cables

Bird on a wire – and it won’t be ruining your car wash

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If, despite your best efforts, you have an unsightly cable hanging out in plain view, why don’t you use these cute clips to make that cable a design element?  The Wire Blooms Cable Tidy Clips are little plastic cable clips that hammer into your walls with small nails and hold your cable to keep it […]

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That’s not a knife – it’s a charging cable

multi tool adapter cables

Though this may look like a Swiss Army knife, it’s actually a compact way to carry your charging cables.  Instead of blades, the Multi-Tool Adapter has cables: a microUSB, miniUSB, and Apple 30-pin connector for plugging into your device, and a USB connector to plug into your computer or a wall charger.  You’ll notice that

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Now your Lightning cable can tell you when your iOS device is charged

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With the Zeetron Light Up Lightning Cable, you’ll be able to see at a glance when your iOS device has completed charging.  When you plug the cable into a USB port, an LED at the Lightning plug lights up blue to show power is available.  When you plug in a device, a red LED comes

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Show your pop culture status with the Popcord portable microUSB or Lightning charging cable

Popcord

Cable, cable, where is my charging cable? I have sung that song on many occasions while on the road, not being able to find my phone’s charging cable. Popcord, a Kickstarter project from Powergoat, may be able to silence my blues. The Popcord is a compact charging cable designed to hook on to your keychain

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Tech Candy’s Get Cord 3-in-1 USB cable will consolidate your cables

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Instead of carrying a 30pin cable for your iPod or older iPhone, a Lightning cable for your newer iPhone or iPad and a microUSB cable, you can buy one Get Cord that can be used for all three types of devices. This cable features an 6 foot long woven fabric cable with a USB connector

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Kickstart your dead phone with the JUMP battery pack

Native Union JUMP battery pack

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “I was on the road and my phone’s battery died”. Oh, you have heard that one before; then you have probably seen a lot of news and reviews on backup batteries as well. So why am I doing another one? The simple answer is that the JUMP,

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Brando has your charging cable needs zipped up

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The XPOWER Zipper Lightning + Micro USB Cable combines the two most-used charging cables into one.  You can even charge two devices simultaneously (2.4A maximum output).  The zipper design gives it a cool look, but it’s functional, too –  zip it up for storage, unzip it when you need to use it.  Brando says that

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Why wear your heart on your sleeve when you can wear your charger cable on your wrist with the Cabelet?

KyteKey Cabelet

Although I will admit that I am not much of a fashionista, I have been known to investigate and dabble in new fashion trends. One of trends that has been going around for a few years now is dual-purpose bracelets. Most of them I have seen or that interest me have been “survival’ bracelets, usually

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ChargeDrive 3-in-1 device combines a charge cable, flash memory and a tripod

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If you’re a gadget lover, then you probably love multi-functional tools. Let’s face it, we love to get big bang for our tech bucks. But when it comes to multi-functional smart phone items, the list seems to be short and the useful functionality is often hit and miss. The ChargeDrive, a Kickstarter project by Idris

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Scosche microBOX microUSB cable review

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Having extra microUSB cables in my bag is such a necessity these days with all the devices that I own. I have two Android phones (one for work, one personal), an Android tablet, and various other gadgets that need a microUSB cable to sync or charge. I had the chance to review the microBOX retractable charge and

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Scosche is now offering the boltBOX and microBOX retractable charge and sync cables

Tangled cables will be a thing of the past with the boltBOX retractable charge and sync cable from Scosche which has been designed for devices with Lightning connectors like the iPod touch (5th generation), iPod nano (7th generation), iPhone 5, iPad (4th generation) and iPad mini. The microBOX is a version for Android and other

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Keep an Apple Lightning cable always at hand with the Bluelounge Kii

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If you own an iPhone, iPad or iPod, you have probably felt that moment of panic and annoyance when you discover that you need to charge your device but there isn’t a cable to be found. Bluelounge has a clever solution to that problem with the Kii. Pronounced and shaped like the keys you carry on

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