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Snapzoom Kickstarter wants to marry your iPhone with binoculars or a telescope

by Steven Sande (Apr 24th, 2013)

Your iPhone's camera is great for those wide-angle or panoramic shots, but the lens just isn't that wonderful for telephoto images. Daniel Fujikake and Mac Nguyen of HI Resolution Enterprises discovered quite by accident that by holding an iPhone camera up to a pair of binoculars, they could ...

HAPIfork Kickstarter campaign goes live

by Mike Schramm (Apr 17th, 2013)

Stick with us on this one: Yes, the HAPIfork is still just a Kickstarter project, as its US$100,000 campaign has just gone live on the fundraising site. And yes, most Kickstarter projects make better ideas than actual products. But the HAPIfork, unlikely as it may seem, was one of the ...

Romo iPhone robot to charm his way into your heart in June

by Steven Sande (Apr 9th, 2013)

Over the past few years, TUAW has featured several posts about a cute little robot with an iPhone for a brain, Romo. It was first featured on TUAW sister site Engadget's Insert Coin feature series in late 2011, and was successful in its original Kickstarter funding round. Last fall, Romo's ...

Trygger Camera Clip: a better polarizing filter for your iPhone 5

by Steven Sande (Apr 6th, 2013)

Just a few weeks ago while I was down in the Caribbean, I had the fun of testing out an iPhone 5 camera polarizing filter from Photojojo. While the clip-on filter worked -- sort of -- it had a problem with causing some vignetting of photos. Now Trygger is shipping The Camera Clip (US$39.95), ...

Elroy wants to hang with you

by Steven Sande (Apr 2nd, 2013)

If you saw my post earlier today about Klingg, you might think that a new Kickstarter project -- Elroy -- is similar. Both hold onto your clothing, both have something to do with earbuds. But that's where the similarity stops. Elroy is a tiny Bluetooth device that's meant to do away with long ...

Laying the groundwork for Galcon 2

by Mike Schramm (Apr 1st, 2013)

Developer Phil Hassey kicked off our meeting at last week's GDC by showing me a necklace and a fridge magnet set both based on his oft-remade game Galcon, just two of the different rewards in the Kickstarter that recently raised him over $25,000 for development. Hassey has remade Galcon quite a ...

Drifter, buoyed by a Kickstarter, heads toward release later this year

by Mike Schramm (Mar 26th, 2013)

I first saw Drifter, developer Colin Walsh's great space trading simulation, at last year's GDC. Back then, the game was a great idea, though Walsh's Celsius Game Studios had plenty of work to do. In the year in between, however, Walsh carried out a successful Kickstarter, picking up over ...

NumLock for OS X will enable number lock on Mac keyboards

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 7th, 2013)

Folks accustomed to number lock may have a hard time moving from an Apple extended keyboard to the more compact keyboard layout found on Apple's wireless keyboard or its MacBook models. If you can't live without num lock, then you should check out the NumLock app, a Kickstarter-funded app from ...

Daily Update for March 6, 2013

by Steven Sande (Mar 6th, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Almond+ Router/Smart Home Hub Kickstarter blasts by goal

by Steven Sande (Mar 6th, 2013)

Those who watched TUAW TV Live a few weeks ago may remember me describing some of the issues that I've run into with streaming video up to Ustream at the same time that my wife is connected to her office VPN. Hawaii's finest tech guru and new TUAW dude Shawn "Doc Rock" Boyd mentioned that he'd ...

ChargeCard wallet charge cable gets the hands-on treatment

by Steven Sande (Mar 5th, 2013)

Back in July of 2012 I reported on a Kickstarter project that aimed to put a charger cable into your wallet. That project went way over its funding goal, and the resulting product -- ChargeCard (US$25) -- is now shipping, at least for the iPhone 4/4S and older devices that use the 30-pin Dock ...

TUAW TV Live at 5 PM ET: A clean desktop is the sign of a cluttered mind

by Steven Sande (Feb 20th, 2013)

Today's going to be another "flying solo" episode of TUAW TV Live. My potential guest is still suffering from some viral crud or another, so I thought that we'd do another unboxing-fest to take a look at some great new Apple accessories and talk about apps. In case you're wondering about that ...

LiveCode creators look to go open source with crowdfunding help

by Randy Nelson (Feb 19th, 2013)

UK-based RunRev is working on the next generation of LiveCode, which for the uninitiated is a cross-platform scripting language inspired by Apple's HyperCard and HyperTalk. This new version of LiveCode is intended to be open source and free for schools, in addition to offering a number of ...

Kickstarter launches iPhone app

by Steven Sande (Feb 14th, 2013)

Back in the old days (before today), people had to launch a web browser to check out the latest crowd-funded projects being touted on Kickstarter. All of that changed today, as the company has released its free Kickstarter iPhone app. The app pretty much lets users do what they can do from a ...