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Tag Archives: iPhone

Want a Cute Girl to Watch You 24/7? There’s An App For That

By Hazel Chua on 11/16/12 • Leave a comment!

Watching Cute Girl App

You know that feeling you just get when someone’s staring at you? If you care to look around, then you’ll probably spot someone who actually is. I don’t like being stared at because it makes me feel self-conscious. But if you don’t mind having multiple pairs of eyes trained on you and happen to actually like being stared at, then I know the perfect app for you: Watching Cute Girl.

It’s basically an interactive app featuring a cute girl who will watch you (whenever you want her to) and make appropriate and random comments here and there. Eating alone? Watching TV all by your lonesome? Pulling all-nighter and feeling a bit lonely? This cute girl will be your constant companion and all you have to do to ‘call’ her is tap your screen and she’ll be there in an instant.

Hit the break for an ad featuring this quirky and sort-of weird app.

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Edible iPhone Case is Silly and Useless, But It Sure Looks Yummy

By Hazel Chua on 11/14/12 • Leave a comment!

Edible iPhone Case

I’ve seen my fair share of silly, weird, and kooky iPhone cases. And while the edible Survival Senbei iPhone 5 case doesn’t look too different from other food-themed cases in the market, it’s certainly going to feel and taste different because it’s probably the only case out there that you can actually eat.

This case seems more of a novelty to me, because it doesn’t function very well as an actual case for your iPhone. In fact, the maker of these cases says that there’s a 9% chance that it’ll arrive broken and a 100% chance that it’ll shatter upon impact if you happen to drop your phone.

It’s priced at 3,818 Yen (about $48), which is pretty pricey for a non-case like the Survival Senbei.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ CNET ]

iPhone Cake Pan Will Produce An Obsolete Cake

By David Ponce on 11/14/12 • 2 Comments

If you’re going to go to the trouble of making an iPhone-shaped cake, it’s because the person it’s intended for probably really likes Apple. Yeah, you know the type. The fanboy, the one who camps out days in advance whenever an iPhone launches, and who has all kinds of answers to every valid criticism of an Apple product that’s thrown at him. He’s… an Apple snob. So, you know what, the above cake mold is very likely to product a cake that will leave him disappointed. Because, you see, that’s not an iPhone 5 cake: there are only four rows of icons. He will eat it, and smile, but deep inside he’ll be thinking that if only you’d done your research you’d be eating the latest generation Apple cake. Geez.

No, we’re kidding. People like that don’t exist. Right? Right.

It’s about $15 (€12).

[ Product Page ] VIA [ ChipChick ]

HiLo Lens Is A Creep’s Best Friend

By David Ponce on 11/02/12 • 1 Comment

Want to take a pic of that cute girl sitting next to you, but don’t want her to notice? Yeah… don’t. It’s creepy. But if you’re going to do it anyway, the HiLo Lens can help you avoid detection a lot better than whatever subtle techniques you think you might have developed. It’s an iPhone lens attachment that swivels and allows you to take right-angle pictures, meaning you can hold your phone in your hands like you’re texting, but in fact you’re shooting stuff to your left (or right… or even up). It features superior optics so there’s no image degradation and you do capture the entire field of view.

Now please, for the sake of decency, don’t be taking creepshots, ok? To be fair, the HiLo was created with the intention of giving you more freedom to shoot from interesting angles. And like a lot of tech, we like it in principle. It’s really all about how it’s used. It’s $60 with a pledge on Kickstarter. The campaign is not fully funded, but if it reaches its goal, shipping is scheduled for February 2013.

[ Project Page ] VIA [ CulOfMac ]

Sensus iPhone Case Adds Two Touch-Sensitive Surfaces

By David Ponce on 10/12/12 • 1 Comment

Here’s a product we’d love to see succeed but for which we have little hope. It’s called the Sensus and is technically yet another case for the iPhone. However, it’s got a couple of features that could make it pretty awesome: its surface is touch sensitive. The idea is that it could add PS Vita-like controls to your phone. So you could play games and control them with your fingers resting on the back of the device rather than directly on the screen, which has always been a chief complaint amongst mobile gamers. Another use would be reading, and being able to turn pages without smudging your screen. There are two separate touch surfaces, one on the back and another along the edges, and it even contains a processor of its own that’s dedicated to processing the touch inputs. This could in theory free up processing power on the iPhone itself, so it could focus more on non touch-related tasks.

