The Loop is a silicone wristband for the sixth-generation iPod nano that promises to turn your device in a “high end timepiece.” Its sleek, stylish design does away with the unnecessary bulk and aims to showcase your iPod nano rather than drawing attention away from it.
Features:
- Comfortable silicone material
- Sleek profile design
- Full access to earphones, control buttons, and dock connector for charging and Nike + accessories
- Full access to multi-touch display
- Stainless steel buckle
You can purchase The Loop in Graphite, Black, Blue, Green, White, and Red for $19.99.
This is going to be the first iPhone-connected wristwatch. Its called the Pebble. Shared at the Kickstarter project this smartphone-connected wristwatch is known as the Pebble. Heres a brief - Customize Your Perfect Watch. It’s as Easy as Downloading an App.
Pebble is the first watch built for the 21st century. It’s infinitely customizable, with beautiful downloadable watchfaces and useful internet-connected apps. Pebble connects to iPhone and Android smartphones using Bluetooth, alerting you with a silent vibration to incoming calls, emails and messages. While designing Pebble, we strove to create a minimalist yet fashionable product that seamlessly blends into everyday life
Check out this initial video shared the developers:
As of now, it can pull data like caller ID, email, calendar alerts, Facebook messages, and Twitter notifications from the handset. But using the SDK, third party developers will be able to add all kinds of different functions.Yesterday, these guys receieved $1M in just 28hrs – We’re absolutely blown away by your support, Kickstarter. $1M in 28 hours!
Paypal finally has an option similar to Square and Intuit. It has made it into the mobile payment market. Though late, Paypal seems to have a more recognizable name in the world of payment systems and that may just be enough to push them to the front of the line. They are also offering merchants a 2.7% flat rate on transactions versus the 2.75% offered by Square. PayPal didn’t stop there either, launching a full on geometrical attack by choosing a triangle as the shape of choice for their card reader dongle.
The new PayPal Here Dongle is only available to select merchants at this time but you can sign up to be notified when they finally go public. The app, however, is now available on iOS and will be coming to Android anytime soon. Paypal goes on to talk about its unque features:
More ways to get paid. PayPal Here supports credit cards, debit cards, cash, check and PayPal. You can even send electronic invoices
PayPal Here uses encryption to help protect card information as it swipes
Competitive pricing at a 2.70% per swipe, free check acceptance and mobile invoicing
Comes with free PayPal Debit MasterCard (US only) which earns 1% cash back on purchases and gives you immediate cash access at ATMs
Attracts new customers. Your business will appear in the PayPal mobile app, used by millions of PayPal customers looking for local shops and services
Industry leading security and fraud protection
Live phone and online customer support
Global availability in the US, Canada, Hong Kong and Australia
“iFixit’s iPhone transparent rear panel mod let’s you give your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S an amazingly distinctive look in a world where tens of millions of them are otherwise all but indistinguishable.” Georgia from iMore.com shows us a Clear Back Plate Mod from iFixit:
Brookstone announced iConvert, a real scanner for the iPad and iPad 2 yesterday. Basically iConvert Scanner for iPad scans hard copies to JPEG files directly to iPad, giving instant e-copies of your most important documents. The JPEG files are automatically stored in the picture folder.
Great for use at home (old photos, genealogy records, special greeting cards, recipes and children’s artwork), at the office (meeting notes, resumes, renderings, signed contracts) and on the go (receipts, expense reports, business cards and more). The entire scanner is sized to take with you in your messenger bag or backpack.
High resolution:
Better than basic alternatives, the iConvert Scanner for iPad and iPad 2 Tablets scans in high-resolution 300dpi for clear, crisp JPEG images. And the front feeder adjusts from 2 inches to 8½ inches wide to fit many size photos and important documents. Easy to use and it works with the free downloadable app at the iTunes App Store. Simply place the tablet on the scanner and the scanner gives step-by-step prompts from “scan” (with real-time preview) to “save” or “delete.”
The iConvert Scanner will ship on by Feb and costs $149.99:
Apple could pour future iPhones with something and making water damage all but a thing of the past. At CES, a company called HzO has claimed that their WaterBlock superhydrophobic coating is better than anything yet available. And this has interesting none other than Apple. HzO told Pocket Lint:
We showed the Samsung Chairman the technology with Samsung Galaxy S that we had coated with HZO and he couldn’t believe his eyes,” a representative of the company told us. “Samsung is really excited by the tech.”
The company has told us that they are also talking to Apple as well, hoping to be able to let Apple make the iPhone 5 waterproof.
“We expect HZO to be in next season’s phones,” HZO told Pocket-lint rather confidently.
Its possible that Apple might stop by the HZO booth, and its very much possible that they’re actually looking for a deal, who knows. Lets wait for 2-3 months
Here is the demo of that magic coating called HZO
[Note: This technology is marketed by ZAGG]
There is this company called Liquipel at CES 2012 which has something amazing. These guys have tackled the issue of getting iPhone wet with an oleophobic-like coating that repels water. Yes repels water . 9to5Mac has more on this:
The nano-sized coating is barely visible to the naked eye and it keeps electronics working even when submerged into a bucket of water. The catch? You need to send your device to Liquipel to apply the coating for you at a $59 value.
