What do you do when you create a popular iPad app called Paper? Well, it’d be foolish to not deliver a pencil. And that’s just what 53 has done, creating Pencil ($50), a cool new stylus that works in concert with Paper. Made from harvested wood, Pencil promises a new way to sketch without being sketchy. The ‘adaptive palm rejection’ feature means Pencil won’t think you’re trying to draw with your hand, even if it’s smooshed up against your tablet.
Category: Tech
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Nike Fuelband SE Rose Gold Metaluxe: Sweat In Style
Wearing a Nike+ FuelBand shows you care about your fitness; your health; the betterment of your body. But what it previously didn’t show was an ability to rock gold. Well, cross that off the list. Nike’s new special edition Metaluxe collection is being kicked off with this Rose Gold Nike+ FuelBand SE ($169). Its clasp, bezel and screws are manufactured from 316 series stainless steel. The metal components are also hand-polished. Is this treatment too good for your sweaty wrist? Perhaps. But for all the things you put your wrist through — especially during your teenage years — it deserves a little pampering.
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Fluxmob Bolt Portable Charger: Back That Thang Up (Your Battery)
Modern day life has brought with it some amazing technological advances (that’s kinda what this site is all about), but also a few headaches. Maybe the biggest of them all? Battery life. The Bolt portable charger ($60) aims to ease your going-juiceless concerns with what they say is the world’s smallest combination wall charger/battery backup. Even though it’s tiny, the makers say it will still fully power-up most smartphones two times before needing a breather, and the lithium-ion battery inside Bolt promises to withstand a minimum of 500 full cycles.
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Coin: Digitally Stores All Your Credit Cards
It’s easy to run out of real estate in your wallet when you load it up with credit cards, debit cards, gift cards, and — for some strange reason — 1981 Donruss baseball cards. But Coin ($50 to pre-order) lets you streamline your cash-carrier by digitally storing up to 8 credit, debit, gift, or membership cards all on one little black sliver. Switch between the stored cards via a button on Coin’s surface and then just run it through. Coin needs a smartphone for setup, and that phone also beeps if you’ve left the card behind.
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SwatchMate Cube: Color Match Any Surface
“Is that bedroom wall magenta or mauve?” Frankly, this is the type of question many straight men have difficulty answering. But the SwatchMate Cube promises to answer it for you. Place the Cube onto a surface and it instantly captures and identifies the color in question, displaying it on your paired smartphone–no calibration needed. And that certainly beats, like, calling up Tim Gunn every time you need to know a color.
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Jawbone UP24: Today I Will Get Off My Ass
The Jawbone Up24 ($149) is a fitness-tracking wristband with a bit of a ‘tude. Wearing one and using its new wireless syncing feature (using low-energy Bluetooth) will get you plenty of real-time data about your road to anti-chubbiness, with a healthy dash of sass along the way. The Up app will suggest you get to bed earlier or walk more steps throughout the day with plenty of “Today I Will” messages on your phone. If you’re the type that needs a little push to get going, this could work out nicely for you. If you deeply resent all types of authority figures — even ones with artificial intelligence — then definitely invest in a sturdy phone case.
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Harman Kardon Nova Wireless Speakers: Emphasis On The Acoustics
Unlike your family singalongs, the Harman Kardon Nova Wireless Stereo Speaker System ($300) puts an emphasis on quality acoustics. This is a powered 2.0, stereo speaker system with performance-tuned 2.5” drivers and 1.25” tweeters that aim to deliver a richer listening experience. The passive radiator also promises extended bass response. The Nova adapts easily to nearly any audio system, and offers both analog and optical connections as well as Wireless Bluetooth with NFC, cranking out 40 watts of power. Now just tell Aunt Connie to take it down a notch.
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Maingear Pulse 17: The World’s Thinnest Gaming Laptop
Thin laptops are nothing new, but when you demand gaming excellence from your system, well, like Fat Joe at Thanksgiving, it remains tough to stay svelte. Maingear says it has found way though with its new Pulse 17 (starts at $2,099). Promising to be the world’s thinnest gaming laptop, the specs — Haswell Core i7 4700HQ processor, GeForce GTX 765M graphics card with 2GB RAM, 17.3-inch 1,920 x 1,080 widescreen display — make that claim even more impressive.