Scott Kramer

San Diego

Writer, Editor and Blogger at Freelance

Contributor at Forbes

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Articles

Learn From Others’ Mistakes On Electric Scooters

2 days ago | forbes.com | Scott Kramer

I knew I was in trouble the moment I saw the cement disappear. While taking my electric scooter out to run a quick errand last week, I toppled right over the top of the handlebars and smacked my head on the ground. Having ridden scooters for seven years now, I feel like I’m pretty accomplished at it. But I tried to make a 90° turn onto a sidewalk from a bike trail -- unfortunately at about 92°. Too tight.
Learn From My Stupidity: No More Electric Scooters

2 days ago | forbes.com | Scott Kramer

I knew I was in trouble the moment I saw the cement disappear. While taking my electric scooter out to run a quick errand last week, I toppled right over the top of the handlebars and smacked my head on the ground. Having ridden scooters for seven years now, I feel like I’m pretty accomplished at it. But I tried to make a 90° turn onto a sidewalk from a bike trail -- unfortunately at about 92°. Too tight.
How To Pack More For Your Next Trip, With The Same Amount Of Space

4 days ago | forbes.com | Scott Kramer

Apparently many of you are planning on traveling this summer, according to expert reports I’ve read. But as you know, the process of travel has become a hassle. That’s one of the reasons I always pack lightly. In fact, I try to cram everything for a trip into a simple backpack that I can tuck under the airplane seat in front of me.
Has Everything Gone Cashless?

1 week ago | forbes.com | Scott Kramer

I’m feeling old. While tech savvy, I am beginning to feel the emotional confusion of the elderly people I know who tell me that the world seems to be passing them by now. Case in point: Just came back from a fun trip to Chicago where it seems every venue we encountered had gone cashless. And while I understand the trend, it comes with its share of problems. It started to hit me when I went to buy some three-day Chicago Transit Authority train passes.
Putting Ninja’s 5-Function Backyard Grill Through Some Heat

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | Scott Kramer

Our back patio has been a revolving door for grills the past three years. After a Weber propane barbecue became unusable from overuse, I tossed it and went to a small-brand wood pellet smoker and a tabletop charcoal grill. Even tried a pizza oven for a while. The smoker has never worked well, the charcoal grill is too small, and the pizza oven didn’t bake evenly. Honestly, there’s no more room back there.
First Look: Callaway Golf’s New Mini Driver Proves Good Things Come In Small Packages

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | Scott Kramer

Full-sized drivers can be amazing off the tee – provided you can control where the ball goes. Many golfers fight fades and just generally don’t feel confident with them as they stand over the ball on the tee box. The clubhead is large and intimidating. And while the long shaft can help you generate lots of clubhead speed and whip through the ball, it can also wreak havoc on impact and cause errant shots if you don’t make contact in the right spot.
How Robots Are Already Improving Golf Courses

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Scott Kramer

While I love playing golf first thing in the morning, it often comes at a cost to my sanity: I often encounter the maintenance staff mowing the fairways on seemingly every hole. Those guys and their loud machines seem to creep right along the course with me. I don’t understand why they don’t work from the last hole back to the first, so that golf groups only intersect with them once during their round.
This Machine Is Dedicated To Making Cold Brew Coffee. But Are You?

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Scott Kramer

When Cumulus Coffee invited me to review its countertop cold coffee maker, I was intrigued. Had never seen a machine before dedicated to making cold coffee. Now you may be thinking what I was pondering: Why would I need this? After all, can’t I just make a regular old cup of coffee and pour it over ice? The answer is, of course you can. But I wanted to see if this coffee tastes different. After it arrived, I set it up in our kitchen.
My New Morning Crush

1 month ago | forbes.com | Scott Kramer

It’s been a few months since my cheap little espresso machine broke. Some kind of seal went on it, and it kept dripping a lot of extra water after each shot was pulled. Ever since I chucked it, my wife and I have just been making regular old cups of coffee every morning. Which is fine. She has always preferred large cups in the morning, anyway. But I miss my double shots.
Acer’s Chromebook Plus Gaming Laptop Also Rocks In The Office

1 month ago | forbes.com | Scott Kramer

For the past year or so, I’ve kind of grown apart from my laptop. Literally. My farsightedness has apparently been getting worse – requiring me to sit further away from my 13-inch Chromebook. So I figured it was time to get a larger screen and probably new glasses. I tried using an external monitor for this very column last month. But it frankly took up too much space on my desktop.