Author: Nick Guy

tgxmedia.com’s Wordify ($4) is just plain cool. The Mac App Store title serves one specific purpose: it turns a picture of your choice into “typographic artwork,” replacing dark spots in a photo with text you supply. The result is a vectorized P…

Coated in soft touch plastic, MiniDock now comes in black, instead of the white and grey combination in which it previously shipped. It’s an elegant and palmable design. The back end houses a USB plug, made to connect with the 5W USB Power Adapters …

With its removable plastic cap in place, Flex Pocket Charger has a teardrop-shaped design when viewed from the side. Either end is covered with glossy black plastic; one houses a Micro-USB charging port and a single dimple beneath it, which is a capac…

Although we’ve covered hundreds of Bluetooth accessories and dozens of AirPlay alternatives, it’s rare to see both wireless streaming technologies together in an all-in-one speaker. Cambridge Audio now has two of them: Minx Air 100 ($449) and Minx Air…

FabricSkin’s exterior, at least on the black version we received for review, is listed as “matt leather.” The matte material is actually faux leather that feels like soft-touch rubber, while other colors come in other fabrics, such as cotton. Th…

Although Targus’ USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Dual Video Docking Station ($170) isn’t totally new hardware, its support for Macs is fresh. Just announced this morning, a new set of drivers now allows you to connect a MacBook to the hub. While it’s not as …

Like many of the speakers we see these days, iBT24 is a small extruded rectangle. It’s a little over 6” long, 2.75” tall, and just shy of 2.25” deep, deliberately stripped almost entirely of soft curves. The top, left, and right edges are perf…

Much like CandyShell, Aspira is plastic on the outside and rubber on the inside, with that lining sticking through in certain areas. On all of the models, it’s the only thing covering the top and bottom edges, as well as the Sleep/Wake and volume bu…

Alongside its quarterly earnings results, Apple today increased both its stock repurchase authorization and quarterly dividend, by a total of $55 billion from the original amount announced last year. The repurchase authorization has been increased fro…

Koubachi’s sensor looks something like an inverted golf club. From end to end, it’s about seven inches long. Most of that length comes from the metal pole that actually sticks into the soil, with a moisture sensor at the very bottom. The rest is a…

Sanho was the first company to really make a splash with its external battery packs for MacBooks, but QuickerTek, more known for its Wi-Fi accessories, is in the game too. It’s just introduced the most recent version of EyeBattery ($280, aka Newest …

Incase’s car charger is one of the few Lightning power solutions we’ve seen to ship with a detachable cable; Belkin’s are the only others we’ve covered. The cable itself, 39” from end to end, is nothing fancy, although it’s black rather th…

AluCup is a truncated cylinder, ranging from about an inch tall at the front to two and a quarter at its highest point. Not surprisingly, the aluminum is beautifully machined and completely smooth, coming in a natural silver color. The rubber insert c…

Inside of the folios, you’ll find a hard plastic shell to hold the iPad mini. The smooth grey plastic snaps around the tablet’s long edges, covering the chamfered metal, but leaves too much of the top exposed. Almost all of it, from the headphone …

Slims ships along with a pre-moistened cleaning cloth and a microfiber wipe, which are intended to clean the iPhone 5 before you stick the front and back protectors in place. The rear panel clings to the aluminum and glass with a thin strip of adhesiv…

Although it’s not readily obvious just by looking at it, Twisted Logic’s TekTuk ($60) is designed to be a bedside accessory for your iPad. The faux leather carrier looks like a small briefcase, with nylon handles at the top and a zipper running around…