MoviePeg, The Coolest British iPhone Stand You’ve Seen All Week
From the wonderful city of Manchester – birthplace of The Smiths and The Fall, unfairly mocked as Rain Capital of England – comes something wonderful and simple for your iPhone: the MoviePeg. It’s wonderful because it’s simple, and it’s simple because it’s really just a piece of plastic with a notch in it. But since no-one
Wrapster Earbud Holder: the New Pocket Protector?
Design collective Quirky just launched this earbud detangler that looks like a pocket protector for the aughts. Cute, colorful and just $5, Wrapster is made out of bendable rubber. It keeps your wires uncrossed when you’re wearing an iPod and stores them when you’re not. Perhaps if nerds start wearing what look like 4-inch safety scissors in
Gadget Pioneer’s Solo 2nd Act Features Apple Accessories
Back in the mists of time at the dawn of the Gadget Age, Richard Thalheimer’s Sharper Image was one of the more highly regarded purveyors of well-made, interesting and sometimes even useful products for the discerning gadgeteer. Starting out as a catalog selling jogging watches in 1977, The Sharper Image eventually grew into a heavy
The High-Octane TruePower iV Pro Backpack Battery Is Like Carrying Around A Gas Station In Your Pocket [Review]
The iPhone 3GS is like a Formula One car: fast, sleek and a thrill to drive. And then, every hour or so, it has to hit the pits to refuel (only, unlike refueling an F1 car, it takes hours, not seconds). Now, imagine if every F1 car had button on the steering wheel that the
Macworld: Where Are the iPhone Case Manufacturers?
SAN FRANCISCO, MACWORLD 2010 — One of the most welcome aspects of the post-Apple Macworld is the absence of the giant booths devoted to iPhone accessories. In recent years, Macworld was in danger of becoming the iPhone case show. Many of the biggest and most prominent booths on the show floor were devoted to cases and
CES: Blue Microphones Overhauls The Diminutive Mikey, Adds Blue Fire App
LAS VEGAS — The audio fanatics over at Blue Microphones have popped out the second-gen Mikey, a major overhaul to their plug-n-play iPod microphone. The original Mikey was a plug-n-play, $80 microphone with on-board software that turned any iPod into a recording device. But it had several drawbacks: It didn’t play well with the iPhone unless
CES: iHome Updates Its Line With Three Rechargeable Portables
iHome may have challenged the likes of Bose and Bowers & Wilkins with their iP1, but they haven’t neglected their position as the big boys of the portable-dock space, as evidenced by this trio of updates to their line (no word on pricing yet): Upper Left: Zipped up, the fabric-covered iP48 alarm dock looks like one of
