Phone Loop Straps 3-Combo Pack + 1 Free: $12.99
The nightmare plays over and over in your mind. If only you’d held on tighter, or attempted to break the fall with your foot, you wouldn’t be looking at a glass spiderweb on your iPhone or Galaxy screen.
Finally, here’s a solution thanks to the team at Loop, who created two innovative designs to make carrying your phone safe and ergonomically sound.
With the Ninja Loop, affix it to your phone case and loop it through your camera opening, slide your fingers through, and enjoy flex-palm security in knowing your phone isn’t going anywhere you don’t want it to. Swap it out for the Petite Loop, and conveniently slip it over your wrist while you’re jogging or have your hands full. At $12.99 from TNW Deals, your peace of mind just got a whole lot more affordable.
Choose from s atin, grosgrain or twill material designs, and rest assured that you’ll never drop your phone again.
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iHere 3.0 Tracking Device (Gen 2): $22.99
The only rechargeable item locator in the world is your instant best friend when keys or your wallet go missing. Push a button, find them instantly. Just attach the iHere 3.0 Tracking Device to the device you’re most likely to misplace.
A device alarm will alert you to the location of your elusive item, with a signal reaching up to 75 feet, while an optional separation alert will inform you if you’ve left your phone behind. You can even take a selfie with the remote-control shutter!
At 54 percent off, the iHere 3.0 Tracking Device (Gen 2) is just $22.99 from TNW Deals.
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iRing: $15.99
Device droppage is nearly as inevitable as death and taxes. But you can cheat the odds with iRing, an attachment that easily adheres to the back of any phone, tablet, or MP3 player. Wear it on your finger, hang it on your dashboard or use it as a horizontal or vertical stand to prop up your phone, and enjoy the security of knowing your expensive, sleek phone or tablet won’t slip through your fingers to the screen-shattering ground ever again.
Detach the STIXX adhesive without residue, and reuse it on other devices. The iRing also allows you to take photos from any angle, and holds a weight up to 15 pounds. At just $15.99, peace of mind has never been more affordable.
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Wacom launches flagship 27-inch Cintiq pen tablets
Professional artists and illustrators have another hardware treat to get excited about. Today at CES, Wacom launched a brand new flagship pair of pen tablets — the Cintiq 27QHD and the Cintiq 27QHD Touch, slated for arrival in late January. These replace the company’s 24HD models.
Both feature a huge 27-inch, 2560 x 1440-pixel edge-to-edge display with an extra wide viewing angle for creating artwork directly on the screen. For creative pros with color workflows that need to be spot-on, the Cintiq 27QHD displays 1.07 billion colors and includes 97 percent of Adobe’s color gamut.
A new ExpressKey Remote — shortcut keys and touch ring — can be positioned anywhere on the screen or desk for increased flexibility and control over how, when and where customized keyboard shortcuts and modifiers are set.
The Touch Ring helps you to easily scroll, zoom and rotate. Up to five ExpressKey Remotes can be attached simultaneously so if and when they are combined with onscreen controls, users can customize shortcut keys by task or application, depending on the job.
The included Pro Pen, with 2048 levels of pressure and tilt recognition, offers a range of available nibs.
Work angle is critical for the creative process and Wacom has taken that into account by offering a variety of stand options for working in the most comfortable way. The Cintiq’s integrated stand can be either laid almost flat at five degrees similar to a canvas or positioned at a 20-degree angle by extending the legs.
An optional Cintiq Ergo stand ($399) or a third -party VESA arm lets users adjust the tablet positions even further.
The Touch version allows multi-touch gestures directly on screen in addition to using the pen and ExpressKey Remote devices for a more hand-on, natural creative experience.
The Cintiq models work with both Windows and Mac.
The Cintiq 27QHD for $2299.99 and the Cintiq 27QHD Touch for $2799.99 will be available in late January.
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Hands-on with the Huawei Ascend P6, the world’s thinnest smartphone
Huawei unveiled the Ascend P6 today , officially the world’s slimmest smartphone at just 6.18mm thick and running the very latest version of Android, Google’s popular mobile operating system.
It’s an elegant design, with a 4.7-inch HD display and a polished, metallic body. Under the hood is a 1.5GHz quad-core processor and a 2000 mAH battery; Huawei is yet to reveal the RAM and internal storage.
The handset runs on Android version 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean), albeit with the company’s Emotion UI skin and custom apps pre-installed.
Photographers are also in for a treat. There’s an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, a far cry from the 13-megapixel offering on the Samsung Galaxy S4, but it’s coupled with an impressive 5-megapixel snapper on the front. Such an offering is rare on modern smartphones and should prove particularly useful for video calls on Skype, Google Hangouts and other mobile messaging services.
TNW had the opportunity to go hands-on with the device in London and have uploaded a selection of images below to give you a better idea of the Ascend P6’s new polished hardware and aesthetics.