Ah – the great outdoors. With summer just around the corner, it makes perfect sense to plan for that perfect summer vacation already, from the routes you and your family would take down to the most minute details including the amount of water to carry. What happens when you are stuck in the middle of nowhere with nary a single convenience store in sight? All the Benjamins in the world wouldn’t be able to snag you a bottle of ice cool water then, which is why it is essential to have the necessary jungle survival skills in addition to the Personal Water Purifier device that gives you clean, drinkable water from a natural water source within minutes.

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If you’re sick of leaving those messages written in post-its on the door of the fridge, now you have another and cooler (or hotter) option. As we all know, a lot of people simply won’t get up in the morning without taking their fix of coffee, and the perfect way to leave a message for one of those persons is using the “Chalk Mug”. With this mug you can leave your messages directly in the blackboard styled coffee mug.
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Yet another swimming pool story? Well, it is late May and with summer right around the corner. That means a plethora new pool gadgets. However, last summer, we reported on one that seems worthy of repeating. It’s is a fun one though which takes the work out of skimming your pool and makes it fun for kids of any age to earn their allowance with. It’s a remote control pool skimmer by gadget store HAMMACHER SCHLEMMER.

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When Dan Vance was making his 90 minute sci-fi feature “The Shivering Earth,” he couldn’t afford to use film or rent high def video cameras, he wasn’t satisfied with the quality of camcorders on the consumer market, and he couldn’t wait for the Red One to be made available for the masses.

So he did what any red blooded, enterprising film director would do … he designed and built his own video camera! Sure, it looks like a camera from the late 80s, but inside, it’s mechanics represent cutting edge video capture technology with tapeless recording via hard drive.

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Here’s a YouTube video showing off a new Apple TV plug-in called “A Series of Tubes.” The plug-in allows you to browse YouTube videos on your Apple TV. Sure, the Flash encoded YouTube videos look like crap on a HDTV. YouTube doesn’t even look good when stretched out to its default 480 x 360, let alone 640 x 480 or HD. But YouTube does have thousands of clips and can provide endless hours of entertainment.

Not ready to start tinkering around with plug-ins for your Apple TV? You can still save videos off YouTube and convert them for your iPod/iTunes. Check out this tutorial: How to Copy Videos Off YouTube.

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I’m quite a fan of playing the odd hand of Texas Hold’Em but it’s not the most gadgety of games, I have an electric card shuffler but still. This latest gadget lets you and 5 friends gamble away without a deck of cards or pile of chips in sight, the Wireless Multi-Player Poker Game.
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Radiation from cell phones has always been in the news in one way or another, not always for anything good, but with rumors of it causing tumors and other nasty things like sterility in men, so apart from either dressing completely in tin foil to protect yourself from the rays, or alternatively not using a phone at all to be sure that your are completely safe, what else is there that could possibly protect you from the dangers of using the cell phone?
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Another deliciously geeky and practical contraption you can find at ThinkGeek. It’s a barbecue which can be folded into a 30-cm long tube!

Goodbye to lugging that heavy piece of iron around, well met exotic and remote barbecue locations!

The grill is made of stainless steel and weighs less than 600 grams! The grilling surface is 9″ x 10.2″ (23 x 26 cm), more than enough for 2-3 persons.

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