I don’t know about you, but when I think of “products from Germany”, I think of severe stuff, by and large. BMW and Audi cars. Fine engineering, expensive, heavy-duty. When I think of Germany, I don’t think of goofy stuff. Germany makes you think of wars and Bauhaus design elements and Autobahns and such. Germans [...]
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Zact Debuts Industry’s First Smart Mobile Service with “Never Overpay Guarantee”
As far as I’m concerned, the more choices there are out there among cell phone service providers the better. Yes, I have AT&T and I’m okay with that, but I would be more than happy to move to another service that offers a bit more flexibility. For example, when I was traveling, I used my [...]
Dale Carnegie Training Offers Eight Smartphone Apps for Free!
“Industrialist” Dale Carnegie started a training course to help people learn to success in a capitalist system, and he did it 100 years ago. By American standards, that’s almost unbelievable. (If you’re in Europe or most parts of Asia, where you can see businesses that have not only been around but even in the same [...]
Oh No Fractions! 2.0 for iOS Now Available
Oh No Fractions! 2.0 for iOS is now available As a guy who, for a while, actually majored in math (or “maths”, for you British folks) in college, that most people “hate math” is something that always kind of baffled me. To me, it was a always a game, and unlike writing stuff in English–where [...]
Magic Paint with Math: Funny Math Tutor for Kids for Android and iOS
Magic Paint with Math: Funny Math Tutor for Kids for Android and iOS Okay, I don’t know why but for some reason we’ve gotten not one but two different notices about new math apps this week. (And no, they’re not from the same company.) Given that school is just about to let out for [...]
Apple Listens to Suggestions! (Wish Fulfillment Edition)
So a few weeks ago, my daughter Maggie got all hot and heavy into Dr. Who. (I think for her it boils down to “David Tennant is hot!”, but for a nerd Dad, any excuse to get into something like Dr. Who is a good one!) Because not all the old episodes are available on NetFlix [...]
Popcornflix™ Launches Free Movie App for New BlackBerry 10 Platform
While it is not clear if BlackBerry will be able to dig themselves out of the hole in which they currently find themselves with the deploy of their new Z10 (And if you want to know more about that device, be sure not to miss Judie’s absolutely epic review!), it’s a good sign that they’re [...]
Apple Lightning Connector 8-pin with 3.5mm Aux to 30-pin Dock Converter for Audio
So I don’t know about you, but when I first got some experience with Apple’s new 8-pin Lightning connector, I had pretty mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, I was definitely glad to have a connector that was orientation-insensitive–that is to say, you couldn’t put it in “upside down”. (Seems like 95% of the [...]
Two New Limited Edition Wooden Watches from Tokyo Flash
If I’ve blathered on about it before I do apologize but: I love watches (both wrist and pocket). I don’t wear a watch any more — I’m generally a form-follows-function kind of guy, and since there’s a clock function on my iPhone, there’s no real need. I don’t tend to accessorize; you can ask Judie [...]
DynoMighty Artist Collective: Create Your Own Mighty Wallet Design
A couple of years back, our own Carly Z reviewed the Mighty Wallet, a thin, “green”, micro-fiber wallet that she felt was a good alternative to the usual run of the skins of various animals folded into a wallet-shape. (I use a Vaja leather wallet which I love, but hardly ever take out of my [...]
MirrorCase Acts As an iPad Case, a Stand, and It Will Point Your Camera in the Right Direction
I have an iPad 1, and it does not have a camera. I have never really minded this, because it always seemed weird to me to want to heft up this 9″ tablet and try to take a picture with it. Heck, as a long-time shutterbug, I think it’s weird to use a phone to [...]
BBQ Dragon – the Barbecue & Fire Supercharger!
Though it is May here in Texas, the temperatures have (miraculously) yet to regularly pop up above 90 degrees. But still: it’s May. And in Texas in the Spring and Summer (and Fall, for that matter), that means a whole lotta folks cooking outdoors on their hand grills. And unless you have a gas-powered grill [...]
Travel in Time to See Continental Drift in Action (Available on iOS)
Unless you’re an “intelligent design” person, you’re in the group of folks that is under the impression that the Earth is old. Really old. Really, really old; old enough that things we like to think of as completely stable–like the friggin’ continents on which we live — have had time to slide around like pucks [...]
LIT – the First Gadget Made for Action Sports Tracking
These days, it seems like there’s all kinds of ways of tracking your exercising if you’re doing such relatively straight-forward activities as running or walking (viz. the FitBit). Heck, even in the days before electronic gizmos achieved today’s absurd levels of market penetration–back in the days of cars that had carburetors, say–there were devices that [...]
Cloth-Clip Quick-On Wide(+Macro) + Fisheye Lens for for iPhone and Tablets
USBFever puts out a lot of stuff. I know that you’ve probably noticed that I show a tendency to gravitate towards some of the camera-oriented ones, due to my history as a serious shutterbug (back when shutters, ya know, actually existed). But in this case, I’m wanting to show you this item because it’s, well, [...]
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