Hot Electronic Gadgets for Your Apartment

If you want to have the coolest high-tech pad, stock up on electronic gadgets for your apartment. There’s a home gadget for every room in your place.

Have a high tech kitchen
If you love to cook, you can harness the power of technology to get your recipe collection under control with the Demy Kitchen Safe Touchscreen Recipe Reader. The Recipe Reader is a serious upgrade on recipe cards and cook books. It’s water-resistant, easily navigable with a touch-screen display, and can be adjusted so you can see it easily while you cook. It even includes a kitchen timer and a measurement substitution calculator. (No more guessing how many ounces are in a pint!) For around $200, you can get your hands on this nifty electronic gadget that stores up to 2,500 of your closely-guarded family recipes in digital form.

Another great gadget for the kitchen is the wireless meat thermometer. Models such as the Maverick Redi-Check Remote Cooking Thermometer take the guess work out of determining when your roast is done. You can set your thermometer to gauge temperature or stage of readiness for any type of meat on the grill or in the oven. Take the thermometer receiver with you and it will alert you when dinner is done.

Electronics for your bathroom
Shower divas, take note: waterproof iPod speakers are for you. For use in either your bathroom or on the beach, these products let you groove to your iPod safely in watery places. You can adjust the volume and control your tunes from external water-safe controls and hang the device with a handy shower hook.

For health fanatics, Tanita’s BF-680W Bathroom Scale will also be a welcome addition to your bathroom. This digital scale not only gives accurate weight readings but also aids dieters, measuring body fat with electrical impulses and calculating body water percentages. The BF-680W has a large LCD readout that compares your weight to the healthy range for a person of your height and stores data for two people. Tanita’s scale sells for around $60.

Electronic gadgets for the whole apartment
Digital photo frames are an electronic gadget that every fickle apartment dwellers needs. To satisfy your need for constantly-changing wall decor, the Kodak EasyShare EX 1011 Digital Photo Framestores and displays up to 1000 photos. Mount the 10-inch frame on your wall and start viewing photos from a memory card that you insert. Create a custom slide show complete with music from MP3s. And when you go away on vacation, send your snapshots directly to your frame. The EX 1011’s wireless capabilities allow it to receive picture e-mails sent either from your own computer or another EasyShare user. You can even jazz up the frame to reflect your personal style with an assortment of accessory picture frame faceplates.

Too busy to pick up a broom but hate dust bunnies? There’s a consumer electronic solution to your apartment cleaning needs, and it’s called a Roomba. The iRobot Roomba is a robotic vacuum that cleans your apartment floor so you don’t have to do the dirty work. Roombas are available in a range of prices and features. Just charge it up and it cleans your floors — both carpeted and smooth surfaces — on a routine basis. The Roomba can clean corners, underneath furniture, and even avoids taking a tumble with a built-in stair avoidance system. When it comes to mopping, iRobot can get you off the hook there, too. The company also manufactures a robot called Scooba that will wash, squeegee, and dry your floors.

No high tech apartment would be complete without a weather station. Weather stations are handy, inexpensive home gadgets that get you prepared to start your day. A device like La Crosse Technology’s $35 Wireless Temperature Station can show you the outside temperature and help you decide what to wear as you sip your morning java. Just place the device’s thermometer outside your apartment (say, in a window), and a wireless LCD receiver displays the temperature stats.

If you’re looking to live a little more efficiently, there’s likely an electronic home gadget out there calling your name!

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