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Keeping your stuff safe with locks is often necessary. But old fashioned locks and keys aren’t always the right way to go. Needing to have a key with you doesn’t sound like much of a requirement… until you realize you can lose keys, you can forget to bring keys, and keys can be taken from you while you’re not looking. That’s not a problem you …

If you’re sitting in your car, it’s fair to say that binoculars are relatively compact and portable. But when you’re actually carrying your magnification device around with you, the heavy weight of a full pair of binoculars makes them nothing short of burdensome. For portability, there’s simply no substitute for a monocular. A monocular is a small, low-powered telescopes you hold in your hand like …

In a world increasingly dominated by software, artificial intelligence, and similar technologies, coding has become an incredibly useful life skill. Not only for personal use, but for future employment possibilities. Which is why some nations are already implementing coding into the standardized curriculum for their schools. Even if you don’t end up using coding directly, the cognitive skills behind it are similar to the skills …

Good practice is an enormous part of the difficulty of learning a new language. Unless you have day-and-night access to a native speaker, you end up doing a lot of practice without appropriate feedback. And it ends up feeling a bit unnatural, too. When you end up entering actual conversational situations, you can easily get caught unprepared. Creating an immersive environment for learning can help, …

GPS trackers can be hidden anywhere. Think about a car. Trackers could be stuffed under the front dash, inside a speaker, under dash fabric, inside the bumper, inside tire wells, behind brake lights, and so on. That’s really just the tip of the iceberg. A well-hidden tracker can be all but impossible to find without extreme measures. When it comes to hidden cameras, it’s basically …