Sports, Health & Fitness, Outdoors

Completing the trifecta of addictions that many seek to cure themselves off in the New Year is gambling. There aren’t a whole lot of gadgets short of something to electrically shock you that can help curb your gambling problem, but there are a slew of books that you can read. We’ll feature just a few of these, but feel free to search Amazon or other bookseller for books on the subject.

John Eades, a recovering addict himself, wrote a book on the problem as well as how to recover. Read on for more books.

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Well, not quite a device to help you completely stop drinking, but the Breath Alcohol Detector will at a minimum tell you whether it’s safe or not to get into your car after you’ve had a few. Naturally, you can adapt it to become a tracker, and over time reduce the amount of alcohol you imbibe. The Digital Breath Alcohol Detector meets Department of Transportation (DOT)/National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) standards as a breath alcohol screener. One-button operation: the detector tests your breath alcohol in seconds and even checks that the sufficient air volume is exhaled.

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If you smoke, you know very well that you need to quit. There’s no question (from a scientific point of view) that smoking is bad for you. If you believe otherwise, you are in denial! So it’s fitting that one of the resolutions that we chose to help you fullfil is one of beating addictions. First up is your smoking addiction. The SmokeLessCounter aims to cure you by eliminating the habit of smoking, both the physical and psychological urges to smoke. You the smoker chooses the time in which you would like to quit smoking, up to 180 days, enter it into the credit card-sized SmokeLessCounter and it will tell you via a beep when you can smoke. Over time, it cuts down the number of cigarettes you smoke until your quitting day. As a bonus, the counter also tells you how much you’re saving.

You may also be interested in the QuitKey which is another portable electronic tracking device that uses a technique that is a bit more involved to help you to stop smoking.

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Our friends over at Coolest Gadgets featured this gadget yesterday and since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, we’re featuring it today as well. The Arbordale Solar Birdfeeder is a birdfeeder with a high-tech twist. The name gives it away a bit, but essentially it glows at night with a warm amber light from power saved up druing the day with its solar panels. This is a sturdy, aluminum framed, classy looking, feeder that can hold 3.5 lbs of feed.

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Halloween and Thanksgiving have come and gone, and office and family holiday parties are right around the corner. Are you going to let your year’s work at the gym get shot to hell? Of course not, you just need to perhaps pick up the pace a bit. Sure, you could get a regular pedometer, but why not take it up a high-tech notch and get the Bio Trainer, which tells you how many calories you’re burning all the time as well as your overall physical activity based on every movement the human body makes. It’s just as convenient as a pedometer – just clip it on.

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Happy Halloween!

Hopefully you have already enjoyed our Halloween gizmos earlier this month, but in honor of Halloween, the Geek’s have decided to run the Oral-B Triumph Professional Care 9000/9400 Power Toothbrush as the Gizmo of the Day. After all, why not run a toothbrush on the high holy day of “candy candy candy!”

We chose this Oral-B because it was our editor’s choice in a electric toothbrush roundup review we wrote a couple weeks ago.

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Can you have too many golf accessories, toys, tools, game enhancers, trackers, etc.? In a word, nope. You’re not really any kind of golfer unless you’ve got one of these gadgets to help you practise your putting. On top of that, this is an automatic putt-return gadget, so you get your ball back in case your caddie isn’t available. 😉 One cool about this particular one is that its edges deflect off-line putts just like a real hole. It’s also portable and cordless, but what I really like is the electronic applause when you make a hole!

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Are you one of the millions of folks with back problems? Actually, you may not even have back problems, but you know what happens when you sit on a plane for too long or walk all day long or sleep on a terrible mattress and so on. Then this is sure to help with your cranky back. It just needs some stretching, and since we don’t walk around with our own personal masseuse, the portable back stretcher from Lynx will do the trick. It’s portable, and light and fits a variety of body types. The Lynx folds up into a space less than 20 x 11.5 x 3.5 inches and comes with a travel case. Here’s how it works: just put your feet into the stirrups and pull up on the handles with your hands for up to 1.5 inches of stretch.

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