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Saturday, August 29th, 2009 |
A new gadget trend is around in town, and it hit the geek circuit pretty well. Thinkgeek has released its hip and shoulder holsters, and these products seem to combine James Bond’s needs with Han solo’s and Dwight Schrute’s needs also in these geeky cases. Carrying all the necessary stuff in your pockets can weigh the jacket down and it can actually put a lot of stress on your suspenders. The perfect product for solving these issues is the Gadget Shoulder Holster, which offers you the possibility to store all the stuff you usually carried in your pockets. Moreover it represents very good your geeky personality part, and it gives you a James Bond look.
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The shoulder holder can keep all your gadget devices, like the MP3 player, the cellphone, your keys and the memory stick in a safe place and out of sight. It is very comfortable to have all the gear at hand, where you can easily access it, and ready to take out when you need it.
If you would like to have a hip holster and not a shoulder one, the product is available on the market too, and it comes with a good price tag: $60. The Hip and the Shoulder Holsters are pretty good storage solutions for your gadgets, and they make you feel like a secret agent. You can carry now all your portable electronic devices, without anyone to think of what you have in your pockets on anywhere else. These products are made of a stretchy material, which fits well on your shoulder or on your hip, they don’t harm your skin and actually they are very safe carriers for all the things you want to take with you. There are different sizes for both products, and you can find holsters up to a 44 size chest.
There has been created a new innovative type of shoulder
holster, which offers a special pocket for your iPhone. The original shoulder holster has been redesigned and adapted for the new gadgets appearing on the market one would like to own. This new iPhone holster has a traditional pocket for your wallet and a lot of ergonomically organized pockets for all the things you would like to carry, but the most important one is the iPhone pocket, which comes on the market as a great iPhone accessory.
These
holsters represent an important step in iPhone’s accessories market evolution, and they fit a lot of people’s prefferences because they offer a lot of storage space, but not only space, comfort too and style.
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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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Sunday, August 16th, 2009 |
Everybody is wearing shoes, right? And almost everybody has a problem with certain pairs of shoes, especially ladies, with the heels most of the time. I gathered here some shoes gadgets which could make your shoe-user life easier, and protect your favorite pairs from damage.
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These special shoes were designed for all the ladies who have trouble with driving a car in high heel shoes. This heel shoe can be folded for driving safety purpose, and the grip pattern in the sole adds grip to the pedal, preventing the shoes to slip off. Millions of women are putting themselves at risk by wearing the wrong pair of shoes when driving. There are a lot of ladies who admitted that some of their car accidents were produced because of the shoes slipping off the pedals while driving. This is very dangerous situation, and it can be avoided with these special shoes.
This interesting
gadget is a very cool storage solution for people with a lot of pairs of shoes, and I am especially talking about women here. A huge part of shoe manufacturing industry is designing and selling shoes for ladies, so excuse me dear men reading this article, but let’s help women to organize a little bit the huge collection of shoes. Variety is very important, so it’s cool to wear daily a new pair of shoes, according to the outfit. But what do you do when you can’t find that nice blue pair of high heel pair of shoes, which matches perfect with the scarf in your hand. The solution is to use one ( or more) of these shoe storage
cool gadgets, which help you organize all the pairs you have. I personally like it very much because you can clearly see what you have in there, and they are also protected of scratches.
If you like to be hot even when you play golf, or when you go out for a barbecue in the nature, or you just have to walk on damaged streets, be sure that the heels of your favorite pair of shoes will be destroyed after this experience. The nightmare is over, because this cool little
shoe gadget has been invented, and its main purpose is to protect the heels. Don’t be afraid anymore of scratches, because now you can wear those nice high heel shoes everywhere.
Now you don’t have to wear a pair of shoes on the way to the office and then change them, to make yourself feel more comfortable on the way to work, because here they are: the adjustable-heel footwear. Ta-da! This adjustable-heel shoes have a heel which can be adjusted from 3 1/2 inches to 1 1/2 inches with a peg system, with secured magnets and a hidden hinge. This shoes are great because they can also be customized using plastic parts, which snap-on, in different shapes, styles and colors. It is much easier now to express your creativity and feel comfortable in the same time. I like this shoes, because, as someone said, they allow you to be a “
geekette“, and this means you can be geeky and coquette in the same time!
The next gadget is for someone who likes
gadgets and
shoes in the same time. If you already have the personal teleporter and also a submarine, now you can have your personal Ultraviolet Shoe Dryer. This cool gadget gives you something piping hot to step into, and it definitely kills all the germs as well. The long tubes you can see in the image pump air at 104 F degrees around the inside of the shoes, and the UV takes care of the bacteria in there.
If you got sick being like the others and having an iPod for listening music, you can be special now and try these CD player shoes, which bring your tunes wherever you go! It would be an interesting concept, but until now it hadn’t been produced, it’s still at the idea stage. It would definitely irritate the runners in the park, but they would make you happy. In the same shoe-entertaining, here they are: the Gameboy shoes!
These futuristic Prana shoes include a phytovascular sock (made by biomimetic leafy fabric which collects and stores body heat), some exothermic contact pads which direct energy to key pressure points, and an interesting bioelectric delivery system, which consists of a woven microwire framework, designed to distribute the energy to the exothermic contact pads. Quite special shoes, huh? This pair of shoes was created by Frog Design ( Prana, the model’s name means “life-force”, or more accurately “soul” in old Sanskrit ) at the opening of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s “Design Afoot: 1995 to 2000″ exhibit. This exhibit was the first of its kind, and it consisted of presentation of the best running, athletic and outdoor footwear and also the futuristic footwear fot 2005 (the exhibition took place in 2000).
