Android on a stick anyone? The FXI Cotton Candy garnered a lot of attention and is slowly starting to filter its way into the wild, but the Chinese market has just released a similar Android based thumb stick. Not quite as highly specced and slightly larger, the MK802 runs a 1.5GHz A10 CPU, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of […]
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A while back, I told you about some beautiful embossed smart covers for iPad from an Etsy store called Handiwork by punkassjim. Inspired by the cover of an old electrical handbook, Jim Thorpe set about creating a cover for his iPad that incorporated the cover design of the handbook. Luckily for us, he realized his
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The ColorTouch from Venstar looks like the ultimate gadgeteer’s thermostat. First of all, it is compatible with Apple iPhone, iTouch, iPad, Blackberry, Android, Mac and PC devices, which allows you to easily change settings remotely. Who knew that the ability to customize your home thermostat was important to people. It must be because the ColorTouch has interchangeable
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The CitySlicker MacBook Air Case from WaterField Designs is a beautifully compact as the Air itself. This bag is protects your Air with three layers – impact-resistant plastic, high-grade neoprene, and a padded liner – while staying thin. The CitySlicker has a ballistic nylon body with a distressed leather front flap. The back has a
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Bellroy, a company that specializes in Better Ways to Carry, have developed a Travel Wallet that’s small enough to fit in your pocket. The Travel Wallet is made of midnight or cocoa leather, and it has multiple pockets to organize your tickets, cards, and passport. (Doesn’t hold the double-thickness passports, only standard ones.) It holds
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I’ve reviewed the Drift HD and the Swann Freestyle HD action cameras (see related links), and while I haven’t been able to give you any extreme sports footage, hopefully the reviews have been useful to those considering a POV camera. The GoPro range of POV cameras have become the de facto standard by which most
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Leading memory upgrade company Crucial.com is holding a contest where one lucky person will win a trip to California to have dinner with lovable geek hero Steve Wozniak at one of his favorite restaurants. To enter, go to http://www.crucial.com/mac2012 between now and June 15, 2012 and answer a few simple questions about your Mac computer usage. In
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Going for a consistent look for your Apple setup? With a small footprint, aluminum body and matching detachable stands, the uCube speakers from UltraLink have a style that looks like they should have been included in the box with an iMac or MacBook. Plug ‘n’ Play USB powered, they claim to utilize a “smart” Digital
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I have been trying out another stylus with my iPad. This one is the BoxWave EverTouch Capacitive stylus with a new type of tip that I’ve not seen before called FiberMesh. Is the BoxWave EverTouch stylus just another clone of the Targus stylus or is it a step up? Let’s take a look. SHARE ON
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Samson’s new Carbon 49 USB MIDI Controller is piano style keyboard with 49 velocity-sensitive keys, dedicated Transpose and Octave buttons, as well as Pitch Bend and Modulation wheels. Designed with the iPad in mind, the Carbon 49 features an integrated iPad slot and can be used with your favorite MIDI apps via Apple’s iPad Camera
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The CLIPPER Bluetooth Stereo Headset from Jabra is a hybrid stereo Bluetooth/wired earbuds system that lets you listen to music and take phone calls. The CLIPPER’s Bluetooth device attaches to your clothing or bag. It attaches automatically with any device that supports Auto Pairing, and it streams music from most any Bluetooth-enabled smartphone, tablet, MP3
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Most every phone, tablet, MP3 player, and computer these days have built-in speakers so you can hear audio without having to use headphones. Most of those built-in speakers are woefully inadequate for anything but listening while you’re within a couple of feet of your device. There are a plethora of external speakers available to boost
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One of the best file managers on Android is ES File Explorer. Most people probably only use it to handle local files and maybe LAN shares, but if used properly, ES File Explorer handles so much more than that. With the proliferation of cloud-based storage such as Sugarsync, Dropbox, your 50GB Box account, and sync-enabled
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If you’ve been thinking of stepping up from your feature phone to a Android smartphone on Verizon’s 4G network, you currently have 4 sub $100 phones to choose from. There’s the Samsung Stratosphere for $99.99, LG Lucid for $79.99, Pantech Breakout for $29.99 and Droid Charge for Free. Why should you consider paying $79.99 for the
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If you’re visiting this site, you are probably a gadget addict. The problem with being addicted to gadgets is that you often buy something only to find out a week or so later that it either doesn’t do what you expected / wanted, or you just plain don’t like it. By then it’s probably too
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Apple TVs are great – you can stream video from iTunes, Netflix, your home computer, and you can display content from your iPad to your TV using AirPlay and AirPlay Mirroring. But Apple TVs have only HDMI output, so you can’t use it with every display. The ATV Pro from Kanex is an HDMI to
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If you have trouble finding where you parked, there’s an app – and a dongle – for that. The Find My Car Smarter device and an iPhone app (for iPhone 4S only) can mark where you parked your car and help you get back there. The Find My Car Smarter Bluetooth Smart device ($25, or
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I recently spent two weeks with the Droid RAZR MAXX by Motorola. This phone runs on Verizon’s 4G LTE and its claim to fame is battery life. It is very similar to the recently released RAZR, just thicker to accommodate the larger battery. I can’t tell you how excited I am that someone finally designed a phone
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I’m sure most of us have a few powerstrips in use around our homes. They aren’t the sexiest looking devices and aren’t the easiest to store when not in use. A new Kickstarter project hopes to change that. It’s called the Plugbook and it offers 2 power recepticals with a retractable cable in the convenient
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While most portable battery solutions will only give you 5V out which is useful for keeping juice up to your USB type devices, the minigorilla from powertraveller also supplies voltage settings of 8.4v, 9.5v, 10.5v, 12v & 19v allowing you to keep power up to many other phones, games systems, GPSs, ereaders, MP3 players and tablets even up to
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