Q&A: Displaying the Mac's Screen on an HDTV
How to connect your Mac to a high-defintion TV via an HDMI cable.
View ArticleH.P. Dodges a Thunderbolt
Hewlett-Packard passes on Intel's new Thunderbolt connection. For now, that's not such a big deal.
View ArticleHeadphones With Swagger (and Lots of Bass)
The rap impresario Dr. Dre is the celebrity behind Beats, a successful line of expensive headphones that have become a fashion accessory.
View ArticleAn Invisible Keyboard Aims to Improve Touch-Screen Typing
At the International Consumer Electronics Show, Snapkeys demonstrated an invisible keyboard that it hopes will become the default typing method on smartphones and tablets, replacing the traditional...
View ArticleA Wi-Fi Router You Won't Have to Hide
A new Wi-Fi router, the Almond, is supposed to be the first router with an integrated LCD touchscreen. That means you can configure it from its own screen, using the step-by-step, built-in...
View ArticlePogue: One of Apple's Best Ideas Ever, Made Worse
Apple's MagSafe connector was one of the company's smartest design ideas. Until they changed it, says David Pogue.
View ArticleWarhol Has Your Mac Products Covered
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, working with Incase, has borrowed the graphics from one of Warhol's most famous works, the sculpture Brillo Boxes, to make covers for the MacBook, iPad...
View ArticleExtra Protection for Weekend Warriors
The Urban Elite Laptop Backpack from Pelican Products has a built-in shockproof, waterproof case that can accommodate a 15" laptop, or a 17" MacBook.
View ArticleRadio-Tagged Socks for the Obsessive
Blacksocks, a Swiss company, attaches a radio ID tag to its socks so that by using an RFID reader, you can always put the correct pair together.
View ArticleFurniture That Is Quirky but Functional
Quirky, the design collective whose products are often true to its name, has melded milk crate shelving, Lego blocks, and hipster design to create "crates," a modular shelving system with dorm rooms in...
View ArticleInnovative Power Strips
Rich Thrush, the director of industrial design at Kaz Inc, embarks on a search for interesting-looking power strips.
View ArticleCan a Backup System Have Too Many Features?
After spending some time working with Apple's iCloud, I thought there might be a simpler backup and storage system for Macs and PC's. There may be, but for me it wasn't Cloud Engine's PogoPlug.
View ArticleA Cute Pal for Chronic Smudgeophobes
There are a lot of products for cleaning electronic screens, but Unplugged Goods has produced the Screenster, a plush finger puppet, to keep you from smudging your screens in the first place. It is...
View ArticleThe dockBoss Rescues Old Music Docks
Since new Apple products have been equipped with the Lightning connector, buying a new device also means replacing many accessories, like the music dock. But a piece of hardware about the size of an...
View ArticlePaper for the Paperless Revolution
It may appear that apps like Evernote and Springpad are intended to cut down on the use of paper, but you wouldn't know it from the posh notebooks that are being manufactured specifically with such...
View Article64 Gigabytes Can't Be Wrong: Elvis USB Drives
Mimoco, the company known for its Mimobot flash drives made to resemble geek-friendly characters like Boba Fett, Captain Kirk and Batman, has added a figure from a distinctly different segment of pop...
View ArticleSpeakers With a Big Sound for Big Desks
KEF's new X300A speakers for computers are very good, very large and very expensive.
View ArticleA Patch that Monitors the Body
BodyMedia, which makes the Link activity monitor, is preparing to release the Vue Patch, a disposable monitor in a stick-on patch that will collect a week's worth of data on a user's activity level,...
View ArticleA Slimmer Keyboard for the iPad
The accessory manufacturer Belkin has sought a compromise between tablet convenience and bulk with the Ultimate Keyboard Case, available next month.
View ArticleA Scale That Measures Your Heart
Withings has a new scale that tracks not only weight but also heart rate when you stand on it, and supplies that information to a Web site to allow tracking over time.
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