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This week three more great gadgets from The New Products Holiday Gift Show. This was a Press Event all about gifts ideas for the holidays (And other days of the year too!)

Want Water Boiled At An Exact Temperature For Your Favorite Tea? Capresso Has The Answer.

The H2O Glass Select Rapid Boil Kettle has a lot of nice features, like Direct Pour. With Direct Pour you fill the kettle with water without having to remove the lid. The weight of the water hitting the lid opens it for easy filling. It closes when you remove the kettle from the running water. Then there’s multicolored LED temperature indication lights. There are five presets to choose from: 110° F (green), 160° F (blue), 175° F (yellow), 195° F (purple) and 212° F (red). That gives you the right choice for any type of tea you want to brew, or for other uses such as dissolving yeast for home baking at 110F. The kettle is cordless and designed for right- or left-handed use, with an oversized ergonomic handle. It also offers auto-shutoff, boil dry protection, and a micro filter spout. MSRP: $49.99.

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Meet the Moon Ultralight 2 – Selfie Light with Touch Controls. Whoa, this is the smallest photo light I ever saw! You can take it away, just be sure to put it in the carrying case that comes with it, or you just might misplace it! It grips a phone or tablet securely and it’s so small it won’t block anything. When Ed was doing a demo, the white light was on. I asked if it could switch to warm and learned it goes from 2700K to 5000K with the touch of your finger. There’s a bit of a learning curve because it’s so small, but it does so much. For example the tiny little on/off switch has a mini LED light embedded in it to tell you state of the battery. Comes with a mini USB-C to USB-C charging cord. The case has a carabiner on it so you can clip it to a belt loop, zipper, purse, etc. MSRP: $79.00

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The sales people at the Chef’n table said you can enjoy your favorite camping treat anytime with the Chef’n SweetSpot Tabletop Smores Maker. It can be used for both indoor and outdoor. The metal tray can warm the graham crackers and melt your chocolate, while the family is melting their marshmallows using the roasting sticks. This could be fun for parties, barbecues, camping trips, family gatherings, etc. Comes with four stainless steel roasting sticks, ceramic dome, wire mesh flue, metal tray, wooden campfire base, and snuffer. Requires 2-1/2 ounce canned Chafing fuel, sold separately. MSRP: $59.99

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And Chad’s 2^nd “as seen on TV” gadget is the Drop Stop – The Original Patented Car Seat Gap Filler. This was really “seen on TV” as it was on Shark Tank. Info from the company: Drop Stop provides 100% Gap Coverage in front of, surrounding and behind seat belt catch. Drop Stop attaches to the seat belt catch via built in slot; moves with the seat and no need to readjust or reinstall. Drop Stop blocks that annoying yet ever so dangerous gap between your car or truck seat and center console. Each package comes with 2 Drop Stops (1 for the driver side and 1 for the passenger side; universal fit). You also get two bonus gifts; a Slide Free Pad and an LED Credit Card Light. One size fits most vehicles. One color blends all. The Gap is always a dark shadow so once you install Drop Stop, you won’t know it’s there until it Stops the Drop. 

And Chad’s take? Chad liked these. You’ll see him install one in his Telsa. He especially likes the fact he won’t have to go searching for his earbuds anymore as they can’t fall down between the seat and center console. He shows us how the color they are, black, does make them almost invisible in use. You’ll also see the two free gifts that come with them. And — Wait – this is first time I recall this happening. In the 24 hours since Chad & I recorded this show, they have dropped in price. They were $24.99 on 8/11/22 (what Chad paid) and $19.99 the next day. (That can change at any minute on Amazon!)

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Hi Dick and Chad,

I’ve been meaning to make a Gadget Warehouse video of this item for years. As explained in the video, I finally had an incentive to get it done.

https://youtu.be/3YfolUrxkMc

Some additional specs: Released in 1986 at a price of $210 (not including monitor, disk drive, etc.); equivalent to $540 today. 1.79 MHz CPU – 128 KB of RAM, upgradable to 512 KB (which I added later so I could play Rogue with graphical tiles instead of ASCII symbols) – Graphics resolution up to 640×192 (4 colors); at lower resolutions, it could handle 64 colors (not 256 as I said in the video)

I hope you and the audience enjoy this little bit of computing history.

Regards, Max W., Medford, Mass.

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Our email this week is from Raffaello Mazza

Hi, I heard you talking about the Verizon landline option to data. Diffferent situation but related… I got sick of my horrible landline service when it was still an actual copper landline.

So: I got magicjack which works via Internet, and ported my number landline number to magic jack. That’s easy to do.

How was the service? Not great, but overall better and much much cheaper. I rarely recommended magic jack to anyone because it’s a pain in the butt to set up and deal with issues, but OK for someone more nerdy like me. After a number of years magicJack service horribly deteriorated. They said it was because of the delay factor on my Internet. (Latency)

So here’s what I did – I’ve had Google Voice for years with its own dedicated telephone number. I always thought it was kind of weird but occasionally used it for international calls because it’s free. But you can port a mobile number to Google Voice. So I got a cheap mobile service for a month and ported my landline number to it, which is easy. I just needed to have my old landline number on a mobile service so then I could port it to Google Voice. Remember I’m nerdy, but this is actually pretty easy to do. Now my old landline number is on Google Voice. 99% of the time the service is clear and awesome. No latency.

Easy to use. Provides for texting and many other bells and whistles.

Free. 100% free except for the initial one time set up of I think it was $20.

Cheers Raffaello