Posts Tagged ‘accessories’

Image courtesy of the TouchFire Kickstarter project

Four years after Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone’s on-screen keyboard and encouraged us to trust it, we have grown used to them despite the fact that they don’t provide a good touch typing experience. We all learned to touch type on physical keyboards that provide feedback that enables us to feel our way around the keyboard. TouchFire is a Kickstarter project that plans to produce a product that adds a physical layer to the iPad’s on-screen keyboard.
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Image courtesy of ThinkGeek

The iPhone and iPad have been popular gaming platforms despite their few buttons and touch screens. Even though programmers have done a great job of designing their games for touch screens, there are still a few games that are better suited for joysticks and buttons. If you want to add traditional gaming controls to your iPad you may soon be able to pick from one of several options.
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Looking for a really cool way to capture photos for sharing? Yes, there are lots of great photo filters apps for the iPhone. But, if you want your iPhone 4 photos to look a different from the rest of the crowd, take a look at this pair of hardware accessories (Note: I have not tried these items myself yet).

Digital King iPhone 4 Lenses

Both the Wide & Macro and ($49.99) the 180-degree Fish-Eye ($59.99) lenses attach magnetically to the iPhone 4. The Wide & Macro lens is, as the name implies, a dual function accessory. Its 90-100 degree field angle view lets you capture a wider view than is normally possible without stitching multiple photos together. Its macro function has a 4x magnification to get great ultra-close shots from your iPhone. The 180-degree Fish-Eye lens can capture nearly everything visible in front of you or to create distortion effects.

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Image courtesy of Yanko Design

Of the many uses one can think of for the iPad, being useful to a blind person probably wouldn’t appear on most people’s list. Yanko Design has a concept of a cover for the iPad that transforms its flat surface into braille. The Omnifer, which is the name for this innovative cover, is a 2011 IDEA Award entry.
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