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Fidget Spinners BLOG

Fidget Spinners Fidget spinners, or more generally, hand spinners and fidget toys burst onto the scene in 2016. At best a cure for anxiety, or AD/HD, fidget spinners have taken on a collectible flair in the EDC community with professional quality machine shops and CNC milled models becoming more popular as the industry grows. Spinnermint is a news source, review and guide to the new world of fidget spinners and fidget toys. Fidget Spinner: Aventador Published: June 16, 2017 From:   Stealth Spinners Price:  $50 - $60 Bearing:  R188 Bearing Spin Time:  5½ mins. Dimensions:  64 mm width, 6 mm blade thickness Fidget Spinner Type:  Tri Spinner I've been aware of the Aventador from Stealth Spinners for quite some time. Stealth sort of made a splash onto the spinner scene with this first design modeled after the popular Lamborghini in a lesson on cross product design synergy. I was a fan of the design immediately, but I wanted to see if the...

Blog for iPhone 6

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iPhone 6 sets the smartphone bar $373.95  See all prices   Get from Amazon By  Scott Stein  /  @jetscott Sep 7, 2016 8  Related Models CNET Editors' Rating See Full Breakdown + Average User Rating 59  user reviews The good   The iPhone 6 delivers a spacious, crisp 4.7-inch screen, improved wireless speeds, better camera autofocus, and bumped-up storage capacities to 128GB at the top end. iOS remains a top-notch mobile operating system with an excellent ecosystem of apps, and Apple Pay is a smooth, secure payment system. The bad  Battery life isn't much better than it is on last year's iPhone 5S. And there's wasted space: an even larger screen could have been squeezed into the same housing. The bottom line   The iPhone 6 is an exceptional phone in nearly every way except its average battery life: it's thin, fast, and features the excellent iOS operating system. It was the best over...

Blog for Samsung Galaxy s7

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The following teardown blog contains some of our initial findings. For more in depth information on these topics and more,  download the full Galaxy S7 edge teardown report .  Jump to the Rear-Facing Camera Update #2 (March 8, 2016) The rumors of shipments by T-Mobile of the new S7 and S7 Edge are true. We were among the fortunate few who received our units today. Teardown days at Chipworks are very fun. We are always looking forward to iPhone and Galaxy days especially. Everyone is eager and wants to chip in so they can be the first ones inside the technology. It’s very exciting. We are expecting many new devices inside the S7 and S7 Edge, so this blog will probably be spread over a few days. We will be deprocessing many of the chips and this takes time. As we get major sections of the phone deprocessed, we will update the story, s o make sure you register to be notified every time we update . Immediately, it’s the display that grabs you. It is...