Waterproof Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

CES 2013: Liquipel improves its water-repellent coating

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 7th, 2013)

At last year's Startup Debut I was quite impressed with Liquipel, a company who will add a nanocoating to your iPhone (inside and out), making it incredibly water repellent. This year Liquipel was back with version 2 of their product. There are actually a few companies who do this now, as the ...

Grace Digital ECOXBT Speaker System: Light, rugged, waterproof

by Steven Sande (Nov 6th, 2012)

Over the years TUAW has published a number of reviews of iOS-compatible speaker systems, but they're usually made for indoor use and wouldn't hold up to being splashed with water or knocked off of a deck. Now Grace Digital, as part of their ECOXGEAR line, has introduced the ECOXBT Bluetooth ...

driSuit endurance case: Take your iPhone swimming

by Steven Sande (Aug 11th, 2012)

During the opening ceremonies for the 2012 London Olympic Games, the number of athletes using iPhones to take photos and video during the "march of nations" was staggering. Who knows? When the 2016 Summer Games start up in Rio de Janeiro, the swimmers might be using their iPhones in the pools ...

LifeProof introduces Nuud, environmental case for iPad

by Steven Sande (Jun 25th, 2012)

LifeProof has made waterproof iPhone cases for quite some time, and as this TUAW review shows, they can put up with a dunking without a glitch. Now the company has introduced a LifeProof iPad case called the Nuud that brings the same level of protection to your favorite tablet. While the price ...

Review: ioSafe SoloPRO fireproof external hard drive

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 15th, 2011)

If there's one thing I always tell people who work with valuable, irreplaceable data it's "back up your files!" Thankfully most of us do back up our data. We usually use an external hard drive. Or sometimes, we only rely on cloud-based storage, like Dropbox or Apple's soon to be defunct iDisk. ...

LifeProof iPhone 4 case: Submerge your iPhone and smile

by Steven Sande (Aug 22nd, 2011)

Let's say that your sweet child decides to give your iPhone 4 a bath. Or maybe you're riding on your bike at 40 mph down a hill and drop the phone (or, as our own Dave Caolo can describe from personal experience, in a canoe that decides to deposit you in the Delaware River). All of these ...

Eight ways to get a killer 'iBike'

by Dave Caolo (Aug 10th, 2010)

Even though the "iBike" is nothing more than a patent application, the folks at Unplggd have described how they'd outdo Apple's offering to the world of bike computers. We must admit, the result includes some seriously geeky, tricked-out options. For example, this DIY USB charger uses a dynamo ...

Dolphin uses iPad to learn to identify objects

by Mike Schramm (Jun 2nd, 2010)

Cats love iPads, dogs love iPads, and dolphins... love iPads? That's the word from a site called SpeakDolphin.com [PDF, here's the text], where researchers say they're using the iPad's touchscreen to offer up visual stimuli for dolphins to touch and interact with. A touchscreen for dolphins needs to ...

Don't try this at home

by Mel Martin (Jun 28th, 2009)

Or at the pool, or at the beach. It seems a French fellow was proud of his new iPhone 3GS and was taking pictures around the pool when the sort of inevitable happened. Yup, in the drink. Amazingly, the iPhone survived the underwater ordeal, and even recorded [YouTube link] the trip. Allegedly. I ...

Actual Waterproof iPod case demonstrated at CES

by Erica Sadun (Jan 8th, 2007)

Remember how disappointed TUAW readers were in the H2O Audio "waterproof" Nano housing that was, at best, water resistant? Today's Las Vegas-based Consumer Electronics Show brings better news. Here's a demonstration of an actual waterproof container for your iPod, courtesy of Atlantic's EGO ...

Otterbox: Waterproof goodness now for 5G iPod

by Fabienne Serriere (Feb 1st, 2006)

If you've been dying to go swimming with your 5G iPod (maybe you just need to watch Steve Zissou underwater), there is a more appetizing option than the fugly H2O swimbelt. Luckily Otterbox has released an iPod 5G waterproof case as an update to its line of iPod waterproof stuff we've reported on ...