Archive for August, 2009
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
If you are pregnant in more than 5-6 months, you might be familiar with the frustration about the fit of the clothing you wear. It is a real problem of the pregnancy period, but for almost everything there is a solution in this gadget era we are living in. You might know(if you are pregnant, or you have been before) and you will see (if you didn’t reach the moments yet) that you will live many days with a frustration feeling about the clothes which don’t fit you perfectly because of the new silhouette.
Pants and skirts will simply just not stay on your hips, and they will fall down, spin around, change their position and bother you, and they won’t look flattering at all. Laura Kronen is a mum entrepreneur and she came on the children’s market in 2003, with Baby is Star, a company which offers entertaining and educational video series for babies and toddlers ( Baby Road Trip ). This video series introduce little ones to the real world, through exciting and interactive road trips, of course, virtually. Each DVD allows little children to explore various locations, and exposes them to sights, sounds and images which they may not see until they grow a little bit.
When she was pregnant with her second child, she remembered of her first pregnancy experience, and in the same time, the frustration feeling about the maternity clothing appeared again. So she assembled some sort of suspender, which can be attached to the bra and tot he top of the pants, and it holds the pants or the skirts at their places, and this means a good looking pregnant outfit. When Laura asked other mommies-to-be if they had the same problem, and saw that many women faced this issue, she really created a new product: Belly Ups.
I really find this product useful, because it is a solution for women problems’ during pregnancy; of course, not for all of them, but at least one concerning their maternity look. If you would like to purchase one of these useful pregnancy gadgets, you can check Laura’s website, where you can also purchase the video series. With these kind of mum entrepreneurs, I am sure that new generations of babies will be stars for sure.
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Literally, there are thousands of gadgets for your laptop. Some of them are serious, and have a real utility, like enhancing your work productivity, and on the other hand there are funny gadgets, which just bring some fun in your work on the laptop. The serious gadgets help you a lot in your work, by offering you a better framework for your computer activities, and the fun ones just offer some entertainment, to make you feel more relaxed while you work. It’s good to think about the balance of these computer gadgets, and use them in such way to make you work easier and more efficient. It might be difficult to decide which laptop gadget is best for you, and which you should purchase and which not, but this sort of the decision depends only on your needs and preferences.
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When you choose a productivity gadget, you have to make sure that it will be suitable for the work habits you have. If you know that you take down notes very often on the scratch pad, a PC Scribble Digital Note Maker would be the best for you. This note maker is a digital pen in stylus clothes. It captures the handwritten notes and transfers them on the laptop. You don’t have to retype again the notes on the computer, because this Digital Note Maker converts handwriting in digital text. This is a great laptop gadget for researchers, writers, engineers or journalists, which write a lot when they work. This can be simplified so that thei efficiency can grow. The perfect laptop gadget doesn’t mean only the slickest peripheral possible. The gadget should be taken into consideration if it helps you to boost work productivity.
There are a lot of speakers with original designs on the market, and due to the growing number of producers, a wider variety can be estimated for the future. New ideas are transformed into products every day, and given the impressive number of speaker manufacturers, there should be a very special product to be called “gadget”. Chinese designers have invented these apple speakers, and it is likely to believe that they wanted the customers to think that the speakers are Apple licensed. It actually doesn’t matter if they are Apple products or not, because they are stylish and they do their job great. The price of this concept is a middle-class one, and I think that the majority of the potential customers will make up their mind and choose these speakers. There “Apple” USB speakers won’t be, for sure, a replacement for the iPod Hi-Fi, but they are pretty useful as travel accessories, and they have modern design. The compact size of this
gadget speakers is a real advantage, and they are great for travelling, as I said, because they fit easily in your baggage or backpack.
