Awesome Gadgets

AeroBand’s electronic drumsticks let you practice drumming anywhere, working with your mobile device to play realistic drum sounds. They offer an ultra-low latency Bluetooth connection, and the AeroBand app helps you learn drumming via games. There’s also a bundle that comes with foot sensors to complete your drum kit.

AAXA’s P7 differentiates itself from cheaper mini projectors by offering a true HD (1920×1080) DLP optical engine, for crisp images up to 120″ diagonal. It’s also got a nice loud speaker. It’ll run on AC, or its 38-watt rechargeable battery runs for up to 90 minutes. AAXA also offers a larger and more expensive model with 4K resolution.

Say goodbye to canned air with Nitecore’s portable blower. This bag-friendly gadget has a 26,000 RPM motor to blast air at 43.5 mph. It’s perfect for cleaning lenses and the insides of interchangeable lens cameras, as well as keyboards and other places that trap dust and debris. The kit includes lens and body cleaning brushes.

Dina A. Amin loves to disassemble everyday items, and neatly arrange their components. In this clip, she turned this process into a stop-motion animation, deconstructing a Walkman, a phone, a hairdryer, and a camera. She also likes to play a game where you guess how many parts are inside before it’s disassembled.

This compact safe protects personal items like cash, credit cards, and jewelry wherever you go. It’s made from a durable aluminum alloy and can only be opened using a biometric scan from your smartphone. Its interior holds items up to 1″ thick and has a strap in its top lid for carrying watches or rings.

These days, any place can be your office. But if you’re going to be on the road, you want to be fully equipped. Everyday Carry checks out some useful gadgets from Anker that help you stay connected and productive anywhere, from webcams to speakerphones to quick chargers.

This unusual kitchen gadget cuts perfect cubes of watermelon. Just push it into the meat of the melon, and its windmill mechanism cuts out rectangular chunks in your desired size. The two-piece set includes a melon baller tool as well.

If you’re just guessing the distance to the pin, your golf game is going to suffer. Callaway’s rangefinder can accurately scope distances within 1-yard, helping to ensure you pick the right club for the job. It can even compensate for slope in its distance calculations. Save an extra 15% with code VIP15 through 10.5.2021.

This Wi-Fi enabled camera sits at the tip of a 2-meter-long cable, allowing you to grab images in dark and hard-to-access places, like inside of a wall or even down your drain. It’s waterproof, and has six bright LED lights for illuminating your subject. Save an additional 15% with code VIP15 through 10.5.2021.

The 2021 GoPro model has the most powerful processor yet, a GP2 chip that can shoot 5.3K video at 60fps, 4K at 120fps, and 2.7K at 240fps (8x slow-mo). HyperSmooth 4.0 ensures stable video in all modes, and it can shoot 23 megapixel still images too. A removable lens cover beads water and reduces unwanted lens flare.

Tired of flossing your teeth one at a time? Well, Unnecessary Inventions has the solution, a gadget which can floss all of your teeth at once. While it was designed as a joke, we could totally see someone selling such a device. Though we imagine reloading the floss would take way more time than just flossing normally.

This tiny cube transforms any screen into a digital whiteboard. It automatically calibrates to screens from 15″ to 300″ diagonal. It uses its camera and software to detect the position of its infrared stylus so that you can doodle in real-time on the screen.

The Roadie 3 is an automatic tuner for guitars, basses, ukuleles, and other stringed instruments. We took one for a spin to see how quickly and accurately it works on a guitar, along with testing it on a less common instrument – a bouzouki. Overall, it’s an impressive tool for any musician who plays strings.

A powerful and durable portable Bluetooth speaker, the DemerBox may be your best bet. Its electronics are installed inside a waterproof Pelican case, so it’s tough as nails, cranks out powerful bass, and doubles as a carrying case for small items. It lasts up to 40 hours per charge and has a USB charging port inside.

The TickrMeter is a tiny e-Paper screen that connects to the internet to display real-time prices for stocks, cryptocurrencies, exchange rates, and other trading markets. It has a red/green indicator for positive or negative returns and can be programmed to cycle between different tickers. Stack multiples for an at-a-glance look.

Designed for communicating in places without cell phone service, this gadget makes lets you text and track your travel companions up to 6-miles away. It creates its own private mesh network and provides offline GPS capability for sending locations to other Radacat C2 users. Save $59 in The Awesomer Shop on this 2-pack.

This plate-mounting system is designed to replace numerous photography tools with one. Its Z-shaped hinge and multiple mounting points let you use it as a stand, a handheld rig, chest brace, and a mount for poles and trees. It can be used standalone when traveling light or to augment your existing rigs like sliders and tripods.

The cameras in iPhones are impressive, but their controls aren’t great for pro shoots. The Fjorden attaches to the back of your iPhone and adds a two-stage shutter button, a zoom lever, a control dial, and a multi-function button like those found on a DSLR. It works with various camera apps and doubles as a kickstand.

Keep tabs on your grilling and smoking with Tappecue’s AirProbe2 wireless temperature probe. It uses two sensors to provide accurate readings of the internal temperature of both your meat and the cooking chamber via a mobile app. Comes with a charging dock that can provide up to 12 hours of use per charge.

This pocketable gadget transforms any smooth surface into a touch-based keyboard. It uses a laser to project a virtual keyboard and has the smarts to detect the positions of your fingers and when you type. It connects via Bluetooth or USB and also has a piano layout for playing music using a companion smartphone app.

Elgato updates its awesome 15-key programmable LCD keyboard with several new features. The MK.2 version offers interchangeable faceplates, a new stand design, and a USB Type-C port. The Stream Deck Store offers plugins, icon packs, royalty-free music and sound effects you can link to its keys.

This portable gadget turns any hollow surface into a Bluetooth speaker. Set it on top of a cardboard box, stick it on a hollow-core door, or even a hard-shell suitcase, and it sends mechanical vibrations through the object, resulting in surprisingly loud sound from a pocket-sized device. Save 28% in The Awesomer Shop.

One of the worst things about shaving is the mess left around your sink and bathroom afterward. The Stubble Buddy fixes that by sweeping and vacuuming up facial and other manscaping messes in seconds and without having to fetch the broom or dustbuster while you’re naked.