Peripherals

Suction Cup Viewfinder Makes Your iPhone More Like A DSLR

If you’re a professional photographer who has reluctantly embraced the iPhone as an occasional alternative to your DSLR, you’re gonna love Photojojo’s latest smartphone accessory. It’s a suction cup viewfinder that sticks your iPhone’s display letting you block out all the distractions around you and frame your shots the same way you would with your full-sized camera.


Kingston’s HyperX Predator: The Easiest Way To Misplace 1TB Of Data

Last year at CES Victorinox surprised everyone with a 1TB flash drive that the company estimated would sell for almost $US3000. It sounded too good to be true, and given there’s been no sign of it since last January, it apparently was. So can Kingston fill the void left in our hearts with its new HyperX Predator 1TB USB 3 flash drive? Let’s hope so.


This Quick-Draw iPhone Sleeve Means No More Missed Calls

Inspired by Taxi Driver, no doubt, a Japanese man chose to make a quick-draw sleeve gun-type system for his iPhone. It guarantees quick access to his iPhone — phone calls would never ever be missed. Hell, phone calls might not even need to ring before he picks it up.


This Dumb Physical iPhone Keyboard Is Actually Real

For some reason, a small and backward-looking pool of people in the tech industry still believe that people hate typing on touchscreens. Hence this plastic monstrosity that seemingly aims to convert your sleek iPhone into a lumpen BlackBerry. Err, thanks?


Corning’s New Optical USB And Thunderbolt Cables Are Up To 100m Long

If you thought screens were where glass started and finished in gadgets, think again. Corning, the company behind Gorilla Glass, has also started making optical USB and Thunderbolt cables — and they’re super, super long.


Griffin’s iTrip Auto Transmitter Now Streams Harman Aha Content

Drivers stuck with just an FM radio in their rides can now access Harman’s Aha streaming content through Griffin’s iTrip Auto transmitter. The service, which includes over 30,000 stations covering everything from music, to news, to audiobooks, has typically only been available in new vehicles or aftermarket in-dash stereos.


Grace Your iPad Mini With The Sterile Charm Of An Apple Store Display

If you’re worried about friends, family or co-workers breaking or even scuffing up your new iPad Mini, this heavy-duty acrylic security base is reminiscent of what Apple uses to protect its hardware in its stores. Made from clear acrylic that’s over an inch thick at one end, the case can even be secured to a surface with an adhesive backing or tamper-proof screws. So there’s little risk of theft too.


Ultra-Thin Magnetic Keyboard Won’t Fatten Up Your iPhone 5

The EX Hybrid Controller system isn’t the first compact wireless keyboard or gamepad designed to sidle up to the iPhone, but it might be the first that’s actually worth using. At just 2mm thick, they won’t fatten up your phone. And since the separate accessories attach via the magic of magnets, both can be attached in either landscape or portrait orientations.


Apple Crushes Universal Charging Project

Apple has crushed a really great, universal charging idea, which was gaining steam on Kickstarter because it won’t allow the Lightning adaptor to be used in a device with multiple charging options.


This Polygamist Mouse Can Partner With Nine Devices

Besides a lack of unruly cables, the other big advantage to using wireless accessories like a Bluetooth mouse is that they can be easily swapped between devices. And Elecom is betting that there are enough consumers using nine different devices at once to profit on its new 9nove wireless mouse. Good luck with that.