Spring in the air makes me miserable. Itchy, watery eyes, sneezing, sore throat, the whole nine yards. Lucky for me the boys at Thanko have devised a product to help combat this menace, the USB Pollen Blocker. Desperate times demand desperate measures, eh?
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USB Thermoelectric Cooler and Warmer – Keeping a Cool One Handy at All Times
I can never finish a whole can of soda before it gets warm. I start and then, before I know it, it’s warm and tastes like syrup. So the tiny USB Thermoelectric Cooler and Warmer is a great solution for all my first world problems (or at least this one).
Read MoreMicro OTG USB to USB Adapter – cute, functional and ever so slightly blue
The OTG Robot micro-USB to USB adapter isn’t the only micro USB adapter on the market, but it is the absolute cutest one. But don’t let its absolutely adorable exterior fool you. More than just a pretty face, it’s a pretty sturdy and useful product.
Read MoreThe PowerPot X: New Faster Charger Powers Your Apple While It Cooks Your Beans
It’s summer time. Time to enjoy the great outdoors. The natural world. Where once your phone runs out of power, it’s gone. Sure you could charge it up again in your car, but that could prove problematic if your nearest car park is the other side of a range of mountains. Which is why this new product is so cool. It turns fire into electricity.
Read MoreThe 3-in-1 Tablet Stylus – versatile combo is good for paper as well as screens
Two things a writer is always in need of: a good pen and a flash drive. The 3-in-1 USB Tablet Stylus throws in the bonus of a stylus so you’re ready for anything.
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 MoreSatechi Smart Travel Router – super cool travel adapter, USB charger and WiFi genius in one
Do you travel around the world? If you do then we know you’ll hate how each country has a different electrical socket layout, which means you absolutely need to carry around adapters as well as chargers, so you don’t get caught out in your hotel. There are lots of international power socket adapters around of course, but not like this cool new product from Satechi.
Read MoreMobile Phone Jumper Cable – be a hero and share your power with the world
“Hey buddy, you got some juice?” It’s some poor soul stopping you on a street corner with a look of desperation and the smell of regret. He plucks at your sleeve helplessly and then shows you a truly terrifying sight – a smartphone that’s completely and totally…dead. He pushes buttons, swipes the screen, shakes it, but NOTHING HAPPENS!
Read MoreEarthCalm Omega Electromagnetic Protection Stick keeps you safe and saves tinfoil
There’s no doubt that we live in a world awash with radiation. Not just naturally occurring stuff like UV and microwaves, but also the man-made type that comes from all this industrialization and wireless technology. With the average smartphone holding upwards of a dozen radios, it’s hardly surprising to find that some people are starting to feel a little sensitive to all the EMF (electro-magnetic fields) floating around.
Read MoreVoice Authenticating USB Drive protects your data with a single word
The world of biometric security is booming, and everywhere you look there are fingerprint readers, eye scanners and palm print machines. But the one sector which seems to have been overlooked is that of sound, or more specifically voice. Could it be possible to build something that will secure data through the sound of a voice?
Read MoreIs this Steve Jobs Credit Card Flash Drive strange, or is it just us?
Does anyone else think it’s rather bizarre that Steve Jobs, a man who hated Flash, should be the featured brand on this 16GB USB Flash Drive? No? OK, so we’ll just leave this here and move on then. Thanks for listening.
Read MoreArcam rPAC USB audio converter magically improves your computer audio
Computers are great for all sort of stuff, like writing resumes, designing CD covers and tweaking photos of your Great Aunt Maude. But they’re typically not great at making audio sound awesome. Most computer audio cards, especially in laptops, are barely passable in terms of audio quality; the sound you get from them is more like your average MP3 player than anything else.
Read MoreRight Angle USB 3.0 Adapter gets you out of tight spots at speed
For some reason this clever little Right Angle USB 3.0 Adapter really makes sense to me. There’s been a bunch of times when I’ve had to wrestle with USB devices because the computer or other bit of equipment has been jammed up against a wall, at which point I would have been really pleased to have this little fella along for the ride. The fact that it also sports the super fast USB 3.0 spec is a bonus, as is…
Read MoreSimplicity Homekey lets you recycle an old computer into a sleek silver surfer
If there’s one truth in life, it’s that old computers never die, they just end up cluttering up our cupboard space for years and years and ever. Hands up all of you with at least 3 of these things lurking somewhere in your home? Yeah thought so. Well here’s a new way to get rid of the guilt and the old hardware at the same time and instead put it to some good use.
Read MorePNY Whistle USB Flash Drive strangely combines two radically different universes in one tool
We’re desperately trying to work out why you would need to embed an xGB flash memory drive inside a whistle, but we’re failing to come up with anything. You’re worried about being mugged and your accounts data being stolen? You live in a foggy city and often get lost on your way to work? You act as a part-time referee at the weekends and need to keep the game rules close to hand at all times?
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