Say this about isolation and working from home, it creates a huge new category for anyone looking to complete their Christmas shopping list. Zoom and other video meetings are part of life now in work, school, and staying in touch with family and friends. These gadgets make great gifts for anyone who’s Zooming. A good web camera should be the…
Not long ago if I gave my mother some sort of tech gadget as a gift I knew it would wind up in a drawer somewhere. Not necessarily because she didn’t like it or wouldn’t use it, she just didn’t feel comfortable setting it up. It was intimidating. I’m not suggesting every woman in the world doesn’t appreciate or understand…
Most dads will admit, we can be a little geeky when it comes to tech gadgets. That’s a good thing when you’re trying to find the perfect gift for them. From Bluetooth speakers to gadgets for the grill, these tech gadgets make the perfect gift for almost any dad, and they probably don’t already have one. Dads who do outdoor…
Do you have a valuable collection of baseball cards or Barbie dollars in the house? They could be worth more (or less) than you ever dreamed. I undertook a pandemic project a few weeks ago and took out bins of old baseball cards from a storage room. Like many kids of the 80s, I dreamed the cards would someday be…
Who knew you can read a nation’s mood by looking through the app stores? Apple and Google have released their lists of the best apps of the year. And you can easily see, it’s been a rough year for many of us. Apple named Wakeout! it’s the iPhone app of the year. When companies sent people home to work last…
For many of us, this will be the first Christmas in ages where we haven’t been able to spend it with family. I started looking for some gift ideas that may help ease that pain a bit and keep the family close together during the holidays. I’ll bet you or someone in your family has a stack of old VHS…
If you’re old enough to remember “The Jetsons”, you probably realize we’re leaving in a Jetsons era (except for the space-cars). Remember Rosie? The Jetson’s housekeeping robot? This Christmas lots of people are adding robots to their own homes. Robot vacuum cleaners have been popular for years but they’ve been priced too high for most people to buy one. Prices…
Say this about the pandemic of 2020, it created hundreds of options for Christmas gifts that we’d never have thought about before. For example, people have watched more TV. Netflix in particular has seen a rise in subscribers and those subscribers discovered shows like “Queen’s Gambit” which sparked a boom in the chess industry. If you haven’t seen it yet…
When movie theaters closed due to the pandemic this past spring, many families began creating their own movie theater in their backyards. Digital projectors have come a long way in recent years and now it is possible to create a drive-in type atmosphere in the yard with a wireless projector and inexpensive movie screen. While there are many versions of…
This holiday season, whether you’re having people over (which is not recommended this year) or fixing just for your immediate family, these apps can help you find new recipes. For beginners, Project Foodie is an app to try. This app is from the talented professional chef Daniel Holzman. He assumes you know nothing or very little about how to create…