Laptop keyboards, due to the limited sizes they have, don’t have num-pads like common desktop keyboards do. For people who work a lot in accounting and often need the numeric pad in Excel, for example, it is absolutely necessary. To solve this problem, they can purchase a wireless num pad. It is connected to the computer through a wireless USB adapter, and it is pretty easy to use. It is very similar to a mini mouse, or any other wireless
gadget which helps you transform the given circumstances and features into a comfortable workspace.
I find the Wireless Presenter as one of the coolest
gadgets I’ve seen until now, because it is a very useful device for people who often have to show PowerPoint presentations. I remember college days, when we were working in teams, and one of us was resposible with the “clicks”. Who clicks for the presentation to advance at the next slide was a real problem. This device works like a remote control, and it allows you to change slides. It’s like changing the TV channels, just that it works on the laptop. It is very useful, because now you just have to focus on presenting the presentation, and not on the technical problems.
One of the most actual and important issues concerning laptops is overheating. It happens, and it affects a lot our work, because it can cause damages and slowdowns on laptop’s activity. The main cause of overheating is placing the laptop on the wrong surface, where the quantity of air is not enough to supply the cooling fan. A very useful
gadget is the cooling pad, which also holds the laptop and offers plenty of air for the cooling fan.
Plenty of
laptop gadgets are available online, but when you choose one, take into account the utility aspect, and also check if the gadget really fits your needs, your preferences, and if it will boost your productivity somehow, or it will make your work more interesting or entertaining. Price is also an important decisional factor, and this means that you should check if the gadget’s price fits into your budget planning.
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
If you want to have a cool customized phone, and you don’t want to have the same common mobile phone just like everybody, maybe it’s time to pimp it with some gadgets, which are useful too in most of the cases. Here are some interesting and funny gadgets for your phone, which will make it special!
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I bet that a lot of you would like to take the iPhone to the beach, or pool and take a lot of pictures without any damages caused by water. The waterproof iPhone is supposed to offer you support in this idea, and it is pretty cool, but actually I wouldn’t trust a little “waterproof” bag to take care of my iPhone. This case has a clear window in front, for the screen, and in the back part, for the camera or the videocamera. It is supposed to work with well with the touch screen capability, I didn’t test it yet, but I hope it works well, because otherwise the phone is useless with this case. It costs $34 an it is available in Japan.
This is one of the cutest
gadgets I’ve ever seen! It is a Bluetooth earpiece case/holder and it is so cool because it has the shape and the color of a blue tooth. If you think that you don’t need something like this, you can give it to children to play with it, or you can actually hold your dentures when you sleep, during the night. It is a trendy and interesting
gadget, and I personally like it because it is the material expression of the “Bluetooth” technology.
A bluetooth headset which can be folded into a ring is a great hi-tech idea. With a simple twist it can be converted into a nice jewelry piece. This gadget is called Orb and it was launched in January. It is really nice idea to keep the wireless earpiece when you don’t use it. It can be hold on the ear, and it looks like a fancy earring, or you can put it on your finger! It’s such a simple and useful idea! If you don’t need another thing in your pockets, like the earpiece, the finger is the right place to wear it! It might look weird and pretentious, but I see it as an elegant storage solution.
A limited edition iPhone case is always something interesting for iPhone users. And if it has the form of a mixtape it is even cooler. The iPhone is like a mixtape somehow, it depends on the “point of view”. This case is made of hard plastic, and it costs only $30. Cool limited edition. I would like to have something like this in my bag or in my pocket, because it would remind me of the good’ol’days.
Well, I’ve seen a lot of shapes for mobile phones, and phones is various sizes, but this is the most unusual one I’ve seen. It’s cute and it is…ta-daa: Winnie the Pooh shaped phone. The phone opens in a clamshell manner, and the screen and buttons are revealed. This little wonder is dual sim capable, and its screen is a 2” one. Winnie can play MP3 and MP4 files, it has a 1.3 MP camera, and you can also listen to radio, because it is FM capable. It supports also GPRS, it has two speakers, and Bluetooth is also available for syncing with the computer. I don’t think this is a Disney licensed mobile
phone model, but it looks great, and I like it very much!
