AMAZING! We’ve in year 18 of The Giz Wiz Show!

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At Five Below, We Spend Five Above!

Meet the Traxx Prismatic Projector Wireless Speaker. it’s NEW, and it’s beyond $5, but by just a couple of bucks. It was $7 and I think you’ll agree when you watch this week’s show it doesn’t quite live up to “A sparkling glow with a prismatic projector speaker! Listen to your fave tunes via Bluetooth while lighting up your space in the raddest way possible.” The Bluetooth speaker has very decent sound for the price, but the powered light, needs something. Like power and light! It has a single rather dim LED. It’s USB-powered, with a cable in the box. You’ll need to add your own AC plug, or power it from a computer or external battery pack. 7.5in (H) x 3.54in diameter.

Giz Wiz Video: https://youtu.be/UoTCX6r9uls

Five Below: https://www.fivebelow.com/products/prismatic-projector-led-bluetooth-speaker

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At Burlington (they dropped ‘coat factory’ from their name) waiting online is made more fun because both sides of the aisles are filled with close-outs. When I saw the Art+Sound Three-Piece Party Pack, I couldn’t resist buying one. The Burlington store is right next door to Five Below and since I had one LED gadget in my bag already, I couldn’t resist 3 more! In the box was a spinning mirrored ball with LED lights, a multi-color spinning LED light, and a rotating blue beacon light (Like something you might see on the roof of a mini-police car.) They’re small, but fun, as you see on this week’s show. The price wasn’t bad either, $12.99 for the set. Each one of the three requires 3AA batteries, not included.

Giz Wiz Video: https://youtu.be/l5Zl2WI2ERc

Seems the 3-piece kit is branded differently on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Pjrfp3

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The video for this product on Amazon looked very interesting, so I bought one. It’s the INONE Ceramic Waterfall Backflow Incense Holder. Here’s how it works: After the incense cone starts to burn, the smoke rolls down the device like a waterfall. It looks very mysterious. The smoke takes a couple of minutes to start, but all that time the fragrance helps freshen the air. And it’s said to “calm emotions, relieve anxiety and fatigue – and help sleep”. I don’t know about that, but I can say the smoke effect is great, as is the aroma. You’ll see it working on this week’s show. In the box you get the incense burner, 120 incense cones (Scents: Rose, Ambergris, Lily, Lavender, Osmanthus), a protection mat to put under the burner and a metal tweezers. It was just about $16.00 when I bought mine and it comes in various colors.

Giz Wiz Video: https://youtu.be/UoTCX6r9uls

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3R2GF2l

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Chad polled our loyal Patreons and they voted on his new theme for August. That winning theme is “Cheap Gadgets As Seen On Shark Tank”.

Chad’s Final Cheap Gadget As Seen On Shark Tank is the Spatty Daddy Kitchen Spatula Set.

From the company: The Spatty and Spatty Daddy are 6 and 12 Inch tiny kitchen spatulas that scrape empty up to 25% more grocery food product for you. Trust the original miniature multipurpose tiny tool to reach deep to cleanout every last drop from your jelly jar, ketchup bottle, mustard, honey, peanut butter, BBQ sauce, mayo, etc.

And Chad’s take: Chad was underwhelmed with these, especially since the larger one arrived cracked. You’ll see his demo on this week’s show. He felt they didn’t scoop out enough of a food volume from the bottom of a jar or bottle to make the effort worthwhile. But, he did think there might be other uses for them which the chatroom helped supply. Chad paid $9.99 on Amazon, but is returning them because one is broken.

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Our Gadget Warehouse Video Submission email this week is from our most loyal and productive Giz Wiz fan, Mo Torres. 

Hi guys:

Here’s another Gadget, I thought Dick would get a kick out of.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/lWJopgtiFR0

The MugBoat – Wind Up Motor Coffee Mug Mixer Fishing Boating Lover Gag Gift Fathers Day

Cost: $14.95

Mo

From the Giz Wiz: I found it here on Amazon and already bought one to send to a boating friend who will really get a kick out it!

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3qNl0AI

I also found a totally different one on Amazon too, but didn’t buy one. (Yet.) https://amzn.to/3YXINdP

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1. Video can be ANYTHING about a gadget: I bought a piece of crap. I bought a gadget I love. I have an old gadget I can’t part with because it was ‘high tech’ years ago! Even a ‘What The Heck Is It? Gadget.

2. Videos should be just 2 to 3 minutes long in Horizontal Format! Low production value is fine, but we need to hear you and see your gadget clearly! You can be in the video if you like.

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Letter of the week:

On this weeks podcast, I listened to your questions regarding the special power strip requirements for cruise ships.

For many years I worked on a government contract that had us installing electronic equipment on military ships. The APC UPS equipment that we installed, had to modified to meet the special power requirements of ships. These modifications included an additional power switch that disconnects the voltage and neutral wires when the power switch is turned off. Normal power switches only disconnect the voltage wire. This change is required because ships do not offer a true earth ground so the neutral takes a more important role.

The surge protectors built into normal power strips might have issues with the lack of a proper ground.

Thanks, Eric Paul