With power going to Wi-Fi, 4G, GPS, Video, Sound, and everything else a smartphone can do, (make calls, don’t forget), it doesn’t take long for the battery to reach a point where your day becomes a very anxious one as you run around with the charging chord looking for an outlet. Even if you’re diligent and do a fresh charge overnight, with all the different features engaged, a smartphone is a useful thing for about 30 minutes. Continue reading →

There is something amazing about the iPad, but quality of sound is not it. But that’s excusable; I’m sure it’s a great agony of industrial designers to sacrifice certain features to emphasize others. So perhaps it was the Retina display that got all the attention of Jonathan Ive, the lead designer at Apple. But leave it to the third-party designers to pickup where Apple had to leave something behind. Continue reading →

With all the emphasis on brushed aluminum, glass, and plastic as the standard materials for design these days, a product that uses a more tactile material is a relief. Although a little strange to think about at first, the Oree Board, a wooden Bluetooth keyboard for the iPad available in maple or walnut is a pretty merger of old-world materials and new-world technology. Continue reading →

The Powerpod by Coalesse is essentially a multi-plug adapter with a bit of a boost in the looks department. A six plug socket is hidden under a round pot with only an on/off switch to give it away. Continue reading →

It’s a heavy burden to sometimes think about the fact that our personal data is starting to be measured in terabytes – that’s 1,000 gigabytes. Thought of another way, that’s close to a half a million songs, or a slightly fewer films, innumerable eBooks, documents, and maybe a few hundred games for the idle moment. To accommodate such large libraries of media, you could stock-up on external hard drives and create your own collection, maybe paint them to remember which hold what types of files.

Or, defer to the Seagate Central, instead. Continue reading →

This is something to thrill the fashion conscious ladies out there! But also the sensitive hearted men who care enough to offer their beloved ones a present they will forever cherish. If there was to be a short, to the point description about Stelle Audio Clutch then it would have to be: the perfect intersection between fashion and technology. Continue reading →

The photography company Lomography is known for making obscure, hyper-specific cameras, the complete opposite of most cameras or smartphones that perform about fifteen different operations. Lomography’s created fisheye cameras, 360 degree cameras, and the Diana, a camera that acts like a manual version of the digital photo-filter favorite, Instagram. Continue reading →

What if you’re a rather forgetful person? You should write everything down. But what happens if you’re the kind of person who forgets his notepad, too? Well, you’re completely hopeless, I have no advice for you. Perhaps anticipating my cynicism, the Sky, a wi-fi enabled smartpen from Livescribe, was designed, maybe not for the forgetful, but at least to help them out a little. Continue reading →

DJ, producer, and founder of V-MODA, Val Kolton had a dream to create a true high-end lifestyle brand revolving around music, fashion and audio art. Thankfully, his dream came true, bringing style-and-music-lovers designer headphones with clear, natural audiophile sound. Delivering quality design and an incredible sound, no wonder the company’s statement is: “Inspired in Italy, styled in Hollywood”. Continue reading →

There’s a soothing sound to rushing water, but usually when you’re swimming, you’re more frustrated with water getting in your ears than delighting in the sound it makes. You could use earplugs, but then you wouldn’t hear anything but all of your huffing and puffing when you turn your face out of the water for a second to breath, and then plunge back down and hear blub blub blub, or something like that. Wouldn’t it be cool to have a soundtrack while underwater? Continue reading →