Read: 4 mins. Wood stoves are a great, inexpensive, more environmentally-friendly alternative to fuel can-based products like the popular Jetboil, and for years, my go to was the Solo Stove. However, despite all the benefits the Solo Stove offers, its inability to be packed small and its high cost made me look for alternatives for wilderness backpacking and for emergencies as part of a bug out bag. As it turned out, I much prefer the copycat.
Read: 15 mins. The need for reliable and speedy WiFi throughout the entire home has become important in modern times as more and more devices connect wirelessly. Like many consumers, you very likely came across dead spots in your house where the WiFi signal was either weak or non-existent. Consumer "mesh" WiFi routers promise to solve this issue, and in this article we will explore what they are, and how the Linksys Velop AC router compared to the Amazon Eero Pro.
Read: 4 mins. Our daughter's birthday was fast approaching and with the ability to only hold a small gathering in our backyard, we looked for something fun for the children to play with. "What's synonymous with some birthday parties," my wife asked? A bounce house! But at a rental cost of $75-$99 a day, we decided to invest in a small one instead for repeated use at home. That search led us to the $200 Action Air Inflatable Castle Bounce House.
Read: 18 mins. Back in April, I purchased the Jackery Explorer 1000 and the Goal Zero Yeti 500x later as a result of 2019's fires. Coincidentally, this year's fires on the entire US west coast is actually WORSE with new records broken! I cannot stress how important it is to be prepared for emergencies! Thankfully, there has been an increase in people taking emergency preparation more seriously. When Jackery announced the Explorer 300 with a special launch price and some improvements over the Explorer 1000, I jumped on it for one simple reason: my little boy loves camping and I wanted him to have a mini-Explorer of his own (actually, I wanted another backup battery, but don't tell him that). It DOES look awfully cute to have him and I stand next to one another holding our own Explorers!
Read: 3 mins. How do you cool down during this summer's California heat wave with a little boy who no longer wanted to learn how to swim? Get a Dinosaur-themed pool that can spout water out of its mouth for some FUN bonding time! This pool was easily one of the best purchase decisions we have made. Read on to see why!
Read: 19 mins. Beelink took a bold step into releasing its first, AMD-based mini computer (with official AMD support and collaboration), and held almost nothing back when it set out to build the best PC it had ever made. At first impression, it is beautiful with its blue exterior and glass top and immediately felt substantial to hold due in large part to its premium, metal components. The packaging presented the first, unexpected eye candy that was a clear departure from its previous products, and I knew then that something special was in my hands. In this review, I look into why the Beelink U57 model was replaced by the newly-released GT-R, how AMD made a comeback into the high-end desktop computer market with its Ryzen product, and why Beelink is my favorite manufacturer of Mini PCs.