Something new for your wallet; and it's not another credit card.

Shown at top: Repillable Card. Insert: Where it fits in your wallet.Have you ever had to carry pills with you? It can be a problem as to where to put them. If you put them in your pocket they get crushed, or lost. There’s a new gadget to easily let you carry pills and it’s called The Re-Pillable Card. It’s a clever device, although I’m not so sure the name works. The company says it’s the world’s first and only wallet pill card. They also add that you can use it to carry aspirin and protect yourself from a heart attack. I’m not a doctor so I’ll just tell you more about how to use this device. It fits in your wallet without taking up any new space. Huh? How that can be? That was my reaction too, until a guy from the company showed me how to fits right into the empty air created by the bulge of credit cards in a wallet. A long tab slides down behind your credit cards and the actual storage area rests at the top of the cards. The Re-Pillable Card has two separate compartments with a little tab that opens at each end. You do need to have fingernails to snap them open. The company’s website says their product can turn your wallet into an "aspirin survival kit". And that utilizes the patent pending, "Space and Place," keeping your pills air tight and light safe, "just a wallet reach away." A larger version of the Re-Pillable Card can store larger pills and more pills. The price is reasonable. 2 for $4.99 / Mega-Size carrier: 2 for $5.99.

www.pillable.com

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If you're a wine lover, you just might be interested in this gizmo.

 The Vinturi Essential White Wine Aerator delivers a better bouquet, enhanced flavors and smoother finish to your favorite Chardonnay, Viognier or Sauvignon Blanc. When wine is poured in the Vinturi Essential White Wine Aerator, its design creates an increase in the wine's velocity and a decrease in its pressure. This pressure difference draws in air, which is mixed with wine for perfect aeration. Sample the nose. You'll appreciate the subtle aromatic differences and the full aroma of the wine, and you'll notice that the wine is more flavorful and has better mouthfeel. The Vinturi Essential White Wine Aerator is made of acrylic; it comes with a no-drip stand and a travel pouch. Both the Vinturi Essential White Wine Aerator and stand is dishwasher safe, as is the travel pouch that comes with the product. Red wine has it’s own special Red Wine Aerator. The company has a list of dozen of wineries that use the Aerator in their tasting rooms, which sounds like a pretty good recommendation. Under $40.

 www.vinturi.com 

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I am not a wine connoisseur. I mean I know the difference between a red wine and a white wine, but only by the color. A lot of wine I buy comes with a screw off cap, except for the ones that come in a box. Got the picture? But I do know that many different winesare supposed to breathe for better flavor. I'm been toldthatletting wine breathe cantake up to an hour or more, so for this ‘instant society’, we now have the Vinturi Wine Aerator. Actually there are two of them, one for red and one for white. I did a blind-fold taste test with a few friends and all guessed the better tasting wine were the ones I had poured through the Vinturi Wine Aerator, so it does work. (At least for my friends!) 

Hang & Level. An easy way to hang pictures; and level them.

Hanging pictures. How hard can that be? Actually, it can be a real pain. You measure, figure out where the nail in the wall goes, and hammer it in. You step back, it looks lopsided and the hole is in the wrong place. It’s worse if you’re trying to hang a series of photos or pictures in an “art” grouping. At a press event recently I made an interior decorator, Liette Tousignant who has come up with a solution to picture hanging problems. Liette told me she designed a tool to help her hang pictures for her clients. When they saw how easy it was to hang pictures properly, they asked Liette if they could buy her device. That led her to produce her invention for the commercial marketplace. Her device is called Hang & Level. It’s an easy solution for hanging pictures or other small wall items like clocks, mirrors, plaques, and even awards. Hang & Level marks exactly where the nail goes. Or where the two nails go if you heavy something heavy. Two built in levels assure that everything will hang evenly. Here are the four basic steps: 1. Place the item that’s to be hung on the hook or hooks of the device. 2. Position the item and tool on the wall and find the right spot. 3. Then press the button or buttons to mark exactly where the nail goes. 4. Hammer in the nail, hang the item and level it with the built in levels. It can mark a spot for one or two nails depending on the weight of what you wish to hang. Maximum weight for a single hook: 10 lbs. Maximum weight for double hooks: 20 lbs. There are easy how-to graphics printed right on the tool. I got to meet and chat with Liette Tousignant. I asked her if she would allow me to guess how much money it took from the time she decided to go into business selling her device to actually getting it into stores. I guessed $150,000. She told me she passed that number and it was more like an $180,000 investment. I mention this not to discourage inventors, but to let you know that getting a product to market is a long, expensive road. While doing a web search I found Liette demonstrating and selling her product on QVC for $16.91. It's here:

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Here's a flashlight for life - maybe the only one you'll ever have to buy!

