Author: Jeremy Horwitz

Designer bags are rarely as affordable as ones from value-conscious brands, so it’s no shock that Cole Haan’s Messenger Bag for MacBook ($380) arrives at a jaw-dropping price as an Apple Store exclusive. What you’ll get for your dollars is a cla…

NS2 is amongst relatively few AirPlay speakers to include two satellites rather than an all-in-one design, using your choice of two packed-in cables to connect the satellites to one another, and a wall adapter to provide power to the amplifier and wir…

Available in white or black, Satechi’s new LED Desk Lamp ($150, aka Smart LED Desk Lamp) is the latest iPod/iPhone-ready desktop lamp, taking a substantially different approach from the FLOS/Philippe Starck D’E-light we reviewed last year. Rather than…

Following months of unexpected silence, Mophie has finally announced its first iPhone 5 battery case, Juice Pack Helium ($80). Initially available in two colors, the new Juice Pack Helium looks extremely similar to the company’s earlier versions for…

In addition to the Lightning cable, which works with the latest iPhone, iPod, and iPad models, what the $35 Car Charger with Lightning Charge/Sync Cable gets you is a matte black charger with a bright green ring around its rim, and a tiny green power …

While the plasticy original Logitech Wireless Boombox was vaguely alien and bone-like in shape, the Logitech UE Boombox looks like an astronaut’s toolbox: a sleek, silver aluminum frame with a full-length carrying handle on the top, a gray wraparoun…

While some users may wonder what’s “innovative” about the Bluetooth Easy-Switch Keyboard, the answer is simple: within a nearly identical footprint, it does even more than Apple’s vaunted Wireless Keyboard, all while being thinner and easier t…

Judged solely as a case, Thunderstorm is large. At nine inches wide, ten inches tall, and three-quarters of in inch thick, it’s not only significantly larger than an unencased iPad, but also pretty much any case we’ve tested. Made of matte black p…

The standard CandyShell is as close to minimalist as a dual-layered, dual-material case can get without losing all sense of style. Speck deliberately chooses different colors for the inner and outer materials, carrying the rubber through holes in the …

In addition to two- ($17) and three-foot ($19) straight cables, the company offers a four-foot ($25) coiled cable that’s optimized for use in the car, giving users options that are slightly less and more expensive than Apple’s Lightning to USB Cab…

From all of us here at iLounge, Happy New Year! We’ll be on a limited publication schedule until the second of January as we celebrate with our families and friends. While 2012 was an uneven year, it had several highlights, including the debut of th…

Christmas is finally here, and we’re guessing that there are a lot of new iPads, iPhones, iPods, and gift cards making their way into lucky hands today! iLounge has some highly useful resources to help you make the most of your new Apple device—or…

As its name suggests, iW3 ($200) is iHome’s third wireless speaker with AirPlay support, arriving one year after the iconic iW1 and several months after its better, less expensive sibling iW2. Shown together for the first time way back in early 2011…

Measuring roughly 15.25” x 5.2” x 1.5” at its largest points, the substantially matte black MicroKEY-25 is Korg’s smallest piano-style keyboard, occupying far less than half the volume of Samson’s Carbon 49—a choice that makes MicroKEY-25 …

Welcome to our app-focused edition of iOS Gems! Today, we’re looking at three recent app releases, two for kids, and one for adults. Both of the kids’ apps were worthy of recommending broadly to our readers, while the app for adults is somewhat gi…