Gadgets Blog

With summer having arrived, it is time to start the annual battle with pesky insects as well as other creepy crawlies who love to do nothing better than irritate you out of your skin by their mere presence in and around your home. Apart from keeping a huge collection of anteaters as well as spiders to capture those winged nemesis of yours, why not consider the Insect Repeller instead?

Insect Repeller is a small handheld environmentally-friendly gadget that plugs into any UK mains socket and emits an advanced high power variable ultrasonic wave and an electromagnetic wave to ward off unwanted pests and protect you and your home. Inaudible to humans and harmless to your pet cat and dog, the ultra sonic pest repeller consumes very little power and outdates messy traps and chemically-laden sprays. Once plugged in and switched on this 2-in-1 insect and rodent repeller protects 250 square meters, which is roughly the size of the average three bedroom home, giving you a healthy amount of breathing space between you and world’s critters.

Sounds like £12.95 well-spent if you’re going to bring home the Insect Repeller this summer.

Opening clamshell packages can be quite a challenge for some of us who are less adept with a scissors, and more often than not, even with the best equipment around, doing so results a cut finger or something equally catastrophic. It is hoped that the Zipit Motorized Clamshell Package Opener will be able to change your perception that opening clamshell packages is a real challenge in life.

The Zipit Motorized Clamshell Package Opener is the first and only motorized tool specifically designed to safely and easily open these troublesome clamshell packages. It is as easy to open these tough packages as pressing a button and guiding the opener around the outside of the package. There are no rough or sharp edges left to worry about. It is powered by two AA batteries (sold separately), and holding down the button will activate the rollers to easily open most hard shell packages.

This $19.99 device ought to do the trick in getting rid of such pesky packaging methods. What do you think?

Acer has certainly come a long way from its humble beginnings, making its way to being the no. 3 vendor in the PC market. It is no fluke to reach such lofty heights without hard work, perseverance, providence and great hardware as well as technical support, so hopefully the latter two will remain with the new release of the Acer Aspire easyStore Home Server for folks living Stateside. Specially designed for households and home-based businesses with multiple PCs, the new Aspire easyStore makes it a snap to hook up home computers, centralize, share and protect digital data as well as access it remotely from anywhere in the world.

Powered by Microsoft Windows Home Server, the Aspire easyStore offers a plethora of benefits. Parents are able to access their children’s homework from afar when traveling, as long as they have a decent Internet connection to do so. Not only that, favorite videos and images recorded during the most recent travels can also be uploaded to the server so that other family members, regardless of their geographical position, are able to access those said media. This digital data centralization will further reduce the need to transfer data from one machine to another, while doubling up as a safeguard so that only authorized persons can have a look at it. In all this, we want to stress that having a backup data for everything stored within is of utmost importance - even more so for a centralized system.

You will find an Intel Atom processor 230 running at the heart of the Aspire easyStore, couple with 2GB memory, a 1TB hard drive, a trio of hot-swappable hard drive bays for storage expansion (which makes enough room for approximately 7TB of total data storage), and a recovery/reset pinhole that offers additional data protection by enabling system restores and data recoveries with just one-touch. If you’re interested in consolidating all your data for your home in a single computer, then the Acer Aspire easyStore AH340-UA230N Home Server can be yours for $399.99.

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Mention Verbatim and what do you think of? Most of the time, the older ones among us would have fond memories of their Teflon-coated 5.25″ floppies - after all, that was the de facto standard when it came to common data storage media a couple of decades ago, where other Teflon-less brands failed to retain data better than Verbatim media. Well, here’s news for you - Verbatim doesn’t only make storage solutions, they have also dipped their fingers into the world of hardware, and this time round we’re treated to their latest release - the Color Nano Wireless Notebook Mouse.

What makes the Verbatim Color Nano Wireless Notebook Mouse so different? Well, it not only caters to both Windows and Mac users, it also brings together the reliability and performance of tried-and-tested 2.4GHz technology in a tiny form factor nano receiver with a hint of color to match your mouse. You will be able to choose from red, green, purple, yellow, pink, blue and graphite, where users are able to express their own unique color preferences to the rest of the world with something as simple as a mouse. The nano receiver itself is so small that you can always leave it permanently plugged into your notebook’s USB 2.0 port without having to worry about it breaking off, further reducing the risk of losing something so tiny. Just make sure you don’t misplace the mouse and you’re good to go!

Would you have preferred to see the use of Bluetooth technology in place of 2.4GHz wireless performance instead? Well, we suppose we’re happy with either, but the latter seems to be the smarter marketing choice since not every older notebook out there in the market comes with Bluetooth connectivity. The Verbatim Color Nano Wireless Notebook Mouse was specially designed to cater for ambidextrous use, so lefties need not feel, er, left out yet again when it comes to computer peripherals. You get a smooth, rubberized grip which offers equal comfort and control for both right- and left-hand use. Features include a programmable roller button that can be used to access favorite features in an easy and fast manner. If you’re interested in picking up Verbatim’s new Nano Wireless Mouse, it will retail for less than $29.99. We would recommend getting rechargeable AAA batteries as this model uses a couple of these to be powered.

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