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With the iPhone having been around as long as it has, it’s a bit surprising no one has come up with an affordable waterproof case that lets people use the device to take pictures and shoot video while snorkeling or scuba diving.

We saw the FourPro iPhone housing appear on Kickstarter late last year, but it didn’t reach its funding goal, and it’s unclear at this point if it’s being produced. At any rate, (more…)

Turn-by-turn navigation on an iPhone

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Introduced last summer, the Nokia Maps mobile site, m.maps.nokia.com, has pretty much been the Google Maps knockoff that nobody knew about. It has given mobile users the ability to search for places, get directions, and share items with friends–all fairly standard stuff. But starting today, the Nokia Maps mobile site may have differentiated itself, as it now offers (more…)

My Little iPhone .

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Even electronics need to let their kink flags fly sometimes. Open-minded iPad and iPhone 4S owners can dress their devices up as furries with ION-factory’s fur covers.

The Monster Fur Cover for the iPhone is a hard snap-on cover with a shock of artificial fur on the back. It comes in three colors: snow white, creamy camel, and schnauzer grey. Gotta dig that schnauzer (more…)

Gizmon's iCA case comes in black, white, and brown.

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Fans of vintage cameras can now dress their iPhones in Gizmon’s iCA case, which makes the handset look like a Leica rangefinder camera.
The iCA case also comes with some useful functions, such as the ability to capture images via the case’s shutter button and frame the scene with its optical viewfinder.

Made of polycarbonate, (more…)

Sometimes people ask me to look at frightfully exciting things.

These normally come via the incomprehensible medium of the press release. However, sometimes I get sent things (in this case, via an e-mail from my louche engineer friend George) describing a new invention that seems positively useful and even vaguely comprehensible.

This thing is called the SkyLight. It allows you to take your iPhone , Android (more…)

Word to the wise: occasionally turning off your iPhone can apparently help improve battery life.

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The other day I encountered a serious problem with my iTunes account that seemed to require major surgery, so I figured I’d stop in at my local Apple Store and mosey up to the Genius Bar downstairs to see if there was a less draconian fix than the one I’d read about online.

Since I was there (more…)

Make phone calls and check radiation levels.

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The earthquake and tsunami in Japan earlier this year left a swath of destruction and a legacy of lingering nuclear radiation concerns. Efforts have already been under way to get geiger counters into the hands of people throughout the country.

More iPhones will have the opportunity to join in. Scosche has just expanded its RDTX line of radiation (more…)

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From the makers of the Hipstamatic toy camera app comes IncrediBooth, a 99-cent app that turns your iOS device into a photo booth.

The app is incredibly simple to use. Center your mug in the frame (or squeeze in as many friends as will fit), hit the big, red button, and wait as the app snaps four photos with 2-second intervals. I am using it on an iPad 2, but it works with any iOS device with (more…)

have revealed that Sprint is planning to offer an alternate solution to this issue with the launch of the ZTE Peel iPod Touch case. ZTE Peel acts as a traditional casing for the iPod Touch while also enabling users to access internet over a cellular network from places where there is no Wi-Fi. The solution could drastically improve the utility of the iPod Touch as a mobile device.
The sources have further noted that the ZTE Peel case could launch (more…)

The flashlight apps turn iPhone 4 into a flashlight by turning on the LED flash. Until now, we’ve seen Flashlight apps that use iPhone ’s screen for the light. Another alternative is to point iPhone ’s Safari browser to about:blank.
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But Apple seems to have changed its mind and has started approving iPhone 4 flashlight apps after Michael D'Ulisse of MoreBluSky who was one of the first developers to come up with the idea reached out to (more…)