The iPhone version of the Solar Surge retails for $79.95. Only black or white are available now. Novothink Back in November of last year we wrote about an upcoming Apple-certified iPhone and iPod Touch solar charger from a company called Novothink. Well, four months later, the Solar Surge charging case, which Novothink is marketing toward …
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We’ve been waiting for more companies to come out with IR dongle/iPhone app combos that allow you to turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a highly functional universal remote for your AV gear. And now the folks at New Potato Technologies have jumped on the iPhone remote bandwagon with Flipr, which retails for $79.99. Available now at NewPotatoTech.com, the …
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Perhaps you remember Case-mate’s 99-cent cardboard iPhone “recession” case, which we wrote about back in September and deemed one of the better product publicity stunts in recent memory. Well, Case-mate is now hosting a decorate-your-recession-case contest with users submitting photos of their creations. The pic with the most votes wins a Suzuki moped from the ’80s. We gotta say, the …
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iSkin iSkin’s colorful, form-fitting Solo line of iPhone cases has some of the slicker designs out there. Now the company has come out with the “special-edition” Solo FX SE, which sports a “luxurious outer surface treatment” that combines an “understated” matte finish with a “subtle,” embossed, designer pattern. Available in Onyx (black), Cosmo (pink), and Ice (white) for $34.99 (list), …
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With Halloween coming up, we’re seeing several ghoulish games appear in the iPhone App Store, including one from Paramount Digital Entertainment that’s rather loosely based on Stephen King’s “Pet Sematary,” which was made into a successful film in 1989 (a sequel followed and according to IMDB, the movie will be remade in 2010). The iPhone iPhone/iPod Touch version of “Pet …
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A few years ago we wrote a column about HDTV resolution and whether you should just buy a “standard” 720p/1080i set or pay the extra bucks for a higher-resolution 1080p set. And funnily enough, this is a question that’s still relevant today. Eventually, of course, manufacturers will completely phase out 720p TVs. But it may take a few years. While …
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Typical burn-in effect. While the post-Boxing Day sales are behind us, we’re still receiving a lot of email from readers agonizing over which TV to buy. There’s also plenty of general questions concerning plasma vs. LCD, particularly those stemming from concerns over the issue of plasma burn-in. In a lot of cases, those concerns are stopping people from buying plasma. …
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