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Quirky's newest product is pretty aptly named. It's a wallet-sized card made of capacitive material which makes it interact with any touch-screen perfectly with any touch screen device. Why is this important? We're tired of [...]

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Touchscreen devices are fantastic... until you try to get detailed with a finger drawing. It's too fat. It's always too fat. You just can't get the precise lines you want with pointer and we don't [...]

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The last time we tried to use a pressure sensitive device on the iPad we ended up with ink everywhere and a broken iPad. No notes, no appointments and no sweet car drawings were created [...]

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Instagram is the Facebook of iPhone camera apps. It's literally the elephant in the room at this point in time, and we're not just saying that because Facebook now officially owns them. There are approximately [...]

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We have this friend, Cristina. She rocks. On nights out, we know to just hand her the check and she'll take care of informing us how much we each owe. Usually we're in a bit [...]

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Instagram. fStop. Hipstamatic. IknowISO. Camera+. FakeDepthofField. Those applications (the ones that are real, anyway) have mostly replaced your need to lug around a huge DSLR and multiple lenses. They might be convenient, but they're also [...]

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You know those sweet little mats you can buy for your dashboard that hold your phone in place while you're whipping around corners at 50mph? These Uguard.me Resin iPhone Cases are the case version of [...]

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Every post we put on Facebook we expect to be received with fanfare, perhaps a parade and more likes than the social network can handle. What we usually get is "a" like and "a" dead [...]

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Mornings suck. There's no way to sugarcoat it. The first thing you hear are those soul-crushing beeps of your alarm clock. Just the sound of your alarm at any point during the rest of your [...]

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There's no denying the fact that stop-motion animations are awesome. It doesn't matter if you're working with the stick figure on the pack of Post-Its or something more cinematic, they're fun to create and even [...]

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Our iPhones now account for the majority of the pictures we take. Thanks to Instagram and other like-minded apps, good photos take minimal skill. When we actually want to remind ourselves that we worked hard to [...]

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There are approximately one million different ways to amplify the sound coming out of your iPhone to a party-appropriate decibel. Between all the docks, horns, stereo connectors, jacks, brands and prices you could literally spend [...]

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We spend way too much money on apps for our iPhones. It's so hard to say no when something only costs $1, and it's even more difficult when the app you're considering is basically an [...]

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Do you frequently find yourself watching the videos you've recorded on your iPhone and wishing you had better, higher quality sound to suck you back into the moment? Do you mind a mildly-obtrusive boom mic [...]

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Even if you're not John Cusack, boomboxes are cool. We gotten past the point of cassette tapes and D-batteries (if they even make these anymore) though, so we need one that works with phones and [...]

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