When it comes to protecting your gear with cases, unless you’re like my kids and only want a case that’s going to serve as decoration (and a lot of teens seem to be in that category), you have to perform a dance between convenience and durability. Take Otterbox as an example; the cases are [...]
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Foam iPhone Cases Kickstarter Project
A couple of years ago on Christmas, I got the kids iPhones as their “big gift”. They were teens now, they had already spent several years “practicing” with less expensive (usually “free with contract”) phones, the iPhone had been on the market a while, and they really really really really (repeat several hundred times) wanted [...]
Orp Smart Horn Will Improve Safety and Visibility for Cyclists on the Road
I live in Austin, which we like to think of as “The Live Musical Capital of the World” (and honestly it probably is), but which is also a huge biking mecca. He-who-must-not-be-named is from here, and the number of teams and individual cyclists who are out on the road regularly is simply staggering. And just [...]
GCW Zero – Open Source Gaming Handheld
Have you ever looked at the Playstation Vita or Nintendo 3DS and thought that they look great, but you would rather have a handheld gaming system that ran inexpensive open-source games but had physical control buttons? That is the concept behind the GCW-Zero: Open Source Gaming Handheld. Project Title: GCW-Zero: Open Source Gaming Handheld Status: [...]
TabMount Tripod Adapter Will Take Your Tablet to New Heights
Project Title: tabMount – Tripod Adapter for iPad, iPad mini, & All Tablets Status: Active Closing Date for Funding: January 27, 2013 URL of the Project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndrasheta/tabmount-tripod-adapter-for-ipad-ipad-mini-and-all From the Creatives: “Imagine being able to mount your iPad, iPad mini, or whatever tablet you are currently using to a standard tripod. That’s exactly what you’ll be able to do [...]
The CrystalCore TiltDock
Since I got my iPhone 5, I have been using it a lot, way more often than my iPad. I use it for pretty much everything from watching TV to taking notes to reading books to playing games. Which is great, except when I want to prop it up and read while I’m eating, or [...]
Monkey Kit: Flexible Tablet Positioning System
A few months back, I reviewed the TabletTail: Whale Kit, an interesting and innovative iPad holder and stand combo with a flexible “tail” that allowed you to use it as a grip and not just a stand. Now the same folks are back on Kickstarter with their next project: A flexible tablet position gizmo. Now [...]
CasinoRPG, a Browser-Based Tycoon/MMORPG/Casino Game
This Kickstarter campaign is to fund the development of a cross between a Tycoon game, MMORPG, and a gambling game. This game really intrigues me because I’ve always been interested in a Mass Multiplayer Online-type environment where you can keep building an empire and the game continues ever after you log off. In games like [...]
The Pebble Watch Press Conference
Are you one of the people who backed the Pebble watch on Kickstarter? Dan and I were, but unlike every other smartwatch that we have personally backed on the crowd funding site Kickstarter since the phenomenally successful Pebble was successfully funded, the Pebble still hasn’t shipped. We’ve been curious about the holdup; not alarmed, just [...]
XFLEX Tablet Stand Wants to Be Your Single Stand Solution
The search for the perfect iPad or tablet stand can sometimes feel a bit Sisyphean. There are plenty of options out there, but they all have their trade-offs. For example, I loved my Compass stand — it’s beautiful, portable, and easy to use. But it’s not the sturdiest of stands (not to mention it gives [...]
Gamestick Portable TC Games Console
So there you are, playing your Android game on your tablet or smartphone, and you’re thinking, “Man, I wish I could play this on my TV.” And then you probably think that someone must have come up with a way to do that. And then you find out nope, it hasn’t happened. Yet. But the [...]
Whooz? Are a Huge Hit at My House
On Christmas morning, as packages from under the tree were divided into piles and then opened, I got what would turn out to be one of my biggest Christmas surprises: the best gift was something I had stuck into the girls’ new Jon Hart bags, almost as an afterthought — Whooz iPhone and iPad Character [...]
Sphericam Is a Breakthrough 360º Video Camera
Back when Maggie was a wee bairn, panoramic photos that you could take yourself were something that was just really getting off the ground. We were still deep in the world of actual physical film, but you could buy cameras–including disposable cameras–that with several snaps allowed you to “automatically” create a panoramic photo. But [...]
Slope Suction-based Tablet Computer Stand, Kickstarter Project
There are a lot of interesting and good options out there if you’re looking for something to hold up your iPad or other tablet computer for you. For a while, I used a Compass stand, which I really liked. But one thing most of these stands share is a tendency to slide around on the [...]
Touching Base with Touchable Books, a Kickstarter Project
In our schools in my district in Austin, the kids in Middle and High School are all getting iPads, along with a bunch of apps that they need in order to do the curriculum. I think this is awesome in a bunch of ways, personally (the less books these kids have to lug around the [...]
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