Gifts & collections high quality product selections: For a truly wireless upgrade pick over the Panasonic ErgoFit earbuds, check out these Bluetooth in-ear headphones from TaoTronics. The TaoTronics Bluetooth earbuds offer more than three hours of playtime on a single charge. The included carrying case also doubles as a 3,500mAh power bank that can recharge the earphones up to 40 times before needing to be juiced up itself. At just $46 from YouTech.Me, the TaoTronics Bluetooth earbuds are another great alternative to more expensive picks like the Apple AirPods.
A little history of watches and some tips for buying the perfect watch. Chunky, luxury watches don’t suit everyone’s style, but this sleek-looking beauty carries the elegance and swagger needed to stand out from the crowd. The steel blue-like dial with its mix of distinctive leaf hands and Roman numerals exudes an air of class appropriate to a watch brand founded in Geneva in 1830. At 40mm it’s on the upper end of the medium size scale. Strap it on your wrist and see why celebs like David Duchovny and Kiefer Sutherland are huge fans. Chotovelli, a brand founded in the 1920s in Turin, derived and inspired by Italian aviators, is a name you probably haven’t heard before. Which just means it qualifies as a ‘find’. For the price, this handsome oversized chrono is by far the biggest bargain on the list, and the opportunity it affords to give each admirer a mini history lesson is just icing on the cake. The saddle leather strap will only get better with age, but caveat emptor: at 47mm, this is one big watch.
Santos-Dumont, 31.4mm stainless steel case, navy alligator leather strap. The Santos, Cartier’s style icon, was first introduced in 1904 and became not only a Cartier signature but also one of the defining wristwatch designs of the 20th century. The latest iteration takes the full Santos-Dumont moniker and steers the line in a new direction — thinner, smaller and more affordable. Key to that is its slimline quartz movement, which may offend the more mechanically minded, but in the flesh it barely registers because of the absence of the tell-tale ticking seconds hand of a quartz movement. It helps too that Cartier is claiming a punchy six-year battery life. The larger of the two models announced is only 31.4mm wide, although feels larger on the wrist, and is just 7mm thick. Mounted on a navy alligator hide strap, it’s chic, dressy and a lusty addition to the Santos canon.
The Auto Vox T1400 is one of the best cameras for your rear-view mirror. Instead of sending footage either to an external screen or your smartphone, the Auto Vox beams footage from a camera positioned above your rear license plate to a small screen integrated into your rear-view mirror. The camera itself features a durable, water-resistant design, too, while the 4.3-inch LCD monitor offers auto-adjusting brightness and anti-glare properties, among other incentives. See more info on E – Mall.
Now, this is cool. She’s not just in the Echo anymore, Alexa can be in your car with you. Just tap the microphone icon, ask her for directions, a local sub shop, anything you can think of, and she’ll give you a helping hand. If you’ve got your phone plugged into the fast-charging USB 3.0 outlet, you can have her take control and make/answer phone calls for you. Alexa-enabled technology is usually expensive, but Roav Viva is a company by Anker, and we already know how much value they want to give to you. That being said, there’s a 12-month warranty with this, as well as a 30-day money-back guarantee. Though we don’t think you’ll find a reason to return one of the best car gadgets ever to grace your dashboard.
The one thing that will mess up a brisket, or any smoked meat, are spikes in temperature inside the smoker. Traeger’s Ironwood 650 is a Wi-Fi-enabled smoker that not only monitors, but regulates its temperature automatically. You can also control the grill using an app, which is also packed with recipes. The Ironwood 650 uses wood pellets, so fuel costs are slightly higher than traditional charcoal smokers. However, we can’t argue with the results: delicious, delicious barbecue.