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As if having a flashlight to help you in your nightly rounds isn’t enough, this one comes with an added advantage – it has a hidden camcorder within complete with nightvision capability, letting you collect evidence if the situation requires without your subject being any wiser for it. Of course, this is good only as long as you are no more than 8 feet away from your subject, since that is as far as the nightvision range works (including audio) in complete darkness. All videos are recorded in 640 x 480 resolution @ 30FPS, where a microSDHC memory card slot allows you to store up to 20 hours of recorded video. You can pick up this discreet device for $149.95 a pop.

This is a Weather Station Keychain, which is a really compact weather station device that offers weather forecast with moon phases, temperature and humidity, alarm clock with snooze function, built-in compass and LED flashlight. It has also a calendar with date, day and year display.

The Weather Station Keychain needs two button cell batteries. It is available at Amazon for $24.99.

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• Oregon Scientific Meteo – Weather Forecast Watch
• Ambient Flurry Alarm Clock does also Weather Forecast
• Suunto Lumi Watch does Weather Forecast
• Firebox WoodStation Wooden Weather Station
• Oregon Scientific +ECO Solar Weather Clock and Weather Station

Instead of having to wait until you’re around a computer to check the news, now you can have a keychain to help you out.  Sure, those of you who have smart phones can always check the weather while you’re on the go, but for those that don’t this is an affordable solution.  It’ll keep you up to date on the forecast, plus it has other functions to make life a little easier for you.

In addition to giving you things like the min/max temperature and humidity it has other small features as well.  Things like an alarm clock with a snooze function, a calendar with date, day and year display, and a moon phase chart.  You’ll also find a built-in compass and an LED flashlight.  You can purchase it for $24.99.

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We have reported on the Lil Guppie before, and I suppose that this is the next step up, the Guppie. Actually, I think that this Guppie is the same as the Lil Guppie, just like Lil Bow Wow is the same as Bow Wow. (Oh, why do those young rappers put Lil in front of their names? Don’t they know that they will grow out of the Lil?)

This Guppie is one tool that I would have in my pocket, possibly the only one. The Guppie has an adjustable wrench with the crescent wrench adjuster worm gear. It also has a flip-out knife, and an LED flashlight, but I don’t see it in my picture. Did I mention the beer bottle opener? It’s got one, and I’m guessing its by its weird flip-up handle.

It also has a screwdriver with some magnetic heads, and the user can add his or her own.

All in all, the Guppie is the one tool to rule them all, like it says in my headline. By the way, there have been many a geek who has used that one (insert pronoun here) to rule them all headline. It probably isn’t worth it to use it again.

I’m not certain why it is called the Guppie. Is that because it is fish shaped, like a guppy? By the way, if you run a search on Guppie, one definition is “a gay yuppie”. Not something I would name a tool after, and I definitely wouldn’t have put “Lil” in front of it.

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