Really Cool Gadgets

Blur adds tripod capability to iPhone

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:00:55 +0000

I am not a big fan of the camera in my iPhone. I wish that it had better low light performance, better optics, and a flash. I mean whether Motorola can manufacture a phone with a real point-and-shoot camera crammed inside, so can Apple. That said I have seen some decent pictures taken with an iPhone.

If you like to shoot images with your iPhone a new tripod kit is available called Blur. The Blur…

Autodesk launches SketchBook Mobile

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:00:54 +0000

AutoDesk is the company behind the commonly used CAD applications that engineers spend lots of moment with. Years ago, I spent a few years in engineering school before I remembered that I hate math. One of the things we learned the first year was how to sketch, the reason as my instructor put it was that some of the best engineering breakthroughs have been drawn on napkins at lunch.

AutoDesk has…

The Best Camera iPhone photo sharing app supports Twitter, Facebook, more

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:00:53 +0000

Our photography obsessed friend Chase Jarvis has been in touch to let us know about his new iPhone app, The Best Camera. Intended to produce taking, tweaking and sharing images more straightforward, The Best Camera offers a palette of on-device camera effects, and urls in with an online community of the same name.

As Chase explains, “the best camera” refers to the fact that whatever image-captu…

Pantone unveils color studio app

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:00:51 +0000

Designers who work with color a lot are very familiar with the Panton color chart. The company has unveiled a new iPhone app that puts the full range of Pantone colors onto the smartphone.

The app is designed for graphic, digital, multimedia, and fashion designers needing color pallets wherever they go. The Pantone color Libraries and the Pantone matching system for coated, uncoated, and matte st…

Dexim unveils P-Flip line of iPhone docks

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:00:50 +0000

The iPhone is known for many things from great usability to poor battery life. Thankfully, there are several aftermarket external battery solutions available to help the poor battery life issue.

Dexim has announced three new iPhone docks today that include the P-Flip Foldable potential Dock, the Rechargeable capability Stand, and the 2x Foldable potential Dock. Each of the devices has a 2000mAh …

Texas Instruments offers calculator app

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:00:49 +0000

I have not so fond memories of those huge calculators from TI from school. They always went along with reams of homework it seems. TI has announced a new iPhone app called BAII Plus is now available on the app store.

The calculator app isn’t cheap at $14.99, but as I recall the real calculators can cost upwards of $100 or so. The app is a financial calculator that will operate on the iPhone an…

Micello offers iPhone app demo for mapping inside places

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:00:49 +0000

There are plenty of iPhone applications available that give you maps and direction to get to places you want to go like convention centers and malls. Once you get there, there isn’t really an app to help you get around.

Micello is set to unveil its new iPhone app today that is designed to help you navigate inside buildings once you get there. The app has maps of shopping centers, colleges, conv…

Battle Bears takes top spots on App Store

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:00:42 +0000

The game app called Battle Bears has proven to be very popular. The game has you as a bear in a sandbag hideout shooting teddy bears that come stumbling towards you in an attempt to hug you to death.

The game has proven to be so popular since its launch on August 31 that it has grabbed the number 1 spot on the Action/Adventure game list and the number three spot on the all games chart. The game …

iPhone apps are legal for business use

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:00:40 +0000

There were reports filtering out that iPhone apps may not be legal for business use. Those stories are untrue according to PC World at least for users of the App Store in the US. Those original reports were from language in the terms for Sweden and the UK that said apps are for personal, non-commercial use only.

PC World reports that the language from the UK and Swedish App Stores is not present…

Unicom to sell iPhone 3G in China in October

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:00:38 +0000

Most of us know already that Apple and China Unicom have been in talks to supply the iPhone 3G to the 400 million mobile phone customers in China. Key bits of info were lost on the initial reports including how much and precisely when the devices would launch.

Yahoo Tech reports that starting in October China Unicom customers will be able to get the iPhone 3G without a contract for 5,000 yuan or …