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TGP #414 Leatherman Multi-Tool

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Welcome to The Gadget Professor Show #413 hosted by Don Baine.
Tim Leatherman (an Oregon native) received his Mechanical Engineering degree from Oregon State University. While on a budget trip to Europe in 1975, Tim and his wife Chau constantly came across leaky hotel plumbing and road-side fixes for their cranky Fiat. Tim realized the need for a pliers based, multi-purpose tool. “I was carrying a scout knife and used it for everything from slicing bread to fixing the car. But I kept wishing I had a pair of pliers!”.

When Tim came back to the states, he took his “multi-tool” idea, some sketches he made on the trip and got to work.
When Tim started on the prototype for this new tool, he estimated it’d take him a month. Instead, it took the next three years to build the prototype he envisioned and file for a patent. With the patent application and prototype in hand, he set off to sell his idea. Unfortunately, the companies he approached didn’t bite. Knife companies thought his invention was a tool, and tool companies thought it was a gadget. Neither were interested.

For another three and a half years, Tim faced one rejection letter after another. Until he partnered with his college friend, Steve Berliner, and in the spring of 1983, they received their first order for 500 tools from Cabela’s and launched the first Leatherman tool.

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TGP 411 BLINK Camera

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Extended battery life – 2 year battery life on two AA lithium batteries with a combination of two-way talk, live view, and motion recording. Double the usage of the XT on a single set of batteries when recording video.
2-way audio – Talk to visitors through the Blink app on your smartphone or tablet.
Customizable motion detection – Use activity zones to choose where motion is detected so you receive the alerts that matter.
Free cloud storage – Keep hundreds of clips stored up to a year with no monthly fees or service contract required.
Works with Alexa – View live streams, motion clips, or arm and disarm your camera through select Alexa-enabled devices.
Day and night coverage – Record and view in up to 1080p HD video during the day and with infrared HD night vision after dark.
Use indoors/outdoors – Blink XT2 stands up to the elements. Place or mount it inside or outside for whole home security.
Easy setup – No tools, wiring, or professional installation required.

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TGP 410 Mint Es & H Tracker

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Loud – crystal clear alarm sound volume can hear from thirty feet away, up to 90 dB
Easy to use – one remote controls six items, call them at will with the press of one button
Cost-effective – receive six beepers for the price of one similar item finder, covers everything in one location
Low maintenance – replace the battery easily every six months, the only maintenance needed, no app, no tech hassle, common replacement CR battery
Perfect for one location – six beepers cover everything in one place, whether it is your home, garage, tool shed, or office.
MINT aims to bring quality electronics to consumers worldwide and share our passion and enjoyment for technology with great products. We follow the following goals when making our products, well-balanced quality and design for each item, great utility at a low cost.
MINT H is a beeper that functions as a thing-finder
This item contains four beepers and one remote. Each beeper should be applied to one item that generally stays in one location, i.e. home or office. The remote should be placed at a visible place. Each beeper and the tracked item is organized by color.

After setup, search for the item through sound. Keys, wallet, tools, and things in general can be left in an obvious place, while searching for them may take more than a few minutes. MINT H beeper will generate a very audible tune when search mode is on, and find the attached item by following the source of the loud tune

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SanDisk SSD Sabrent SSD Case TGP #402

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Welcome to The Gadget Professor Show #402 hosted by Don Baine.SanDisk SSD Easy upgrade for faster boot-up, shutdown, application load and response (As compared to 5400 RPM SATA 2.5” hard drive. Based on published specifications and internal benchmarking tests using PCMark Vantage scores.)
Boosts burst write performance, making it ideal for typical PC workloads
The perfect balance of performance and reliability
Read/write speeds of up to 535MB/s/450MB/s (Based on internal testing; performance may vary depending upon drive capacity, host device, OS and application.)
Shock-resistant for proven durability —even if you drop your computer (Shock resistant (up to 1500G) and vibration resistant (5gRMS, 10-2000 HZ/4.9 gRMS, 7-800 HZ), Temperature (from 0 degrees Celcius to 70 degrees Celcius))
3-year limited manufacturer warranty

