The Triton Oxygen Respirator: cool looking, scientifically unsound
Being able to breath underwater, à la Aquaman, sounds like a made-up superpower. But it needn't remain the stuff of pure science fiction. After all, fish manage to breath underwater. And some, like the lungfish, are adept at breathing air too. Theoretically, for a human to breath underwater ...
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Genuinely great gadgets — at bargain prices
It's Cyber Monday! Online deals for gadgets and electronic stuff abound. But which products are a genuine good deal as opposed to only being, well, cheap?
Here's a look at six tech products in the former category. Our selections range greatly in price (from $35 to almost $5,000) but ...
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Gifts to look, hear, power and organize
Most readers of this blog have people on their gift list who love traveling with gadgets. Okay, most readers of this blog are people who love traveling with gadgets.
Yet hardly anyone has all five (or even one) of the cool gift suggestions reviewed below, gifts designed to ...
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The advantages (and not) of Apple’s latest smartphones
Every time Apple announces an upcoming iPhone, the first post on Spot Cool Stuff's tech blog is written especially with current iPhone owners. And it centers around a single question:
Should you upgrade to the new iPhone?
Today, we are answering that question twice. That's because, for the first ...
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The 6th generation of Amazon’s eBook reader shines
The Kindle Paperwhite is the most commercially successful eBook reader ever. It's also the best eBook reader ever, at least in our opinion. So it would have been easy for Amazon to leave the Paperwhite alone.
We're thrilled they didn't.
The new version of the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite eBook ...
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The WD My Net Wifi Range Extender can stream HD video too
Spot Cool Stuff recently moved into a farmhouse. It's a lovely place, built in the 1780s, but there's something about the layout or the construction materials used or the ghosts of past generations who lived here or we-know-not-what that prevents a wireless internet signal from traveling through the ...
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