Wireless Wednesday for 6/4/14: With Mitch Evans - Father's Day Gift Gadgets
Thursday, June 5, 2014 at 10:53AM * TOPICS - Rick is on vacation this week, at a beautiful and trendy, but also canine-friendly B&B in Watkinsville of all places with Lindsay and Pearl called Ashford Manor but never to busy to not join Mitch for Wireless Wednesday
We talk some French Open look at some great gadget and tech gifts for Dear Ole Dad leading up to Father's Day
* With internet all that strong, the tape is a little choppy and skipped over most of what I talked about in the Mizuno irons section. It ran fine live on the radio, but recording is a little skippy.
But have a listen:
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1. HP Rove 20 MegaTablet/Desktop Computer
$979.99 but “it can be found for $100 less” or “HP routinely has sales and the Rove is sometimes offered for less.”
It's a desktop computer with touch screen capabilities. It's an ultra-big tablet. No matter how you look at it, it's perfect for the dad that likes watching sports or following sports scores and updates on his computer screen.
With the HP ENVY Rove you get:
- A unique hinged stand that lets you tilt the 20-inch HD diagonal touchscreen or lay it flat like a tablet.
- An Intel® Core™ i3 processor
- Windows 8 operating system
- Touchscreen that is responsive
- Wireless keyboard and mouse
The ENVY Rove 20 weighs about 12 pounds and gets good battery life. It also looks good on your desk or table. This will suffice for dad's reading and viewing habits. He might even be able to get some work done in his down time.
2. Keurig Mini - now coming in colors of your favorite college
Here's one for the UGA fans
The MINI Plus Brewing System brews a perfect cup of coffee, tea, hot cocoa or iced beverage in under two minutes at the touch of a button. With the choice of three cup sizes, the MINI Plus brewer offers a removable drip tray to accommodate short travel mugs. To operate, you simply add fresh water into the single-use reservoir, choose your favorite K-Cup® pack, brew and enjoy.
3. Mizuno JPX-EZ Irons
The irons Rick Limpert plays
Has dad been coming home after that round of golf with a frustrated look on his face? Chances are it's his iron play. He may not be getting the loft or distance off the club like he had in the past. The top-rated irons have a huge sweet spot a ultra-pocket cavity that gives a golfer consistency and forgiveness. What more can a golfer, or dad ask for in his bag?
The JPX-EZ irons come at a great price point and Mizuno is currently offering free shipping on orders over $75 at www.mizunousa.com.
4. Sunice active wear
Sunice Golf
Sunice is all about layering and protecting you. In 1992, Sunice started producing golf attire and outwear.
Sunice is worn by numerous pros on both the American and European PGA Tour, and LPGA Tour. Sunice shirts, vests, and outwear offer a high tech Performance Layering System, and they are comfortable. Sunice is also the only golf company in the world to offer the X-Static® Silver technology.
Sunice shirts like the Oakey are anti-microbial, anti-odor, anti-static, and moisture wicking. They are great to wear on the course or even at a summer party or event. Sunice wear is quality, backup up by performance and style.
Get more information at www.Sunice.com.
5. Bracketron Tri Caddy Flex
Attaches to just about any surface to hold or mount a smartphone or other mobile devices. It features a 1/4" standard camera thread and flexible tripod arms that can hook on to anything. It gives you versatility and allows you to set up angles no other mounting device will allow.
Perfect for recording a golf swing, a tennis match, or even you son's at bat in a Little League game.
The mount can be used with a smartphone or camera and it's available at www.Bracketron.com for $19.95.
6. Yonex high tech tennis shoes - Yonex Power Cushion Pro
Ranked by Tennis Magazine as the "Best All-Around Shoe" and Rick has a pair.
My feet find it extremely hard to find shoes that fit just right and hold their shape. The Yonex Power Cushion Pro did just that and more.
They gave great support. I felt safe changing direction and making quick stops.
They are durable. The toe area of a tennis shoe is the most used portion of a tennis shoe and the Pro Cushion has high tech construction in the toe. I seem to think that extra molding and thought that went into the construction of the toe helps the rest of the shoe.
App of the week:
VyClone - as in "Cyclone", no Fred Hoiberg is not involved by Sting's son is...
It’s not every day you come across an a piece of software in the App Store that was co-created by rock legend Sting’s son. It’s also not every day you find an app with celebrity ties that is actually pretty cool.
Vyclone is an app that takes 1-minutes video clips you record and adds them to other videos that were recorded in the same location around the same time by other users. We’re sure you can see where this is going, but the result is a highlight reel of sorts that creates movies of an event using footage captured by several different phones.
The most obvious use case is a sporting event or a concert.
Say you’re at a show — a Sting show, perhaps. You can use Vyclone to record a few clips and upload them to the app’s servers. Your footage is then combined with clips of the Sting show recorded by other Vyclone users in attendance, and the result is one big multi-camera highlight movie.
Vyclone is a very cool app as long as you use it to record events where other users are also recording, and it’s completely free in the iOS App Store.
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