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  • Summer Gear 2026: Preview
    Summer officially started on June 21, and we will be taking our break at the end of July. However, RainyDayReaders know we would leave without posting some gear [...]

  • BenQ TH575: FirstLook/FirstUse
    Now that really large TV screens are coming down in price, we considered replacing our workhorse 46″ Sony Bravia with something bigger. However, with LED TVs, the [...]

  • Summer Reading List
    The summer of 2026 is fast approaching, and we have a few very interesting books on our reading list! Four of them are new to us, but one of them we are re-reading. Why? [...]

  • Boxster Rear Speakers Rebuild
    Way back in 2004, we found ourselves inspired by Rob Sampson, and so we built ourselves a set of rear speaker enclosures for our 2000 Porsche Boxster using PVC pipe fittings, [...]

  • Onoayo LED Mini Projector: FirstUse
    The World Cup is upon us once again, and this time we wanted to be able to watch it while comfortably sitting on the couch. We wanted the “stadium experience,” [...]

  • Onoayo LED Mini Projector: FirstLook
    It’s been a long time since we took a look at projection technology. One reason is that prices of large-screen TVs have been dropping like a rock. Projectors, with [...]

  • DropLit LED Umbrella: FirstLook
    The umbrella has been around for a long, LONG time. Earliest examples have roots in ancient China and Egypt, sometime between 2450-3500 BC. It was originally used for sun [...]

  • MA-AI/Google online training: Week 01
    Here at RainyDay Magazine, we are no strangers to technology, and while we have the right technical background, the tools and capabilities of AI are changing so fast that we [...]

  • Clapp, meet Bartlett :-)
    Our “Clapp’s Favorite” pear tree made it through its second New England winter! The tree started budding at the beginning of April, but a last-minute cold [...]

  • Celestron NexImage 10: FirstUse
    We posted a FirstLook on the NexImage 10 a while back, and had intended to follow up with the FirstUse a few weeks later. A few of our RainyDayScience readers called us out [...]

  • Addonics RAID Tower III: InTheWild
    With inexpensive cloud storage widely available, does anyone still use local RAID storage for backups? Surprisingly, RAID (aka Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) remains [...]

  • AirTag Cat Collar: InTheWild
    Precision Finding (PF) is an AirTag feature for iPhone 11 and later (excluding SE), that uses Ultra Wideband (U1/U2 chip) to show precise distance and direction to a lost [...]

  • Vintage Audubon Nature Encyclopedia
    The Audubon Nature Encyclopedia is a 12-volume, lavishly illustrated vintage reference work, often praised for its detailed, accessible articles on flora and fauna. This [...]

  • AirTag Cat Collar: FirstLook/FirstUse
    It has almost been a year since Reese, our new RainyDayIntern, joined us. He has grown from a wee kitten to a large and muscular cat. Trying to keep track of his whereabouts [...]

  • Modernist Cuisine: FirstLook
    We attended a talk at the Museum of Science back in 2014 given by Nathan Myhrvold, the lead author and founder of Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. He is [...]

  • Schumann Wave Generator: FirstLook
    What is the Schumann Frequency? The Schumann Resonance was mathematically predicted by physicist Winfried Otto Schumann in 1952. The Schumann Resonance is a set of spectral [...]

  • Super Bowl BBQ Pork Ribs
    The New England Patriots are BACK in the Super Bowl after a brief (“wicked brief,” if you’re an actual Bostonian) absence. They are playing against the [...]

  • Reflection Frame: FirstUse
    We were going to find a place to hang the Reflection Frame (RF) before posting the FirstUse write-up, but since so many readers asked what we thought of the quality of the [...]

  • Teren Daily Driver Pants: FirstLook
    Chinese New Year Traditions Explained…. “Trousers” sounds exactly like the word for “wealth” in Cantonese, so buying a new pair of trousers would be adding [...]

  • Reflection Frame: FirstLook
    The first week of the year was the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It is also when super cool, fun, cutting-edge stuff shows up at the RainyDayMagazine office. [...]
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by Wan Chi Lau in Creative Gear

After two years of phenomenal sales and every skeptic being roundly embarrassed for dismissing the iPad, we think it is safe to say the tablet is here to stay. While we [...]

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