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I turned a Moto Z magnetic battery pack into a wallet case

My current phone is a Lenovo/Motorola Moto Z2 Play, which I bought last year to replace my Moto Z Play.

Lately, there has been a lot of talk about how third party Nintendo Switch portable docks are bricking the system

I make most of my own accessories, and have done so for ages. It’s cheaper, more flexible, faster (no need

Ever since I got rid of my Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, I’ve been without an Android device that’s fully capable

One of my favorite, but least mentioned gadgets are the Bose QuietComfort 3 noise cancelling headphones. Reviews are mixed about

I’m a big fan of self made accessories, and know that there’s no substitute for tailoring accessories for your own

Ever since I got the iPad mini, I’ve been trying out various solutions to keeping a stylus with my iPad.

A pet project of mine lately has been to play with streaming PC games to my iPad mini via Splashtop

After I got the utter disappointed that is the SwitchEasy CoverBuddy for the iPad mini and gave it a whopping

Those who have been following my DIY articles might remember that I got a dummy phone for my Samsung Galaxy

Over Christmas, I came across a sale where the Novero Tour Bluetooth headphones were being sold for £19, down from

Paul King The oldest is familiar, but the younger one I need to introduce. She's more of an early st Nicholas Santa fan
Get your Assistant routines in the spirit of the holidays (contest) · November 26, 2020
Patrick Holloway I'm preparing a routine that when I say "Krampus has come for you" then the bedroom smart light turns on dark red. Then the recipient receives a text message saying "Krampus knows you were bad" and...
Get your Assistant routines in the spirit of the holidays (contest) · November 26, 2020
Deslok In the case of a higher power card(a gpu) a full system power measurement would be acceptable however a pcie device like this is low enough power that other factors(disk and cpu activity triggered by...
Trendnet TEG-10GECTX PCIe 10GbaseT Ethernet Adapter Review · November 23, 2020
MrCalvin I agree measure power-consumption on a PCI socket is whole other story, I would say the only practical way is to measure the whole computer, before and after activating the device, but that should...
Trendnet TEG-10GECTX PCIe 10GbaseT Ethernet Adapter Review · November 21, 2020
Deslok I unfortunately don't have a way to meter a pcie device directly at this time, that is part of why my answer was 6-10w based on other AQ107 devices i've observed(such as the OWC 10gbaseT adapter which...
Trendnet TEG-10GECTX PCIe 10GbaseT Ethernet Adapter Review · November 20, 2020