What’s in a name? When it comes to marketing and sales, everything. A friend of mine (Billy Carmen – mad scientist and purveyor of cool stuff at ProductNewsChannel.com) told me about this tool and thought I’d like it. He hit the nail on the head…or hit the Doohickey thing with the ThingaMeJig. Whatever the

It’s a simple idea, but sometimes the best ones are very simple.  Now, in a perfect world, all batteries on all tools would have a built in fuel gauge on them.  So that you could push a button anytime and tell how much charge is left in the battery.  In reality, some batteries do have

Bosch Pin Nailer FNS138-23 – First Look Pin nailers have been around awhile, although they still have a ways to go to come anywhere near market saturation. As a matter of fact, there are those who’ve never heard of such an animal – such a pity, since they’re one of the coolest tools on the

Milwaukee M18 Power Source If you own one of Milwaukee’s heated jackets, you know that it can be a life-saver during cold days on the job. They’ve gone one step further with their latest accessory – the M18 Power Source. This bad boy will help you and your jacket keep the chill away even longer!

Ryobi One+ Lithium Ion String Trimmer Makes the Cut! As I’ve said in other reviews I have done on Ryobi tools, “Ryobi makes no bones about the fact that they are not a Pro Brand (big brother Ridgid handles that area), but instead are designed for the average DIYer, easily found as the house brand

  The world of framing nailers is competitive beyond belief. Tool companies spend countless man-hours researching, visiting job sites, creating computer models, testing, testing, and testing some more. The reason is simple – they want to create the tool that is a must-have for every contractor. That, in turn, means big money in their pocket

  That Whacky Dan & Eric We are fortunate enough to get invited to a lot of media events hosted by various tool and building products manufacturers. At these events, we get to know the other online publishers, magazine editors, and other key players in our business.  We become friends with them, and believe it

Milwaukee M12 Heated Jacket 12v DC Plug Adapter Milwaukee continues to heat up their accessory line-up for 2012. This 12v DC Adapter is designed to work with their HEATED JACKET line. It’s pretty straight-forward, but here’s the skinny from Cole Conrad at Milwaukee Tool – watch the video below. Milwaukee M12 Heated Jacket 12v DC

Milwaukee ForceLogic Press Fitting Tools Plumbers everywhere – rejoice! Maybe? The Milwaukee ForceLogic line of press fitting tools is impressive. At the very least, if you have at least a little faith in new technology, these tools could very well be the standard for connecting pipes everywhere. Time will be the judge of that. We got