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If you’re like me, you’re probably working yourself extra hard this New Year, to achieve all your latest targets and resolutions. If that’s the case, you might well be feeling a little stressed from time to time.

The StressEraser, used for just 15 minutes every evening, can actually make you feel calmer, more patient and more energetic. In fact, it can make you feel at ease at any time of the day or night – without the need for drugs or therapy!
Winner of Frost & Sullivan’s 2006 Medical Industry Award for Technology Innovation of the Year, the StressEraser works by focusing your mind and guiding your breathing with a digital display.

An infrared fingertip pulse sensor and advanced algorithm software display your heart rate as a wave pattern on the LCD screen. Just one 15-minute session will leave you feeling deeply relaxed and ready to face the world.

It’s particularly effective at night, because we can unconsciously worry all night long, then wake up feeling worse than before!
But with an attractive leather travel case, you can have it with you wherever you are.

There are times when you just need to know what the weather is going to be like in advance – whether you’re planning a BBQ or a fishing expedition. Wouldn’t it be handy to be in the know before you invite all the neighbors round, only to find it’s pouring with rain on the day?

Now there’s a gadget that lets you plan ahead all year round. This handy little weather station uses radio signals from AccuWeather.com to give you a seven-day forecast, that’s continuously checked and updated. It’s also got a radio-controlled clock that never needs to be adjusted.

The large, futuristic LCD screen displays outdoor temperature along with loads of information, including wind speed, UV index and pollen alerts. The back-light even changes color from white to red as the temperature rises!

Ok, so you’re one of the many, who hate jogging in winter, hate the cold draft hitting you as soon as you step out. Hey, but we gotta do, what we gotta to – to remain fit. Check out the The Carbon-Fiber Heated Vest.

And guess what, it’s not like those other bulky warm clothes. This fleece vest has somewhat of an undetectable heating element. It’s made from carbon fibers and it’s thinner than human hair. The carbon-fiber mesh generates heat into the chest and the back area, and the microfleece fabric keeps the heat close to your body. So, now you can stay warm while jogging.

And my Organizational Resolution continues to the second week of the year….Boy, am I on a roll or what…It’s the second week of January, and I am on a roll. I found fab ideas …First, I found this great Portable bar…It’s great…so, now when I am having a party out by the pool, I just slide it out…It has a nice counter table, where I can make and serve drinks. The storage space is awesome, it fits all those little knick-knacks. What’s more, it even has a removable cutting board, for all those fruits that I have to cut for the punch. Good stuff!

Hey, and guess what this portable bar also has a Vinyl Cover.  This is perfect to cover up your bar when it’s not in use, to prevent it from getting dusty. It has velcro fastening which allows for easy access.

OK, I told you about the dual action trimmer yesterday, way cool huh?  Well I’ve just got to share more of these new products from ACE.  Yeah, this is the same company that made that pocket comb that your grand dad had in his pocket.  Remember Spaceballs?  “He said to comb the desert, so we’re combing the desert!”, with ACE combs!

So they’ve now got a whole line of “man sized” grooming tools.  Case and point: I bet he’s cutting his nails with your little nail clipper.  You know, the bitty silver thing you got at the drug store for $.99.  Well here is a nail clipper for a real man’s hands.  Now, I’m a terrible photographer, but can you tell the difference?

How about now?

And the toenail clipper is huge to.  Perfect for us guys with monster mits. 

It’s no secret. Men hate shaving. I’ve talked about it, extensively, on this blog.  And if we all had our way, we’d probably let the hair grow clear down the front of our necks. Case in point– have you see David Letterman and Conan O’Brien lately? No, you haven’t, because of the writer’s strike, they had about 3 months off. In that time, both David and Conan grew full-on, Grizzly Adams-like man-beards. Lucky guys. I wish I could take a few months off and not shave. Not gonna happen. And well, there are the other hairy areas that can get neglected when nobody’s looking. You know what I mean. The uhh. . . nose and ear hair. Look, if you’re not going to shave your beard, you’re probably not clearing out your ears, on a regular basis either.

Since a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do, I say head back to The Round Table and get the ACE Dual Action Trimmer. It’s a simple and sleek trimmer that bravely does two jobs at once.  So both noses, ears, and sideburns beware!  Add a diamond textured grip and you’ve got a certified man tool.  You can use it while pondering how you’re going to deforest all that wild and wooly hair from your face. For clues, check this out.

There are some gadgets that are just ridiculous and should not see the light of day. Like the iPod toilet paper holder, and the beer belly beverage bag. So when someone told me I should get The Celestron Sky Scout, for stargazing, I thought, yeah right. It gets really cold outside, when it gets dark. I go from the house to the car to work to the car to my house again– I’m trying to avoid being outside it the dark. So the other night when my wife made me go onto the porch for some fresh air, I realized the error of my ways. It was a clear cold winter’s night. This is Western Virginia– out here you can actually SEE those twinkly things in the sky. While taking in the vastness of the blanket of stars above, I felt kinda stupid. I could only point out two or three constellations– less than the average 4th grader, probably.There are like, A BILLION stars up there, how could I recognize only a small handful of them? Did I miss that day in middle school? It was probably more like a week. This is just sad. We’re planning a family camping trip in the spring with my brother the high school science teacher and his family– he’ll mop the floor with me if I don’t brush up on my astronomy and quick.

Anyways, I decided to check out the Celestron. It’s educational, but it’s not like getting schooled. It’s actually pretty cool. It uses GPS technology to identify any star, planet, or space junk you aim it at. It has more than 6,000 space objects in its databank– you’re not going to run out of things to check out. Or you can keep doing what I’ve been doing– pointing at the sky hollering, “Saturn’s probably over there!” and gesturing wildly in some direction. That’s just silly.

My wife dragged me to that heart-warming date movie, P.S. I love You. Yeah, well, Valentine’s Day came early this year. At least that guy Gerald Butler from the movie 300 stopped working out all the time. He looked like a live-action action-figure. Now I feel like, I don’t have so far to go, you know?

That said, as one of my New Year’s resolutions (including finish the deck on the back of the house, and my promise to change the oil every 3,000 miles) I started going back to the gym. That first day I was a rock star– worked out with the free weights, I rode five miles on the stationary bike, and showed that elliptical machine who’s the boss.

Now I can’t move my neck. Seriously. Climbing stairs, forget about it . It takes me ten minutes to put on a pair of socks and longer to get on a pair of pants, how in the world am I going to make it out of the drive way to get to work? After trying a variety of muscle relaxing creams, I decided I needed to go digital. So I found the Wireless Backup Camera on the Skymall website. Okay, sure– it’s mostly for keeping kids their toys, and stray pets out of harms way– but it also helps an ambitious man save face.

See, you mount the camera on your license plate, connect it to your reverse lights, the wireless signal beams right into your car and there you go– no looking back. Do the overnight shipping.  It’s worth it, on this one.

Damn you, Gerry.