Accessories articles
May 16, 2013
Coming out of the Google I/O code labs are a number of tweets, both from official and participant sources that “within a few months” Bluetooth Smart (which you might know as Bluetooth Low Energy, or BLE) will be pushed out to a large number of Android devices. What does this mean to the average user? [...]
May 11, 2013
Now that some of the team have received their Samsung Galaxy S 4‘s from various sources, it’s time that we have a play with some of these cases we’ve received from Cygnett. As we found out the hard way yesterday, the Galaxy S 4 is not exactly the hardiest of phones — Buzz managed to [...]
May 5, 2013
Another Kickstarter project has caught my attention, this time a project called Casetop. The project design is intended to utilize the processing power and connectivity of your mobile phone handset to create a laptop experience while not degrading your phone battery in the process. The Casetop incorporates connectivity with Android, Blackberry and yes, even iOS [...]
May 2, 2013
Last month the rumour of Google working on a Smart Watch surfaced thanks to a Financial Times report, today a new patent application has shown up at the US Patent and Trademark Office(USPTO). The new application which shows a single screen with dual touchpads located on the writstbands either side of the watch face, departs [...]
May 1, 2013
If the 2,300 mAh battery in the HTC One is not quite fulfilling your needs, then the non-removable battery in the phone means that your options are limited. External battery packs such as the Droid-Ax Portacharge are an option but carrying around an additional device is not desirable. Mophie has announced that they will be [...]
April 30, 2013
We spoke about this a little while ago — Cygnett have sent us a few different cases to try with the newly-released Samsung Galaxy S4, and while they certainly look sturdy, we’d be a bit reluctant to test them out the way they have. As you can see in the video above, Cygnett have put [...]
April 28, 2013
Announced at CES back in January the Asus Cube is the first Google TV product from the Taiwanese manufacturer and it incorporates a few interesting design paradigms when it comes to both the unit itself and the software interface. In the US the device has launched and is selling online for $139.99 + delivery from [...]
April 28, 2013
Google has just released the Kernel source for one of their most highly anticipated products to date – Glass. The kernel source which is available as a 65.7MB ‘tarball’ a file which combines a number of files into a single source. The announcement added by DannyB on Google Code advises that the source is being [...]
April 26, 2013
After almost nine months of being teased on the Australian Google Play store and being available freely at retail stores for nearly seven months, Google has finally made the Nexus Travel covers available for purchase in Google Play. The hard-wearing rubberised cover which fits snugly around your Nexus 7 is available in three colours – [...]
April 26, 2013
If you thought that the release of Google Glass had been quiet on the app front, then this announcement from the New York Times could be about about to start a whole landslide of new apps designed specifically for Googles new wearable device. The New York Times has announced that their headline reading app that [...]
April 26, 2013
Google is well known for putting Easter Eggs in their software – just go tap the version number in your Android Settings or type ’tilt’ into the search bar on the Google Webpage – and it seems that Glass is no different. Google Glass Explorer Jay Lee has posted on his Google+ page about an [...]
April 25, 2013
If you’ve found the $32 price tag of having the Nexus 4 bumper delivered from Google Play a little distasteful then you will most likely be very pleased with Kogans new addition. Kogan has added the Nexus 4 Bumper to their range and is selling it for the low price of $14 which includes free [...]
April 25, 2013
You may remember the Nexus 10 Magnector Pogo Plug cable that popped up on eBay last year, unfortunately since then the availability has been spotty with auctions popping up only sporadically making it difficult to actually get a hold of the cable. Daehan Special Metal co. Ltd, the company who actually designed and manufactures the [...]

















