Some of you reading this blog are old enough to remember when mobile technology meant a boom box that you could fit on your shoulder and carry around. If you were strong enough, of course. These days we’re all expected to keep our tunes to ourselves, though some youths rebel by playing the music from their smartphone speakers really loud, annoying all the people on public transportation with crappy, tinny music. If you’re going to do all that, you need to go old school with it.
The Elevation Dock for iPhone, the first Kickstarter project to break the $1M mark, promises to solve a number of the annoying problems that you face with ordinary iPhone docks. The project has hit on a need of many as nearly 10,000 iPhone users really want to see this Kickstarter project produced. They’ve invested near [...]
The Satechi SCH 121 iPad Cup Holder Mount looks like just the thing I’ve been looking for to help me use my iPad as a GPS device. For nearly a year I’ve struggled to keep my iPad in place on the road. I love the large screen for easy viewing on the road, but because it’s bulky [...]
We still don’t know what the iPad 3 is going to look like when it arrives but that doesn’t mean that case-makers like OtterBox aren’t going to be providing high-quality cases for when it does decide to show its face. In a video posted on YouTube, the OtterBox’s Portfolio Manager Will Robinson tells us that [...]
When I first heard about the Jawbone Jambox I was skeptical about the value of a $200 bluetooth speaker and speakerphone. After using one for the better part of three months I’m sold on the value it provides, especially considering you can often find the units on sale for $99 to $150. The Jawbone Jambox is a about 6 [...]
The days of watches that only tell you time and date are long gone. At CES we saw an explosion of smart watches from many vendors, but the most exciting smart watch I saw was the one I had on my wrist. For the past month I’ve been wearing a smart watch, or as WIMM [...]
Apple made a lot of shutterbugs happy with the camera upgrades in the iPhone 4S — more pixels and a bigger sensor means an even better “best camera” to carry everywhere. Want to take the iPhone even further than that? With some additional accessories and apps you can turn this device into a mobile photo and video studio worthy of your enhanced skills.
By default, users can’t plug in a USB flash drive or SD card to transfer files on the go. Samsung offers a solution to this problem with the Galaxy Tab USB and SD Connection Kit. These dongles make transferring files pretty easy if you can figure out where that happens. The Galaxy Tab isn’t great at making the next steps obvious.
I can’t answer that right now, but from what I am reading and watching, it sure seems to be. If you are like me and many others out there and don’t like using cases often, you need to make sure your screen is protected. You never know when you will throw keys or change in [...]
There’s no shortage of iPhone car accessories and protocols designed to make your iPhone a part of your in car listening experience, but there is a shortage of awesome iPhone in car stereo options. Enter Dash, a new car stereo that puts your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S into the dash of your car, where [...]
Typing on the iPad is a pain. It just is. Typing on any on-screen keyboard won’t be as good as typing on a handware one, of course, but there are ways to make the experience a little easier. While some companies are focused on a software solution, the folks behind a very successful Kickstarter project [...]
In an interview with LAPTOP Magazine, Samsung product marketing manager Ryan Bidan says that having a pen interface similar to what we see with the Galaxy Note “continues to make a lot of sense across a number of screen sizes,” but won’t go so far as to say that the next 10.1-inch Tab will have a stylus. Still, the possibility has many all a-buzz with the possibility. I wouldn’t be sad to see a small stylus like the Note’s come with the next Tab as I’m a fan of stylii in general.
There’s a new Pogo Sketch Plus Stylus coming. We know a lot of our readers love to ink with a stylus even though iPad isn’t optimized for inking. Ten One Designs agrees with you and makes one of the best styli I’ve tested and that’s a bunch. They improved their already simple and economical design with [...]
Angry Birds merch is out of control and everywhere, but no one is complaining about that. Those loveable birds and pigs can grace everything from plush toys to flip flops and someone will buy it. And anytime there is a licensing opportunity in the air there will be flash drives. Right now you can grab [...]
I consider myself a green-minded person and always up to try new, Earth-friendly methods of powering the many gadgets I carry on a daily basis. So, in theory, I should be excited about the Powertrekk water-powered battery pack. But there are some major caveats.
The Thumbumper is a simple gadget that’ll make gaming on smartphones and tablets a lot more enjoyable. We’ve seen other joysticks that stick on touch screens, but the Thumbumper is simpler and doesn’t obscure much of the display. Most importantly, it looks very mobile. While mobile gaming has exploded in recent years, controlling virtual characters, [...]
Despite laws against it, despite PSAs and documentaries that show the dangers, despite all common sense, there are still tons of people out there engaging in dangerous activities such as texting or web surfing with their phones while driving. If you can’t exercise any self-control to end this behavior or want to help someone else [...]
These cufflinks are either the ultimate in 007 gear for the average man or the geekiest cufflinks on the planet. Either way, they’re at least dead useful, unlike normal pairs. Brookstone’s polished silver cufflinks each hide a USB drive that offers 2GB of storage and Wi-Fi hotspot capability. It’s not clear if they can both [...]
There are dozens of accessory and case makers in the world attempting to solve the problem of protecting your precious iPad or Android tablet from the pitfalls of modern life.
Some solve this by wrapping it in armor or gel or just mounting it to a stable surface, never to move.
