Clip keychain for your charging cord

did it really need an instruction manual?

So, even though I have a phone that can last a long time on the battery, it's still good to have a cord to plug it in when I need it.

I have several cords.  What I don't have cords for is my work phone, my iPhone 6S.  That uses a special lightning connector and I don't have cables with that.  So double with the fact that my iPhone has terrible battery... having some cable to take with me is important.

Plus, having something that doesn't add bulk to the pocket is important too.

Dodocool has this tiny cable on a keychain ring with a clip on it.

Sure, for $13CDN it's a little expensive for just a cable ... but maybe that's normal for 'apple taxed' accessories.  The big advantage is that it has a little leather 'holder' to keep the cable kind of wrapped around and then a bit of a 'biner clip to connect it to your keyring.


There's a couple ways you could have it attached, depends on your key set up.  Maybe keyring connected to the cable 'loop' that protrudes out the end?  The issue comes in that there's nothing really holding the cable IN the leather bit, so technically the cable could just slide out at any time... so maybe using that loop helps keep it there.

To date, I haven't had any issue with that.

So, personally, I just leave this in my car ready to plug in my phone to my car charger should my phone need it (I have cables at the office and at home, so this is for on the go).  But I could easily clip it to a laptop bag, or a jacket or whatever.

Pretty handy.

Source:  https://www.dodocool.com/p-da74rg.html

Himalayan Salt Lamp - a funky nightlight

Okay, so I had a colleague who liked all these sorts of hokey 'better living' items.

She liked the diffuser I had once had the chance to review, and it's still over at her desk (even though she's no longer there).

She talked about her Himalayan Salt lamp, and what a positive air it gave off in her home, so when talking with dodocool about products to review, I mentioned their lamp as a possibility.  I really liked my Air Purifier so can't hurt right?

You get the lamp, and there's a little bulb under the thick crystalline casing.  The idea is that the heat from the bulb is supposed to 'activate' the salt, and then depending on your take on the science, whether it's an aroma or 'ions' it emits it's supposed to enhance the surroundings.

I didn't get that.  To me, it looked like a funky nightlight.  My wife made the same comment.  There was no difference we noticed after about a week of using it on and off (we tried different scenarios, on all night, on all day so it'd be 'active' when we got home, etc...).

We didn't notice a change in the air quality, a scent, or 'ions' (my inner science geek is just shuddering at even mentioning that that could happen).

What I did notice was you have to be careful where you put the thing.  Don't set it down as the salt is naturally hygroscopic, as such it's pulling in water from the air and then when it's sitting on a sill the sill gets to be a little 'greasy' from whatever else is on the salt and left behind.

So, be cautious if you remove it from the plug.

Speaking of the plug, it was nice that the plug has a little 'clip' to allow you to rotate the prong end depending on how you have your outlet set up so that it can always be 'up'.

As a $23 nightlight, it's not so amazing.  As a salt lamp, maybe your own hopes and dreams will provide a placebo effect (as the science behind it is unproven).

Source:  https://www.dodocool.com/p-dh03wus.html