Category: Mother’s Day

Plustek OpticFilm 120 film scanner blows away the competition

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Gizmo Readers, my dad is a traditional photographer. He still has thousands of slide photographs in his work area. In past I have purchased him a digital slide to pc scanner. However the images scanned have been disappointing. Whether it be the resolution or the color, the output of the scanned image is far inferior …

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Gizmo Baby Tweets with Kickbee the High Tech Pregnancy Belt

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It seems that kids these days are becoming more technologically educated at an earlier age.   However, here is a gizmo that may have pushed this concept to a new level. Kickbee is a cool gadget that senses when baby is active and tweets when it detects baby has kicked mommy.  The concept behind the technology …

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Baby Gizmo gets down to business with the iPotty with Activity Seat for iPad

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A close relative of mine is expecting their first child and I have been looking for a baby gift for them. One of the challenges is that I don’t know the gender of the child. I do know however both of the parents are very technologically astute parents. Looking online I came across a perfect …

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Secure Solar Overhead Gizmo Lights

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New Gizmo readers, over the last few days we have been working on the getting the garden ready for the summer season. Looking at our existing solar lamps we have problems with their both their luminosity and their positioning. Our solar stick lights are a pain, because they do not provide much brightness and I …

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Gizmo perfect photo with the QuikPod Explorer II

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Have you ever wondered how some photographers get that hard to reach photo above the crowd? What about when your on vacation (especially in a country where you don’t speak the language) it can be difficult to ask someone to take a photo for you. Well QuikPod has a solution for you. The Explorer II …

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PickPockets get busted by the Zuma 9 secure backpack

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Here is a simple gadget that we had a chance to try out at the Exposure Photo & Video Imaging Show 2013. The Zuma 9 Secure Traveler is a theft proof backpack created by Tamrac. It is large enough to store your camera, iPad and your various camera accessories. The backpack is secure, great for …

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GI’s “Palm Of Your Hand” ipico Projector

Occasionally here we like to take out the latest Gizmos for a test run by ordinary readers from an assortment of a variety of jobs.  Over the last few weeks we had the pleasure of kicking the tires on the Ipico tm handheld projector.   Created by the fine team at General Imaging we first had …

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The InVoca3, a Voice Activated remote

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Sometimes we purchase gizmos and gadgets because they make our life easier. Other times it may be because they are cool. Well gizmo readers, this is one of the times where I talk about a gadget that does could be a wonderful tool for those challenged health wise, but is also useful for the Al …

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