Sabrent 2.5-Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool-Free External Hard Drive Enclosure [Optimized for SSD, Support UASP SATA III] Black (EC-UASP)
Tool free design, easy to install,Transfer Rates Up to 480 Mbps when connected to a USB 2.0 port,Transfer Rates Up to 5 Gbps when connected to a USB 3.0 port.
Suitable for 2.5” SATA/SSD;Supports Standard Notebook 2.5″ SATA and SATA II Hard drives
Optimized for SSD, Supports UASP SATA III,Backwards-Compatible with USB 2.0 or 1.1
Hot-swappable, plug and play, no drivers needed
Operating System:Supported Operating Systems:Mac,Windows;Supported Windows Versions :Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP;Supported Mac Versions:Mac OS X and Higher
System requirements:Available USB 3.0 port on the computer to achieve full 5 Gbps transfer speeds; Available USB 2.0 port on the computer to achieve full 480 Mbps transfer speeds; Windows: XP/Vista/7/8 (Both 32-bit & 64-bit versions) MAC: OS X.

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LED Grow Lights TGP#396

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Welcome to The Gadget Professor Show #396 hosted by Don Baine.>Iron base + iron hose + aluminum+ PC
Imported
🌱【99 LED Beads & 4 Dimmable Levels】- 45W indoor grow light comes with 99 super bright LEDs(66 red LEDs and 33 blue LEDs). This grow lamp is ultra bright, lower heat and lower power consumption, high luminous efficiency and long service life. It has 4 Dimmable Levels brightness, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, and 100% light intensity and has 3 spectral modes (red, blue, and mixed light) to meet different stages of plant-growing needs.
🌱【Auto Turn On/Off & Timing Function】- LED Grow Light is the latest in plant growth lamps with an automatic timing function and a USB plug (comes with AC adapter). You can set it up for 3 hours, 6 hours or 12 hours, auto memory when continuous power, auto on/off every day.
🌱【USB Connector & Clip Design】- With the USB design, you can choose to plug into a wall outlet or an USB interface. There are 3 ways to fix the clamp (Clip, Screw or Stick). The 3-head light has a 360-degree flexible gooseneck, you can adjust the distance between the light and plants according to plants needs.
🌱【Efficient Red/ Blue LED Combination】- This professional grow lamp has 3 spectral modes (red, blue, and mixed light) to meet different stages of plant-growing needs. The red light promotes photosynthesis, germination, bloom and fruit bearing. The blue light ensures the plants take in more energy through chlorophyll synthesis to help in germination.
🌱【Widely Application】- Our grow lamp is suitable for indoor potted plants or an indoor garden. It accelerates the growth of various types of plants in every stage of development, applies to gardening, greenhouses, balcony, seed, seedling, breeding, flowers, herb, hydroponics, potted plants like succulents, cacti, fruits and vegetables like strawberries and tomatoes and lemon.

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LumaFusion & Free Streaming Sites TGP #394

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Welcome to The Gadget Professor Show #394 hosted by Don Baine.

LumaFusion is the most powerful multi-track video editor ever created for mobile devices. Used by mobile journalists, filmmakers and professional video producers to tell compelling video stories, LumaFusion gives you all of the power and flexibility to create your video story, and our tutorial videos make it easy to get going quickly and master its amazing tools.

