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Say no to styrofoam this summer with the Ohana 100% recyclable and biodegradable cooler

NEWS – Summer is almost here, time to head out to the beach or your favorite picnic spot. This year instead of grabbing for that old styrofoam cooler, load your fave beverages into the world’s first 100% Recyclable and Biodegradable cooler.

The Ohana Cooler is made from 100% post-consumer paper waste. It’s environmentally-friendly and eliminates the harmful impact of foam on our marine wildlife and the environment.

The cooler has multiple uses and is totally reusable. Ohana, which means family in Hawaiian can hold water for up to 30 plus days. And the largest cooler can hold up to 100 lbs.

Not only is the Ohana environmentally friendly, but it’s also pretty wallet friendly. Prices start at $4.99 for the 18-quart size and go to $7.99 for the large 42-quart cooler. You can even purchase them in bulk to save. Both sizes can be purchased in packs of 3 for $13.99 and $22.99 respectively.

So Think Green this summer and head over to Vericool and pick up an Ohana for your Ohana.

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Say no to styrofoam this summer with the Ohana 100% recyclable and biodegradable cooler originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on May 30, 2019 at 8:00 am.

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Artificial Intelligence Can Use Your Voice to Guess What You Look Like with Accuracy

Artificial intelligence just gets smarter and smarter. At a certain point it seems like there’s no limit to what it can do. It continues to be more and more useful while at the same time being more and more awe-inspiring The most recent advancement in artificial intelligence technology is that it can guess what you look like with accuracy. It’s not perfect, but the results are still stunning with the knowledge it is only based on your voice. Speech2Face AI Guesses What You Look Like Based on Your Voice Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created Speech2Face, artificial intelligence that analyzes a short sample… Read more

InkCase adds a second screen to your iPhone

NEWS – What if you could have your eInk and your iPhone be in the same physical unit? And what if they communicated with each other? That’s the promise of the InkCase for iPhone.

What is it?

A protective case for your phone with a BlueTooth connected eInk screen that is built-in to the back. There’s an app where you can sync the case to your news reader service, and be able to read articles, as well as view appointments, weather, and photos on the back of your phone. It actually looks quite functional in the videos on the website.

The case charges with its own proprietary magnetic USB charger and (sadly) blocks the wireless charging of your phone, but it should save you a good bit of phone battery, since your weather, schedule, and reading can be done on the lower-power screen. I’ve been using my daughter’s old Kindle Paperwhite for the last two books I’ve read and would really like this, actually! It’s kinda like a mini-Kindle that is attached to your iPhone with a case that protects both of them.

You’ll need to update the case when the phone form factor changes, but there are quite a few protective cases that cost more than this, so if you spread it out over two phone upgrade cycles, that would be no real change.

Expected battery life

(from their website)

Standby time (~ 100 page flips per day) – 60 hours
Auto shut down on photo wallpaper – Infinity hours
Auto shut down on new widget clock (5 minute update) – 32 hours
Auto shut down on previous widget clock (1 minute update) – 19 hours
Number of page flips to drain the InkCase – 1500 page flips
Time it takes to drain the InkCase if the screen is refreshed once every minute – 19 hours
Time it takes to drain the InkCase if the screen is refreshed twice every minute – 10 hours
Time it takes to drain the InkCase if the screen is refreshed thrice every minute – 6 hours

There is a second model that only embeds a half-screen into the case. It has time, calendar, and notification display, but no photos, and it’s a much smaller screen (only half the width). Called the InkCase Ivy, it’s available in 4 finishes for iPhone 8/7/6s/6 (no Plus models).

InkCase iPhone 8/7/6s/6 is priced at $129 on sale for $79 – iPhone 8/7 Plus and 6s/6 Plus $148 on sale for $99 (currently sold out). Ivy is usually $69, on sale for $39, and available in Cool Black, White Mica, Rosewood, and Maple textured finishes.

Visit oaxis.com for more info.

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InkCase adds a second screen to your iPhone originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on May 29, 2019 at 8:00 am.

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Experiment Shows 5,400 Hidden App Trackers Used iPhone Data During One Week

Sometimes it can be surprising that we use up so much data on our phones. It’s hard to know where it comes from. I know it happened to me recently that I went over my data all in a manner of a few hours and kept racking up more and more data, and I couldn’t figure out where it was coming from. I might have my answer after reading about a Washington Post experiment. A writer’s privacy experiment showed in one week there were an astounding 5,400 hidden app trackers on an iPhone that operated mostly at night. iPhone’s Hidden App Trackers Again, this isn’t… Read more

This little clip knows when you’ve taken a pill and when you haven’t

NEWS – The Popit Sense is a small plastic clip with built-in sensors that clips to a blister package of medication to remind you when to take your meds. It not only knows when you’ve missed taking a pill, but it knows how many you’ve taken and logs the info into the companion smartphone app.

The biggest issue with this product is that it’s been designed only for pill packs and not for pill bottles. The Popit Sense smart pill reminder is available in several colors and is priced at $49.00. Head over to shop.popit.io for more info and to order.

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This little clip knows when you’ve taken a pill and when you haven’t originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on May 28, 2019 at 8:00 am.

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