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Watertight, Rugged USB Stick Can Weather the High Seas

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Reviewed by Steven Leckart This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it · July 4, 2011

Watertight, Rugged USB Stick Can Weather the High Seas

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Get your head out of the cloud! Sure Internet connections are prevalent. And, yeah, remote storage is only getting cheaper. But even Moore himself would likely concede that some data is too precious not to be backed up and carried with your IRL.

In that case, you’ll want to be prepared for anything. This USB drive is, quite frankly, more resilient than a Terminator. We swam with ours in the ocean, left it in the fridge for a couple hours, and even dropped it from a moving vehicle. The C...

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LED Headlamp Burns Exactly as Bright as You Want It To

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Reviewed by Grayson Schaffer This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it · July 4, 2011

Most LED headlamps have an on/off switch and maybe a couple of intensity settings. The XP2 has an entire desktop utility that allows you to tweak the trade-off between beam intensity and burn time from the lamp’s high- and low-output LEDs. Crank it up for maximum safety during a nighttime run, or drop it to preserve the battery for a long hike from base camp. The internal USB-rechargeable lithium-ion cell is backed up by a compartment for three AAAs.

WIRED Flip-up lens for focusing the beam.

TIRED Extra battery...

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Dessicate Your Gadgets With the Bheestie Bag

We don’t live in a vacuum. Neither do our gadgets. From steamy bathrooms to grubby, sweaty hands, little bits of moisture tend to creep into our electronics.

Enter the Bheestie, an airtight plastic pouch that sucks — in a good way. It holds two smaller, porous bags that contain several peppercorn-sized pellets. In theory, these bags act like molecular sieves, absorbing moisture that’s managed to get inside your device. After 24 hours, goes the company claim, the beads will extract almost twice as much water as a cup of uncooked rice — a common DIY method for saving soggy gadgets.

The idea is...

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