Air conditioning bills are no joke and this summer is already shaping up to be insanely hot. I thought it just seemed that way compared to the recent endless winter, but then I looked at the weather forecast and realized that the heat wasn’t in my head, it was reality. ThinkEco’s smartAC Starter Kit can’t cool the world down but it shoudl help lower what are likely to be insane electric bills this season.
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Info: Donyae’s love for technology is based on a need to survive our future robotic overlords. Know thy enemy as you know yourself. But since even odds are on the zombie future, she has also learned how to prepare squirrel. You can find her on Facebook until the robots - or zombies - rise up.
Muzei: Turn Your Phone Into An Art Gallery Full of Old Masters [Freeware]
Changing your phone’s background is one of the things that helps keep your cell personal. Pictures of family, friends, and pets are common of course, but now there’s an app for people who get tired of looking at the same thing day in and day out.
Read MoreLaundry Instructions: The App that Saves a Phone Call to Mom
Laundry is a high stakes game. One red sock in the wrong load will have you saying “pink is the new white” in no time. Sure, the instructions are on the tags but they’re not always in English. Sometimes they’re in that strange hieroglyphic language that only your mother understands. Laundry Instructions is the Android app that takes the mystery out of the wash.
Read MoreMorphotonix Holographic Chocolate: Yummy Tech Hits Its Stride
Remember the 90s when everything cool came in holograms? Morphotonix has now taken that same aesthetic to an unlikely place – chocolate.
Read MoreSlimTouch 222 Antimicrobial Waterproof Flex Keyboard: Great for Camping or Netflix Binging
Let’s be honest with one another, we eat at our keyboards. It’s OK to admit it. The problem is that keyboards are notoriously hard to clean. It skeeves me out to think what grossness lurks beneath the keys as I type this. Enter the SlimTouch 222 Antimicrobial Waterproof Flex Keyboard.
Read MoreThe Big Turtle Shell Speaker to Turn the Summer Up
It’s summer time. A time for outdoor BBQ’s, camping trips, and the fear that your phone will die and you’ll have to interact with people on a face to face level. Don’t despair, Outdoor Tech’s Big Turtle Shell is here to save you.
Read MoreStereopublic: The App that Helps You Unplug and Chill Out
The world is a bright and noisy place. Especially if you live in an urban environment. Sure it makes ‘borrowing’ Wi-Fi super convenient, but it also makes it hard to sleep when your neighbors want to clean at 3 AM. But what if you knew where there were some peaceful places you could go in your city to chill out and recover?
Read MoreDiscov3ry: game changing add-on for 3D printing lets you print with anything from Nutella to Latex
Do you love food? Do you love fancy food such as cakes decorated so precisely they look like art and feel almost criminal to eat? Me too. So I was incredibly stoked to see that Structur3d Printing has pioneered a way to print with frosting using a 3D printer. Up till now 3D printers have mostly been confined to printing using some kind of plastic only, but not any more.
Read MoreTera – The Tech Mat That Turns Yoga Into Twister
Yoga is one of the most relaxing physical activities in existence. They have a pose that is literally just lying down. You can’t get much more relaxed than that. But it can be a very active practice too, which Lunar Europe has keyed into with their concept Tera, the exercise mat that is a rug by day and a tech fueled health tool whenever you’re ready to get your workout on.
Read MoreMakerBot Replicator Mini – The Next Gen 3D Printer for Your Home Makes Life Easier
3D printing is hands down one of the coolest recent innovations we’ve yet seen, but one of the hurdles of printing in 3D is that you have to be able to design in 3D, and if you’re the kind of person who can’t draw a straight line, working in the 3rd dimension might be a little troubling. To say the least.
Read MoreToddler Keys – Protect Your Computer, Your Keyboard, And Your Sanity [Freeware]
There’s no fail safe way to keep your kids (or your pet cat) off of your computer, especially if you’re running your business off the kitchen table in a small apartment. But you can do something to preserve your sanity and your files.
Read MoreR2-D2 Infrared Keyboard – so many jokes, so little time…
Infrared keyboards are cool, typing on them feels like you’re a hacker from the 90’s version of the future. Infrared keyboards that are beamed from R2-D2, like Princess Leia giving us a dire message are even cooler.
Read MoreGerber Groundbreaker – the ultimate multi-tool for wiring adventures (yes really!)
The Sonic Screwdriver better watch its back, there’s a new game in town. The Groundbreaker is a multi-tool suited for wiring “adventures”. Of course, if you describe the work of wiring anything as an adventure, I’m not entirely sure I should trust you with the job.
Read MorePark n Find – the free app which parking attendants will hate [Freeware]
The worst part of leaving anything in the summer is trying to find your car when your brain is addled with exhaustion and park food. Park n Find is a free app that’s helping to combat the dreaded trudge into parking lot mystery.
Read MoreBluetooth Caskeid – Pure’s cool new tech lets you stream music to every room in perfect sync
There’s nothing particular cool about wireless speakers any more, since they’re been around for a fair amount of time. But what is news is the fact that speaker maker Pure has released a cool new technology which should really take the value of their Jongo wireless speakers to the next level.
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