and also creates a mood light effect.

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Philips Sonicare Essence electric toothbrush

Review: Philips Sonicare Essence Electric Toothbrush

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Philips Sonicare Essence electric toothbrushI’ve been using a Philips Sonicare Essence electric toothbrush for a few months now; here are my thoughts on it. My beloved Oral-B Triumph 9400 died after a long 6 years. I think it was because the hermetic seal broke and some moisture got in. But I have no regrets, it was well worth the $100 or so that I spent on it.

Since my household was on the hunt for at least 2 new electric toothbrushes, when we spotted the Philips Sonicare “Elite” package with 2 handles, brushes, etc. at Costco for $100, we picked it up. There was also the “Platinum” edition for $150 which also included 2 handles, the latest DiamondClean brushes, but strangely only 1 travel charger and case. Go figure. Oh, you can pick up a single handle for about $50 on Amazon.com or the like.

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Magnavox ZV427MG9 DVD Recorder/VCR Combo

All-in-One VHS to DVD converter/recorder/players: Two (2) more options

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One of our most popular subjects continues to be converting VHS tapes to DVD or other digital formats, and one particularly popular product is the all-in-one Panasonic DMR-EZ47V DVD & VHS recorder. Sadly, that Panasonic product, though still wildly popular is showing its age, and now that it’s hard to come by, indie vendors are price gouging. What once cost under $300 is now over $450! So we decided to take another look at this product niche to see what other options exist.

Only a few big-name vendors like Toshiba and Magnavox still seem to be in the game of making these combo DVD/VCR recorders. Here are 2 products that we found that felt were worth your time considering: 1 each from Toshiba and Magnavox.

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Updated eReader Comparison Report is Out!

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The eReader market has changed dramatically in the past 2 years with most vendors like Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and Kobo offering full-color, full featured tablets in the vein of the iPad. During that time too, E Ink readers have tacked on the features, with most now featuring E Ink Pearl technology, backlights, and more.

We’ve updated our eReader Comparison Report, and it’s yours free. All you need to do is sign up below. If you’re already a loyal subscriber, don’t worry, you’ll get your own personal note telling you where you can download it.

If you haven’t seen our report, it not only gives you the rundown on what the top devices and their specs are, but it also includes the Apple iPad and iPad Mini, and gives you a ‘cheatsheet’ for picking an eReader based on your needs and main interests.

Don’t want to sign up? Buy it instead!

Your Detailed Guide to Safe Online Shopping

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From 2002 to 2011, online e-commerce sales have quadrupled to $256B, and an estimated 47% of consumers purchased their holiday items online in 2011. These numbers have been trending upward for over a decade and you are probably one of those online shoppers if you’re reading this article. This howto explains how you can be a safe online shopper.
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Win this Altego Canvas Cyan Laptop Messenger Bag!

[Ended] Giveaway: 2 Altego Canvas Cyan Laptop Messenger Bags

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Update 12/19/2012: We have some winners! Congrats to Sara and Katie. Their brand new bags are on their way to them. Thanks to everyone who entered and thanks again to Altego for sponsoring this giveaway!

Win this Altego Canvas Cyan Laptop Messenger Bag!

Win 1 of 2 brand new Altego Canvas Cyan Laptop Messenger Bags! We have a brand new giveaway for the 2012 Xmas season! We have not 1, but 2 beautiful 15″ Canvas Cyan laptop messenger bags from Altego. We recently reviewed the backback version of these bags and loved it. You’ll love it too.

The messenger bag (pictured) has a soft quilted lining for keeping your 15″ laptop safe and sound, as well as another padded pocket for an iPad, metal self-locking buckles, a waffle backing to keep your back comfy, and it’s water resistant to boot. For more info and photos, you can hit Altego’s website.

Entering is simple:
1. just talk about this contest somewhere – Facebook, Twitter, Google+, your own blog, etc. with a link back to this post. Here’s a nice short link for ya: http://bit.ly/gfgbags.
2. Then leave a comment with a link back to your post. Be sure to include your real email address so we can contact you if you win!

We’ll run this contest until Monday 17 December 2012 at 11:59 Pacific Time, which gives us lots of time to get the bag shipped out to you in time for Christmas, then we’ll randomly draw 2 winners!

If you can’t wait to find out if you’ll win, you can pick one up right now from Amazon.com.

Please do read our contest and giveaway rules (yep, the lawyers make us include these!), and keep the basics in mind: you need to be over 18 and have a U.S. mailing address.

Be sure to follow us on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/GizmosforGeeks, and on Twitter, @gizmosforgeeks.

And last but not least, a big thank you to Altego for sponsoring this giveaway!

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