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February 2013

157 posts

Iris Security Smart Home

Iris is a new home security system being offered through Lowes, the home improvement giant that has stores around the country. The Iris system is not new, but a lot more upcoming features were unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and Andy McCaskey stopped by the booth to take a look. Iris is about more than just security. It is also home automation.

EnerGenie Saving Money and Energy

EnerGenie makes products that helps you keep track of how much electricity you are using in your home and ways to control that usage. The basic product is a socket that plugs into the wall. You can then control any device that is plugged into it by your iPad or iPhone; turning the device on or off, setting a timer

Put That Cupholder to Good Use: Secure Your Smartphone

Flexible Solution to Holding Your Phone: Not all CES is bleeding edge tech. If you are looking for an inexpensive way to hold your phone, GPS, or music player in a wide variety of vehicles - or keep the kids in the backseat a bit more organized, here's the Cup Holder phone mount. Especially designed for over the road use

Padcaster iPad Studio Mobile Recording Setup

Put together a mobile video studio using your iPad with this unique solution from CES 2013. Chris Montera checks out the iPad Studio. John from Padcaster talks with Chris Montera about this mobile studio rig he brought to CES this year. You pop your iPad into the rig which has a lens adaptor and mounting screws for microphone, lights, and

Sony Handycams HDR-PJ790, HDR-PJ430V

Sony came out with a few new models of Handycams with new features at CES. We saw them at Digital Experience. Sony released the HandyCam PJ790 camera with 24.1 MP sensor. The camera also has a projector so you can show people what you recorded. However if you need to connect another device to the projector the new dual HDMI

Netatmo Personal Weather Station

Netatmo was a three time award winner at CES 2013. Their Urban Weather Station was named a CES Innovations 2013 Design and Engineering Award Honoree in three categories: Tech for a Better World, Health & Fitness, and Home Appliances. It is a very impressive personal weather station. Netatmo consists of two simplistic, yet attractively designed, stations that are made from

Ion introduces a new line of audio products and more

Ion may not be well known, but the company provides a great lineup of audio products and more. It was recently at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January to unveil even more goodies. Ion started off with a turntable-tape deck combo that has a USB port to let users record their old archives of music to

Tinké by Zensorium

Tinké by Zensorium measures heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen level and heart rate variability. It compiles the heart rate, respiratory rate and blood oxygen level information into a score know as the Vita Index. The Zen index uses the heart rate variability to quantify your stress level. It is a small device, 1.65 long inches by 1.26 wide by

You May Have to Reset Your Twitter Password

Did you get a rather ominous sounding email from Twitter today? If so, you are not alone. Twitter sent out email today to users whom it felt may have been affected by the unauthorized attempts to access Twitter user data. I first heard of this because my husband received one of these scary sounding emails. Shortly after he dealt with

32% Off at GoDaddy.com for Super Bowl 48 XLVIII

32% at GoDaddy.com for Superbowl 48, this is the biggest discount in the History of GoDaddy SuperBowl offers. This is a savings code that is the mother of all discounts. This is a very limited time offer so you will want to take advantage of this today. To take advantage of this discount use Promo Code: 32off1 Be sure to

AfterShokz Bone Conductivity Headphones

Aftershokz showed off their new headphones with up to 21 total improvements from the previous version. What makes these headphones different from most headphones is the use of  bone conductivity. Bone conductivity was developed for the military and police, because they don’t go into the ear they allow you to be situational aware. You can wear them outdoors for such

Nikon’s Wireless Adapter

Nikon has introduced new adapters the WU–1a and the WU–1b. These adapters allow the camera to connect wirelessly to a smart phone. It’s a small adapter that can be use with the new DSLR and Nikon 1 models. It cannot be used with older cameras because they do not have the correct circuitry. Not only does this adapter allow you to

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