Author: Charlie Sorrel

iQi Wireless Charger by Fone Salesman Category: Chargers Works With: iPhone 5/S Price: $21 plus ~$25 for charging pad Wireless charging is a beautiful concept that fails to live up to its promise in reality. That’s not to say it’s…

PhotoProX byOptrix Category: Cases/photography Works With: iPhone 5/S Price: $150 A waterproof case for your iPhone is more fun than you might think – especially one that is designed to fit onto any of a zillion different action mounts. And…

iLoud byIK Multimedia Category: Speakers Works With: Anything Price: $300 To save time, here’s my advice: If you have an iPad or iPhone, a guitar and $300 to spend, then spend it on the iLoud. It’s a small, portable Bluetooth…

WorkFit-A by Ergotron Category: Desks Works With:iMac Price: $650 If you own a laptop, it’s pretty easy to up and move to a more comfortable workplace when your joints start to stiffen. But if you have a giant 27-inch iMac…

  I was all ready to write a sarcastic post about the Splitter, a little box that allows independent volume control of the two pairs of headphones you jack into it. After all, sharing a music track is something spontaneous…

  As nerds, one of our Christmas holiday duties is to fix the computers of family and friends. And if the past is anything to go by, fixing Macs can mean opening them up for kitchen-table-top surgery. Hell, there’s even…

  DeGeo is an app that removes the location data from your photos before sharing them, while leaving non-location metadata intact. As someone who switches off the location option in Instagram whenever I’m at my home or a friend’s home,…

MiStand byMi Category: Stands Works With:iPad, Kindle, anything really Price: From ~$64 The MiStand looks like the mystery tool you might find at the back of a machine shop, especially in the industrial blue colorway of my test unit. It…Read more…

SIMPLcase byLGCL Designs Category: Cases Works With:iPhone 5 Price: $29 Back in March we took a look at the SIMPLcase, an iPhone case which stored your spare SIM cards and a SIM tray eject tool inside. One Kickstarter campaign and several months la…

Nimblstand byNimblstand Category: Keyboard stands Works With:iPad, Apple Wireless Keyboard Price: $67 as tested The Nimblstand is an accessory for the Apple wireless keyboard, a kind of organizer and iPad stand which can be used on the desk or the …

AmpJacket by Kubxlab Category: Cases, speakers Works With: iPad mini Price: $39 Remember the AmpJacket for the iPhone? It’s an awesome little rubbery case which uses passive horn-speaker tech to amplify the iPhone’s already-capable speaker, ma…

Cartella Linen by Pad & Quill Category: Cases Works With:MacBook Air Price: $99 The Cartella Linen is Pad & Quill’s bookbindery case for the MacBook Air. I’ve been using the 13-inch version for a few weeks now and it’s great, if a lit…

I just got back from a week-long vacation. We were staying in Tel Aviv, Israel, which meant lots of walking and cycling (I took my Brompton), plus day trips. Which in turn meant traveling light. The iPad is perfect traveling companion, and the iPad mini is even better. But if you want to take lots […]

Just before the weekend, a new Read Later app launched. Yes, you rightly shout, there are a ton of these apps around already. Hell, even Safari can save pages off line for reading later. But the new app/service, called DotDotDot, shows what these services should be. It’s not polished (it’s an early beta), but it […]

Fact: wearing accessories and gadgets on your belt makes you look super cool – just like Batman. So if you buy a few Spider Monkeys, then your utility-belt cool-factor will shoot through the roof so fast that you’ll be sweeping up broken shingles for weeks. The Spider Monkey comes from the folks who make the […]

Remember the Braeburn Dock? It was a hefty, beautifully-crafted iPhone 5 dock hewn from a single block of aluminum, and incorporating special channels which boosted the sound from the speaker and to the mic. Now it has been joined by the Braeburn HD, which is the exact same thing, only made to hold your iPhone […]