Gadget Dose

This little nifty gadget caught my eye and I can’t stop thinking how cool it would be to have one. Certainly a great thing for kids to experiment with, and it could be pretty darn useful around the workshop.

The best part is of course the LCD screen - a 3.5″ color. The screen itself has an SD card slot for taking pictures of what you are viewing and you can even connect it up to a PC via USB cable to transfer images.

Its got a 6 position color filer and can view from 40 to 400 Power - up to 1600 Power with Digital Zoom.

Thats pretty incredible.

It runs for $300 and the manufacturers page is HERE

Now just to get things straight - I’m not advocating using this to find otherworldly spirits in your house If you want to go ghost hunting, you probably want one of those um “special” units.

You then might ask yourself - Just what do I need an EMF detector for?

Use #1
Well, for starters we all have some kind of magnetic media in the house, be it cassette tapes, VHS tapes , (maybe home videos?) , Floppy disks, camcorder tapes, etc.

You want to find a place in your house to store these where the EMF fields are the lowest.

Use #2
High EMF fields can indicate excessive current draw - so if your doorbell transformer is giving off a huge field, it may be shorting out to some extent and costing you money each month. ( note you could also find improper wiring faults using the same principal)

Use #3
High EMF fields are also unhealthy - if you knew your living room couch was right over that 220v 40 amp run - you might just re-arrange the room around that.

Use #4
Tv Screens ,Monitors etc. -they by nature give off quite a field, you could use the meter to find the best spot on your desk (or under it) where the monitor would affect the pc (and its drive within) the least.

Probably the biggest reason I’m even bringing this gadget up is that my favorite Science Store Edmund Scientific has it for only $24.95 !

ITs gonna get cold soon - and most digital thermometers wont handle below freezing temps - these however are made for just that job.

This temperature and humidity sensor can transmit data in even the coldest temperatures. When used with 2 AAA lithium batteries (not included), this sensor can transmit temperature and humidity data up to 100 feet, and will operate even at -40 degrees F. Has an easy-to-open battery cover and can transmit on one of three different channels.

Lets hope none of us sees -40 this year!

These days you can’t be sure where a cam could be hidden, they build pinhole cameras into just about everything. With this portable gadget you can do a sweep of a room and find hidden cams in seconds….

Quickly, easily, and discreetly conduct sweeps of your home, office, or hotel room to locate hidden wireless cameras. Simply point the compact camera towards walls and ceilings; and alarm will sound when a frequency of 50MHz to 3GHz is detected.

Priced nicely at $29.95 - you can find it HERE

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A pen sized infrared thermometer, I use a larger version for everything from seeing how hot the pan is on the stove, to finding heat leaks in the house come wintertime. This ultra portable model would be great for anyone needing to read a temperature of a surface either at home or on the run. It measures temperatures from -27° F to 428° F. And it’s also price reduced - from 79.95 to 52.49!

Buy the ThermoHAWK 400 Infrared Thermometer for $52.49

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This device measures the amount of energy used by whatever you plug into it. I own one myself and it has finally answered questions like…

“How much are these Christmas lights actually costing me?”
“If I turn the fridge down one notch, how much money per month will it save?”
“How much is my TV being on standby when its off costing me per month?”

It also has other test modes useful for other diagnostics - voltage / amperage / kw-h / time

It does have a limit of 15 amps so you won’t be able to use it on your clothes dryer - but just about everything else is fair game.

Get it from Amazon for $28.99