EDITING

• 3 video/audio tracks for photos, videos, titles and graphics

• 3 additional audio tracks for narration, music and sound effects

• Insert and overwrite editing and trimming with professional tools like anchored clips and slip-trim

• Dozens of transitions including dissolves, slides, pushes, wipes and specialty transitions

EFFECTS

• Dozens of video effects including Chroma Key (green screen, blue screen or any color)

• Powerful color correction tools, including a 5 point level editor

• Select from included LUTs (color looks) like FiLMiC deLog or import your own .cube or .3dl files

• Layer effects, color and LUTs in any order to create an endless variety of effects

• Add unlimited keyframes to animate your effect or color at any frame

SLOW AND FAST MOTION

• Create slow motion/fast motion forward and reverse

• Fully supports 120 and 240fps slo-mo video files and time lapse video files

AUDIO

• Live Audio Track Mixer – listen to your mix while adjusting levels

• Fill-from-left and fill-from-right configurations for dual-mono audio captures

• Select from multiple audio tracks (perfect for iOS 11 screen recordings)

• Auto-ducking makes it easy to duck background music during dialog

• Keyframe audio levels and panning for perfect fades

• Audio Effects can be added to your clips

TITLER

• Create multi-layer titles with text, shapes and images

• Adjust font, color, face, border and shadow

• Import custom fonts including multi-color fonts

• Save and share title presets or styles

PROJECT MANAGER

• Create projects with wide variety of aspect ratios (landscape, portrait, square, film) and frame rates (18 to 60 fps)

• Duplicate, add notes, color-tag, search and sort your projects for easy organization

MEDIA LIBRARY

• Browse, preview and pre-trim media directly from Photos, GNARBOX, and WD Wireless Pro/SSD drives before adding to your project

• Storyblocks for LumaFusion – Download thousands of royalty-free videos, backgrounds, music, loops and sound fx (dozens of free clips are included – use of the full Storyblocks content library requires an in-app subscription purchase)

• Drag-and-drop media or easily import from cloud storage, SanDisk iXpand flash drives and SMB network drives

• View detailed information and metadata about your media

• Rename, add notes, and color-tag clips in the library

• Sort and search your library to quickly find what you need

SHARE

• Easily share movies to social media sites, cloud storage, GNARBOX, WD Wireless Pro/SSD, SanDisk iXpand flash drives, and SMB network drives

• Export at a variety of resolutions and qualities up to 4K (on supported iPhones and iPads), and a wide range of frame rates

• Quickly share a snapshot photo of any frame in your project to the Photos app

• Archive projects with media for backup or to edit on another iPhone or iPad

• Include VR metadata for exporting 360° videos

EXCEPTIONAL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

• Check out the full reference guide at https://luma-touch.com/lumafusion-reference-guide

• Find tutorials, answers to your questions, and contact us directly at https://luma-touch.com/support

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Ubuntu TGP #384

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Welcome to The Gadget Professor Show #384 hosted by Don Baine.

I always like to have a copy/USB stick/DVD with a current version of UNUBTU on it ready to go. This operating system is very easy to use, security safe, portable, and an excellent operating system to have on hand if you run into computer boot problems.
Ubuntu comes with everything you need to run your organisation, school, home or enterprise. All the essential applications, like an office suite, browsers, email and media apps come pre-installed and thousands more games and applications are available in the Ubuntu Software Centre.

Ubuntu has always been free to download, use and share. We believe in the power of open source software; Ubuntu could not exist without its worldwide community of voluntary developers.
With a built-in firewall and virus protection software, Ubuntu is one of the most secure operating systems around. And the long-term support releases give you five years of security patches and updates.Computing is for everyone regardless of nationality, gender or disability. Ubuntu is fully translated into over 50 languages and includes essential assistive technologies.
Ubuntu is designed to work beautifully on the latest laptops, desktops and touch screen devices, it looks incredible on high resolution screens — and with touch screen enhancements and interface refinements including individual menu bars in each application window, it’s now even easier to use.

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Kwilt ShoeBox – TGP # 381

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Welcome to The Gadget Professor Show #381 hosted by Don Baine. Today we will interview the inventor of the Kwilt Shoebox, Mr. Marc Antoine.
KWILT SHOEBOX – Keep your photos, videos and digital files safe at home. Save Access & Share them from Anywhere. Simply plug your own USB drives into the Kwilt Shoebox at home and make all your content available on the go with the free Kwilt App.

