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• BACtrack Breathalyzer Helps You Be More Scientific About Your Drinking

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  The BACtrack is an interesting little portable breathalyzer that offers functionality well in advance of much of its competition by estimating how long it will take you to sober up. The innocuous little device uses your smartphone for its display and boasts just the right social functions to make it the life of many a party. Before we continue, let me be clear that I do not advocate drinking and driving, nor am I in [...]

   

• PSA: Your Cellphone is not Worth Dying For

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  I have a love-hate relationship with my iPhone 5. Part of me wishes I had stuck to my Android guns and waited for my carrier to finally get around to selling the Galaxy SIII, the other part of me appreciates the cheaper apps… but on the best of days I can be found muttering to myself about the the hoops that Apple makes me jump through if I want to my access to Cydia. In [...]

   

• Mailbox, a Solid Solution for Massive Inbox Queues

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  Mailbox Mailbox was launched to much hype a few weeks ago. I thought that it looked like it was worth checking out, unfortunately there were 700,000 people ahead of me on the queue. I took my place in line, waited, waited some more, and waited again. The countdown moved painfully slowly, but eventually my time arrived and I got a chance to try out Mailbox. For those who are not familiar with Mailbox, it is [...]

   

• Rhino Shield Makes Your iPhone Virtually Indestructible

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  Having a thin phone is great, until you realize that slimness means an increased probability of dropping it. Let’s face it, we’re all idiots. It doesn’t matter how much money we spend, or how important these damn phones are to us, we’re still going to drop them in toilets, or on the street case-less. But now there’s a way to protect your screen from breaking, and from yourself. It’s called the Rhino Shield, and it’s [...]

   

• Hands on with the Bullet Resistant ClearPlex iPhone 5 Screen Protector

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  ClearPlex iPhone 5 Screen Protector I know, I know, the iPhone 5 screen is made from Gorilla Glass and it is designed to take a beating – but you know what? I am clumsy and I tend to drop things and having a solid screen protector gives me the confidence to treat my phone as roughly as I desire. So when I saw a video of a ClearPlex protected iPhone emerging unscathed after being shot [...]

   

• How to Mark All Emails As Read on Your iPhone

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  I recently switched from an aging Android second-generation to the iPhone 5, and while I am happy with the move – there is one thing that bugs me about it… the mail situation. Gmail for Android allows you to have multiple accounts and does a very good job of letting you manage them directly from your mobile device. Apple on the other hand, doesn’t. This becomes a problem when you get more emails than you [...]

   

• Is Apple Having Supply Line Issues? [iPhone 5]

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  I must admit, every time the iPhone “sells out” a cynical part of me thinks, “yeah right.” It is good business for Apple to run out of product, it buys them a lot of free press that they would not get if they had a steady stream of iPhones going into customers’ hands. “The iPhone is Selling Like Hotcakes” is one news story. “iPhone 5 Sold Out” and “New Shipment of iPhone 5s Delivered” is [...]

   

• Series 13 Powder Coated iPhone Case is Sleek, Stylish and Made out of Machined Aluminum

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  I’ve got to admit that the Series 13 Powder Coated iPhone Case didn’t really catch my eye when I opened my package from Karas Kustoms, it is subtle and understated and doesn’t really jump out past the other products… until I actually got it onto an iPhone and it transformed into an entirely different animal. Like most metal cases, it is essentially a cage into which you lock your iPhone. It comes with a little [...]

   

• Bose Outs a Delectable New AirPlay Speaker and Updates the SoundLink [SoundLink Air]

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  If you are looking for a shiny new AirPlay-enabled wireless speaker to go with the shiny new iPhone 5 that you haven’t gotten yet then you might want to take a look at the Bose SoundLink Air (pictured above). It works its wireless streaming juju with iOS devices, but still plays nicely with your other toys via its Aux In port. Personally, I would probably be more inclined to save $50 and grab the next [...]

   

• Motorola Droid Razr Maxx HD, An Ugly Name For a Pretty Good Phone

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  iPhones are great and everything but if you are not altogether enamored with Apple’s latest effort, or the fact that they created a new dock connector that does basically the same thing and is roughly the same size as a Micro-USB port instead of just putting a Micro-USB port on there, then you could take a look at Motorola’s Droid Razr Maxx HD. Aside from the awful name, this looks to be a very good [...]

   

• Signal Blocking Phone Pocket Sounds Like a Good Idea, But… [Blokket Phone Pocket]

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  If you want to get some peace and quiet then turning your phone off (or letting the battery run flat) is a good way to go. If you don’t want to do that then you could try the Blokket, a signal blocking phone pocket that is now available on Think Geek. The Blokket is made of a combination of silver and nylon and is said to block 99.7% of radio frequencies. Nobody has confirmed anything [...]

   

• SPOT Connect Connects Your Smartphone to Satellites

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  If you’re the adventurous type then you might have weighed up the pros and cons of getting a satellite phone. Pro: they let you call from help from the remotest of locations; Con: they are ridiculously expensive, and with the cost of satellite communications, you are not going to use it all that often. The SPOT Connect is a good compromise. It doesn’t give you voice connection, but it does let you text, tweet and [...]