Crowd-Designed Tilt Case Is Ugly But Functional
Quirky is a fantastic crowd-sourced community design site that takes strong ideas and turns them into real products. Their latest creation, though, may be something of a misstep, at least when it comes to design: the Tilt Bumper Case for iPhone 4 is ...
iPhone DSLR Mounts Your Canon SLR Lenses In The Pursuit of Pointlessness
We’ve seen SLR lenses inexplicably Frankensteined onto iPhones before, but the “iPhone DSLR prototype” might just end up being final word on grafting an SLR lens onto an iPhone.
The iPhone DSLR is a 1.1lb mount made of anodized bille...
iTree: iPod Speaker/Dock in Hollow Trunk
This huge hollowed tree trunk serves as an iPod dock and speaker system. Created by Austrian design studio KMKG, it weighs in at 60 kg (about 130 lbs).
They describe it as “just a simple tree (trunk) hollowed out with a special technique to creat...
Exolife Case Juices Your iPhone 4 While Protecting It From Grip of Death
Look, at this point, it’s pretty incontrovertible: at the very least, you need to have a case or bumper for your iPhone 4.
Exogear’s latest case, the Exolife, is a sleek rechargeable battery case packing a 1500-mAH lithium ion capable of ...
A Steampunk-Style Rotary Dock For Your iPhone
Courtesy of Brian Freeland of Freeland Studios comes this steampunk update of his original iRetrofone, the iRetrofone Steampunk Copper Edition.
It’s admittedly a more attractive dock than the original, although in this case, “Steampunk Co...
Bumper Bummer Part 2: Crash Test
I’ve already given you the run down on my experience about being bummed when I found out that some of my iPhone accessories would not work with Apple’s Bumper case. That was Part 1 and now here is Part 2: the Apple Bumper case crash test ...
Steve Jobs Blinged Out In Dazzling iPhone 4 Case
When some intrepid young capitalist coats a new gadget in superglue and then rolls it in Swarovski-brand crushed glass then reprices it for a few thousand dollars more , we usually decry the resulting product as a tacky, shameless money grab aimed at ...
How Altec Lansing’s inMotion Compact Became My Playful Little Dock Buddy [Review]
We previewed this compact dock last January at CES in Vegas and came away impressed that Altec Lansing could make a unit so compact and relatively inexpensive sound as good as it did. When they contacted us and said they had review units available, we...
Here’s a Simple Fix For iPhone 4 And TomTom Car Kit [How To]
I was gutted to find this morning that my brand new iPhone 4 didn’t work with my beloved TomTom Car Kit — the best automotive cradle/charger for the iPhone, bar none.
The iPhone 4 fits in the cradle OK, but it doesn’t charge. Discove...
iPhone Cassette Case Ensconces Your Device in Analog 80s
If you’re eager to ensconce your iPhone or iPod Touch in the shell of a far inferior (but nostalgically remembered) medium of analogue music delivery, the iPhone Cassette Tape case looks like a great buy. Not only does it look pretty sweet, but...
Augmented Reality Chopper Controlled by iPhone Out in September, $299
The iOS device-controlled AR.Drone quadricopter from Parrot, last seen terrorizing my co-workers, will finally reach the consumer market in September for $299. The crazy vehicle, which can do things that no flying thing should be able to, for lack of ...
Battery Pack for iPhone Looks Like Charging Battery Icon
The Icon by essential tpe is a design first in a peripheral line all too dominated by bulky li-ion boxes: it looks good. Actually, it looks great, aping the style of the iOS replenishing battery icon by using electroluminescent lighting film that disp...
