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Road Tested: Hard Candy's Bubble Sleeve for iPad

by Michael Rose (May 12th, 2010)

When we visited with Tim Hickman from Hard Candy at Macworld Expo, he told us how they worked to get their cases ready for production without access to actual iPads for sizing and fit. For the past few weeks, I've been using the company's Bubble Sleeve as my everyday case for my iPad. In some ways, ...

Road tested: The Apple-branded iPad case

by Erica Sadun (Apr 12th, 2010)

I'm going to come right out and say it. I hate the Apple iPad case. I thought I'd like the fact that it protects the iPad and works as a stand. I don't. For US$39, I really thought Apple would deliver a protective case that perfectly augmented the iPad using experience. It didn't. ...

Hands-on with the OWLE bubo: Better photos and video from your iPhone (Updated)

by Steven Sande (Feb 7th, 2010)

A while back, we had a product announcement about the OWLE bubo (US$129.95). That bizarre name is actually a play on words: OWLE stands for "Optical Widget for Life Enhancement" (the company's name) and bubo is the genus for American horned owls and old world eagle owls. The device, if you have ...

Road Tested: the socially-developed Quirky PowerCurl

by Steven Sande (Dec 28th, 2009)

You've heard me rant about Quirky before on TUAW: it's a company that uses social development (i.e., group-think) to create innovative new products. Everyone who participates deeply in the creation of a product can benefit monetarily from the sales of it, and the result has been a string of ...

Road Tested: the Verizon MiFi portable broadband router

by Erica Sadun (Sep 2nd, 2009)

For the last couple of weeks, I've been testing the Verizon MiFi portable WiFi hotspot. After writing about the MiFi, a few months back, I was placed on a waiting list to receive a test unit. Could the MiFi enhance the iPod touch experience to bring it into the realm of the iPhone? A unit finally ...