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This is another Kickstarter project. The Cube: Home for Your iPhone + Android is a cup-like charger and dock for your Android smartphone or iPhone. You simply insert the device’s charging cable through the bottom of the Cube, and it will be held securely in place to make docking/undocking easy. The shape of the cup […]
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At only 3.25″ X 2″ and weighing about an ounce, the DigiPower ChargeCard is small enough to fit in your wallet. This emergency power supply from Mizco is available in iPhone and universal smartphone models. The cards have a leather-like finish and are available in black, red, or white. They have a fold-away cable, and
DigiPower Introduces the ChargeCard Emergency Power Supply That Fits in a Wallet Read More
The Styló capacitive stylus from Just Think Design has a unique two-tipped design that caught my eye. I ordered one to add to my growing collection of styluses and received it yesterday. I know that posting a review with only one day of testing is typically not a good idea, but styluses aren’t that complex of a
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How many WiFi enabled devices other than your computers, laptops, smartphones and tablets do you have in your home? I have more than the average person. In addition to my 5 computing devices (iMac, Macbook Air, MBP, iPad and iPhone), I have a Boxee Box, Roku and 4 WiFi cameras setup. When I saw the
INSTEON Ships World’s First Remote Control Networked LED Bulb Read More
What must have features do you look for while shopping for an Android tablet? For me the tablet has to have access to the full Google Play market instead of some lame 3rd party version of the market that doesn’t have all the same apps. It also has to have a good price and be backed by a
ARCHOS Announces new ELEMENTS Line of 7,8 and 9.7in Android Tablets Read More
Seidio, who has been in the mobile accessory market since back in the Palm Pilot days, just announced that they will be offering cases for the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S3 Android Smartphone. These cases come in several colors and two styles: Surface and ACTIVE. They can be purchased with or without a handy kickstand
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Google Maps is great – a GPS system that’s pretty much always with you. The problem is when you don’t have an internet connection, then it is kind of useless. I would love to use Google Maps overseas, but there’s no way I’m paying my Australian Providers horrendous international roaming fees. And there’s still some
Google Maps Goes Offline Read More
New to the Google Play Store, My Android Apps makes app management on your Android devices so much easier. As you can see above, you can now manage each device’s apps separately including the ability to update and uninstall apps all via your web browser. Not only that, if you lose your device and have to replace it,
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Even though the name would indicate it’s for an Apple product only, the iCookbook app is also available for Android, Windows 8, and Web OS platforms. iCookbook is an award-winning app with more than 2000 recipes using “easy-to-find ingredients, and that have been kitchen-tested and feature beautiful full-color photos.” It also offers substitution charts, timers,
iCookbook, the Voice-Activiated Cookbook App Read More
One of the first crowd funding projects that I supported was the XStylus Touch Stylus on Indiegogo. The project was successfully funded and I have been using my XStylus Touch for a couple weeks and am ready to tell you what I think of it.
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Damn you Viggle! I recently cut way back on the TV shows that I follow and now I learn about a free app called Viggle, that will let me earn points that I can trade for gift cards, movie tickets and even laptops, just for watching TV. I’m doomed… The Viggle iOS or Android app works
Viggle Gives you Goodies Just for Watching TV Read More
My friends at work used to give me funny looks when I’d announce that the Fedex guy just dropped a package off at my house. At first they thought I had somehow obtained a super power of either ESP or remote viewing. While having a super power would definitely be awesome (and I still think
Dropcam HD WiFi Camera Review Read More
Do you use your smartphone, small tablet or eReader with just one hand? Probably not. You most likely hold it in one hand and use a finger on your other hand as the stylus to tap the display. For those of you that are talented enough to hold your phone in one hand and use
FlyGrip Gives Your Smartphone One Handed Usability Read More
From Google, comes the “world’s first social streaming media player”, the Nexus Q . At 4.6″ (116mm) and 2 pounds (923gr), the player runs Android 4.0 (ICS) and comes with its own 25W amplifier for external speakers, or it can be interfaced with your home entertainment system. WiFi, Bluetooth and NFC are standard, as well as
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There’s been rumours floating around for a while, but finally Google has their Nexus 7 tablet available for pre-order. Based on Google’s latest Android version, Jelly Bean, the 7″ tablet made by ASUS has a Quad Core Tegra 3 processor, a 1280 X 800 screen, 8 hour battery life, and will come in 8 and 16GB
Google Nexus 7 – Eat the Jelly Bean Read More
Lenovo has started pushing Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.3) out to Lenovo Thinkpad Tablets using the Rest Of the World (ROW) and Japanese (JP) image. Implementation seems to be good, and it seems to be stable and faster than Honeycomb. If you have an ROW Tablet and you haven’t got the update yet, you can go
Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet – The Rest of the World gets ICS Read More
To celebrate their new Domino’s app for Android that lets you create and order pizza right from your smartphone, Domino’s Pizza is offering you a new Android phone. There are conditions, of course, such as you’ll need to sign up for a new 2-year plan with data, and the phones don’t appear to be on-the-leading-edge
Order Domino’s Pizza from their Android App and Your New Free Android Phone Read More
I’ve been looking forward to trying the HAND Stylus since first seeing one on KickStarter where it was funded for more than 12 times the amount originally asked for. In a market where so many styluses look almost exactly the same, the HAND Stylus offers some great features that will probably make it an instant
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Friday Lab has created Deeper, the first smart sonar fish finding device that supports devices running iOS 4.0+, 5.0+ and Android 2.2+ . If you enjoy fishing, you’ve probably seen fish finding devices before. But the Deeper uses a Bluetooth connection to display the information about the fish, the pond bed, water temperature and obstacles
Deeper Smart Fishfinder – Fishing with your Smartphone Read More
Using a web-based interface called on{X} allows you to easily control your Android smartphone by programming “when this happens, then do that” rules using a set of Java APIs and pushing those rules down to your Android smartphone. These rules or “recipes” can then be published for other people to use, and they can be
on{X} – Microsoft does Android Read More