AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Prefer it or not, we spend extra time taking a look at a display screen than anything.
In keeping with a current examine, the common American spends over seven hours on daily basis taking a look at some type of display screen, and about half of that point is taking a look at a pc monitor.
Frankly, that statistic surprises us since most individuals spend nearly all of their work hours taking a look at a pc or laptop computer display screen.
Since we’re all taking a look at screens, it opens up lots of prospects relating to vacation present concepts.
What higher technique to say “I care” than giving somebody a tech gadget to make that point somewhat simpler?
There are many choices and listed here are a few of our favorites: Gunnar Optiks blue mild filtering glasses.
We weren’t a believer in these amber-colored lenses at first after studying how the ophthalmology neighborhood is split on whether or not they work or not.
The concept behind these glasses is that they block the white/blue mild from a pc or smartphone display screen to stop eye pressure.
Eye medical doctors all agree the easiest way to ease eye pressure is to offer your eyes a break from wanting on the display screen for lengthy intervals of time.
After attempting the Gunnar Optiks, we really imagine they preserve our eyes from being overexposed to the brilliant mild and inflicting tiredness.
Gunnar glasses have been a favourite of video players for years. We spend lots of time writing and enhancing on a wide-screen monitor, and blocking the blue mild appears to make it simpler to see the display screen, although we don’t advocate them for doing any coloration correction for video or graphics enhancing.
Gunnar has a reasonably huge number of types for each enterprise and players.
A brand new line of glasses is a nod to Marvel motion pictures and characters. They’re additionally accessible by prescription and in readers.
Anker 551-USB-2 for iPad. Engaged on a 13″ laptop computer is okay for many issues however generally you want a wider display screen.
This Anker hub for iPad extends the display screen actual property and permits customers to work on an iPad very like they might on a laptop computer.
The hub serves as a dock that may be adjusted to eye stage on a desktop. It may be powered with a separate USB-C charger after which plugged into an iPad’s USB-C port.
As soon as related, the hub retains the iPad charged and serves as a hub for further inputs. It has two normal USB slots and two different slots for SD playing cards.
This enables customers to maneuver recordsdata to and from the iPad to exterior storage reminiscent of transportable arduous drives, flash drives, and SD playing cards.
There’s additionally an HDMI output so you need to use the iPad as a second display screen for a pc monitor or laptop computer.
This means permits customers to work on a mission on the laptop computer whereas holding one other program open on the iPad display screen. New laptops are constructed to be skinny and cell. The downside is that in the present day’s laptops should not have sufficient ports.
Not way back a laptop computer would have a number of USB ports, HDMI, headphones, and even DVD drives. Not anymore. Most solely have a few USB-C connections with perhaps one normal USB drive.
An answer is a USB-C hub that allows you to join a number of units to any laptop computer with only one port.
There are lots of choices together with Anker’s 8-in-1 USB-C hub.
It plugs into one of many USB-C ports on a laptop computer, iPad, or different pill so as to add a number of USB ports, HDMI, normal and micro SD playing cards, Ethernet, and energy supply. These are nice to have in a backpack for distant working.
All of those devices can simply be discovered on most retailer web sites and most go on sale throughout the holidays.
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