The surprisingly cool, inexpensive Roku 3
Big things come in small packages, they say. "They" must certainly have a Roku 3 Streaming Media Player. It's Spot Cool Stuff's new favorite way to watch streaming videos and on-demand television — and cost-effective too. It works like this: You connect the little Roku 3 box to the ...
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We test drive a high-value compact SUV
When Kia offered us the opportunity to test drive a 2013 Kia Sportage we were initially hesitant. Our blog, after all, is called Spot Cool Stuff. It's not Spot Ordinary Stuff or Spot Reasonably-Well-Made-Low-End Stuff — "ordinary," "reasonable" and "low end" all being terms we associated with Kia. Yet ...
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The ergonomic Evoluent VerticalMouse 4
The computer mouse has been around for nearly as long as the computer has — the first trackball was invented as part of a secret U.S. government military project back in 1952! Since then, there have been many variants of the mouse, with most new iterations better than the ...
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The world’s first power folding stroller
Over the last few decades, baby strollers have developed hipper designs and incorporated more rugged frames and lighter weight materials. But baby stroller technology (such as it is) has remained essentially the same as it was at the turn of the century — the 19th century. Happily, the ...
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An innovative washers and drier gets an innovative marketing campaign
After nearly two decades of flat lining, the technology for washing and drying clothes has made substantial, incremental improvements in the last few years. The marketing of clothes washers and driers? Not so much. The average advertizement still consists of a supermodel masquerading as a housewife who becomes ...
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A review of the compact Epson Expression Premium XP-800 printer
All-in-one printers — printers that can scan, copy, fax and and produce photos in addition to, you know, printing out black and white text on a sheet of paper — are useful for multitasking. But they also tend not to perform any one function that well. And they ...
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