Turn your iPhone into a furry little monster

iPhone | Tuesday January 24 2012 9:56 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , ,

Turn your iPhone into a furry little monster

My Little iPhone .

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ION-factory)

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…)

Turn your iPhone into a vintage rangefinder

iPhone,iPod | Saturday December 31 2011 9:26 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , ,

Turn your iPhone into a vintage rangefinder

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

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Four Corner Store)

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…)

How to turn your iPhone into a microscope eyepiece

iPhone | Thursday November 24 2011 9:47 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , ,

How to turn your iPhone into a microscope eyepiece

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…)

Apple genius: ‘Turn off your phone’ for better battery life

iPhone | Sunday October 30 2011 10:34 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , ,

Apple genius: Turn off your phone for better battery life

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

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Apple )

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…)

Turn your iPhone into a radiation detector

iPhone,iPod | Thursday October 6 2011 11:16 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , ,

Turn your iPhone into a radiation detector

Make phone calls and check radiation levels.

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Scosche)

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…)

How to turn your iPad into a photo booth

iPhone,iPod | Sunday September 18 2011 7:52 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , ,

How to turn your iPad into a photo booth

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Matt Elliott)

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…)

Sprint To Launch ZTE Peel 3G Case For iPod Touch; Will Turn It Into a Phone

News | Sunday October 31 2010 12:22 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

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…)

New iPhone Apps Turn iPhone 4 Into A Flashlight

News | Tuesday July 6 2010 12:44 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , ,

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…)

Turn Your iPhone Into A Credit Card With Visa’s In2Pay Case

News | Saturday May 15 2010 4:28 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

In a recently published media statement, Visa notes that the technology will work with the help of a microSD card that is equipped with a near-field communications chip. This microSD card needs to be connected to the iPhone using an In2Pay case that may be plugged to the iPhone 's dock connector. The chip will then be able to interact with Visa's payment app on the user's iPhone .
To perform a transaction, users will have to simply launch (more…)

Google’s Free Turn-by-Turn GPS Navigation Not Coming To The iPhone

News | Friday April 23 2010 9:45 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , ,

that it plans to bring free turn-by-turn GPS Navigation with voice guidance to the iPhone .
“We did not say we would bring it to iPhone , we said to date we've had it on Android and that in the future it may come to other platforms but did not confirm this will be coming to iPhone at all,”
It’s not clear why Google isn’t planning to bring the free turn-by-turn GPS Navigation with voice guidance to the iPhone , which is the biggest smartphone (more…)

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