Gadgets

For years, I’ve been using a cable to connect my Samsung smartphone to my Android Auto in my car. It is a big annoyance especially when you are carrying items into the car. Although the bluetooth does connect wirelessly, I ...

There are tons of “smart” home products that you can buy these days. Personally, I have so many, sometimes I forget I have them. It’s basically at a point where everything new I buy has to be “smart.” More often ...

I got a notification on my phone letting me know that El Pollo Loco will start delivering by drone. Apparently, it is only in very specific areas of Los Angeles so I may not qualify. If you want to find ...

If you’re like me, you’ve been waiting all year for HBO Max to come onto Roku. Although I use my Apple TV in the living room, I use Roku in my home office. Roku announced yesterday that they would have ...

Ring is best known for their doorbell camera, promoted on “Shark Tank,” and now owned by Amazon. Now they are ready to introduce a door camera that replaces your door peephole. Ring is not the first one to think this ...

Now that you’ve bought one of Amazon’s Alexa enabled devices, what else can you do with it? How about training it what to say when you ask it a specific question? If that sounds like your kind of fun, keep ...

During the holidays, Amazon had a sale on Wemo Smart Plugs for $19.99 so I decided to buy a few of them. They are still on sale for $23 on Amazon but the price seems to fluctuate frequently like the ...

My old Logitech Alert system has been discontinued for years and their new system costs $18 per month for 5 cameras for the same features. Everyone wants to switch over the the subscription business model to keep sucking money out ...

This is one of the hottest summers in recorded history for Los Angeles. For about 3 years, I used a product called Tado to control my dumb AC. However, in 2017, Tado decided to not support “dumb” ACs anymore. The ...

After using the Noke Bluetooth padlock for months, I wasn’t happy with how long it took to open my locker. So when I saw the Tapplock fingerprint padlock, I quickly bought one and tried it out. As you can see below, ...