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This bag is perfect for storing and organizing all those little things you carry

NEWS – I’ve recently started taking knitting classes, and as with everything I do, I make it my mission to find every accessory for the activity to add to my collection.  That means I have a lot of accessories that need to be organized and stored, and I just found the perfect bag for storing small notions.  While the Fold ‘n Go Notions Case is  marked with a Knit Happy logo, you can use this bag to hold all the small items that get lost in the bottom of your big gear bag – chargers and cables, USB drives, pens, pencils, chapsticks, and other small items.

These bags are actually available with logos for several needleworking crafts – knitting, quilting, sewing, and crocheting – but they are identical otherwise.  The bags are made of black microfiber with contrasting trim in blue, white, or green.  Two magnetic, concealed snaps holds the bag closed.  When folded up, the bag is 8.25″ long x 4.25″ tall x 4.25″ deep; opened, it’s 20″ long.  Inside the bag are four zippered triangular pouches made of sturdy, clear plastic.  The pouches can hold a lot of stuff, and the clear sides make it possible to easily find what you’re looking for.

If you don’t mind the needleworking logos, you can organize your big gear bag with a Fold ‘n Go Notions Case.  They are $24.95 each at the Stuff You Love website.  And of course, Amazon has them, starting under $19.00.

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This bag is perfect for storing and organizing all those little things you carry originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on September 4, 2018 at 12:00 pm.

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Ninety7’s SKY TOTE makes the Amazon Echo 2 mobile

NEWS – The 2nd gen Amazon Echo 2 is where the Alexa voice assistant lives and waits to respond to your every whim. Too bad she’s stuck connected to your desk when she deserves to be freed from the shackles her power cord. Now you can free her with the help of Ninety7’s SKY TOTE.

The SKY TOTE replaces the Amazon Echo 2’s factory sleeve with a new one that features a built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery that will provide up to 8hrs of listening time and a nifty carry handle for grab and go convenience. With the SKY TOTE, you can take the Echo 2 from room to room or even outdoors as long as there is WiFi coverage.

The SKY TOTE is priced at $49.95 and is available now from Ninety7.com.

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This garbage can replaces your dustpan for sweeping

NEWS – I’ve written about items similar to this before.  The Eye Vac is a stationary small vacuum designed to suck up everything you’ve swept up instead of trying to get it up with a dustpan.  The Bruno Smartcan has the vacuum function added to a 13-gallon garbage can, which makes it perfect for a kitchen.  Unfortunately, the Bruno was a Kickstarter project that was funded back in 2015, and it’s still in the pre-order phase at its website.  The Smart Touchless Vac-Can incorporates the vacuum for sucking up sweepings into a trashcan – and it’s actually something you can order.

Vac-Can’s trashcan portion holds only 1.45 gallons, so it’s not big enough for a kitchen can.  It’s a good size for a bathroom can, though.  Plug the trashcan into an AC outlet to power the 1000W motor to operate both the 16kPa stationary vacuum and the touchless can lid.  The lid opening can be triggered manually, by control panel, and by motion sensor; the vacuum operation can be triggered automatically, manually, and by kick switch.  Both functions switch off automatically.  The can includes a washable HEPA filter and removable trash can liner.  A full-bin indicator lets you know when to empty the can.

The Smart Touchless Vac-Can is $169.99 at the Sharper Image.

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LifeEar is a hearing aid that you can fine tune with an app

NEWS – I’m very fortunate that I don’t suffer from hearing loss requiring the need to wear hearing aids like millions of people do. I had no idea that hearing aids were so expensive. I’m talking upwards of $6000 expensive! That’s a lot of money to pay so you can hear clearly in a variety of situations. What do you do if you’re not covered by Medicare or other insurance policies? Is there a less expensive solution that doesn’t even require that you go to a hearing specialist to fine tune the hearing aids to your particular type of hearing impairment?

The new LifeEar CORE is a $799 hearing aid ($1599 per pair) that is the first mass-market hearing aid that can be both programmed and fine-tuned with a mobile app with no appointment needed.

Designed for people with mild to moderately-severe loss, users can use their smartphones and an iOS or Android app to create a personal hearing profile based on their ability to hear a series of tones and using a National Acoustic Laboratories algorithm that considers the hearing profile as well as the user’s age and gender. The app will also allow the user to customize special programs to be used in different situations like a noisy restaurant or a quiet setting by changing noise reduction, sound directionality, and amplification of different frequencies for each program individually.

The hearing aids themselves are designed to be discreet and with 4-8 day battery life, the hearing aids come with a year’s supply of batteries. For more info about the LifeEar CORE hearing aids, visit lifeear.com

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Bishop Curry’s “Oasis” device, which will save children from hot car deaths, is in the next stage of development!

NEWS – Last year, I wrote a post about a 10-year-old boy, Bishop Curry V, who came up with an idea for a device he calls the Oasis. This device is intended to save children from hot car deaths. He felt driven to help put an end to such tragedies after having heard about a little girl about the age of his younger sister who had died in a hot car. His device contains sensors that detect the temperature of the vehicle and if a child is present, then alerts the parents and the authorities to come to rescue the child when the device is activated.

At the time that I wrote about him last year, he was trying to raise enough money to obtain a patent for his device and as of April 10, 2018, he received the good news that he had obtained it (according to his GoFundMe site). Now he is in the process of raising money to cover the cost of  “at least 140 hours of design, testing, and assembly”. They estimate that it will take a lot more than the $50,000 they raised the first time around, but for now, he is targeting $10,000. He hopes to sell the final device for around $50.

Bishop is an industrious and inventive boy – he apparently has a whole book of inventions (-Bishop Curry, TedxPlano talk). “He is a regular robotics and STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics] camp attendee and believes in the power of science to change the world.” (GoFundMe site). He has recently been traveling around the country giving talks at conventions about his device and encouraging kids saying, “Don’t let age limit your possibilities… don’t let limited resources limit your dreams… and make ‘helping’ be your highest priority.” (-Bishop Curry, TedxPlano talk).

I will keep you up-to-date on his progress and also let you know when his device becomes available for purchase!

It’s always so exciting and inspiring for me to see people come up with cool solutions to current day problems, especially when that person is so young. It also makes me question just how productive I am with my own time – I mean what have I invented lately? Bishop, you put me to shame! Kudos to you for making this world a better place!

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Bishop Curry’s “Oasis” device, which will save children from hot car deaths, is in the next stage of development! originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on September 3, 2018 at 10:00 am.

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