Ideal for the Smartphone. The Kwilt Shoebox Mini is best suited for the smartphone photographer. Never run out of phone storage again. Manually or automatically backup your photos & videos wirelessly to free up space on your phone. Wireless storage for iPad, iphone 8, iphone 7, iphone 6 and android devices.

No monthly fees. Your digital content is stored at home on your drive, so no need for monthly cloud storage fees.

No storage limits. With the Kwilt Shoebox you can use your own existing storage or add as much new storage as you require as your content grows. Simply, plug in a bigger drive or even several drives through a USB hub (not supplied). Kwilt provides you a USB thumb drive to get started however with the

Total Privacy. Kwilt stores your digital files in the privacy and safety of your home. Only you can decide who has access to them.
iPHONE EXTERNAL STORAGE: Wireless storage drive to transfer your mobile photos & videos to the privacy of your home and access them from anywhere with our free KWILT APP.
ANDROID STORAGE: Simply plug any USB storage device or hard drive, or even a USB Hub into your KWILT SHOEBOX and Access your drive from you Phone. Your own personal cloud to safely store your memories at home.
iPHONE WIRELESS STORAGE: The KWILT APP allows you to not only export your data safely, but it organizes your content by date or category and offers editing tools to enhance the quality of your memories.
NO MONTHLY FEES: for iPhone and Android backup to your very own remote private cloud storage. 32GB Expandable to 16TB
UNIVERSAL COMPATIBILITY: Works with iPhone6, iPhone7, iPhone8, iPad, & Android devices. Also works as iPad external storage too.

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TGP 380 BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL

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Welcome to The Gadget Professor Show #380 hosted by Don Baine.
Happy Thanksgiving to all !

This week is AUDIO ONLY – a Black Friday Special

To be honest I had recorded the full video production and for what ever reason the file was corrupt…did not have the time to re-record as I have to go the Turkey dinner !!!!

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Be back next week with a really cool gadget – enjoy your holiday.

Don

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TGP # 374 Grtdhx MP3 Player

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Welcome to The Gadget Professor Show #374 hosted by Don Baine. Bluetooth, 16GB Portable Digital Music Player with FM Radio/Recorder, HiFi Lossless Sound Quality, Music Direct Recording ，Expandable up to 128GB TF Card
[mp3 player with fm radio]: It can record the music you listen to from phonograph, tape drive, CD, DVD and mobile phone using our designated audio cable, and enjoy it again anywhere you like. This is not possible with other MP3 players. The MP3 player is also a portable radio with headphones. Independent radio IC design helps players get stronger signals. It can easily receive your favorite radio station.
[MP3 Player with Bluetooth] When an MP3 player is connected to stereo or headphones, you can return to the main screen and find your favorite songs in the music file. In Bluetooth mode, you can get “bookmarks” or “restore work.” You can fast forward or rewind to select the part you want to listen to. The Bluetooth 4.2 MP3 player has better compatibility and lower power consumption. Long distance and automatic connection help MP3 players easily connect headphones and audio.
[16GB lossless player]:16GB capacity allows you enjoying music up to 5000 songs. You can use the extra space to set up a new file to save a lot of files as well. It is HI FI lossless MP3 player with Equalizer, which can support playing Rock, Funk, Hip Hop, Jazz, Classical etc. It supports the below Audio Formats: Mp3/ WMA/ APE/ FLAC/ WAV/ AAC-LC/ ACELP.
[4.2 pedometer and armband]:Using our sports armbands will give your hands free when running and will make music easier to carry. After you set up your user information, you can start to record the number of steps of your workout, the frequency of the exercise, the calories burned, the miles and time of the exercise. While you are using the 4.2version of the pedometer, you can also return to the main interface and listen to your music. Technology makes life easier and easier.
[mp3 player with speaker]:Alarm and sleeping timer function are realized by the built-in speaker. Fashion design, gift wrapped, a best present for your friends.

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