It all sounds pretty cool, so why are we a little hopeless? Well, mainly because the Sensus’ success will depend on developer support. It just won’t work if developers don’t code their applications with the Sensus’ functionality in mind. And while the company claims to have “excited developers” on board, that’s a claim that’s easy to make. Until we see who and how many, it’s dead in the water. Still, you should know it’ll be available for $59 in Q1 2013, but you can pre-order now for $39.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ Gizmag ]

The Readycase Is The Swiss Army Knife Of iPhone Cases

By David Ponce on 10/11/12 • 6 Comments

iPhone cases?! Yaaawwn!! Amirite? But hear us out: the Readycase doesn’t look like your average, run-of-the-mill case. Although it is primarily a 3mm thin protection for your mobile, it also doubles as a multipurpose tool. It’s loaded with a bunch of things that could actually be useful now and then. For instance, it’s got a “headphone clip; a magnetic quick-snap ring for interchangeable camera lenses; a 8GB/16GB USB drive which doubles as a multi-orientation, adjustable kick-stand; a multi-tool with a bottle opener; serrated blade, and screwdriver.”

Right now it’s a fully-funded project on IndieGoGo and $40 will get you started. At that price you get both an iPhone 4S and 5 body, as well as a 8GB flash drive.

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Video: What Happens To An iPhone 5 Being Zapped By 5 Overpowered Lasers At Once?

By David Ponce on 10/01/12 • Leave a comment!

The same thing that happens to any other cellphone, of course! But if there’s one tradition that seems to have held up over the last few years is the filming of gratuitous and wanton destruction of every new iPhone with as creative an arsenal as possible. We don’t find lasers particularly creative, to be honest, but it’s just one level of sophistication above guns, so we’re going to write about it. Above is a video of five of WickedLaser’s Spyder III Arctic 1.25W blue lasers (regular pointers are about 5 mW) pointed at the iPhone 5 all at once. The phone from Cupertino doesn’t enjoy the heat but keeps on ticking, despite the melted spot on the screen. But it’s done in completely by the company’s Torch, a 4,100 Lumen behemoth flashlight that eats through its batteries in 5 minutes of operation.

It’s an obvious marketing ploy, but we don’t care so much when we’re mildly entertained.

VIA [ Geeky Gadgets ]

iExpander Upgrades Your iPhone in More Ways than One

By Hazel Chua on 09/26/12 • 1 Comment

iExpander

Need to make a call, only to look at your phone and discover that you’re running on your last five minutes of power? Want to capture a gorgeous sunset as it happens, only to take a couple of shots using your iPhone and realize that the light’s too low to produce any good images? Transferring a couple gigabytes’ worth of your favorite shows so you can watch them on the plane, only to discover that you’ve run out of space? These are three of the most common problems that iPhone users experience, and also the three commonest problems that the folks behind the iExpander have chosen to take on.

The iExpander is a case of sorts that will provide extra power and additional storage space for your iPhone so it won’t let you down, especially during the times when you need it the most. It also improves the camera by adding LEDs and extending the length of the flash which work to improve the quality of shots drastically.

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iPhone Cassette Converter Lets You Digitize Your Beats from the Past

By Hazel Chua on 09/13/12 • Leave a comment!

iPhone Cassette Converter

One thing I miss the most about the nineties are mixtapes. Given the limited technology back then, it could take up to a few hours just to record a couple of tracks on a cassette tape. Things are definitely a whole lot easier nowadays with MP3 files and CDs and portable music players.

I was sorting through my old high school stuff the other day and I found a couple of old mixtapes that a friend had recorded for me before she moved away. I don’t own a radio or a Walkman anymore, so I just shelved the cassettes and forgot about them–until today, that is. If you have a couple of mixtapes yourself that you want to listen to again but can’t for reasons similar to mine, then you might want to take a look at the Cassette to iPod Converter.

It’s a handy device that converts audio tape cassettes into MP3s so you can listen to them on your iPhone or iPod, anytime, anywhere. All you have to do is stick your iDevice into one compartment, insert your cassette tape into the other, and then run the app that comes with it to start converting your tracks. Easy, breezy, and retro-tastic!

The iPhone Cassette Converter is priced at $79.95.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ Gadget Review ]

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