Outdoor Tech

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Gizmos & Gadgets: Weird, Wacky and WonderfulSleep-assist light glasses, a retractable hose, rechargeable ice and other strange gizmos and gadgets

New Electronic Door Lock: Just Touch To OpenLook Ma, no key! UniKey electronic door lock can be opened or locked by touch; keys 'sent' via smartphone app

Gizmos & Gadgets: A2B Electric BikesHere are latest e-bikes for short commutes, quick trips around your neighborhood or assisted exercise

Even More CES Fitness & Health Gizmos & GadgetsOur final batch of fitness and health gizmos and gadgets to help track you health, exercise and diet

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CES Gizmos & Gadgets: More Fitness & Health Tech

By: Stewart Wolpin

January 28, 2013

It's getting easier and easier to track our health, fitness and exercise with a widening inventory of gizmos and gadgets worn on (almost) all parts of our bodies. Last week, my compatriot Barb Gonzalez brought you a bunch of these health and fitness devices from CES. Here are some I ran across.

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Top 50 Best CES Gizmos & Gadgets: Part 5

By: Stewart Wolpin

January 21, 2013

Our final group of top 50 CES gizmos and gadgets includes lots of unique ideas and concepts such as a Star Trek scanner made real and one old gadget that gives us an idea of how far we've come tech-wise in less than 20 years.

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Latest CES Gadgets & Gizmos: Day 2

By: Stewart Wolpin

January 10, 2013

CES is gi-normous — 13 miles of aisles and 20,000 new products. Wandering the show floor can be exhilarating and exhausting. I am going to try to bring you info on as many interesting (to me) gadgets and gizmos as I can. Today's bunch include a lot of health tracking devices — for you and even your plants.

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Latest Gadgets & Gizmos: CES Day 1

By: Stewart Wolpin

January 9, 2013

Today, Tuesday, is officially the opening day of this year's Consumer Electronics Show here in Las Vegas, but there's already been a number of new product introduction events. Here are some of the new gizmos and gadgets that were unveiled before the show floor even opened.

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Top New Gadgets: Landline & Cellphones for Seniors

By: Stewart Wolpin

December 13, 2012

In between Black Friday and, well, now, a number of new products have hit store shelves in time for your gifting or self-gratifying consideration, including both a new landline phone system and a cellphone for seniors, as well as the Samsung Galaxy Camera for Verizon and an all-Apple gadget briefcase.

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Best Power, Photo and File Emergency Survival Tips

By: Stewart Wolpin

November 8, 2012

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Change the Power Outages Map: Bury the Cables!

Hurricane Sandy's power outages map is a mish-mosh of widespread electrical disconnections. We should follow Thomas Edison's advice and bury our power cables.

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Top New Gadgets: Bluetooth New 4.0 Devices

By: Stewart Wolpin

October 26, 2012

Bluetooth headphones and speakers are quite popular. But to transfer just data requires less power than voice or music, so the Bluetooth people have come up with a Bluetooth new low-power standard, Bluetooth 4.0, which enables a slew of new sometimes clever sometimes silly devices. Here's a sampling.

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Top New Gadgets: New HD GoPro Camera, Accessories

By: Stewart Wolpin

October 22, 2012

How do you re-live your outdoor action adventures? Strap on a wearable camcorder, such as a new 4K GoPro Hero camera/camcorder. Also new this week: a 4K and 3D HTDVs, a Google TV set-top box, Wi-Fi "ac" gear, two Slingboxes, a digital sewing/embroidery machine, and over-the-head headphones.

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Wacky, Zany – and Some Serious – New Gadgets

By: Stewart Wolpin

September 3, 2012

Like at all electronics confabs, the serious future-of-technology gear shares space with the frivolous, strange, wacky and zany – as well as some hidden gems. Here's the off-beat (and some on-beat) gizmos I found wandering the show floors during this week's IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin.

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