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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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Have an espresso anywhere using Nanopresso

You’re out camping enjoying your smokey campfire-cooked meal, but it’s missing something – an espresso! Now you can have one using a portable espresso maker called the Nanopresso. It doesn’t need electricity. All you need to provide is finely ground coffee and hot water. It uses a pump to extract the coffee, which provides upwards of 261 PSI according to the Wacaco website. It comes with a built-in espresso cup, filter basket, scoop, brush, and instructions. It is available from Wacaco for $64.90 USD and comes in black, yellow, orange or red colors. Ah, now you have enough energy to take on the rest of the day no matter where you are!

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Shain offers a complete storage system for woodworkers

I can see the irony in a post about a pre-made wooden cabinet marketed to woodworkers, but I imagine that many woodworkers are hobbyists who would rather spend their shop time on fun projects instead of making necessities for their workshop.  For those people, Shain offers a complete storage system for woodworking tools in an 84″ X 60″ X 22″ deep cabinet.

The cabinet is made of solid maple framing using dowel construction and with birch plywood panels.  The wood is finished with sealer and multiple lacquer applications.  The upper and lower doors are birch-veneered panels mounted with a continuous hinge.  The top section has various tool holders, designed for specific tools, mounted on the back and sides of the cabinet and on  the inside of the doors.  Adjustable shelves in the bottom section hold bulkier tools; weight capacity per shelf is 40 pounds.  The cabinet is lockable to protect your tools.

The Shain Complete Storage System is $2099.99 (which is 50% off MSRP).  If desired, you can add a complete set of woodworking tools, bringing the complete cost to $9799.99.  You can see a complete list of the optional tool set and place orders for the Shain cabinet and/or tools at Wayfair.

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The Revesun HDMI 2×1 Multi-Viewer with PIP is an affordable seamless switching solution


Over the past few years, social media and other online capabilities have become the new way of communicating and for getting content out to the world instantaneously. In the photography/videography industry, it has allowed us to stream live views of what were once all pre-recorded events. A few years ago, I introduced this capability to my Church with the ability to stream the sermons live on YouTube and Facebook. When we started, we were using 2 video cameras, and we are now up to 6 video cameras. In an effort to keep cost down, we were using a cheap manual HDMI switcher to switch between the output from our main Blackmagic Design Switcher and a laptop, to the input of our streaming box. We use the laptop for introducing “unplanned content” or other “spur of the moment” content. The cheaper HDMI switcher worked well for switching, but there was always a distinct “blackout’ period of a few seconds before the next source showed live. Of course, the issue here was that we needed seamless switching and eventually invested in a smaller but still relatively expensive Roland switcher to do the trick. Although we have a solution, I was still on a mission to find a simple seamless HDMI switcher that did not cost an “arm and a leg”.

I just came across the Revesun HDMI 2×1 Multi-Viewer with PIP. The manufacturer claims that this switcher is capable of seamless switching while avoiding any residual artifacts. It is compliant with HDMI 1.3a and HDCP 1.2. It supports resolutions up to 1080P HD, with 2 HDMI inputs and 1output. It also supports the LPCM, AC3, and DTS digital audio formats.

If you would like to try out the Revesun HDMI 2×1 Multi-Viewer with PIP seamless switcher, you can purchase one on Amazon for $76.99.

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Never have to dig around inside a dark bag again

It doesn’t matter what kind of bag you carry – backpack, messenger, handbag – finding stuff in the bottom of the bag is difficult.  Many bags are lined with dark fabrics, which makes it even harder to find what you’re looking for in the dark bag interior.  SOI makes a smart bag light that means you’ll never blindly dig around inside your bag again.  Best of all, the light senses when your hand enters the bag and turns on automatically – so you won’t have to hunt for the light itself.  There are two versions of the SOI Handbag Light.  One is just the smart light, and the other has added a powerbank for charging your gear.

The Handbag Light is made with a white polycarbonate shell and is powered by AAA alkaline batteries.  It has special proximity sensors that can tell when your hand is close and will light up in response for approximately 8 seconds.  High-quality LEDs and optimised control circuit programming mean enhanced battery life and better lighting power.  And even though the name includes “Handbag”, you shouldn’t let that scare you off.  All bags are dark inside and could benefit from a bit of light.  The Handbag Light is  $29.95.

The SOI Smart Handbag Light + Charger has all the features of the Handbag Light, but it replaces the AAA batteries with an integrated rechargeable 2000 mAh battery to power the light and to recharge mobile devices.  It’s $34.95.

The SOI Handbag Light and the SOI Smart Light + Charger are both available at The Grommet.

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