Category: iPod

If you've ever stared deeply into your iPod touch's eyes, noticed how the moonlight dances across its touchscreen, and considered taking your relationship to that vaunted "next level," a new bedtime product could help you do just that (not what you're thinking). Ellos, a Swedish retailer, is now selling a set of bed sheets designed like a giant iPod touch, replete with a touchscreen duvet ...

Our grandparents always warned us that going outside with a damp head of hair will give us pneumonia, that too much "personal time" would make us go blind, or, more recently, that compulsively listening to our iPod would eventually deafen us. The jury may still be out on the first two, but one U.S. judge has already ruled on the third -- and it sounds like our ear drums are safer than we thought. ...

We're barely into 2010 and we've already got some great news: Switched is now available in app form on Apple's App Store! You get full access to all the features, tech coverage, and galleries you already know and love, as well as offline reading (you can save stories to your iPhone or touch in case your connection drops), sharing via Facebook and Twitter, and easy access to our tech tips and ...

On the list of "Things We Hate To Do," cleaning house ranks right up there with going to the dentist. If only there was some way to make dusting, scrubbing, or vacuuming more fun... Well, fret not. According to Engadget, Electrolux recently introduced "Silence Amplified" -- a vacuum cleaner that's so quiet you can listen to music while sweeping across the floor. But how will I hold my iPod and ...

After changing the way we thought about social-networking with Twitter, co-founder Jack Dorsey needed another system to revolutionize, tackling the tired system of credit and debit cards. Today, Dorsey unveiled his new project, Square, for all the world to see, launching a Web site and giving Tech Crunch a firsthand look at how his new product works. Here's the basic idea: Square is a tiny ...

There's a lot of confusion about the best way to treat an iPod's battery (e.g., Is it better to charge it often, or to fully empty it? Is it okay to leave it charging when it's full?), so here's the official word. Because the iPod has lithium-ion batteries, it doesn't matter whether you charge it a little bit at a time, or run it down before recharging fully. The battery will last for ...

You may have never really noticed the weird capitalization pattern on iPhones; or perhaps you just thought it was part of Apple's brilliant marketing schtick. In reality, though, this weird mid-word capitalization has been around for a while, and is commonly known as 'camel case' (because of the visual "hump" that a nested capitalized letter gives a word). Caleb Crain, in a great article for ...

Advertisements have been a constant nuisance since the Web's inception, but their continued proliferation has recently become nearly unbearable. Even on some pay sites where every amount of available space is devoted to ad banners, members have to sit through a 30-second spot every time they want to watch a three-minute video. Apple, though, reportedly believes that all those pop-ups, videos, ...

Blue Microphones Mikey (Creative, Under $100) For those who like to get creative with sound, Blue Mikey ($79.99) is an excellent addition to your potable digital tool belt. Essentially a mic that plugs into the bottom of your iPhone or iPod, Mikey lets you capture anything from live music to lectures. You interface with the hardware as you would the iPhone's built-in mic; you can either use ...

Despite its staid and strict stance against nudity and racy apps, Apple is continuing its unofficial practice of turning perfectly harmless words into demeaning slurs. Apple's censoring depends on a program that scans the iTunes database for dirty words, replacing the offending letters with asterisks. The problem with this auto-censorship is that it doesn't recognize context. As a result, ...

Grado iGi Earphones (Media Hound, Under $100) To the audio obsessives who consider the quality of their sound gear a way of life, the mere mention of the name Grado elicits the kind of response usually reserved for Santa or, well, Steve Jobs . Since most Grado headphones are priced in the relative stratosphere, its new iGi model ($89) is a welcome entry-level sampler for the iPod generation. ...

Believe it or not, digital media and iPods aren't the most popular way to consume audio entertainment. In fact, it's not even close. The most popular source of audio media, according to the Council for Research Excellence (PDF), is good ol' broadcast radio. According to the study, which followed around 300 adults in five U.S. cities, some 77-percent of Americans listen to some broadcast radio ...

"High-end" and "iPod dock" are seldom combined, but Wadia Digital has made it so with its 170iTransport, a squat little component that can turn Apple's portable audio and video capabilities into a stellar home media server. The first product to offer iPod's native digital audio output--over SP/DIF coaxial cable, included--the 170i enables your compressed music collection sound purer than it ...

Sick of of transferring all those photos from your iPhone or iPod touch to your computer whenever you want to print? A new, free app from Canon, which was launched today, will cut out the middleman, making it easier to turn digital image albums into glossy photos. According to Digital Photography Review, the Easy Photo-Print App allows users to wirelessly print photos from the devices mentioned ...

In an age when everyone is looking for a competitive advantage, it's getting tougher and tougher for sports' rule makers to draw the line. What exactly is a performance enhancer, anyway? Well, in running, an iPod apparently qualifies. This morning, Jennifer Goebel was stripped of her first-place finish in Milwaukee's Lakefront Marathon after online photos surfaced showing the 27-year-old ...