For the first time in my life I won a prize: a digital radio receiver Denver DAB-18.
That happened thanks to the Met het oog op morgen (which roughly translates as “With a view to tomorrow”) podcast, which I’ve been listening to for about a decade now. It’s double useful because you learn the news and improve your Dutch at the same time.
This nightly podcast is being made by the NPO and published around midnight, so I’d usually listen to it the next day.
When it comes to interior design, I’m a big fan of minimalism — which one can notice from the photo of my workplace (and that’s how it looks in real life and not only on the photo).
Long time I wished to build a wireless Qi phone charger right into my desk so that I could charge my mobile by simply laying it down onto the desktop.
There was an issue though. My desktop is a sheet of 10 mm-thick hardened glass, and common wireless chargers only support charging over a distance up to 8 mm.
Recently I have been able to find a solution to this and make it exactly the way I wanted.
About a month ago we’ve bought a peculiar gadget, the pocket thermal printer PeriPage A6.
Quite a bit of thermal paper has been spent since so I think I can share my experiences about the device.
At home I’m using my laptop in a kind of a stationary setup. It has all the peripheral devices, like a 4K display, a keyboard, a mouse etc., constantly attached to it.
This is pretty neat and looks as follows:
Enough of those router and pump reviews! Today’s review is the weirdest and the shortest one in this blog’s history!
We’ll unbox and study the professional, as the seller puts it, nail clipper by Xiaomi.
My mesh router Netgear Orbi Pro SRK60 (see my review of the router) has recently received the firmware version 2.5.0.108.
What’s new in this version:
I like Xiaomi gadgets a lot and I’ve reviewed quite a few of them.
I’ve bought a set of precision screwdrivers Xiaomi Wiha screwdriver kit a while ago so now I can share my experience.
Robot vacuum cleaners are a great help in housekeeping but all have one downside: they cannot walk the stairs.
Our Xiaomi Robot Vacuum 1S, which features a pleasant female voice and is therefore called Xenia, perfectly manages cleaning of one specific floor in our house.
Unfortunately, she’s afraid of stairs:
It’s time to fulfil my promise and publish a review of my “inflatable treasure”, which perhaps can better be described as the Xiaomi Mijia Electric Pump.
