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Turn Your iPad Into a DJ Station With Two Turntables and Some Suction Cups

iPad docks featuring a set of compact turntables for DJs who like to travel light are nothing new. But ION Audio has come up with a small collection of suction-cuppable accessories that turn the iPad itself into a pair of decks and a mixer on the cheap. Serious turntablists will probably want to stay well…

Reuters has withdrawn its story on Phil Schiller’s denial of a cheaper, smaller iPhone. Well that sure clears things up!

Use This Webapp to Find Out If Your iPhone Apps Are Spying On You

Bitdefender’s Clueful, once an iOS app in its own right that Apple apparently took offence to, is now back as a webapp. Use it to find out if your apps are spying on you, storing your personal information, and sending it anywhere you might not want them to. Essential for the paranoid; interesting for the…

Beats Electronics Is Getting Its Own Streaming Music Service Called Project Daisy

Beats Electronics got control of a lot of digital music rights and technology when it acquired the streaming music service MOG last year. Now, Beats is launching a new service—Project Daisy—to sell you beats by every artist you can think of. According to the release, the project was developed under the direction of Trent Reznor.…

Phil Schiller: There Will Be No Cheapo iPhone, Stupid!

This is not surprising, but since the Wall Street Journal keeps releasing stupid stupid STUPID reports on Apple developing a cheapo iPhone year after year, it’s good to have Phil Schiller punching them in the groin with a big hell-no: Despite the popularity of cheap smartphones, this will never be the future of Apple’s products.…

Apple Cuts the Price of Thunderbolt Cables

Apple has decided to cut the price of its exorbitantly priced Thunderbolt cables. Its 2-meter cable has fallen in price from a painful $50 to an only-slightly-more-palatable $40. It has also started selling a new, shorter Thunderbolt cable—measuring 0.5 meters—which costs $30. Less reason to buy those cheap knock-off cables, at least. [9to5mac]

This Amazing Quick-Draw iPhone Sleeve Will Stop You from Ever Missing a Call

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. I love how he had so many different…

Puregear’s Retro Game Cases Completely Justify Covering Your iPhone 5

We’ve already gone into detail on why you don’t need a case for your iPhone 5, but that was before PureGear unveiled its line of awesome Retro Game cases. Obviously, this changes everything. Come February they’ll be available in three different versions for $30 a pop: a traditional boxy maze, a circular maze, and a…

Potty Training’s Way Easier When Your Kid’s Distracted With an iPad

CTA Digital never fails to disappoint at CES. In past years the company has delivered some of the craziest gaming and iPad accessories, and this year they manage to both raise the bar and hit a new low with the iPotty. Dropping in February for $40, it’s a simple plastic potty designed for toddlers going…

Walmart’s iPhone 5 Data Plan Is Ridiculously Cheap (Updated)

Yesterday, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce plans to offer the iPhone 4 and 5 on a pre-paid basis with Straight Talk, a no-contract carrier offering unlimited data plans. And if you go with anything else, you’re probably a sucker. The Straight Talk plan (which claims to save users roughly $950 a year after…

Bloomberg: That Cheaper iPhone Would Cost $100-$150

Piling on the Wall Street Journal’s cheap iPhone rumor resurrection, Bloomberg is reporting that the budget-friendly device Apple is working on will cost in the $100-$150 range. It would debut, at the very earliest, at the end of this year. https://gizmodo.com/wsj-apples-building-a-cheaper-iphone-again-5974315 Apple’s target with a second-tier iPhone would be developing markets, where iPhone costs aren’t…

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 touch screens. Hence this plastic monstrosity, that seemingly aims to convert your sleek iPhone into a lumpen BlackBerry. Err, thanks? A Kickstarter campaign that—against all odds—succeeded, Spike’s TypeSmart keyboard swivels out from a case…

Google Pulls Out of Its Motorola Patent Push

Patent wars are still raging in plenty of parts of the tech world, but today there’s something of a ceasefire between Google and Microsoft. Google has just filed with the ITC to stop attempts to prevent Microsoft from using certain compression techniques with the Xbox 360. Microsoft wants to license a pair of patents that…

Directr: A Video Making App That Calls the Shots

With the volume of high-quality videos flooding every corner of social media these days, it’s easy for the less artistically inclined among us to feel a little left out. And sure, video-editing apps that streamline the process aren’t new, but nothing will drop a seamless end product into your digital lap quite as quickly and,…

WSJ: Apple’s Building a Cheaper iPhone (Again)

The WSJ, never ones to pass up a good (or bad) Apple rumor, is reporting that the company is working on a less expensive alternative to its $200 (on-contract) iPhone. And if that sounds familiar, well, it should. It’s the same rumor they trotted out back in February of 2011. In other words? Don’t get…

An Apple job ad seeks expertise of 802.ac Wi-Fi which bodes well for those rumors of super-fast Wi-Fi hitting Macs soon.

Fisher-Price’s Iconic Farm Set Gains an iPad Dock and Loses Imagination Requirements

If you grew up in the 1980s playing with Fisher-Price’s now iconic Little People Barnyard Playset (remember the mooing sound effect when you opened the barn door?) prepare to be just a little saddened at the company’s modernized version of it. Tiny fields of imaginary wheat have been replaced with an iPad dock and the…

Faulty iPhone Burns Through $30,000 of Mobile Data

A supposedly “faulty” iPhone landed a man in severe financial trouble, after the phone racked up an astonishing $30,000 data bill—and UK network Orange tried to take the money from the bloke’s account. Chris Bovis realised he’d been cut off, so phoned Orange for an explanation. That was when he discovered the network had tried…

eBay’s overhauled its iOS app, streamlining the set-up and management of auctions. Sell those crappy Christmas gifts!

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. But iTrip Auto users can now…