Personal Devices Category - Page 9

MiLi Powerspring Adds Life to iPhone 4 Batteries [The MiLi Powerspring Adds As Much As 36 Hours of Life]

By on Friday, 27. August 2010

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.

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Garmin Issues Massive GPS Recall [Garmin nuvi Units Pose Potential Fire Hazard]

By on Thursday, 26. August 2010

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: [...]

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Meijer Stores Roll Out Meijer Find-It [Meijer Stores Look to Offer Internal Positioning to Help Locate Items]

By on Thursday, 26. August 2010

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.

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Dell Streak Gets USB Connection By Homebrew Adapter [Currently Missing a USB Port, Home Modder Builds His Own Adapter]

By on Wednesday, 25. August 2010

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 [...]

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HTC’s EVO 4G Having MicroUSB Troubles [Recent Reports Suggest MicroUSB Ports Having Trouble On The HTC EVO 4G Phone]

By on Tuesday, 24. August 2010

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.

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New Potato Gives Your iPhone A Pinball Makeover [Part Unwieldy Bumper Case, Part Pinball Machine, the Pinball Magic Lets You Get A Pinball Experience With Your iPhone]

By on Monday, 23. August 2010

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 [...]

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PalmOS Lives On With Aceeca’s PDA32 [Aceeca PDA32 Gets Reviewed Running PalmOS, Gives Us a Blast From The Past]

By on Sunday, 22. August 2010

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 [...]

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Polaroid And RealD Make Beautiful Glasses Together [Polaroid And RealD Partner On A New Range of Premium 3D Glasses]

By on Friday, 20. August 2010

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.

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Planisphere Converts iPhone Into Stellar Photography Device [A New App Coupled With A Tripod and Telescope Lets You Take Pictures of Space on Your iPhone]

By on Friday, 20. August 2010

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 [...]

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Sylvania Looks To Put Netbook, eReader, Into CVS Stores This Fall [Soon Drugstore CVS Will Offer a $100 Netbook and $180 eReader]

By on Friday, 20. August 2010

Well folks, we’ve got another exciting round of dirt cheap tech to talk about, and it’ll be coming soon to one of the strangest places possible: the CVS drugstore chain. We’re talking about Sylvania’s upcoming netbook, and their upcoming LookBook ereader.

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