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Monthly Archive for August, 2015

Review: 60 Warm White Color LED String Lights with Remote Control

Review: 60 Warm White Color LED String Lights with Remote Control

Aug 20, 2015

The 60 Micro LED String Lights from RTGS Products offers over 20 feet (>6 meters) of bright, warm white light. The thin, silver wire provides four inches (10.16 centimeters) between lights. The front of the box for the RTG Products 60 Micro LED String Lights. The lights can be used...

Review: 1byone Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard

Review: 1byone Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard

Aug 20, 2015

Reminiscent of the legendary Apple Wireless Keyboard, the 1byone Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard features a lower price point ($19.99) and design and styling that fits better into more ecosystems beyond just Apple’s. In fact, the 1byone Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard has built-in shortcuts for Android, Windows, and iOS, and has pairing that...

The Sinclair Spectrum Vega (ZX Vega) games computer comes with 1000 games, and here’s the list!

The Sinclair Spectrum Vega (ZX Vega) games computer comes with 1000 games, and here’s the list!

Aug 13, 2015

The ZX Vega, aka, Sinclair Spectrum Vega, is a crowd funded, consolized interpretation of the legendary British ZX Spectrum computer. Instead of going with a full reproduction (like this, which I should be receiving soon), the ZX Vega provides the bare minimum physical interface to gaming. Photo of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum...

Review: Illuminated Desktop Earth Globe

Review: Illuminated Desktop Earth Globe

Aug 12, 2015

Well before today’s ubiquitous satellite imagery, online maps, and GPS, I was fascinated by the beauty of cartography. Growing up, I had an oft-referenced globe and a book of local maps that I’d sometimes try to replicate with what was then a blossoming artistic ability. There was just something about...

Review: Smart Weigh Digital Scale

Review: Smart Weigh Digital Scale

Aug 12, 2015

While you might be expecting a review of a Bluetooth-enabled, app-based scale here on Armchair Arcade, this is in fact a review of a perfectly ordinary scale. And that’s OK. You see, the Smart Weigh Digital Vanity Scale is attractive and durable, and provides a readable display of the weight...

Microsoft Money, Stardock Fences (moving icons), and Evernote with Windows 10

Microsoft Money, Stardock Fences (moving icons), and Evernote with Windows 10

Aug 9, 2015

After upgrading to Windows 10 on my Microsoft Surface Pro 3 (from 8.1), my wife’s Surface Pro 3 (from 8.1), my custom iBuyPower desktop (from 7), and my two oldest daughters’ computers, one a Surface Pro 2 and the other an Asus ultrabook (both from 8.1), I ran into only three...

The VideoBrain Family Computer and France’s Old Regime

The VideoBrain Family Computer and France’s Old Regime

Aug 4, 2015

Among its few claims to fame, the VideoBrain Family Computer Model 101, was the first cartridge-based computer and the first computer with four joystick ports. Its sleek design belies its 1977 origins, albeit with a keyboard of unusual configuration (to be fair, there was a minor movement in that nascent...

Review: KOVOT Battery Organizer and Tester

Review: KOVOT Battery Organizer and Tester

Aug 3, 2015

If you’re into electronics, or have kids, or any other number of common scenarios, you need batteries, lots and lot of batteries. The problem with needing batteries all of the time is keeping them handy–let’s face it, that old, disheveled junk drawer just doesn’t cut it. That’s where something like...

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