I hope you enjoyed these cool
phone gadgets, and please comment and tell us your opinion if you already own one, or what improvements could be brought to them, of if you don’t have one of these presented here, what other phone gadgets you would like to own?
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
The background of our computer is like a mirror which reflects part of our personality, and it often reflects our mood, our preferences and our hobbies. A lot of people like to have on the background of their computer an image which shows what they like best, and all the time, in all the cases, it is chosen according to the person who owns the laptop. There are millions of images on the Internet available, and many people create wallpapers and make them available for download on websites like deviant ART or Interfacelift . Another interesting wallpaper is the site with the same name, Wallpaper.com, and on all these three websites there are a lot of art works which you can use as wallpapers for your computer. Be aware of the copyright regulations, and when you use them, respect creator’s rights.
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A lot of wallpapers are represented either by digital creations or processed images, or by simple pictures taken by talented photographers. There are thousands of wallpapers categories, from celebrities, abstract and brands to flowers and pets, and many, many others. Some are funny, some are relaxing and they are very useful for people who work a lot, and want to immerse for few minutes in a virtual relaxing reality, some represent emotions, feelings and others just depict what we like: cars, clothes, people, animals, etc.
Here are some cool backgrounds I’ve selected from the mentioned websites, and I hope you will enjoy them too.I would like to mention that you can find them in more download sizes on the original websites, and I will post here only the classic 1024×768 resolution images.
I hope you enjoyed this bunch of nice wallpapers, and hope they will look good on your desktop!
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Cooking is a lot of people’s hobby, and here comes gadgets’ market to make their life easier in the kitchen. I picked up some interesting cooking gadgets, which help you in this process, but which are funny in the same time.
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Since we are in the late summer time and early fall is coming in, don’t forget that vegetables are very healthy for your organism. Now it’s the time for enjoying all garden’s gifts, and the most important way is how we consume them. Fresh is the best way, but if you want them prepared somehow, you could lightly steam them before eating them, and this process can also be used before freezing them. Steaming helps vegetables to keep better and longer in the freezer, because this process stops the ripening enzymes’ action. This Silicone Vegetable Steamer will help you a lot, even if you don’t use to freeze vegetables, because it cooks the veggies in a healthy way, without burning your fingers by using metal pots. It is safe and flexible, and it is easy to clean too. It is of course heat resistant and it fits in a large variety of pots. All these for only $13.
A kitchen scale is always useful when you are cooking, and it is great if it is easy to use. Here you can see EatSmart Kitchen Scale, which works on two AAA batteries, which are included in the purchasing package, and I can say that this is a very simple and useful machine.This scale will weigh up to 5 Kg (11 lbs.) and it can calculate in grams, ounces, kilograms or pounds. I like this measurement unit flexibility and I find it very useful. This scale has an interesting function, which I haven’t seen implemented on many of them. The tare function is helpful when you use a lot of plates, bowls and pots for cooking, and it re-zeroes the weight after you have measured the bowl/plate/pot’s weight. It is very useful in cooking after recipes, when you need exact information about all the ingredients mixed, and you can hit tare after each added item. It is also very useful when you want to offer a family dinner, but you don’t want uncle John to get upset because he got less smashed potatoes than aunt Jane. It costs around $25, and it has been very well received on the market.
There are a lot of interesting
gadgets which can help you in the kitchen, and the range of products on this market is very wide. You can buy for example a safe pizza cutter, which protects your fingers when cutting pizza, you can get an egg cuber, which can bring your fantasy out when you prepare a special breakfast or when you want to impress your friends with your creativity, the egg separator is a great invention, which helps people who cannot separate the yolk and the albumen, and there are a lot of weird knife blocks on the market.
Cooking gadgets are cool gifts for people who like
gadgets and cooking in the same time, and they are cool because they bring in their kitchen a fresh breeze of hi-tech, and the cooking process is much easier when using these great tools.
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