Love is in the air! Chocolates and flowers are nice, but technology lasts longer and has no calories!
This year’s Valentine’s Day Gadgets list we put together after seeing all of these items at the latest CES (Consumer Electronics Show).
Since then, we’ve tested all of these gadgets to ensure they work as promised…and they do!
This Valentine’s Day, whether showering love on your partner, child, college student, grandparent, or friends, we have a list of 5 gadgets worth looking into!
5 Valentine’s Day Gadgets
1. TOPGREENER Quick Charge 3.0 Wall Charger
The TOPGREENER Quick Charge 3.0 Wall Charger is a fast wall charger giving you an 18W fast, Qualcomm certified charge to your Samsung GS 5+, Samsung Note 5+, iPhone 6+, iPad + and more.
This inexpensive charger can charge your love’s phone 4x faster than a conventional charger.
Even better, it uses an inclusive Intellichip technology to optimize each charge unique for every device, ensuring it prevents over-charging, over-current, and overheating.
It uses up to 2.4 Amps for non-quick charge devices, so no worry about burning out an older phone.
Just plug in your phone-specific charging cord into the TOPGREENER Quick Charge Wall Charger and your love’s phone will charge in no time.
It even supports voltage up to 240v to ensure quick charging even in other countries without concern of frying your phone.
The TOPGREENER Quick Charge 3.0 Wall Charger is available through Amazon for $12.99 with free shipping.
2. Kingston Nucleum USB-C Hub
The Kingston Nucleum USB-C Hub is great for work, school, or home. If your love has a newer laptop or MacBook Pro, it likely has the new standard USB-C port on it.
The Kingston Nucleum USB-C Hub plugs into the laptop’s USB-C port to extend its connections to up to 7 devices. Now you can connect these items to the laptop too:
- USB 3.1 Type-C power pass through (to charge aType C newer phone)
- USB 3.1 Type-C data transfer port
- High-speed SD card slot SDHC and SDXC SD)
- Micro SD card slot
- USB 3.0/3.1 backward compatible with USB 2.0
- a 4K HDMI port (to send the laptop screen to an HDMI compatible monitor, TV, or projector)
The Kingston Nucleum USB-C Hub is compact and travels easy. It can dramatically cut down on the cost of buying a new laptop just for the extra ports.
It’s much less expensive to buy the Kingston Nucleum USB-C Hub and get a less expensive laptop.
Connect a cordless mouse, keyboard, laser pointer, charge a phone or Bluetooth headphones, use it for what you need, there are plenty of ports.
The Kingston Nucleum USB-C Hub is available through Amazon for $49.99 including free shipping.
3. Luci Connect Smart Solar Light
Every year at CES, I love to see what MPOWERD is up to with their Luci Solar Lantern. The Luci Solar Lantern is an inflatable solar light that uses the sun to charge up the light. The company was created to empower over 3 billion people around the world who do not have reliable access to electricity.
Once the sun goes down, kids can’t study or play outside, clinics close, and it is less safe for women to walk outside.
Although some use kerosene lamps, they are dangerous, toxic, and expensive. The Luci Solar Lantern can charge for hours on a single charge, with power stored from the sun. They are lightweight, easy to carry, and can even float.
To appeal to a broader audience and get their mission known further, MPOWERED recently came out with their first Luci Connect Smart Solar Light, that is also a mobile charger. It too charges by storing solar energy in its 7.4 Wh lithium-ion battery. But it also features a 2-way USB port for direct and mobile charging.
What also makes the Luci Connect Smart Solar Light unique from its other lanterns is that this one has its own app. The lamp diffuses 36 LEDs (24 white + 12 RGB, up to 250 lumens) for a mood-setting glow.
With the app, you have unlimited color customization, a timer and schedule setting, preset and custom mood colors. You also have the ability to adjust the light’s brightness, hue, transition speed between colors, and the ability to check the battery life.
The Luci Connect Smart Solar Light is great for camping (especially with the timer or scheduler to turn off) or great for your kid’s sleepovers. It can be hung easily with its built-in handle. With the ability to change the colors, it’s fun for both kids and adults.
The Luci Connect Smart Solar Light is available for $64.96 plus shipping from the MPOWERD website.
4. LitraTorch 2.0 Light
The LitraTorch 2.0 is a great little gadget with multiple uses. This little light cube features 16 LEDs with 90+CRI at 5700 daylight temperature, which makes it the perfect assistant to a photographer or videographer.
With its 800 lumens of continuous, high-quality light, it is the perfect companion to light up dark settings or make shadows on faces disappear.
It’s like having portable studio lighting that fits in your pocket. It also comes with a white diffuser cover that makes a diffused light instead of 16 individual LEDs showing.
Use the LitraTorch 2.0 with DSLR and Point and Shoot cameras, video cameras, action cameras, and smartphones.
It comes with flexible mounting with two 1/4-20 standard camera mounts, embedded magnet, GoPro mount, belt clip.
The light’s framework houses a strong magnet. You can adhere it to the enclosed metal disc mounts (there are 2 of them that can stick anywhere) or to anything else that’s metal.
I hung it from the metal beam that goes across my workbench in the garage for better overhead light on the project I was working on.
The LitraTorch 2.0 is flicker-free and has 4 settings. It has three levels of brightness and a strobe setting. The rechargeable battery life can last up to 4 hours with continuous use.
It’s small and lightweight, at its nearly 1 1/2 cubed size and weighs only 3.17 ounces. The LitraTorch 2.0 can also be submerged in water, up to 60 feet.
I love the versatility of the LitraTorch 2.0 for photography, videography, action shooting lighting, or direct lighting around the house or garage.
The Litratorch 2.0 is available is available from the Litra website for $89.95 plus shipping.
5. Nixplay Seed Wave Photo Frame
The Nixplay Seed Wave Photo Frame is available directly from the Nixplay website for $249.99 plus shipping.
Definitely some unique and useful Valentine’s Day gadgets your love would love! Looking for some more ideas? See our Valentine’s Day Gadgets from last year.
Have a Happy Valentine’s Day!
*I was given each of these items for purposes of evaluation for possible inclusion in our gift guides. All opinions are my own.
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