You need one of these. You just do. iClever If your house is anything like mine, there’s a nerd’s ransom of mobile gadgets waiting in line at the charger: phones, tablets, e-readers and, ironically, various mobile chargers to keep them all running on the run. You can cut down on a lot of cord clutter …
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White is arguably the snazziest color for the original Pebble. Pebble Words to live by: Cheap things come to those who wait. The original Pebble smartwatch, for example, was already a pretty decent deal at $150, especially in light of recently announced Apple Watch prices (barf). Then the company dropped it to $99, making it arguably the single best smartwatch …
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This end up. Photo by Rick Broida/CNET Here we are in 2015, and USB plugs still aren’t reversible: You have to plug them in exactly the right way. That’s always fun when you’re trying to connect something to a tower PC case or inconveniently located USB port in your car. Usually it starts with a lot of contortions, continues with …
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Focus Camera I’ll never buy another PC that doesn’t have a solid-state drive, because SSDs are awesome. Of course, unless I’m willing to pony up seriously big bucks, I’ll have to live with a modest amount of storage — probably no more than 256GB. That’s a problem if I want to do any serious photo or video work, as those …
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Words U replaces regular words with $10 ones. Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET You’ve heard of Words with Friends? Get ready for vocabulary words with friends. Words U for iOS is a messaging app aimed at students or anyone else looking to increase their word power. It’s free, and the English major in me absolutely loves it. It works like this: …
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Jamstik Today’s deals couldn’t be more different. A little something for everyone, I’d say: budding musician, cash-strapped videographer, and, um, guy who likes big monitors. 1. Schooled of rock I’ve been wanting to learn guitar for as long as I can remember, and even went so far as to buy one. But finding a regular time to meet with an …
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WonderCube Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo are awash in multipurpose mobile gizmos, most of them variations on the Swiss Army Knife theme, and most of them resembling an extra-thick credit card. The WonderCube embraces that same theme, but in cube form. It’s seven, seven, seven handy mobile accessories in one, and I mean that literally: one cubic inch. WonderCube …
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The Nixplay Edge can also be rotated for portrait viewing. Nixplay Digital photo frames are awesome. Well, good digital photo frames are awesome. The junky, expensive, complicated ones of yesteryear? Not so awesome. And yet I think it was precisely those early-generation efforts that soured people on the idea. Thankfully, here in 2015, frame makers have gotten a lot smarter, …
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Microsoft Microsoft’s original Surface tablets? Meh. I thought they were chunky and overpriced. Same with the Surface 2 series. But with the Surface Pro 3, Microsoft crafted a pretty sweet portable PC. Too bad you still had to pay extra (a lot extra) for a keyboard, which is why I got angry every time an ad proclaimed it, “The tablet …
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Google Remember back in December when Spotify offered that three-month subscription for 99 cents? Mine ran out just a few days ago, so this is some seriously serendipitous timing. For a limited time, you can get a three-month Google Play Music subscription for $3. That works out to just a buck per month (math win!) for unlimited ad-free listening. When …
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