Waterproof your device
Liquipel is a revolutionary process that applies a waterproof coating to your electronic device to protect them in the event of accidental exposure to liquids. It is not visible to the human eye, virtually undetectable and Liquipel will not compromise the look, feel, and performance of your electronics.
Liquipel penetrates the entire device as a whole, including all of the vital components inside and out to provide optimal protection against accidental contact with liquids
Sphero a new cricket ball sized gadget might bring some new innovations and ideas is at display at CES. Its a glowing ball with gyroscopes inside that allow two way control – you can make the ball roll around from your iPhone, or you can hold the ball and move it around to control an avatar in an iOS game.
Costing $129, the developers of Sphero have developed 5 apps with various games.The company has made the API and SDK open for other companies to easily make applications that use the hardware. Macworld covered this cool gadget:
The gyroscope seems fairly strong: with a bit of a run-up, it was able to get up a high enough speed for the ball to climb over a little ramp. It establishes a wireless connection with your iPhone – or iPad, iPod touch or even Android device – using Bluetooth, and maintains an impressively responsive connection between the two; we were told it has a response rate of 20Hz, and our experiments with a ‘Simon Says’ type game were smooth and quick.
Charging Sphero wireless, with the ball sitting in an induction cup and refilling its batteries. You can also alter the color that Sphero glows.
This enormous iNuke Boom iPhone speaker dock that was announced last month by Behringer and now its at CES 2012. The 8 feet wide and 4 feet tall monster weighs over 700 pounds. Billed as the loudest iPhone speaker dock, the 10,000-watt speaker can indeed put out overwhelming sound. Macrumors shared this interesting pic from CES 2012:
A dock with a 30-pin connector on the top allows direct connection of an iPhone or iPod touch. The speaker also has Bluetooth to play audio wirelessly from an iPhone, iPod touch or other device.
The iNuke requires so much electricity to run that its power switch is designed to power it on in stages to avoid blowing the fuse of the outlet that it’s connected to. This short video recorded by Behringer shows the power switch on the back of the speaker along with the volume control and the iNuke Mode switch that boosts output.
Version 2.0 of Parrot AR.Drone quadricopter looks even more enchanting. AR Drone 2.0 builds on the original by adding 720p video capture to the quadricopter. It can also pre-program the drone to fly a linear path for a set duration while it records, opening the door to creative movie shots. Engadget covered this gadget:
Over at AR Drone Flyers we’ve spotted what looks to be an official press release detailing everything about the new UAV, most notable being an improved 720p camera. You can apparently use this to record footage from the drone and even program it to fly in any direction automatically.
A new app for iOS and Android, AR.FreeFlight 2.0, carries a new “Absolute Flight” control scheme that’s said to be much more intuitive. Owners pilot the new AR Drone from a virtual cockpit view with two touchscreen sticks. Parrot takes advantage of a new magnetometer to let users directly tilt the phone or tablet to lean the drone in the same direction.
It will ship by mid 2012 at $299. The mobile apps will be free.
This iPhone 4 compatible DLP projector brings 640×360 resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio, and 12 ANSI lumens brightness and works with iPhone 4 and 4S. The projector uses LED for lighting offering up to 20,000 hours of life. Costs $250 and looks sleek too, check it out if you want to project your keynotes directly from your iPhone:
The Sanwa 400-PRJ011 is able to project up to 65-inch of images. It is created as an add-on case for iPhone 4/4S and connects via dock connector. The projector comes with 2100 mAh battery offering up to 2.5 hours of continuous use. A USB cable is included for charging.
Checking emails, brewing a cup of Dagobah Green Tea, hanging up your collection of ThinkGeek t-shirts, putting on Wild Cherry Pepsi lip balm, using PorkKleen Hand Sanitizer to protect yourself from germs, refilling your red Swingline stapler, eating Tribbles n’Bits cereal, reading the newspaper… everything is cooler through a fisheye lens.
But the Olloclip doesn’t stop with just a fisheye lens. Compatible with both the iPhone 4 and 4S, the Olloclip is a quick-connect lens system that includes fisheye, wide-angle, and macro lenses in a tiny and convenient package. It was a huge hit on Kickstarter, where the project blew past its $15k production costs goal and ended up raising a whopping $68,201.
Using Olloclip is easy! Slide it on over your iPhone’s rear camera lens and you’re ready to take amazing photos and videos. The fisheye lens captures a nearly 180 degree field-of-view. The wide-angle lens doubles the field of view of the iPhone camera. Finally, the macro lens lets you focus the iPhone within 12-15mm of your subject and applies roughly a 10X multiplier. Olloclip’s storage bag even doubles as a microfiber cleaning cloth for the ultimate in convenience.
