How did no one think of this before? I saw a huge crowd gathered around a booth at CES and figured it must be a celebrity. No one famous was there, but I did see a Roomba-looking device loudly traveling around the grates of a barbecue grill.
He concludes his brief review with an exclamatory I love it!
As for me, I'm more in line with a sentiment expressed in a 2-star Amazon review:
In the first place, if you need a machine to clean your BBQ grill you've got other problems (in my opinion).
Speaking of which,you'd think there'd be more than 96 reviews by now.
Bottom line this time around: You can still count me out.
Last year I purchased a Canon 9000F MarkII scanner at Camera Company, located on Odana Road in Madison. I've used it almost exclusively to make digital copies of family slides going back to 1953. The scanner produces clean, sharp images. Great purchase!
It is, however, a bulky unit -- not conveniently portable, which is why my eyes widened as I watched this 2013 video. (I assume the Flip Pal Plus is an updated version.) I also have my parents' photo albums, with family portraits that date back to the late 1930s. Flip Pal will allow me to scan these photos without disassembling the albums. Priced at $149.97.
Not only is this a scanner to quickly turn all those photo prints to digital pics, but you can also record a story with each photograph. You simply scan the photo, record your voice and save to create the StoryScans file. It comes with the Flip-Pal Toolbox 4 software for desktops and a ScanTools app for iOS devices. It's ideal for genealogy, scrapbooks of childhood memories and vacation photo journals.
Let's go to the reviews (Flip Pal)
Whoa, mama! Looks like a big hit.
Headline of top review: The Best Tool a Researcher Can Have.
Transcription: Fracking is delivering lots more clean, domestic natural gas, increasingly the fuel of choice for electricity generation, helping drive down U.S. carbon emissions. Part of the climate solution, right in our back yard.
5-day changes in responses to "Would you definitely vote for [name of candidate] in the New Hampshire Presidential primary?" (+ or - percentage points)
+29 | Ben Carson
+16 | Jeb Bush
+8 | Chris Christie
+6 | Donald Trump
+2 | Mario Rubio
-4 | Ted Cruz
-8 | John Kasich
The definitive outlook of Carson's small group of voters is not likely to affect next Tuesday's outcome. He's currently polling at 3%. His RCP average is 3.3%.
Meanwhile, Carson has jumped on the "I'm appalled at Ted Cruz" bandwagon.
Some of us have been appalled from the start of Cruz's always self-serving political career.
It's what the object of Whitburn's, Farrow's, Higgins' and Tyler's affections wants.A controversial set of policies governing tenure at University of Wisconsin System schools that critics say threaten academic freedom were endorsed without debate Friday by a Board of Regents committee.
Meet Bob Kuban & the In-Men, an 8-man, one-hit wonder from St. Louis. Kuban, the group's drummer, formed the band in 1964. I liked "The Cheater" from the moment I first heard its catchy, brassy intro. And it's still a song I find eminently listenable. In moderation, of course.
More 1966 Billboard chart-related mayhem. Walter Scott (nee Walter Notheis, Jr.), the band's lead singer, disappeared in late December 1983. After his body was found three years later, an autopsy determined that he had been shot in the back. His ex-wife and her boyfriend were charged with the crime.
"The Cheater" spent no time in the top 10. The best it could do was two weeks at #12.
Continuing a theme, you might say, the band released a follow-up single called "The Teaser" in April 1966. It's awful and deserved to tank, which it did, foundering at #70 in its 3rd week. Watch this egregious video at your own risk.
4-day changes in responses to "Would you definitely vote for [name of candidate] in the New Hampshire Presidential primary?" (+ or - percentage points)
Even though I wear glasses, there are times I could use such an item when trying to read text on the screen of my iPhone (6Plus). No one is this promotional video, however, wears regular glasses. Priced to move at $24.95.
For anyone over 40, these reading glasses become increasingly more necessary every time you go to read your phone. ThinOPTICS makes it possible for everyone to read their phone again without squinting or fumbling to find their reading glasses. They even have a phone case that includes a pair of the lightweight reading glasses. They're available in multiple colors and different strength levels.
I just wish that Earin was rackin' up these kinds of reviews.
Bottom line: Probably best for now to talk with my ophthalmologist about aging eyes issues at my next annual appointment in April.
These earbuds, like the Bragi Dash earbuds, are truly wireless headphones. They are placed in your ears like ear plugs and are comfortable with a surprisingly high quality sound. In terms of battery power, I was able to get a full 10 hours of use from a single charge
The video sez "up 3 hours at a time" of battery life.
I realize that 5 reviews in Amazon isn't much to go to, but 4 of the 5 reviewers give the Earin 5 stars. And there's what they have to say:
They are AMAZING,
Earin gets an A+ from this picky buyer.
Great concept. (Notes concern about their falling out of the ears.)
Hmm, the 4th review is nowhere to be found.
The lone naysayer complains that The pair I received worked (poorly) once and never turned on again. (Well, Kyle, I couldn't get my Fitbit to sync properly while setting it up and, after calling customer service, whose patient troubleshooting assistance didn't fix the problem, was sent a new one at no cost. Now everything's fine'n'dandy.)
Bottom line: I need a higher confidence level before making this $250 purchase.
So I checked another review source.
Where we have decidedly mixed results.
After skimming through these reviews, I'll sum up my concern as follows: Too many issues for 1st-generation wireless earbuds.
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From the album Last Days and Time, released in November 1972. But it was sometime in the spring of 1973 when I discovered it.
It's the last cut on side 1 of Earth, Wind & Fire's 3rd album, which made its debut on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart for the week ending November 25, 1972, when I was in my final semester at UB. It peaked at #87 and stuck around for 25 weeks.
Commercially, much better things were yet to come for the group, but artistically, this song remains my favorite of theirs. It hit me to the core. And it still sound as great today as it did 43 years ago. As you can clearly see from this photo, I needed a song like this to keep me going.
It took me awhile to find my footing after college graduation. Funny thing. My sons are now experiencing the same thing. I take heart in the knowledge that it all worked out just fine for me. As for the hardhat, I had to turn it in on my last day of work at Penelec.
Then it was off to Kenny and Lauren's wedding in NYC...
...and then to the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
Discreet placements demonstrated in video. Ditto is a tiny, discreet wearable that alerts you with a vibration each time you receive an important message. You can choose which SMS senders and callers warrant an alert, so if you're at the gym and don't want to be bothered except from your spouse or kids, your boss's phone call will be ignored.
More than half of Amazon reviewers give this $39.95 gadget a 5-star review. There are, however, more than a few naysayers. 18, to be exact, Their primary complaint: battery life.
