The coming month is a busy one for Apple. June traditionally brings new product announcements. The company has been making sure to stay in the public eye, opening the D11 conference with teasing about new products in the pipe, a redesign of iOS by Jon Ives, and a nice slam at Google Glass. What there […]
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One Griffin To Charge Them All (Five iOS Devices, That Is)
Griffin announces the PowerDock 5, a solution for simultaneously charging up to five of your favorite iOS devices (even if all five are iPads in bulky cases). The toaster-like platform features adjustable plastic dividers and separate USB charging cables to attach to each device. The PowerDock should be available by Spring 2013, with a retail […]
What’s With All The Doubting Thomases In The Church Of Steve?
Anyone who’s been following Apple events for a while is familiar with the concept of the “Reality Distortion Field“. For the uninitiated, the term referred to celebrity CEO Steve Jobs’s ability to make you believe what he wanted you to. The phrase has been used to praise Jobs’s charisma and equally used to imply something […]
Apple’s Brand New Day: iPhone 5, New iPod Touch, New Nano, New iTunes And More New, New, New
Everyone and their mother was expecting Apple to release the iPhone 5 today. While that went down as expected, Apple had plenty of surprises. The iPhone 5 is taller and faster than previous models. You can now get a 4″ Retina display on your iPhone 5, running on the same A6 chip that powers the […]
Review: Logitech’s K760 Solar Keyboard Dazzles Multitaskers
While touch-based interfaces are up and coming, we continue to use keyboards as our primary interface. Time was, most computers came with keyboards that were just plain terrible. Back then, I relied on Logitech as my vendor of choice for replacement input devices. Nowadays, even the most basic keyboards have a bit more flair, which […]
Review: Giving Time To The LunaTik LYNK Blackout iPod Nano Watch
Apple’s iPod Nano has morphed into many different form factors throughout its various generations. The mini music player’s most recent iterations have given the public a small touchscreen square, seemingly perfect to use as a watch. One of the first companies to take a stab at giving this to the public is Lunatik, a company […]
iPod-inspired Thermostat Now Available At Your Local Apple Store
Nest, the learning thermostat with a techie twist, will soon be available at Apple Stores across the country, according to a report from iLounge and confirmed by 9To5Mac. Nest Labs co-founders Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers spent a collective 20 years at Apple working on the iPod and iPhone, with Fadell becoming known as “Father […]
Come Alive With Music And Memory’s iPod Program
Director Michael Rossato-Bennett of Ximotion Media has announced the release of a fascinating new documentary Alive Inside next week in New York. Alive Inside investigates these questions and the power music has to awaken deeply locked memories. The film follows Dan Cohen, a social worker, who decides on a whim to bring iPods to a […]
Four Google Music Improvements To Kill The iPod
I started using Android’s Google Music app in place of my iPod about two months ago. While I haven’t missed carrying around an extra piece of hardware in my pocket, here are a few details keeping the Google Service from eclipsing Apple’s gold standard iPod. (For our purposes here, I’m specifically talking about the Android […]
Former Apple iPod Designer Turns Up Intelligence On Thermostats
Tony Fadell, best known as the team lead for Apple’s iPod (through eighteen revisions) and three revisions of the iPhone now turns over a new leaf, focusing on household energy savings with the Nest Learning Thermostat. True to the Apple philosophy of taking existing concepts and simplifying and beautifying them, the Nest thermostat retains the […]