News about interesting gadgets, gear, mobile technology and lifestyle products.
The founder of Assero Industries found a major drawback to the iPad was that he couldn’t use it unless he was sitting. He wanted a case that would work well for the commuter, traveler, and sports enthusiast like himself. He wanted a case that would serve as a mobile office to keep his iPad, wallet, […]
Assero Industries Introduce Unique, Front-Facing iPad Bags Read More
Monsoon will be adding the Vulkano Blast and Flow devices to their line of video convergence products. The Vukano Blast allows consumers to access their live, recorded or archived content anytime, anywhere by integrating DVR, web video, TV Anywhere, Universal Plug and Play streaming (UPnP), Mobile Video Recording and 160 GB internal storage for $199.99.
Monsoon Multimedia Announces the Vulkano Blast and Vulkano Flow Read More
Recently the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), CNN and many others have been focusing on the issue of privacy online. It makes one wonder why this is in the news now. After all it has been known for a long time that many companies are watching what you do on the web. It must have been
Privacy Online – Who is watching you? Read More
Ice Blue Line is a Danish design firm that is offering some unique iPad and iPhone holders made of acrylic and steel. There are four different iPad wall mounted holders. Three of them are arcylic and one is steel. There is also one iPhone holder for your desk, that is made of acrylic and available
Danish designers bring us interesting acrylic iPhone and iPad holders Read More
The Samson Meteor Mic is a chrome plated USB microphone with an interesting fold-up design. It has a large 25mm condenser diaphragm, a cardioid pickup pattern, flat frequency response of 20Hz – 20kHz and records in CD quality, 16-bit, 44.1/48kHz resolution. It can function as a Skype microphone and is great for all sorts of
Samson to launch new USB Meteor Mic today at CES Read More
This is the most gorgeous bag I’ve seen in a while. The Col. Littleton No. 42 Courier Bag is sold by Griffin Technology and is handmade in Lynnville, TN. This bag is made with polished American steer hide and solid brass hardware. There’s also a copper tube that equally distributes the weight of the loaded
Col. Littleton No. 42 Courier Bag Read More
Intel is planning to present its new chip “Sandy Bridge” at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. One of the features they are planning to present is “visibly smart”. This feature will enable handling the entire encoding process of a movie in the CPU (including the DRM authentication). The enhanced security should help
Intel Presents New Sandy Bridge Chip at CES in Las Vegas Read More
A problem I have with the iPad is that the virtual keyboard doesn’t offer any tactile feedback, so I have to keep my eye on the keyboard when I type. I’m not a gamer, but I would imagine the virtual controls in iPad games would suffer from the same lack of feedback. To address this
Fling Tactile Game Controller from Ten One Design Read More
The Barnes & Noble NOOK kids iPad app lets you take a library of childrens’ books with you where ever you are. The books are interactive, allowing kids to swipe through the pages and enlarge text and pictures. The app lets you or your child read the book, or the app can read select books
Barnes & Noble NOOK kids App for iPad Read More
We all know that backing up our computer’s hard drive contents is a must do operation. That said, how many you out there actually do it? The better question is how many of you aren’t doing it? Not backing up your data (pictures, documents, videos, etc.) is like playing Russian roulette. You might never get
Clickfree Introduces New Clickfree Wireless Backup Drive Read More
How many times has this happened to you? You are sitting behind a car at a light waiting for the car to go when the light turns green only to miss the light because the driver is distracted reading their email or texting? Or, even worse, watching a car swerving in and out of lanes
A Free App To Stop Distracted Driving – DriveSafe.ly Read More
The Origami Sleeve case for iPad from Incase combines an iPad case with a stand. Just as you’d think from the name, you fold the sleeve case into a stand that can support the iPad in horizontal or vertical orientation. The sleeve protects your iPad when you aren’t using it. The Origami Sleeve case is
Incase Origami Sleeve for iPad Read More
This guitar from ThinkGeek is a real electric guitar with a lot of features. It has metal strings that never break and never go out of tune. It supports finger picking, slides, and chord-based playing; it even has a whammy bar to allow you to bend notes. It’s a synthesizer with 25 guitars, 50 synths,
YouRock MIDI Electric Guitar from ThinkGeek Read More
Fatheadz specializes in eyewear for men that can’t wear average sized sunglasses and prescription glasses. With modern, sleek and trendy styles for men, Fatheadz is the only eyewear maker catering to men with bigger heads. Fatheadz are sold online for $29.95-79.95 and also come in standard and intermediate sizes.
Fatheadz – Glasses for guys with large noggins Read More
I was reminded of all the talk of journals on the website lately when I saw this app from Redbot Software. The Time Lapse Photo Journal app works with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad to let you make a journal of photos that you take daily to record how a subject changes. It requires iOS
Time Lapse Photo Journal App for Apple Devices from Redbot Software Read More
If you didn’t get the ebook reader for Christmas that you wanted, check out the refurbished Sony PRS-600 ebook readers at Woot! today. You can have your choice of black or red for $99.99 plus $5 shipping. The PRS-600 is last year’s model, with the resistive touchscreen. It does have note-taking abilities, and it can
Sony PRS-600 Touch Readers (Refurbished) at Woot! Today Read More
The fashion trend for women seems to be giant handbags that you could carry a week’s clothing in, and I often wonder what you could possibly carry that requires such a huge bag. Penelope and Parker – a British luxury-brand company – has capitalized on the huge bag trend to design a line of work
Penny Leather Laptop Bag from Penelope and Parker Read More
ZDocks great looking heavy charging docks for iPhones and iPods (I think they are sturdy enough that they will even work with an iPad). They are cast in solid zinc, weigh 400g / 14.1oz and have a smooth brushed finish. The universal connector sticks up out of the dock, so that you can attach the
Get 100% of your US recommended daily allowance of Zinc, with this cool iPhone Dock Read More
I can’t seem to find a lot of info about this iPad / iPhone keyboard kit, other than it’s a standard Apple Bluetooth keyboard that has special app stickers (or keycaps) for a variety of apps. Apparently you can use an app to program shortcuts into this keyboard so that you can easily use it
Flashpoint iBoard Apple Bluetooth Keyboard Kit Read More
Just before Christmas, my Dell laptop took a dirt nap. Luckily, I had backups and I did finally manage to boot the thing in safe mode so I could copy files over onto my new computer. It wasn’t until I started using my new laptop that I realized how many sites I use frequently have
Protect – and Remember – Your Passwords in the Vault Read More