Some solve this by wrapping the tablet in balls.
At CES we saw Ion Audio’s cool new music/iPad mashup in the Guitar Apprentice, a guitar-sized accessory that aims to teach people how to play (or at least find the right chords). Just slap an iPad into the body, fire up Garage Band, and follow the lighted frets. We loved this idea, but now I’m [...]
The hassle of transferring pictures from digital cameras to the web or devices where they can best be displayed is a problem camera makers are constantly trying to solve. Samsung thinks the best way to do so is by giving cameras Wi-Fi and allowing users to connect them directly to phones, tablets, TVs and refrigerators. [...]
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One of the perennial problems in my life with mobile devices is how best to deal with them when I don’t want to hold them. Where to set the tablet when I’m cooking but need it for the recipe? How do I get my eReader to sit on the bed in a way that means [...]
Mobile gaming nerds rejoiced last year when ThinkGeek’s April Fool’s arcade cabinet for the iPad became a real product thanks to the folks at Ion Audio. Now they’re bringing the concept to everyone’s favorite mobile gaming device: the iPhone. The iCade Mobile fits all models of the iPhone and the iPod touch. Just like the [...]
The first time I walked through Sony’s massive CES booth I almost missed the Xperia Smartwatch. Shoved in between the new Xperia Ion smartphones this little gadget is a hidden gem. When I first played with it I fell a bit in love. But after spending more hands-on time with it I’m ready to declare [...]
I visited with several headphone manufacturers and retailers and found three offerings to be quite interesting. I am sure I missed quite a few awesome companies, but of those that I met with, these are the ones I was most impressed with. In no particular order- Soul by Ludacris, Marley, and Yurbuds. I love music [...]
Zagg is showing off a nifty Bluetooth keyboard for your tablet needs. You can use it with iOS and Android tablets, but I was also told that it’s been tested with Windows Phone too. All the functionality that the keyboard offers doesn’t currently work with Windows Phone, but the core functions should. It’s designed for [...]
OK, is there some sort of water filled apocalypse coming our way in the near future that will drown us and our mobile gadgets that we haven’t been told about? Or are the dangers inherent in Stall Surfing finally becoming a marketing concept that we companies can rely on? I’m not sure, but it sure [...]
Today is the first official day of CES 2012 and I’m about to head onto the show floor with my bag full of gear. Since you all enjoy seeing what’s in our bags I thought I’d share. The picture below is of all the gear I brought, but I’m not carrying everything in this picture. [...]
While I own, and am a huge fan of mobile devices, I am not a huge fan of mobile accessories. I find most of them to be overpriced and if they aren’t overpriced, I find them to be gimmicky, tacky, useless, etc, etc, etc. Needless to say, it’s not often that I run into something [...]
If you saw our holiday gift guides you know that some of us are fans of the Jawbone Jambox, a compact Bluetooth speaker with big sound. Today at CES we caught up with the Jawbone team and were highly amused to see them wearing the Jamboxes around their necks like we’d suddenly traveled back to [...]
Android gamers, do you wish you could output your screen to an HDTV but don’t have a micro HDMI port? These days smartphones don’t necessarily need them if they have MHL technology built in, as many newer models do. With this technology one could output audio and video via the micro USB port as long [...]
It’s the first day of 2012 and you know what that means: hangovers! And resolutions. It’s what everyone does as the old year rolls over into the new, and everyone swears they will keep up with them beyond January 31st. It often proves harder and harder as the weeks and months go on. This year, [...]
I’ve checked out quite a few different styli to be used with an iPad. I know it is verboten to think of using a stylus on that Tablet, but hey, I do take a lot of notes in rehearsal and quite frankly I don’t like to finger paint when I do so. One of the [...]
The Galaxy Nexus for Verizon has finally arrived, and with the launch come a number of great Galaxy Nexus cases. These Galaxy Nexus cases are designed to work on the Verizon Galaxy Nexus, but may also fit the GSM version. While your local Verizon store only has a few Galaxy Nexus cases, I’ve crawled the web to [...]
The New York Times’ Bits blog posted a piece on wearable computers that has all the Apple fans in a tizzy thanks to this one line about a project headed by a small group at the Cupertino company: One idea being discussed is a curved-glass iPod that would wrap around the wrist; people could communicate [...]
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Apple made a lot of shutterbugs happy with the camera upgrades in the iPhone 4S — more pixels and a bigger sensor means an even better “best camera” to carry everywhere. Want to take the iPhone even further than that? With some additional accessories and apps you can turn this device into a mobile photo and video studio worthy of your enhanced skills.
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iHome iB40 Headphones: Decent Sound at Budget Price
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The Droid 4 is the most recent of Motorola’s Droid line. The original Droid kicked off the Android revolution on Verizon, so it is good to see that the company is still thinking of users who want a physical keyboard. The Droid 4 marks the first time Motorola has included Verizon’s super fast 4G LTE [...]
Samsung Series 7 Slate Review: First Impressions
These days whenever someone mentions the word “Tablet” visions of the iPad or something similar dance in their heads. Not that long ago a tablet was something quite different: a Windows-based slate computer. Since the rise of the new idea of the tablet there have been a few Tablet PCs trying for relevance in an [...]
