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Smart Home: controlled power receptacles

I want to get power receptacles controlled via web and buttons. Specifications: I need an one-room system, wireless. Electric power system here is bad for signal transferring. WiFi (Z Wave, ZigBee, etc), BlueTooth frequencies are fine. Ok price,…
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Car / bus 12 volt wifi router external storage

Our family does long distance car travel 2 or 3 times a year. I have young kids and I load up movies and tv shows spread across all tablet and phone devices. What I'd prefer do is run a wifi router in the car that has attached storage. The router…
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External GPU with Mac OSX?

I'm looking for an external GPU to use with a Macbook Pro, with Thunderbolt 2 and running OSX. Most of the examples I've found online are of people using an eGPU for gaming, dual-booting on Windows 10, on Mac hardware. That's not my goal. Products…
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Scaling problems with 4K / UHD / Retina / 3840x2160 screen

I'm about to buy a laptop, and have narrowed it down to either a model with hd or uhd (3840x2160) screen. I like the image quality of the uhd, but I'm seeing a lot of complaints about scaling problems on review sites. Is it too early to go uhd,…
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Which laptop should I buy

I am a normal laptop user (Linux). Most of my work is text editing, internet surfing, and movie watching. I want to buy a new laptop with a cost of 500 Euros. According to my work I do not think I need a super processor or GPU, but what I really…
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UPS with pure sine wave

I'm looking for a UPS that produces a pure sine wave at the output because my PSU has active Power Factor Compensation and from what I read, it doesn't work with pseudo-sine wave output. So, my system will draw a maximum of 430W with full load. I…
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Blackberry-sized mini usb keyboard for RPI

I'm looking for a mini-keyboard. Not the average mini-keyboard you can find on amazon, but a really small one, approx. the size of those you can find on some smartphones, i.e Blackberry. I'm working on a rpi-powered pocket device, so the keyboard…
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Good, CHEAP RGB backlit keyboard?

I am looking for a cheap ($50 or less, although if needed my max price range could be $70) rgb backlit keyboard that moves colors in a wave fast like the Razer Blackwidow Chroma. Mechanical is preferred but I'll take what I can get. If you don't…
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Split XBox Screen across multiple monitors

Is there a piece of hardware that can connect two monitors to a single video port? I want to fool an Xbox into thinking that it's connected to a single monitor, when in fact that display area is made up of two monitors on top of each-other. …
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An Android rival for iPhone 5s?

Are there any good small android smartphones? I've been using LG G2 Mini for almost two years now, and it has always seemed too big for me (neither am I happy with its performance). To be honest, what I'm looking for is a phone that: is small…
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Speaker comparison for desktop

I'm going to try and make this so the answer is not based on opinion. I have a desktop computer that I use for a variety of tasks: web browsing, video editing, video gaming, university projects, software development, listening to music, etc. I…
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Uninterruptible power management board for Computer, 15W output, Li-ion battery

I'm searching for a power management board for powering the portable NAS from my other question, which needs 12V-24V and at most 15W, much less on average. Required: output to computer: 15W, voltage either regulated to something between 12V and 24V…
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Confuse-a-cat : seeking dirt cheap, wheeled, programmable robot

I was playing the old "confuse the cat with a flash-light" game, when I thought that I might like to program a confuse-a-cat robot. Something, probably with tracks, which can right itself if he flips it over, and which I can program to move randomly…
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Action Camera with built in GPS and mature API for programatic access to metadata

I am looking for an action camera that has the following features: GPS built in All metadata (mainly GPS) needs to be accessible via an API. I need to be able to pull this metadata for any point in a video. At least 1080p video; the faster the…
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Decent quality portable bluetooth speakers.

I would like some speakers primarily for use in my bedroom. I would like to be able to play sound through both my laptop and my phone. Loudness is not of particular importance, but I would like decent sound quality (For reference I own a pair of…
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