Spotter: Know What’s Happening In Your House… And Wine Cellar

Home By on Nov 25, 2013

Spotter: Multi-purpose sensor now on Quirky

Spotter ($50) is a multi-purpose sensor that measure the temperature, humidity, light, sound, and motion in your home, letting you connect, control and monitor just about everything. Want your lights to automatically turn on when someone knocks on your door? Sure. Want an alert when your wine cellar is too warm? Wait. You have a wine cellar!? Wow. OK. Huh. Anyways, yes, as you might imagine, Spotter works with your smartphone, so ya know, you’ll need to pry yourself away from your 1978 Montrachet for a moment. Sorry, I just can’t let this wine cellar thing go.

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hipKey: You Can’t Find Yourself Until You Find Your Phone

Tech By on Jan 25, 2013

Searching for your purpose, your true direction on this spiritual journey we call life, can only occur if you have at least three bars of service on your phone (you gotta Google “meaning of life” right?). But if you can’t find your phone, you can’t find yourself. hipKey works with your iPhone, iPad, or anything that you attach it to. With hipKey in your pocket, you can set the gentle alarm to go off as soon as your phone drifts off further than you’d like (up to 164 feet). Then and only then, once reunited with Siri, you may resume your quest for inner tranquility.

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