Gadget Dose

What could be more fun than splashing someone who didn’t expect to get wet? - Well, doing it by remote control! - this floating water cannon is controlled by radio and can wet down unsuspecting partygoers up to 40 feet away!

As if that weren’t enough - you can get a couple of these things and have a full blown water war.

A very cool summer gadget- you can get it here. A little pricey at $129.95 - but hey, anything for the pool generally is.

Gadget, Summer, Pool, R/C

Here’s a nifty lighted gadget for your summer fun season.
Its solar-powered batteries require no wiring, and this light with up to 15 hours of continuous no-cost operation turns on automatically as night falls. The amber LED bulb is enclosed within a hand-painted finish.

On sale at Amazon for $20.29

Gadget, Outdoor, Led Light, Solar

So you’re going to the park, or camping out - or maybe just heading out to cousin Bob’s for the day / evening.

You could bring this little gadget and eliminate bugs on the fly. (heh) - It’s solar powered so it charged up during the day - and lets loose with high voltage bug killing goodness at night.

It’s currently tough to find outside of the UK - but you can go to Amazon.uk
and get it shipped to you in the US for around 26 bucks.

Gadget, Outdoors, Bug Zapper

This excellent device shows alerts you to thunderstorms and cloud to ground lightning up to 75 miles away. It also gives you ETA of the storms arrival. Very handy if you work in the field or golf, camp out - really any outdoor activity.

The detector uses a highly-sensitive ferrite antenna that detects the low-frequency radio signals, or sferics, emitted by lightning as they travel through the earths ionosphere. Its built-in microprocessor and software analyzes the waveform and voltage the antenna detects to tell you how far away a lightning strike was, which indicates the presence of approaching storm cells and squall lines, and provides you with storm approach speed, estimated time of arrival, distance, and more.

While not cheap - $429.95 - it might just be a lifesaver, so you can’t really put a price on that.

You can find it HERE

Gadget, Lightning Detector

This is a nice fun little light thats fully solar charged. Lasts for 15 hours and makes a great accent light for the deck or lawn in the summer. Sure beats having regular candles you have to relight or replace. And these won’t go out if a shower passes by.

Grab some over at Amazon for $13.00

Outdoor, Solar, Accent Light

Think I’m getting summer fever over here - todays gadget is a first. A family sized tent (aluminum pole construction) that has its own solar powered LED lighting. Set the tent up during the day and the lights will be on for you when your ready to sleep. It’s like your own Motel 6

Speaking of Motel 6 - the tent sleeps 6.

Unfortunately I don’t have pricing - but the manufacturer has a dealer locater if you are interested.

Gadget, Camping, Solar Power, LED

A great way to get the pool skimmed whilest having fun. Give the remote to your kid and kick back with a brewsky. The device collects leaves and other detritus floating on the water surface into its net, and prevents the debris from reentering the water. When cleanup is complete, the net detaches for easy disposal, and the remote-control’s 100′ range allows you to clean a pool from a shaded seat.

A tad bit pricey at $139.95 - but hey, if you have a pool thats a drop in the bucket eh?

Gadget, Summer, Pool, R/C

What with the warnings that this year will be an above average Hurricane season. I thought this gadget might come in real handy.

Whats special about it? It uses the new “NOAA SAME Technology” - Meaning that if there is a weather warning in your area - be it hurricane, tornado, flood or whatever … You’ll get it right on the weather station as its issued.

Aside from that this unit comes with just about every accesory a weather watcher would need -
Included sensors:
• Anemometer measures wind speed and direction
• Rain gauge measures rainfall amount
• Thermo-hygrometer measures temperature and humidity
• 200 weather records without PC connection
• PC software (included) and USB port
• Operating range from 100 feet (30 meters) up to 328 feet

With the PC Software you can log weather trends and details over time.

Its also got a sunrise/sunset display - moon phase - weather forecast - barometer - and indoor/outdoor temp and humidity.

With this gadget you could be your own weather station. Truly a cornucopia of weather watching goodness.

The manufacturers page is HERE it’s also listed at
Amazon for $349.99

Gadget, Emergency, Weather, NOAA Alerts

We’ve all seen the propane driven mosquito catchers, the problem with those is the price. From $200 - $500! Priced like that the units are more than prohibitive. I wouldn’t buy one of those unless I was buried waist deep in the little pests.

This new tech breakthrough comes from Rush Hampton and has gotten rave reviews. It uses no propane, and no chemicals. (There is a baiting pack available but the unit proves to be just as effective without it.)

No high voltage either - so its safe around pets and kids.

To make it even more attractive (and get it listed here) its been reduced in price
from $149.95 to $99.14 !
You can get it HERE at Amazon

Gadget, Outdoors, Mosquito Cather

These nifty looking solar lights can be hung around the yard or floated in your pool. They come in a pack of three and batteries (rechargeable NiCad) are included.

You can get the three pack over at Firebox for $29.95

Gadget, LED Light, Solar

For you gardeners out there - or you folks with nice looking lawns -

Wireless Rain Center

A great gift for gardeners, our Wireless Rain Center monitors total and daily rainfall amounts and beams the results back to your indoor receiver for warm and dry viewing. The rain bucket is self-emptying, making for a maintenance-free gadget.

* User-defined rainfall alarm for past 24 hours
* Current, light and heavy rain indicators
* Low battery indicator for both receiver and rain sensor
* Transmission range of 330 feet

You can get it here for $39.50

Gadget, Outdoor, Garden, Rain Guage