As many of you know, I am an avid hunter and outdoorsman. I hunt not only for the sport of it, but also because it is a way to feed my family. I hunt with a compound bow as well as a rifle, both with different goals. With my bow, the goal is to get [...]
Tag Archives: CES
Gear Diary’s First Ever CES Top Picks!
You may have noticed over the years that, unlike many other sites, we don’t give stars or other quantitative scores to the items we review. The reason for this is quite simple: while there may be quantitative aspects to a device review — an example being a laptop that claims to get ten hours of [...]
Luvvitt Booth Tour at CES 2013
You may not know the name Luvvitt, but you should. They make affordable, attractive iPhone, iPad, and Samsung cases, plus they’ve branched out into Bluetooth keyboards for the iPad and iPad Mini. I’ve used their Dolce back cover for my iPad 3, and even though I have tested other cases I always come back to [...]
A Conversation with Lifeproof Cases at CES
If you read the site you’ll know that I am a huge fan of Lifeproof’s cases. I liked the one for my iPhone 4S but the thinner, more refined iPhone 5 case takes things to an entirely new level. Combine that with the amazing experience of using an iPod touch as an underwater video camera [...]
Why Is Garmin the Gold Standard in GPS Watches?
My first day on the CES floor, I saw the Garmin booth. I bypassed the various dedicated GPS units, and headed right for the display of Forerunners in all their glory. Along the way, I was stopped by one of Garmin’s reps, and when I explained how excited I was to see their booth because [...]
More Archos CES Goodness!
In our house, for the most part our TV and movie watching is totally fragmented. We’re the opposite of that warm image of everyone gathered around the TV watching, I dunno, “It’s a Wonderful Life” or whatever. (We do have the occasional movie night, though.) Point being, we don’t use our ginormous TV all that [...]
Accessories at CES Illustrate Only Apple and Samsung Matter
I had the privilege of walking the CES floor and trying hard to cover as much as I could for Gear Diary this past week. It was, as you can imagine, absolutely geek heaven. I can’t even count how many smartphone accessories I saw this week, but one common thread stood out among the many [...]
JVC Mobile Entertainment Debuts Hot New Line of Products
When you’re a small company–or even a tightly-focused one like Apple–at CES you debut one or two things, right? But the big companies like Sony, well, they debut a bucketload of things. And into that category you can put JVC. I don’t know how big their CES booth is–if you’re there, let me know–but I’ve [...]
Neat Enhances Cloud and Mobile Capabilities
OK, I’ll admit it: The “cloud” makes me nervous. It’s not that I don’t trust the software, or the engineering of it per se; my distrust comes more under the heading of “infrastructure”. For example, I am banging this article out right now on an internet connection that is, how shall we say, flakey as [...]
ARCHOS Introduces the New TITANIUM Line
I have had a soft spot in my heart for ARCHOS ever since I did a review of their 604 personal media player. I thought it was a solid effort, if a bit flawed. (This was six months before the iPhone came out and basically destroyed the PMP market.) So I’m quite glad to see that [...]
Where’s Barnes and Noble? Not Taking Advantage of CES!
I spent a great deal of time before and during CES checking out the exhibitor list and deciding what companies I wanted to visit. While I didn’t think they were doing anything special, I did note that Barnes and Noble was on the exhibitor list, and made a mental note to drop by and see [...]
spnKiX Rocket Skates… Rock
Skates go high-tech with the spnKiX Rocket Skates. We saw a woman wearing them on the show floor. They looked neat enough, but then she started moving! Yup, the spnKiX are motorized. More than that, the spnKiX come with a remote control. Now you have a new way to trip, fall and break your leg. [...]
Braven BRV-1 Speaker Encounters the Water Torture Test
We’ve reviewed the Braven 600 previously and, yesterday, we spent some hands-on time with the BRV-1. The speaker is rugged, water-resistant, and “built for the outdoors”. 10 hours of playtime thanks to the 1200mAh battery means you’ll get plant of time to listen to tunes on the 5W speakers. And because the BRV-1 is “protected [...]
Griffin’s Crayola Light Marker, Impresses at CES 2013
Take one iPad with front-facing camera, one specialty stylus designed to look like a Crayola crayon, and one kid. Mix them together with some special tech sauce and what do you get? The Crayola Light Marker from Griffin. Here’s a video look at the new offering from Griffin. The Crayola Light Marker from Griffin features: [...]
Corsair Selects Paragon Software HFS+ Drivers for New Voyager Air Portable Drive
A few years back (in the depths of the financial crash, in point of fact) I was forced to take a job that required me to travel to California pretty regularly. As in, all the time. And so I got pretty good with things like suitcases, laptop bags, and other travel-gear-related stuff. Including thumb drives. [...]
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