Hasta La Gadget!

How do you listen to your music? Headphones you say? Sometimes on an Airplay or Bluetooth speaker? Oh. That’s pretty cool. I just listen to mine on plasma. Dancing electrical sparks that leap between two electrodes and produce a small amount of ozone. No big deal. Just, you know, how cool people do. Actually that’s not how I listen to music, but it could be if I back the ARC Plasma… Read More

Kona, an Australian Shepherd, wears his Whistle tacking device.

(Credit: Courtsey of Tina Haskins)

Surrounded by hundreds of miles of icy water, Tina Haskins still found a way to connect with her dog, Kona, who was thousands of miles away back home in New Jersey.

A marine scientist conducting research on plankton in Antarctica, Haskins used an app to track the activities of Kona, a blue-eyed Australian Shepherd, throughout the day.

In this case, the app syncs with the Whistle device, a small, coin-shaped wireless tracker that attaches to a dog’s collar. Whistle tracks Kona’s movements as well as her location, and Haskins’ friend, Kona’s temporary caretaker, posts photos of Kona and updates of his activities on the app.

“Every morning, every night, or whenever I’m missing him, I can pull up my Whistle app and see what he’s up to,” she said during a phone interview with CNET.

It’s one of the more colorful instances among Whistle’s users and while it illustrates how Whistle is effective when helping owners feel connected to their pets, it doesn’t show the real magic behind Whistle. Haskins said the big value for her is in the data Whistle gathers. It’s the key to establishing a baseline of data for Kona’s health, something that would be difficult to determine otherwise, given that she doesn’t know everything ab… [Read more]

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“Oh my Glob, I do, I do!” That’s what you are gonna hear if you give this ring to your female companion. This awesome ring from Paul Michael Design features a spinning TARDIS.

“This TARDIS spins like my heart baby.” Smooches. “Will you? Of course you will.” This ring is available in sterling silver, 14-karat white and yellow gold as well as platinum, along with diamonds and sapphires embellishing the TARDIS itself. This is a ring that will get you married in two seconds flat. Or you know, just wear it because it is awesome.

This might be the coolest Doctor Who swag ever. Buy one for your companion today.

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