Do you ever worry that your beloved MacBook’s sleek aluminum shell will get damaged when it’s packed inside your bag with the rest of your gadgets and gizmos. This handmade, wool felt sleeve from MyBanana aims to give your notebook a home of its own, away from sharp keys, USB cables, chargers, and all the other things you might need to pack into your bag when you’re on [Read More...]
No more leather stitching!
According to a new report at the Wall Street Journal, Apple’s new management team dynamic, which includes design maven Jonathan Ive at the helm of both the hardware and software teams behind iOS, is seeing a new era of collaboration. ONe source familiar with the matter went so far as to call the exchange of ideas between Ive and human interface lead Greg Christie, known [Read More...]
These days my desk is my lap. My work machine is an iPad, and my iMac is hanging on the wall, acting as little more than a BitTorrent machine and photo store. I still have a desk though, but it is useless for most of the year thanks to a marble top which sucks heat from my hands and wrists like a prisoner sucks on a cigarette after a week in solitary confinement.
Fortunately, [Read More...]
LAS VEGAS, CES 2013 – The idea behind Felt Audio’s line-up of iPhone accessories is simple. We’re going to let you take the sound from your iPhone and snap it on anywhere.
For Felt’s first prodict, the pocket Pulse Bluetooth speaker, imagine a jambox that attaches to the outside of your iPhone, giving [Read More...]
An iPhone case has never “felt” this good (#rimshot). OK, I’ll stop with the puns already. This case for the iPhone 4 is fashioned from merino wool felt with a leather pocket (and strap, depending on the model). It comes in a variety of tasteful colors, and looks both tough and useful enough to be a permanent iPhone case, even for the committed bareback user.
Wool felt is one of my favorite materials – which is [Read More...]
I’m a sucker for bags, and — like TV’s Dexter — I have come to be at peace with my darker side (I’m just starting season 4 though, so maybe he gets all crazy after becoming a father and everything). I realize that no matter how many sleeves, totes, backpacks or messenger bags I buy, it will never be enough.
I haven’t yet started bagging up the old, discarded models and tossing them into the Gulf [Read More...]
How did Darth know what Luke was getting for Christmas? He’d ‘felt’ his presents. Photos Charlie Sorrel (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Given the number of iPad cases that arrive at my door each week for review, you might be surprised that I still buy the things. And a couple of weeks ago when I picked up a natty little felt iPad bag in a local store, I couldn’t believe the price. At just [Read More...]
