Online shopping stopped being a curiosity a long time ago and is now embedded firmly in the modern lifestyle. How can you tell? Because ecommerce websites are starting to experiment with new and different formats to stay ahead of the game. You usually don’t experiment unless you’re happy that a solid foundation exists, and yes it’s probably called Amazon.
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Fargo Desktop Fan will save you from scorching heat
The blistering heat is upon us! The weather has finally fully transitioned out of cold and dreary. The only issue is that it is now hot and humid, which almost makes us miss the cold. Almost.
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IDM5 Executive Space Saver streamlines your horde of Apple accessories
Many of us are already knee deep in Apple accessories, docks, and various speaker systems. If you’ve thought about downsizing, you are likely going to look for something that has multiple uses in one item. The iDM5 Executive Space-Saver Station wants to give you a way to combine work and play, without needing two or three different products to do so.
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Uguard Resin Skin iPhone Case makes your phone sticky
Some people out there have a bit of a problem with having butterfingers. It seems like every time you turn around, you have dropped and broken something. If that something happens to be your iPhone more often than not, things can get to be a little expensive rather quickly.
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Alcoa creates smog-eating panels to help curb air pollution
Air pollution from traffic effects both pedestrians and the amount of sunlight entering the atmosphere. Alcoa Architectural Products – a division of Alcoa the world’s leading producer of aluminum and aluminum-related products – has announced it has created “smog-eating” architectural panels – the world’s first coil-coated aluminum architectural panel that helps clean itself and the air around it. Introduced in 2011, the panels utilize a proprietary process that leverages HYDROTECT™ technology from TOTO® and applying titanium dioxide, which breaks down…
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Oxy Clearlight offers targeted treatment for spots and acne
If our face is our fortune, then spots and acne are thieves in the night. For one thing we can never predict when they’ll appear, and often it’s just when we least need the visit, like just before an interview or an all important first date. The traditional treatment is to keep the area clean and apply any of the products in the catalogs, but it’s often too little too late.
Read MoreJotForms offers a massive 500 form templates for free [Daily Freeware]
Online forms services are all the rage at the moment, and we’ve mentioned a few in the past like Wufoo and PandaForms. We’ve also commented on how great they are for creating quick and easy forms to embed in your blog or website, and how they can save a ton of work in design and implementation.
Read MoreGoogle Business Photos brings street view inside your store or restaurant
One day when we look back, I think we’ll recognize several points in time as being seminal in our use of the Internet. The launch of YouTube, proving that video clips could provide an alternative entertainment medium to rival TV, HTML5 for the means to replace the desktop computer with a web browser based device and finally Google Maps with Street View, as proof of the fact that digitizing across a global network can introduce a completely new paradigm for our living habits.
Read MoreCryo E40 Notebook Cooler lets you target the hotspots
Lounging around with a laptop is a favorite pastime for most of us. Snuggling up with pillows and blankets a plenty makes for a relaxing evening. The only problem is that our laptops can overheat what with all the insulation around it. Not to mention that it is going to make things a little bit more than toasty for you.
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One Trip Grip Grocery Bag Holder helps keep the feeling in your fingers
You�ve hit that point where you know you need to go the grocery store. It�s always fun to buy things, especially when it�s food, but when you get home, carrying the bags inside can be a bit more of a chore than you bargained for. You don�t want to make multiple trips, so you try and hulk your way through carrying them all in at once.
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Battery-Powered Portable X-ray Machine can help save lives
There is a lot of medical equipment out there that that is not only huge, but also stationary. Normally this is fine if you have time to go to the doctor, but in emergency situations, this is very bad. Not knowing whether it�s a broken bone or a ruptured organ is sort of a big deal, but how can you know one way or the other without the equipment there with you?
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Digital BMI Body Mass Analyzer says you don’t look fat in that at all
Nowadays it’s not enough to know your weight, your DNA structure and your genetic ancestry, you need to keep tabs on just about every inch of your physical body, otherwise you’re accused of being a slob. We’re not sure what’s wrong with slobs, someone’s got to keep couch makers employed after all. And who else is going to feed the pizza delivery guy’s family?
Read MoreNeverNote is an open source clone of Evernote [Daily Freeware]
If you’ve never heard of Evernote, it’s the very successful cloud (ie Web) based content capturing service. The idea is you run their software in the background, and when you come across something you want to save, like a recipe, photo, news article or even road sign, you just clip it to Evernote and it’s instantly stored online for you to access from any computer anywhere. It’s clever stuff all right.
Read MoreLow Carb Megathread points the way to a healthier lifestyle
The whole diet business, and boy is it a business, has become a huge money pot for everyone involved. From the fashionable fad diets of the day, to the long established ‘wisdom’ of the experts, everyone has an opinion and everyone is trying to sell you something. It’s hardly surprising then to find countless different views as to the best diet to undertake to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Read MoreMicroStylus is so tiny!
Thanks to games like DrawSomething, we now have a need for rather small styluses for our phones. The screen is already a bit too small to have an entire keyboard on it, but to draw a decent picture with the pad of you finger is just downright difficult. This is why an item like the MicroStylus might be useful.
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