The world of gadgets is always evolving, and each new year comes with all sorts of innovations and breakthroughs from some of the coolest and most prestigious companies in the world. This year is no different. This compilation of 19 products have made our list of the top gadgets for 2018 by being useful, fun and innovative.
Many of them are products you’d never even expect to go viral, but most of them have sold millions worldwide! Not only can you read about them here, you can click the links provided if you want to order them, without having to pick up the phone…or even leave your house.
1. TrackR Bravo – Track Anything
When you attach this coin-size tracking device to an item and lose the item, you have a 20,000-times chance of getting it back. The accompanying app enlists the network of 20,000 TrackR users to locate your lost bag, bike or dog. You can also track your lost wallet (or whatever) yourself. The TrackR app displays how far you are from your keys or purse you dropped, and it will sound the alarm to help you pinpoint its exact location. If you realize you left your bag in another location, all other TrackR users in the network are notified, and when one passes your missing article, you’ll get an update sent to your phone. What if you can’t find your phone? Use TrackR to ring it, even if it’s on silent mode, and you’ll find your phone fast. TrackR helps you keep your stuff…especially if you’re a chronic (keys/wallet/bike/car/bag) misplacer.
2. Plume – Track Air Pollution Around You
Plume is a wearable device that tracks pollution around you – kind of like a Fitbit for air quality if you will. It tracks particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide, ozone, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), temperature and humidity. It can be clipped to a bag and is designed for people who live in big polluted cities.
3. Siren Song – Personal Protection Alarm
Inspired by the Military, the Siren Song uses ear piercing sound (over 130 decibels) to deter bad guys and is quickly becoming one of the most sought after safety devices in America.
It will most likely be on every kid’s keychains or backpacks by the end of the year, but it should also be carried by every woman in America. With over 100,000 units sold in 2017 alone, this product makes our 2017 viral gadgets list!
But the Siren Song isn’t just to help protect you, your kids and your grandkids from an attack. It can also be used as a life saving device to call for help if you’re having a heart attack or have some other health condition that can prevent you from yelling for help.
Don’t let your worst nightmare become your reality. Safety doesn’t happen by accident. Purchase a personal alarm for yourself, for your child, or for a loved one. The Siren Song is particularly suitable for teenagers, parents, night owls, delivery route employees, business owners, and college students, or the elderly who may need to call for help. The keychain design is perfect for use with house keys or car keys. It can also be attached to a backpack or a purse.
4. KeySmart – The Future of Keychains
You might be thinking that you already have a keychain. But it probably doesn’t compare to this new futuristic keychain. Here’s a fact everyone can agree upon: bulky keychains are both unsightly and cumbersome to handle. Not to mention, they won’t protect your pockets from getting shredded to bits by your expansive key collection.
That’s where the KeySmart comes in. This handy key organizer offers a simple, elegant solution for organizing your keys – allowing you to eliminate your keychain for good.
Let’s start with the basics: this durable key holder can hold up to 14 keys in a compact fashion, and is durable to boot. It consists of two 3mm thick plates made of aircraft grade aluminum, meaning you won’t have to worry about handling it with kid gloves.
No surprise, then, that we also guarantee that the KeySmart will take anything life throws at it. Take it anywhere – from work, to the beach, and much more – knowing it won’t get dented or scratch easily.
You won’t have to worry about the contents of your pockets getting scratched, either! For instance, you can rest assured your keys won’t scratch your phone. And as an added bonus, you’ll be able to walk around without being heard a mile away due to your keys jingling and jangling about – as they would on a conventional keychain.
And how’s this for ultimate convenience? The KeySmart boasts a built-in clip that allows you to attach it to any pocket, belt, or bag. (If you’d prefer to go without the clip, you can easily remove it.) You can even customize your KeySmart by adding accessories like USB drives and bottle openers to it, all available separately on the KeySmart website.
5. Fixd — Car Diagnostic
Have you ever gone to an auto repair shop for an oil change, only to have the mechanic say you need a new transmission? Or has the mysterious “check engine” light come on, and next thing you know the mechanic has a list of expensive engine parts that need replacing? Unfortunately, mechanics know taking advantage of people is easy, given their lack of knowledge about car maintenance needs. But there’s a new device you can carry with you in your car to tell you exactly what’s wrong with it. If you own a car built after 1996 then you can use this brilliant new device called Fixd to instantly diagnose any car problems. This means the next time your “Check Engine Light” happens to come on, you’ll know exactly what the issue is and the Mechanics won’t be able to lie to you! In the United States alone, this product has done over $50,000,000 in sales in 2017, so it definitely qualifies for our viral products list.
