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Five hot iPad accessories

In this video, I talk about recommended accessories for the Apple iPad. Consider this an informal "show & tell" that includes cases ...

Apple iPad: The Accessories

Unboxing some of the iPad accessories, including the Sawbones, Keyboard Dock, Case, and VGA Adapter. VGA Adapter: amzn.to Standard Mend: amzn.to ...

Apple iPad Accessories Review

Terry Hoary reviews the first batch of iPad accessories to ship. He reviews the iPad dock, Keyboard dock, VGA connector and Apple iPad Box. This ...

Avi Greengart's Last Minute Non-Obvious Holiday Gift Guide 2011

Father’s Lament

This year I had a tougher time than usual, not because vendors weren’t pleased to send over gadgets for me to test – oh, they were. It just seemed like this year I got a much worse interest of products that just weren’t good enough to recommend. To make this list, I had to suffer through bad streaming media boxes, distressed QWERTY remote controls, remote control helicopters that were not terribly controllable, clothing made with moisture-wicking technology that didn’t calling, useless car-finder gizmos, “revolutionary” earbuds that aren’t, sui generis speaker systems that sound awful, and an extended battery system for portable devil-may-care consoles whose installation can break the console itself. I nearly put the helicopter – Griffin’s HeloTC – on the slate anyway because sort-of-controlling a little helicopter via an iPhone is cool, and making kith and kin members scatter from a perpetually out-of-control helicopter can be great fun. I also received a slew of tone-tracker gadgets, but haven’t had the time to test them fully. Maybe I’ll do a New Year’s Sharpness Gift Guide follow up.

Apple may expand third-party iPhone, iPad accessories support

The unmistakable filing is titled “Method and System for Locating an Accessory and an Application for Use With a Buyer Device” and involves a system that can identify a variety of apps that can be used with a connected desire. It could also recommend a range of hardware accessories that could work with particular apps that are already installed.