Archive: July 2014
The Shine is an activity tracker and sleep monitor and in this product review I discuss how it works, what I like about it, and what I don’t. These types of devices can be particularly useful if you move around a lot throughout the day and are trying to work out a proper meal plan. […]
“Nail clippers? Really?” If you’re thinking that, I understand…but hear me out! A great nail clipper is cool! This little guy lives up to the Swiss Army brand’s reputation and is compact, well-designed (easy to grip and use), sturdy, and sharp. Sure, it costs more than the piece of junk sold at the drugstore, but […]
No two ears are alike–our ears are as unique as our fingerprints–and this is why earphones can fit your buddy just fine but never quite feel right in your ears. A one-size-and-shape-fits-all approach is just hit and miss. Well, Normal Earphones wants to change that. With their app, you can photograph your ears and they […]
There’s a reason this movie won 4 Oscars: it’s one of the best movies of its type that I’ve ever seen. This movie is (loosely) based on the biography of John Forbes Nash, an American mathematician whose pioneering work on game theory won him the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics, and is a riveting tragedy of tortured […]
I’m a bit of a history nut (I’ve plowed through hundreds of hours of Great Courses lectures) and especially like military history. The best historical reads are almost always biographies as they give you so much more than a dry account of “this happened followed by that”–they give you the vicarious experience of the period and events […]
If you’re even semi-serious about playing golf then you probably spend far too much money on this damn “pastime” than you should…but you’ve got to check out the Garmin Approach S4 watch. The S4 is a powerful, GPS-enabled “virtual caddy” with a plethora of useful features and functions: The yardages are very accurate when compared with a […]
If you want to cut your baked goods with swift, silent, and deadly precision, then you want the right type of cake slicer. This (plastic) samurai sword will do nicely.