6. Roadside Emergency Disc
The Haylo Safety flare is probably something everyone should have with them. The Safety Flare offers the highest level of roadside safety for on-the-road or child-at-play situations and more! Can be used as a road flare, emergency beacon, marine applications, camping and outdoors. Perfect for emergency use, camping/outdoors, road flares, marine applications, etc. Plus it is shatterproof, rainproof (IP55) and it can float so you can take it anywhere. 10 different lighting modes include spotlight (6 hours), double blink (9 hours), double pulse (9 hours), single blink (38 hours), rotate (9 hours), SOS rescue morse code (15 hours), alternate (9 hours), solid on high (5 hours), solid on low (28 hours) and 2 flashlight (9 hours). Easy to use: Just press the button and hold to turn on and cycle through the different lighting options. The super bright array can be seen up to 1 mile at night and can also provide additional protection during the day as well. The strong magnetic backing allows the Halo to adhere to your vehicles hood and other metal surfaces. Not only that, but this can be used in places such as forests where regular safety flares might be dangerous to use.
7. Mobile Screen Cast
Here is a really clever gadget that makes streaming from your phone to any TV a breeze! It’s called Mobile Screen Cast. The concept is super simple. Rather than adding another complicated device to your entertainment system, Mobile Screen Cast just makes use of a device you already use daily: Your Smartphone! Using sophisticated MirrorProjection® technology, this neat new tech gadget sends all video and audio wirelessly from your phone directly to your TV, essentially turning your phone into a wireless home-theater system.
You can still use all the apps you’re already familiar with like Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime Video. Literally, anything you can do on your phone can go right on your TV! Mobile Screen Cast even works from your tablet or laptop, so you’ll always have a way to connect.
8. Peeps — Cleaner Glasses
This is a relatively new product that is picking up steam fast and is quickly going viral among people who own glasses. The Peeps eyeglass cleaner is designed specifically for cleaning eyeglasses, sunglasses, and reading glasses. Peeps uses a unique invisible carbon cleaning compound to safely and easily clean your glasses from oily fingerprint smudges to dust and facial oils. The Peeps glasses cleaner is the safest and most tested lens cleaning technology in the world. In fact, the technology is literally out of this world – being the only cleaners on the Space Station used for lens cleaning by NASA. It’s easy to use, compact and never expires! Their technology will clean your lenses 500 times! The perfect size eye wear cleaner to take with you – it measures approximately 4x1x1 inches and is available in 7 different colors. They are now shipping worldwide.
9. RadSpeed Pro Radar Detector
You’re driving down the road, top down, not a care in the world, and all of a sudden you catch a glimpse of flashing red and blue lights in your rearview mirror. Instinctively, you glance down at your speedometer noticing that you’ve been speeding. You pull over and wait for the officer to issue you your citation. Around 35 million speeding tickets are issued each year in the United States. 79% of Americans say they have gotten at least one speeding ticket so if you got one before, you are not alone!
Luckily, that’s all about to change. With the RadSpeed Detector Pro, you can detect police radar mile away! American drivers will no longer have to give their hard earned money away to the police. People are now driving in a smart way, saving them thousands of dollars.
10. Snap SmartCam — Catch a Thief
This high quality full HD 1080p USB security camera also doubles as a smartphone charger and it’s getting a lot of attention on the web right now. It’s the perfect gift idea for someone with young kids or pets who needs to keep an eye on them while they’re out of the house. Think of it as a nanny cam that you can also use to charge your phone! In fact, this disguised HD video camera has been used to apprehend criminals in several home invasion cases. The Snap Smart Cam will automatically start recording and when it reaches full memory capacity, it will automatically overwrite the earliest videos recorded. Also, with cell phone wall chargers being everywhere these days, this item is sure to blend into any environment. Think it needs batteries? Nope, not at all, no batteries required, so you can be sure that you’re recording at all times as long as it’s plugged in. Perhaps we should be worried about this viral product though as we really don’t want to be spied on wherever we are!
11. TC1200 Flashlights — Long-Lasting Bright Light
A strong flashlight is something you’d never think would be a viral product. But this specific flashlight isn’t just your run of the mill ordinary flashlight. It went viral in 2017 and sold over 20,000 units in just a few months. The perfect flashlight for emergency situations is the TC1200 Flashlight. This was built to withstand anything! You might be thinking that you already have a flashlight. But do the U.S. Navy Seals and the U.S. Coast Guard rely on the kind of flashlight you have? The TC1200 Flashlight uses military-grade LED technology that can illuminate a field or blanket a work area with 800 lumens of light. It can also blind an attacker. The skin is tough aircraft-grade-aluminum. Throw it, drive over it—it’ll still work. Drop it in six feet of water—it’ll still work. This tough gadget is also versatile. It comes with a strobe setting if you are stranded and need to signal for help, and you can zoom and focus its LED beam to see far, far away. 3 AAA batteries give it 1,000 hours of life. That makes it ideal for reliable, abundant light during a prolonged natural disaster or emergency…and for lots of everyday uses. This is standard gear if you want to be prepared for anything. Keep it in your car with you or your house.
