Nerd-Cessories

Ever grow tired of having to carry your luggage around? You’re apparently covered. This is crazy.  There’s a suitcase that will follow you through the airport automatically. From wired:  The suitcase, called “Hop!”, contains three receivers that can identify and triangulate different signals coming from the user’s mobile phone. A …

April Fools Day tends to annoy me.  I can’t trust anything.  But some sites blatantly offer joke products and ThinkGeek does a fabulous job at creating the perfect fake products. Forget about Keri’s selfie-stick, how about traveling with a whole selfie-rig?   Or, traveling someplace new? Make sure you get …

I’ve seen some luggage that were monster sized suitcases. But Bored Panda highlighted some suitcases that are truly monstrous. In the literal term.   Check out the link for a lot of her pieces. The articles suggests you can buy these in her Etsy shop, but it appears most of …

What is the key to fitting more things in your suitcase? Have luggage that’s bigger on the inside*! I was poking around Etsy and saw this suitcase that can address all your over-packing needs*.   For the low price of $200, you can take all your possessions with you on …

The last time I bought something that could charge through EmPower, it cost me almost $100. Meh.com, the new site by the Woot.com original founder, has a mobile device charger that works on AC/EmPower/Car-Cigarette Lighter for only $6. What I really like about this, other than the price, is it …

When I travel to a country with a language I’m unfamiliar with, I try to make sure I have some key phrases down.  For a while, I had tried Rosetta Stone which, in addition to being expensive, didn’t emphasize the types of words I wanted to learn quickly. I can …

I’m really good at collecting postcards.  No, not intentionally.  I see postcards I think would be really great for someone and I…. never send them. I have a Chihuly postcard my sister would love.  That’s why I bought it for her.  But it is currently sitting on my dresser and has …

A few of Anker’s iPad cases are marked down and can be combined with the coupon code ANKERPA5 to bring the price down to $6.50 from $29.99.   It works on the non-textured faux leather blue, orange or black ones. It works on the textured black one. The auto wake/sleep …

I’ve seen a bunch of press releases for different flight tracking apps that allow you see where you are mid-flight.  These rely on internet connections, so in addition to the price of the app, you have to make sure you are connected to GoGo each time. But I just saw …

I found there’s a bunch of interest in iPad games every time I’ve tweet either my frustration or successes with them.  Here’s what’s currently on my iPad and in-play.  Some of these have been suggested to me and I forgot who suggested what, so if you were the source of …