Tech Void

Tired of schlepping your hose around the yard back and forth? I certainly am. That’s when I came across the Giraffe Ground-Mounted Retractable Hose Reel, which promised a tangle-free, efficient watering experience for your lawn and garden. But does it live up to the hype? Let’s delve into its features and see if it’s a worthy investment for your outdoor space. Convenience Reigns Supreme As noted, the biggest advantage of this retractable hose reel is its convenience.

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Samsung announced that it is starting mass production of upgraded memory technology today–the first 512GB embedded universal flash storage (eUFS) device made for mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets. The devices are 64-layer 512GB V-NAND chips and have twice the number of cells as Samsung‘s previous controller chips and storage. From Samsung’s press release: The UFS devices are said to be supreme in speed, reading up to 860 MB/s and writing at 255MB/s.

If you’re looking for that great tech gift, Verizon is offering some decent buy one get one (BOGO) free holiday deals on the Samsung Galaxy S8 and 8+, and Note8, as well as Apple’s iPhone 8 and 8 Plus. The deal launched this past Friday. Verizon is offering the deal if customers buy the two devices from the same manufacturer (no mix and match Android/iOS here), and activate a new line on Verizon’s unlimited plan.

In the world of online dating, the pandemic has posed some notable health hurdles the past year. That’s why Tinder, the popular dating app, says it’s working with EverlyWell to give away 1,000 COVID-19 at-home test kits to incentivize safe, IRL dating this spring. Dubbing 2021 and onward as the “flirtiest years of our lives,” Tinder announced this week that it will give 500 matches “the encouragement they need” to connect with a free mail-in COVID-19 test (one for each person).

If you’re like a fair percentage of the population (and me), traditional “in-ear earbuds” simply don’t work as designed. Perhaps you even HATE earbuds. These products aren’t one-size-fits-all—even with the extra inserts. Oftentimes wireless earbuds are cumbersome to put in and the constant ear canal-ramming (from trying to make them fit) is just a painful, miserable experience.

Samsung and Apple have had an interesting relationship history of suing each other, mocking one another, and even building parts for each other over the years. And Samsung’s new ad for Galaxy Note 8 is no different. The commercial takes snipes at Apple, depicting a forlorn iPhone owner being constantly burned by iPhone models’ lagging features.

Last year our review of LG’s V20 was criticized for suggesting that it was too original and one of their half-baked experiments. To those who doubted that harsh review, I’d like to introduce you to the much improved 2017 version–the V30. As it turns out, LG took its experimental design back to the drawing board and came back with something that clones the design features of many of its competitors. Read on below for the full review.

Large-capacity¬†micro storage has been a big deal the past several years, and Integral Memory has just taken it a step further with the first 512GB MicroSD card. The world record feat beat’s SanDisk‘s most recent 400GB card (it’s $250). The card plants an incredible tangible punch in storage size, putting half a terabyte of storage in something the size of dime. While Integral Memory is taking the record on size, it’s still a bit slower than SanDisk’s write speed of 80MB/S rather than 100MB/S.

This week, Samsung unveiled its new flagship devices–the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+. On Sunday, hours before the beginning of Mobile World Congress in 2018, Samsung finally answered the question consumers have been asking them for the past several months, “What changes will define the S9 and S9+?” The answer? Well, it’s not many. Side-by-side, the S8 and S9 devices share the same bright AMOLEDs, phone shape, curved edges, screen sizes, and that Samsung-worthy glass sheen.