12. Mint
How about checking your breath? When you blow into Mint, its accompanying app tells you if you need a mint, water, or a new toothbrush. It’s the third oral hygiene product from Breathometer, a company that launched on Indiegogo in 2013. Mint was 326% funded, raising more than $87,000, in March. Happy kissing.
13. Xtra PC
If you’re tired of having a slow barely functioning computer, then this is the product you want. It’s incredibly frustrating when computers slow down or stop working for seemingly no reason at all. And even after all the diagnostics, upgrades, and money spent, the amount of time waiting for that spinning wheel or hourglass to disappear never seems to get any shorter. Your once new, lightning-fast, computer just keeps getting slower as each day passes.
That’s where this new gadget called Xtra PC can help. It works with any computer (Mac or Windows) made after 2004 and is definitely the fastest. easiest and cheapest solution to getting yourself a new computer without spending a big amount of money. It’s so easy that all you have to do is plug in Xtra PC and you’re good to go. A brand new PC on a memory stick! We can see this product continuing to sell well for the foreseeable future.
14. NightSight Driving Glasses – What A Difference
Seriously, did you know that the vast majority of car accidents happen at night and right before dawn? A lot of that has to do with glare and the problems with vision many people experience. Maybe that’s the reason these driving glasses are selling by the truckload. Night Sight HD promises to reduce night driving glare and eye strain, and it will dramatically improve seeing at night during snow or rainy conditions. It lets you see enhanced colour, is durable, lightweight and is fully equipped with polarized lenses. Unlike clip-ons it protects your eyes from all sides, and you can just slide it over your existing prescription lenses. Whether driving, reading or golfing, these versatile goggles make seeing a whole new experience.
15. JellyTank
Do you ever feel like your home is just missing a “center piece”? Maybe you’ve been thinking of putting up some art or something to spruce up the place a bit. If so, then this Jelly Tank could be right up your alley! The JellyTank is the Ultimate Desktop Aquarium designed and developed to give you tranquility and relaxation in the comfort of your home or office. If you’re looking for something to impress your guests or just to stare at for hours on end, then look no further. You can also purchase this on Kickstarter if they are still taking orders.
16. Smart Backpack – #1 Anti-Theft Backpack
Here’s a product that’s created a lot of buzz recently. A backpack with a brain! Designed to carry all your tech, and also to charge it and track it as well. This back pack is a charging station with its own internal tracker! Whether you are a traveller or a student or a busy work commuter this Back Pack is for you. There are compartments for each of your devices, even laptops with up to 15.6” screens, and charging ports for each of them.
If you leave your bag behind, it can alert your phone! (This is available on the higher priced models.) They’re water-resistant, include anti-theft features, and are intelligently padded to protect your devices. Not only do you have style options, you can get a great discount because these bags are new and the producers are trying to gain a big market share fast. This is a perfect tactical gadget for people to have.
17. ClearView Antenna — Free TV
Did you know you can pick up network TV for free? You just need the right antenna — ClearView’s indoor antenna. No subscription fee. No installation fee. No satellite dish. Attach the sleek antenna to your wall or hide it under a cabinet or behind a picture — as long as there is a good signal — and enjoy watching leading networks, including 90 of the top 100 programs. All for free! (Yes, it’s legal.) You also get free DVR capability with an on-screen channel guide. What will you use the extra money for when you cancel your monthly cable or satellite TV subscriptions and get ClearView? You can think about that while you enjoy free TV.
18. Oto-Tip
Time to clean your ears? The makers of Oto-Tip want you to use their handheld rechargable cleaner. They say traditional Q-tips push ear wax farther into the ear canal, and can create the risk of popping the eardrum. The Oto-Tip’s tiny wand, on the other hand, is equipped with a mini brush that spins and sweeps out ear wax. A rubber stopper prevents the brush from going too far into the ear. We haven’t tried the device, but the idea of a moving object in our ear reminds us of a wet willy.
19. Dr Sock Soothers
Less of a ‘gadget’ and more of an essential comes Dr. Sock Soothers. Foot pain, no matter how much or how little it hurts, it sets a precedent for underlying health issues to come. You would think that compression gear was for the elderly or just for athletes. This is no longer the case. In fact, millions of Americans have experienced foot pain related to the arch, heel, ankle, or plantar fascia.
These episodes, no matter how short or how long, determine chronic issues later with varicose veins making an appearance. The wonderful team over at Dr Soothers Socks have come up with a fantastic pair of compression sock sleeves. Their new socks dramatically reduces swelling and pain in the heels. It soothes achy tired feet and helps with the circulation of blood flow so that your feet are getting enough oxygen.
