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Balance Lamp Forces You to Sacrifice Your Phone for Light

11 Nov

[ By Steph in Design & Fixtures & Interiors. ]

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Chances are good that if you keep your phone nearby while you’re working, you’re going to be tempted to pick it up every now and then, checking Instagram and sending texts. Get in the habit of doing it compulsively, and you’re sucking away a lot of time that you should probably spend focusing on the tasks at hand. This lamp by designer Weng Xinyu aims to solve that problem by forcing you to give up your phone in order to illuminate your desk.

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Consisting of a balancing lamp pole on a simple wooden tripod, the lamp leans its light source to the desk when it’s turned off. If you want light, you’ll have to insert your phone into the slot on the end of the pole. This turns the light on automatically and balances the lamp to its proper position.

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Sure, you could cheat and find some other object that fits into the slot so you don’t have to give up your precious smartphone. But as we all heard from authority figures throughout our childhoods, the only person you’d be cheating is yourself.

“Superfluous information is flowing from everywhere,” says Xinyu. “The sense of priority is fading, resulting a precarious Balance between work and amusement, true and virtual life. It is time we ask the question, what do we really want? ‘Balance’ might help us find the inner balance in this information exploding society.”

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Outings: Bring Classic Art to the Streets with Your Phone

08 Nov

[ By Steph in Drawing & Digital. ]

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Anonymous subjects from under-appreciated paintings that hang forlorn in secondary museums, overlooked and nearly forgotten, come to life in the streets with an interactive art project called ‘Outings.’ Dreamed up by French artist Julien de Casabianca, the ongoing, international participative project invites you to snap photos of lesser-known portraits hanging in museums, print them out and paste them onto urban surfaces in cities like London, Paris and Madrid.

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Taking these characters out of their cultural and historical context, participants breathe new life into them, appointing them as watchers over a new and unfamiliar world, making their faces far more visible than they are when hanging in small frames beside more famous and notable works.

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The process is simple: discreetly capture any images you like in a museum or gallery with your phone and follow the Outings Project instructions for importing and editing the image in Photoshop. Have it printed in a local shop, and then use wallpaper glue and a brush to adhere it to a wall – the grittier the better, for proper contrast. Get more info and apply for a grant for the price of printing at the Outings website.

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DxOMark Mobile Report added to our Amazon Fire Phone review

05 Nov

We just updated our full review of the Amazon Fire Phone’s camera capabilities with data from DxOMark’s mobile analysis. With an overall score of 69, the Fire Phone lands at 18th on DxO’s mobile rankings, tied with the HTC One M8 and coming in well behind flagship phones from Apple, Samsung and Sony. Read more

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Juice to Go: 13 Ultra-Portable Phone Charger Designs

14 Oct

[ By Steph in Gadgets & Geekery & Technology. ]

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Tiny phone chargers that you slide onto your keyring, store on your belt buckle or snap onto the spokes of your bike can help feed your addiction to technology when wall chargers aren’t available. Since most of us can’t go ten minutes without using our phones, staying juiced up is crucial. These 12 offbeat and innovative portable cell phone chargers use everything from kinetic energy to boiling water to make sure you’re never cut off from your emergency contacts and all of your favorite apps.

World’s Smallest Emergency Phone Charger
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Shaped like a gasoline can, the tiniest cell phone charger yet fits easily onto your key ring and provides an extra 20-30 minutes of talk time or a few hours of standby time per charge. It plugs directly into your phone and can hold its own charge for 1-3 months between uses.

Siva Cycle: Pedal Power Charger
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A compact gadget snaps onto any bicycle within minutes to harness the kinetic energy you create while you ride. You can either plug your phone or any other USB-powered device directly into it, or store the energy in a detachable battery pack. The creators envision it as the perfect solution for bike commuters who miss out on the phone-charging time that other commuters get in the car.

Belt Buckle Phone Charger
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An ordinary-looking belt buckle pops off and plugs into the wall to charge your cell phone. The Volt Buckle eliminates the problem of being unable to carry a charger without a purse or bag of some sort, keeping it as compact as possible. A hook on the belt ensures that your pants stay up while your phone is charging.

Flame Stower: Charging with Fire
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Going a step beyond solar power, the Flame Stower is a portable phone charger designed with campers and hikers in mind. One end of the charger is placed in a campfire, and the other connected to your cell phone. Any flame source will do, so you can also use BBQ grills or candles.

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Turn Your Phone into a Pro Grade Cam with 30x Zoom

13 Oct

You have a fondness for mash-ups: Girl Talk, golden doodles, waffle tacos!

Bring the best of two worlds together again with the new QX30 from Sony, a lens that’ll shoot DSLR quality pics and connect to your phone to give you the instant shareability of … well, your phone!

The newest of Sony’s QX family, the QX30 gives you 30x optical zoom (way better than your phone’s pixelly digital zoom) and is an entire camera on its own with a flash, memory card and video capabilities.

Use your phone as a viewfinder whether the lens is clipped onto the phone or detached for more uniquely angled shots.

The lens snaps pics and sends ‘em directly to your phone for instant editing and sharing of all your mashup experiments: roller blade tennis anyone?

Snap Up the QX30 or Its Big Brother QX100

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Never Run Out of Photo Space on Your Phone Again

09 Oct
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At the very moment your dog FINALLY is balancing a banana on its nose, your phone camera roll is full. The banana falls, the moment is gone. Boo.

It stinks to lose these special moments when you don’t have enough room on your phone. So, we set out to find the best way for you to have (almost) infinite space.

Eureka! Carousel is a gallery app that connects to Dropbox (which saves your photos on the cloud, so they don’t take up space on your phone). You can delete photos from your camera roll, but still have access to them whenever you want. Sounds almost as magical as a real carousel, right?

It’s easy to set up, then you’re worry free FOREVER!

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Take Phone Charging Power Everywhere You Go

07 Oct

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Your bag full of charge cords tangled around lip gloss is starting to look more like modern art than anything useful.

Get organized with the Power Wallet and you’ll have quick access to all your necessities plus a backup battery at the ready.

When your phone battery gets low, the Power Wallet will give you a charge up to 160% with the built-in hidden battery. The faux leather is soft and begs to be carried along with you everywhere and you can pack it full with money and phoneography lenses too.

With so much power capacity, you’ll be able to quickly get a charge when you need it without the disaster zone of tangles.

Grab Your Power Wallet and Go
$ 79.99 at the Photojojo Shop

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Amazon Fire Phone camera review

28 Sep

The Fire Phone is Amazon’s first foray into the smartphone hardware business. It offers unique features like a Dynamic Perspective 3D-user interface, using four front-facing cameras to track the user’s face and adjust how content is displayed accordingly. It’s outfitted with plenty of cameras, but is it suitable for a mobile photographer Our sister site, connect.dpreview.com aims to find out in a full review. Read more

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Happy iPhone 6 Day! Learn Your Phone Phortune

10 Sep

iPhone 6 is cool …

But we’ve got our own magic!

Visit our shop on your phone and *shake* to get your phone phortune and win up to $ 10 off.

If there’s a new iPhone in your future, check out our photo accessories for your iPhone 6 or 6 Plus.

Check out these iPhone 6 Accessories (that work with other phones too)

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HTC introduces One M8 for Windows Phone

20 Aug

Two years after HTC launched its Windows Phone flagship model 8X, the Taiwanese manufacturer now offers another high-end model with the Microsoft OS. Today HTC has revealed a Windows Phone version of the HTC One M8, originally launched with Google’s Android OS in March this year. This means the One M8’s unique Duo Cam features are now available in a Windows phone environment. Read more

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