Gear & Gadgets

Your Dollar Goes Insanely Far in Japan Right Now — Here’s Proof

This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. And to be clear up front: nothing here is financial advice — I’m just telling you what a dollar bought my family in Japan this summer. The Japanese yen is trading at about […]

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Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) Review: The $379 Glasses That Cost Me $615

I’d been circling smart glasses for about a year before I finally pulled the trigger on the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) Wayfarers. We are traveling as a family to Japan this summer and I wanted something easier than my phone to take quick pictures and videos. Voilà – here comes some new smart glasses. These

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Apple Watch Ultra 2 vs Series 7 vs Ultrahuman Ring Air: Which One I Actually Wear Daily

I didn’t plan on owning three wearables. Like a lot of things in midlife, it just sort of happened one purchase, one cracked screen, and one “this might be useful” decision at a time. My first real Apple Watch was the Apple Watch Series 4. I may have had an earlier one, but the Series

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Pinter Brewer

Pinter Review – My First Week With the Pinter: Suprisingly Easy, Suprisingly Good, Surprisingly Smooth

I picked up the Pinter during a Black Friday deal that was hard to pass up: buy two beer packs and commit to one subscription shipment, and the Pinter itself was free. I liked it enough that I used another coupon and ended up with a second one, plus more beer packs. At this point,

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