Next models of shoes aren’t really
gadgets, but they are have pretty special designs:Christian Loubouti’s latest collection. They have 16 cm heels, and they are actually pretty uncomfortable to wear. They were designed for movies, photographic art, or just for wearing them a few minutes.
Another interesting shoe model from Christian Louboutin, which represents the women who have landed on Earth from Venus:
Shoes gadgets‘ palette is quite large, and you can almost get anything you want for your shoes. Gadget inventors are daily working on more and more inventions, so if you didn’t see until now the gadget you were waiting for ages, keep your eyes on the news and in short time you will see the cooking shoes too.
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009 |
If you like spending time in nature, and you enjoy having fun in nature, but you are thinking about the utilities you will have to take with you next time you will install your tent. There are a lot of things you need when you are in a tent, in the middle of wilderness, and you might think where will you deposit or carry all of them.
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Wenger has released a new Swiss Army knife which is 9 inches long and weighs 2 pounds. It has over 85 tools, and to mention just few of them, I would say “golf shoe spike wrench, laser pointer with 300 feet range and a bike chain rivet setter. You don’t have to worry anymore that you didn’t take from home the scissors or that wrench you need for the bike, because you have almost everything you need in this set.
Travelpod offers you the comfort of your own bedroom in the middle of nature. This miracle tent features a double bed, beside tables, light, chair, pillows, a dressing table, a toilet, and all of these in an open-air bedroom design. Now you can combine the comfort of your home bed with the wilderness of the nature, and you can find this tent available for rent at $50/night at some campsites in UK.
If you want to give your trip an authentic spirit, and not spend some days in a space that looks just like your bedroom, without feeling anything special about the environment you are in, then you should try a real tent. But what do you do when you have to spend several hours to mount it, while other 7 people are starving next to you and they want the tent installed faster? Easy! You buy this innovative tent from Quechua, which comes folded and when you throw it in the air, it deploys in full form until reaching the ground. This tent is available for $83 and I think it’s a great innovation on tent market, which makes camping a lot easier.
If you are in the forest, and worrying about the toilet problem, you might solve it with a chemical toilet or with a cosy spot behind a tree, but both are quite uncomfortable and not very eco-friendly, especially the last one. You can use now a sh*tbox, which is a biodegradable toilet. The inner bags can be buried in the soil and in few days the waste will be naturally dezintegrated without nasty chemicals or other substances.
The problem of fire lighting is a stringent one when you are in a camping trip, and here comes Swedish FireSteel to solve it. Swedish FireSteel was developed by the Swedish Department of Defense, and its nearly 3,000°C spark makes fire available in any weather and at any altitude. It has been used by a lot of armies in the world and it is among the favorite camping items of a lot of experts, hunters, fishermen and campers. Many camping geeks will be so satisfied with this lighting tool and it will make easier preparing the camp fire or the barbeque, in any environment, with any conditions. When the fire is started and established, the wooden sticks can be added and the fire can be used for cooking or heating.
As you can observe there are a lot of camping gadgets which make this activity a lot easier and bring a lot of entertainment. Now it’s easier to mount the tent, to light the fire, cut the woods and protect against the wild animals. So where’s the fun? You can quit using these gadgets if you want to have a cool genuine adventure, but it would be nice also to have them in your bags, in any case.
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 |
One of the most interesting power source for gadgets is the power of the sun, and this is a great resource, and moreover, is very ecologically friendly. Here you will find some gadgets that have as a source of power sun’s rays, via solar panels or just the simple process of heating. This is the power source of the future, and I think it has a great evolution, because in time, fossil fuels will be replaced with this renewable and continuous source of power.
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If you like traveling a lot, and you have a lot of gadgets, you can’t spend a lot of time for charging them, and maybe you don’t have the favorable circumstances. Having a solar panel around you makes this process very helpful, because like this, you don’t have only a charger for your gadgets, but something to store them too. This solar powered bag is great for travellers, as I said, and I really like the combination between utility, fashion and technology, all of them brought together in this bag.
Having a miniatural weather station in your living room is a cool thing, because you don’t have to watch the news for knowing the forecast. You just have to take a look at this gadget’s display and at a glance, the weather forecast is compiled in a small screen. This is an useful gadget because it can help you keep the temperature and the humidity in specific places in your house at some levels. The most important thing is that this gadget makes optimization of temperature and setting up the heating system during the winter/the cooling system during summer much easier.
If you like spending few days in the wildness of nature, you will need a lot of things to make your adventure at least decent, and of them is lighting. You can choose between the lighting that requires batteries and the older and more rudimentary version, which requires you to light it. Here comes the solar lighting device, which charges from solar rays and then uses the stored energy for powering its LEDs. I think that it’s vintage look is great and it combines the old look with the new technology.
If you are somehow worried about fashion than you might not want to wear this kind of vest. This vest is very useful, and not taking into account the fashion aspect, it is a great gadget which has four panels on the back, weather proof. Those panels can be set up to give an output of 5V, 6V, 9V and 12-20V, it can be setup to show you how much of the charge is available and you can purchase it from Chinavasion for $140.
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