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Geeking Out doesn't just happen on this website, it's also on millions of screens across Canada during Drew Kozub's national TV tech segment!
This week it was all about your smart home gadgets, but the emphasis was on ones that could be particularly helpful in the summertime. From smart scales, to cleaner air, let's geek out!
If you saw the TV segment and want to learn more about the gadgets Drew featured, you're in the right spot!
Pure Blue 211i Max
This smart air purifier is great for cleansing the air in homes with large rooms (and for people who like their connected gadgets).
For a deep dive into the Pure Blue 211i Max, you can read our full review here. The short version, not only is this first and foremost a top-notch air purifier, it's smart features are genuinely helpful.
Multiple layers of filters take care of big debris and microscopic stuff (cleaning up 99.7% of airbone particles down to a tiny 0.1 microns in size).
The app allows you to monitor your inside air quality vs outdoor conditions, adjust fan speed, change modes, and will notify you when it's time to swap in a new filter.
Maybe the best part - this week only it's discounted with 41% off! See the link in the box below to pick up yours at a deep discount.
Smart Air Purifier
Blue Pure 211i Max
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Blueair makes high-quality and stylish smart air purifiers, and the 211i Max is ideal for large spaces. It's incredibly quiet while it's running (a key feature if you're using this in your bedroom) and it can be controlled with voice comannds through Google Home and Amazon Alexa devices.
Lescale P1 Smart Scale
If you're working on your fitness this summer - kudos to you! There's so many ways you can track our progress but a typical bathroom scale isn't one of them.
That's because it only shows you one metric - your overall weight. That's not helpful, espeically to get a better understanding of how much muscle mass you have compared to other types weight (skeletal, fat mass, and more).
If you're brand new to smart scales, the Lescale P1 is great for a few reasons. Most important, because it has a handle, it's able to provide a more accurate, whole-body reading. Many smart scales don't have handles and while they measure body composition in your legs for the rest of your body, they're just estimating a total.
Smart Scale
P1 Smart Scale
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The Lescale P1 Smart scale provides segmental body analysis using a highly accurate method. Very low level electrical pulses travel from the scale and through your body, giving you a clearer picture of your body composition, allowing you to track 20 metriccs through the companion app.
The price is definitely high compared to a regular scale. However, in the world of smart scales, this is offering good value for the set of features.
JBL Go 4
In the world of Bluetooth speakers, JBL has been balancing quality audio with accessible prices for years. The JBL go does further acrobatics by balancing battery and audio quality within a very small and portable housing!
The speaker is very small: about 4 inches, by 3 inches, by 1.5, which makes it extremely portable. Its also has IP67 water and dust proofing which means you can keep it poolside and not worry if it gets splashed (or even takes a few minutes dunk under the water).
It's also available in nearly a dozen different colour options. When considering speakers at this price point and with this level of portability, usually you can have audio quality or long battery life, but not both. JBL has opted for the best acoustics possible in such a small form, but at 7 hours or playback time, you'll still have ample opportunity to blast the summer tunes!
Portable Speaker
JBL Go 4
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The JBL go offers fair battery life, good audio quality, and somehow does it in a very tiny form-factor.
Optionally, you can customimze the EQ of the speaker using the JBL app. This works with nicely with Android and Apple devices and is relatively low cost, and particularly rugged.
OnePlus Pad 3
If you're looking for the perfect device to monitor your smart home gadgets, but also be a multi-functional family tablet for work, gaming, entertainment and more, then the latest OnePlus tablet is worth a look!
You can read our full review here, but this is the short version. OnePlus has been growing their foot print in Canada and the US over the past few years, so if you haven't heard of them before, don't sweat it. They've been popular in other parts of the world for a long time by making high quality Android products (phones, watches, and more) and attempting to keep the overall price to feature ratio appealing.
In the case of their newest tablet, they've done a great job. This beautiful 3.5K display is massive by tablet standards at just over 13 inches.
When you pair it with the keyboard case, it's a productivity machine. When you pair it with the folio cover, it's great for movies, books, and browsing on the go. And if you pair it with the brand new Kishi V3 Pro XL portable gaming controller, you get a big screen portable gaming experience like no other!
Portable Speaker
OnePlus Pad 3
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With a fabulous looking screen, incredible power and battery life, plus plenty of accessories to customize this tablet for your daily needs, this is an excellent device for anyone due for an upgrade. While you may not need to tap into full potential of the elite processor or need all that memory, all users will apprecaite the slim form, excellent audio quality, and slick experience using the OnePlus Pad 3.
Are you using any smart home gadgets that you particularly enjoy in the summer months? Have questions about any of the tech featured in the latest TV segment? Reach out to Drew any time though his DMs by giving him a follow on Instagram.
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