You are going to love this flashlight! (But I'll tell you up front. It's expensive.) It uses no batteries. And if it’s dead when you pick it up -- in just 90 seconds, the Light for Life goes from zero to fully charged! That’s because this flashlight is powered by ultra capacitors and computer circuitry. Ultra capacitors quickly load energy and then quickly unload it — the same way the flash works in most cameras. It contains 3 LED’s rated for more than 50,000 hours each (that’s 40 hours a week for more than 24 years) so there’s nothing to replace on the Light for Life. Ever. It operates a bit differently from a normal flashlight too. Click the button once and the light operates for 60 minutes in standard mode, which is 90 lumens. Then it gradually reduces intensity to the 25-lumen standby mode for an additional 60 minutes. This mode gives adequate light for most applications and is similar to the output of most 2-D cell flashlights. Or you can press and hold the button for a full 15 minutes at the 270-lumen peak mode, followed by 60 minutes of 25-lumen standby light. This mode is effective when a burst is needed to light a large area or to throw the beam a long distance. If you press the button twice, the light will produce a 270 lumen tactical strobe used to instantly illuminate objects in a dark space, signal others or disorient a perpetrator. Yes, when the company talks about disorienting a perpetrator you can see who this flashlight is aimed at: Police, military, and industrial customers. Of course no matter what mode, when you run out of power, a quick 90 seconds on the charger, and you’re ready to go again. The Light for Life can be plugged into a car lighter or an AC electrical outlet. It comes with the 12-volt charger. The AC charger is an option. The company says their Flashpoint Power Technology system is rated for 50,000 charge/discharge cycles with virtually no degradation. That’s a charge a day for more than 135 years! Okay, ready for the price? $169.99. This is a very hot new product and it was on backorder two days after the first announcement in June. You can check their website for the latest ordering info.

http://www.511tactical.com/lightforlife.html

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Driving a big boat is easy; docking it is not. Till now.

That was the question asked in an email sent to me with the subject line: “Giz Wiz on the Hudson River”. Although I’m already on the Hudson, it’s in a 22’ & and a 24’ foot boat, nothing like a brand new SeaRay 43’ Sundancer. The big selling point for me to go drive this boat was its joystick piloting! This boat is the first Sea Ray to come standard with Zeus, CMD's innovative pod drive system. (CMD is the company that combines the strengths of two legendary names in marine propulsion: Cummins Diesel and Mercury Marine.) Pod drives are what big ships, including the huge Queen Mary2, use. What makes pod drives amazing is the ability to use them with joystick control at slow speeds. Of course I jumped at the chance to try out joystick piloting. The joystick controls the drive-by-wire steering, throttle and shifting via an onboard computer. I was given a 30 second demo and told to move the boat from the marina out into the Hudson. The most difficult part of piloting a boat is leaving the dock, and docking the boat at the end of the trip. With wind, tides and currents, it can be a real task. But with joystick driving simple hand movements are translated into complex boat maneuvers that were once impossible for all but the most experienced captain. I put my hand on the joystick and started moving the boat away from the dock. I kept wanting to touch the steering wheel, but was told all I needed was the one hand on the joystick for all the maneuvers. It was great. I moved the 43’ Sundancer past docked boats on one side & rotted pilings on the other. Not a scratch! It’s even possible to spin the boat 360 degrees within it’s own length! Out on the Hudson I got a demo of another amazing technology: Skyhook. Engage Skyhook and it maintains the boat’s position and heading taking into account tide, wind, and current! The boat I was on retails for about $700,000. You are correct; it is not an impulse buy, but if you are in the market for a boat, this is definitely one to check out. Sea Ray offers boats with this amazing technology that start at about $170,000. It takes away the biggest fear of new boaters: crashing into things at the dock!

Here’s a video demo of Zeus from Sea Ray: http://search.aol.com/aol/search?&query=Sea+Ray+Zeus&invocationType=tb50TB50CL

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