Personal Devices Category - Page 9

This is at once a huge success and a huge disappointment for everyone who grew up with the Back to the Future series–the current word is that Nike has filed patent documents for shoes that can tie their own laces.

One thing about the iPhone 4, it’s a great phone, but it can chew through batteries like no tomorrow. So there’ll always be some demand for ways to quickly supplement your iPhone’s juice levels, and that’s where the MiLi Powerspring comes in.

All right, folks, take a moment and check your cars because if you haven’t heard about this one yet you’ll be glad you did. The folks out at Garmin are staging a recall effort on 1.25 million nuvi GPS units due to a problem with the battery. Specific models targeted: [...]

There are now four Meijer stores, somewhere in the Midwest, that will let you download a store map on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and find your way around. They call it Meijer Find-It, and it’s like carrying a “You Are Here” sign at all times.

The Dell Streak isn’t in a great position right now. It’s got that old Android 1.6 on it, and then there’s that SIM lock. But what’s really irking people is the lack of a micro USB port, or even a mini USB. It’s hard to imagine not being able to [...]

There have been some recent reports coming out around trouble with a small percentage of HTC EVO 4G phones–more specifically, they’ve been having some issues with their microUSB ports.

Talk about solving all sorts of problems at once–the guys out at New Potato have one of the most amazing “grip of death” solutions for the iPhone I’ve seen in a while: build an iPhone inside a tiny pinball machine. That and, of course, you can also turn your iPhone [...]

In a world where smart phones are getting so advanced that it’s getting hard to tell them apart from low end laptop computers and eveybody and their uncle are talking about the latest tablets, it’s easy to forget where all of this technology came from. Back in the day, there [...]

After sitting through a round of Piranha 3D, and trying to fit those godawful 3D glasses over my face, I couldn’t help but take notice of the announcement from Polaroid and RealD that they’d developed a line of premium 3D glasses.

Astronomy…there’s an app for that. Seriously, it’s starting to drive me bananas–seems like every time I turn around the phrase “Everything: There’s an app for that” gets less and less like pie-in-the-sky nigh-sarcasm and more and more like a mind-blowing reality. Today we’re talking Planisphere, the app that turns your [...]