The BAR 338 Exact Set Projection Weather Forecaster and Atomic Clock from Oregon Scientific is packed full of time and weather features.
This state-of-the-art weather instrument displays the current time and outside temperature on a ceiling or wall in a darkened room. The soft red digital projection images can be rotated to the front or back and the unit features manual focusing.
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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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If you’re heading off to college for the first time, it’s essential that you know what you need to take with you. If you’re already in college, you may find that things are a bit lacking, but can’t quite put your finger on what. Technological gadgets are an absolute must for the modern college student, but which should you pack and which should you leave behind?
We’ve made the decision an easy one! Here are our top five gadgets no college student should be without:
Sure, you can use your Kindle Fire as a quasi-tablet, and yes, you may have an iPad, but, when it comes down to it, nothing is going to serve you better in college than a laptop. Thanks to their popularity, and the shrinking use of home desktops, laptops are more affordable than ever. From taking notes to completing assignments; listening to music to watching videos, a laptop offers everything you need in one compact piece of machinery.
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Over 4 years ago, we reviewed the first Sleeptracker sleep phase wrist-watch alarm product. Since then Innovative Sleep Solutions has come out with some newer versions of the Sleeptracker, including the Sleeptracker Elite, which comes in two color variations – for men and women.
Here’s my review of the new Sleeptracker Elite. The Elite (for men) now comes with some blue trim and a rectangular body as compared to the white trim but more rounded classic Sleeptracker.
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This gadget just smacks of ‘Made in China on a “3rd shift”‘! For just $10, this handheld device measures your body fat percentage, and is also a clock and an alarm clock. Ha! It can also stores 8 different sets of data. What’s scary is that it can apparently measure from 5 to 50%. Can you imagine having a 50% body fat %?
On the other hand, this body fat analyzer by Hivox looks more legit. Of course, so is the price ($67). It also remembers 8 different profiles and shows you graphical versions of body fat types.
Buy now!
Price: Body Fat Meter: $9.99; Hivox Body Fat Analyzer: $67
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
Add another sleep analysis gadget to the growing list. This time around, Japanese company Spec Computer has a product that does not require you to wear a wristband. Instead the ZZZ Checker uses audio and visual sensors to tell what you’re doing.
This is not a tool like the aXbo alarm clock that wakes you up at optimum points during your sleep cycle. However, it records things like snoring, teeth grinding, tossing and figures out if your sleep is light, medium or deep.
You can transfer the data from the ZZZ Checker to your PC and analyze with the included software.
Sorry sleep-deprived Westerners, but it’s currently only available in Japan, although if the display is any clue, they’ve probably designed it with English speakers in mind too. If you’d like to get your hands on something similar, take a look at the SleepTracker Pro Watch.
Light and information are two items you really want when in an emergency situation, but sometimes power is out or you forgot that you sniped your batteries from the flashlight and radio. This 5-in-1 Emergency Radio and Spotlight allows you to harness the power of the sun with a solar cell collection panel or you can hand crank the gadget to give it some juice.
In addition to the power features this item also provides an AM/FM radio, spotlight, flashing light, siren and a digital LCD alarm clock with snooze. Provided information is being delivered via a radio station, stay tuned even without power with the 5-In-1 Emergency Radio and Spotlight.
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Here’s an attractive piece of electronics to grace your kitchen or living room. Useful too. It’s a wireless weather station that displays the indoor and outdoor temperature and relative humidity, and with its built-in accurate local weather tendency indicator, you’ll be able to see at a glance whether it will be sunny out or if there’s rain in the forecast. It gets its time via radio signals from the U. S. Atomic Clock in Boulder, Colorado, so you know it’s accurate.
Here are some other weather station type ‘things’ that you may be interested in: Oregon Scientific Weather Station and Ambient Devices 5-Day Weather Forecaster.
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If you use X10-enabled switches and controllers to turn your lights on and off and dim them remotely, adding this simple device to your setup will allow you to set up timed events easily. Using the 64-Event X10 Mini Timer, you’ll be able to schedule up to eight lights to turn on and off automatically. Awaken to light in addition to sound each morning. Turn lights on automatically when you’re due home at work so you won’t need to arrive home to a dark house. You can even select the “security” mode, which turns lights on and off at different times each day to simulate an occupied home. X10 switches or plug-in modules are required for each light to be controlled and are sold separately.
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40 seconds until heaven…
After inserting a pod looking pre-measured K-Cup full of freshly roasted Arabica beans and pressing a button, it only takes the Keurig B70 Gourmet Brewing System 40 seconds to create a cup ‘o joe.
With an increased 60 ounce water reservoir, lazy geeks like myself don’t have to refill the water supply after every cup or two but we can wait for 5 to 10 cups before having to refill. This top of the line model also supports cup sizes from 6 ounces up to 12 ounces for those caffeine needy people.
Finally, with programmable on/off support, you can decide to wake up to the smell of caffeine in the morning… much more soothing than those darn noisy alarm clocks.
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