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Your home is smart – now with Elgato Eve Aqua, your lawn can be smart, too

Elgato Eve products can be used inside to automate your home.  The Gadgeteer has even reviewed some of them.  Now Elgato adds the Eve Aqua to turn your outdoor faucet into an “intelligent water outlet” to make watering your yard as easy as set-it-and-forget it scheduling or to allow you to water your lawn while you’re out doing errands.

You don’t need to buy a hub for Eve products.  They are designed to work with Apple’s HomeKit, so they will work out of the box with your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch. Your Apple TV or iPad will serve as a home hub, seamlessly automating your accessories and keeping you connected anywhere you have internet connectivity.

Elgato says: “Eve accessories are exclusively HomeKit-enabled. Even when accessing your home remotely via your home hub, data is end-to-end encrypted and stored on your iPhone or iPad. Superior privacy, advanced security, and absolute peace of mind – it’s all here.  Equipped with Bluetooth low energy technology, Eve accessories ensure reliable operation independently of bridges. Setup is quick and easy. Energy consumption is minimal. And accessory response time is snappy.“

The Eve Aqua connects between your outdoor faucet and a garden hose.  It has IPX4 water resistance plus Australian-certified UV protection to keep the Aqua in prime working shape for years to come.  You can set it up once and let your schedules work independently without wireless connectivity.  Or you can control the Eve Aqua on the fly by using the app on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch or by issuing Siri voice commands.  In addition to controlling watering schedules, the Eve app will track water usage over time, so you’ll know.

The Elgato Eve Aqua is available for pre-order for $99.95.  Shipments begin on June 25th.  Place your pre-order now at the Elgato website.

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There’s nothing kinky about the Bernini Pro Series garden hose

Are you tired of those traditional, green rubber-pipe garden hoses that get kinked up so badly water won’t pass through or spring so many leaks your yard looks like a water feature?  Replace that old hose with a Bernini Pro Series hose and you won’t have to deal with kinks again.

The Bernini hose is made of Spiroshield 304 stainless steel for toughness while keeping it lightweight.  The metal stops kinks and keeps its shape when the hose is pulled around corners.  Billet aluminum couplings with rubber comfort grips makes for tight connections to the faucet.  The included billet-aluminum spray nozzle adjusts from a steady stream to a gentle spray, or you can replace it with your own spray nozzle.  The hose is corrosion- and UV-resistant, and it even stays cooler in the sun than most hoses.

The Bernini Pro Series hose is the Today’s Special Value at QVC through 12:00 AM PST tonight.  Learn more and order at the limited-time price of $34.98 at QVC.

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SAFEGO is a lock box for your valuables


We travel to Florida once a year and our favorite activity when we’re there is to relax on the beach under an umbrella. When we need a break from all that relaxing, we like to walk along the surf soaking up the sun and looking for shells. Sounds perfect right? It is except that I’m usually a little nervous that someone is going to steal our stuff while we’re away from our beach chairs. 

Sure, we could wear a bag and put our valuables in it while we were walking, but that just sounds cumbersome, especially when you’re bending over to pick up a shell every few feet. Another possible solution is the SAFEGO Portable Safe.

The SAFEGO is made of high impact ABS plastic with a keyed lock and a built-in custom 3-digita combination lock that secures a 6mm heavy-duty steel cable. The cable can wrap around the frame of a beach chair or any other object.

The water and sand resistant 7″ x 4″ x 7.5″ compartment is large enough to hold phones, money, credit cards, passports, etc. There’s even a pass-through that you can use to route your headphone cord from a device inside the SAFEGO or route a cable from a backup battery stored inside the SAFEGO to your device on the outside.

The SAFEGO Portable Safe is priced at $39.00 and is available in black, white, blue, pink or gold at safego.us and Amazon.

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