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There is nothing like sitting on cold stadium bleacher stands at your kids football or soccer game especially when fall comes around and it is back to school season. These Lava Buns solve that problem whether you area looking to stay either warm or cool. Simply microwave the microcore element for less than 5 minutes [...]

I am not sure what it is with me today and this minor obsession with retro gadgets.  Maybe I am just going through a minor ‘anti tech’ phase or something like that. Do they have a vaccine for that? Anyway this is a nice looking brass dial candlestick phone from the roaring 20’s.  1920 to [...]

This is the CC witness.  A digital MP3 recorder player with an AM FM radio on board as well. You can record radio programs, your voice and music as well.  It also comes with a timer to record programs in advance.  Convert AM/FM radio programs into MP3 format on the fly.  Also record music from [...]

This retro radio gadget has been issued a “Royal Warrant of Appointment”. That basically means that it is provided to the Royal Family in England. This radio has the look and style that is exact opposite to most radios I have seen on the market today.  Most radios today are either black or silver and [...]

I was going to leave a blank subject line for this gadget and see if anyone could guess what this thing actually is. Well the cat is out of the bag… and you know by now that this is a rock speaker that plays rock music… or actually any kind of music you wish to [...]

Who would have thought that for almost the same price as a high definition Sony television you could own your own wind generator ? Well I thought it interesting that this wind  generator was on the front page of Amazon dot com.  Amazing how far we have come, or have we? I don’t see any [...]

I put this PEEK pseudo PDA/email reader in the senior gadgets category although some might not think this is not the best category for this device. I put it in that category because this device is ergonomic, clear, easy to read and does it’s primary function very well.  It’s primary function? Sending and receiving email.  [...]

Yello is one of Germany’s 10 largest energy companies.  They worked with IDEO (An ergonomic design firm) to develop an easy to understand electricity meter that makes personal energy consumption more tangible to users. Meter data is sent to Yellow via Internet and can be accessed by customers with a piece of software that displays [...]