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Samsonite Spinner 20
I saw your review of the Travel Pro Crew, which seems popular with a lot of airline staff. A few years ago, I saw one of them wheeling something different: a Samsonite Winfield 20-inch. I asked why and...
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Organizing Cables and Other Gear Using Hanging Storage Bags
Got a tip to share? Tool to recommend? Tall shop tale to tell? A tip to bust? Please share with the class. Organizing Cables and Other Gear Using Hanging Storage Bags Twitter user laen posted this...
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James Cham, VC at Bloomberg Beta
James Cham is a Seed Stage VC at Bloomberg Beta. You can follow him on Twitter @jamescham. Tools: Voice Recognition on Google Pixel 6 Galactic Camera iPad stand (specific kind not mentioned) Apple...
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Weighted blanket
I toss and turn trying to fall asleep. Heard about this “weighted blanket” and gave it a try. WOW! Immediate improvement as the weight settles me down to a calm, relaxed state. And during the night if...
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Nomadico/Secret recipes/How to professionally say
Tips for working while traveling More people are working from home, or working from remote locations, or working while traveling, or traveling while working. We, the Recomendo crew, are launching a new...
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Brother Sewing Machine
This Brother sewing machine is light, small, cheap and reliable. I use it for occasional household work and mostly to make repairs to uniforms and sew on patches. It can do ten stitches and that’s more...
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Garage/Shop/Patio Blower
The covered back porch seems to be the center of my home. Lots of time spent there with bird feeders hanging on the eaves and squirrels begging for peanuts. It’s not large but has a porch swing and a...
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Pancro Lens Cleaning Fluid
How do you keep a camera lens clean? You cover it with a filter. But how do you keep the filter clean? I floundered for many years with streaky Kodak solutions and other goofy products, till I was...
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Testing Everyday Carry Folding Knives
Got a tip to share? Tool to recommend? Tall shop tale to tell? A tip to bust? Please share with the class. Testing Everyday Carry Folding Knives In this Project Farm video, Todd tests out 15 brands of...
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Set
Set is a simple game in a class by itself. You get a deck of cards with colored symbols. These are laid out, face up. To play the game you need to organize the symbols into sets of three “un-alikes” —...
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James Home, Designer and Technologist
James Home is a designer and technologist living aboard a forty-foot sailboat called Rejoice. You can follow him on Twitter @jameshome, or visit his website at jameshome.com TOOLS: Samson Rope...
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Exit Scam/YesTheory/Contactless payments
Exit Scam podcast I have only listened to the first episode of Exit Scam, an eight-episode podcast about the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of the founder of Canada’s biggest Bitcoin...
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USB Powered Soldering Iron
It’s time for another Cool Tools video review. I’m going to show you this $9 USB-powered soldering iron. It’s available on Amazon Prime, and by using the Amazon link in the description here you help...
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Culinary Parchment Baking Cups
We’ve been using these parchment cups to bake muffins for a couple of months and they never cease to amaze. Each time I peel off the paper cup from my morning muffin I’m still impressed at how...
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Gary Wolf, Co-founder of Quantified Self
Gary Wolf is a writer and journalist and co-founder of Quantified Self, as well as the Director of Article 27, a non-profit organization which supports the human right to participate in science...
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Notable quotes/Monumental Trees/Vanishing Asia
Notable Quotes A few quotations I’ve recently come across: “So what’s the Original Sin of the Internet? Nearly all business models it supports require spying on consumers and monetizing them.” — Bob...
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Building Vertical Tool Drawers
When I started working on the second volume of my tips book, I suspected the first volume might get a new spike in sales, too. I was right. Some days, Volume 1 even ranks higher on Amazon than Volume...
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Charles Lindsay, Artist-Adventurer
Charles Lindsay is an artist-adventurer whose work synthesizes ideas about time, technology, eco-systems and semiotics. You can find out more at charleslindsay.com or follow him on Instagram...
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Meditative Mind/M.C. Escher puzzle/Prehistoric Planet
Sign up here to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox. Best meditation music There’s rarely a day that goes by that I don’t listen to my Meditative Mind: Music & Sleep app. There are hundreds...
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Alternative Dough Scrapers
On January 28, 2018, we recommended a $15 steel dough scraper / food chopper made by Dexter-Russell. Our commenters recommended a number of less expensive alternatives. Tirapop said: “I use a Norpro...
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