Like to recharge your iPhone overnight? Listen to tunes while getting dressed? Set the mood during a romantic evening? Are you, perhaps, a fan of monochromatic art-deco furniture? Also, do you have more money than you know what to do with? JVC has the product for you: the N-BX3 iPhone/iPod nightstand speaker. No, it’s not …
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Humble Bundles are renowned for offering name-your-own price indie game collections. But mostly they’ve been computer games. That changes today–sort of. The Humble Bundle for Android comes with three games: Anomaly: Warzone Earth, Edge, and Osmos. If you were to purchase them separately, they’d cost you $10.47. Buy the bundle, however, and you can pay whatever you want. A buck. …
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Ever wish you could beam a photo from your iPhone or iPad to your printer? That’s the promise of Apple’s AirPrint technology, which debuted way back in iOS 4.2. Unfortunately, few printers support AirPrint, meaning most users are stuck copying photos to their PCs and then printing them. Screenshot by Rick Broida A little over a year ago, I posted …
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New from the Department of Things I Didn’t Know I Wanted But Now Can’t Live Without: Bondi. This cute little gizmo is designed to hold and hang your smartphone. It has feet at the bottom, “hands” that hug your device, and a hanger-style head. All these limbs can bend any which way, meaning Bondi is actually good for other purposes …
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You know the old saying: necessity is the mother of invention. The necessity? film two sides of a conversation with one iPhone. The invention: the Love Box video mixer, a wood contraption that looks like it was born in shop class. The result: documentary filmmakers were able to record a real-time conversation between two people, one on either side of …
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Is there anything more viscerally satisfying than a car chase? Especially a cops-and-robbers chase that ends with the bad guys getting rammed into a concrete median? That’s the premise of Smash Cops (iTunes link), a thoroughly engaging new iOS game. You drive the squad car, chase down criminals, then do your best to smash and crash their getaway vehicles. Hutch …
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If you’ve been following the development of the Raspberry Pi, you know that it’s a $25 bare-bones PC that could go on sale as early as this month. What would you do with such a tiny, low-powered machine? How about turning it into a poor man’s Apple TV? That’s exactly what one Raspberry Pi developer did, as shown in this …
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If tablets are really going to kick laptops to the curb, they’ll need some of the same important accessories road warriors rely on. Like, say, mobile scanners. Enter the Brookstone iConvert Scanner, which combines a sheet-fed document/photo reader with an iPad dock. It’s due to ship February 1 for a list price of $149.99. As shown in the above demo …
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Want to mount your iPhone on a tripod? There are lots of third-party accessories that can help, but few are as practical or affordable as the Kungl iPhone Tripod Mount. Lest you think it sounds crazy to connect a smartphone to a tripod, consider this: the iPhone 4 sports a 5-megapixel camera and can capture 720p video, while the 4S …
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Do you have mad Android hacking skills? Put them to good use and you might just earn $5,000–or more. N2A Cards LLC, best known for transforming Barnes & Noble Nook Color e-readers into full-blown Android tablets, has thrown down the gauntlet to the development community: first person to create a bootable Android microSD card for the Nook Tablet (the Color’s …
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