Tinké is a tiny device that can measure your health rates with a simple touch of your fingertip. The accompanying app measures your heart rate, blood oxygen level, and respiratory rate. It’s useful when you want to monitor these measurements over time or just nice to see how your exercise routine is shaping up. The tiny device hooks up to your phone and doesn’t require a battery or extra screen. Did I mention it looks gorgeous?
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Belkin has already built and iPhone case that doubles as a giant Lego block, but this connector piece by Taiwanese KBme2 is the first Lego component capable of connecting any iDevice  into customizable moving, tweeting, instagramming Hotwheels. The brick lightning caps come in two sizes that can connect to your phone’s port. You can probably build a giant Lego table just to hold your iPad while you watch YouTube videos. The sky is the limit!

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The dream of technology is to improve the human condition – which often means better access to health care. With tablets and phones, there are plenty of health care apps, but now we’re also seeing accessories using  mobile devices as a tool for treating patients anywhere, anytime – like this ultrasound system from Mobisante that’s gotten the green light from the FDA.

It’s small and affordable so it’s a perfect tool for rural communities with little or no access to health clinics. The device can travel anywhere doctors go, enabling them to use it like traditional ultrasound machines in hospitals:

“Having a portable ultrasound in a remote setting, where investigations are limited, gives me valuable information that greatly enhances my ability to diagnose and manage my patients.” – Dr. Shelter Lee, Rural and Remote General Practitioner, Locum Tenens.

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Now there’s a better way to get a custom made concrete iPhone cover without pouring yourself into a rocky mess. It’s just not worth it in my opinion, and you never know what sort of damage concrete chemicals will do to your precious iPhone.

The Luna iPhone case is a thin, cratered surface that gives iPhone owners the Brutalist aesthetic they’ve been craving. According to its makers, the material is flexible. The design is a collaboration between Korean firm Posh Craft and Realize Design Studio – who thought we could all use unique lunar craterscapes on our phones instead of these uniformed pistol-shaped cases. Read more

Used treadmill belts are the latest material to get the iPad green accessory treatment by Seattle’s bag manufacturer, Upcycled Goods. The product is handmade, and if you are already turning to tech products like  Fitbit for your daily exercise, you might as well be recycling your old treadmill belt into these awesome rubber sleeves. Here is a great video of Upcycled Good’s hand production process where they use USA-made felt liners to create a soft surface for your iPad.

These durable, handmade sleeves are pretty affordable at $35. There’s no online shop for now, so you’ll have to contact them personally about these gems. For now, their Facebook page is a great way to keep up with the latest goods.

Via Inhabitat

As younger generations get accustomed to using tablets and iPhones, handwriting may get lost in the gestures.  Enter the Lernstift, a Linux powered pen that gives a subtle vibration when you make an error.  The pen’s orthography and calligraphy modes are perfect for children learning to write and you won’t even need an app or computer to power the artificial intelligence behind the tiny computer.

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Rice is a staple food for nearly half of the world’s population, but 20% of the grain’s annual production of  10⁸  tons is inedible and discarded for low-value uses such as kindling. Scientists are hoping to convert the husks’ silica into high-value silicon for smartphone batteries. An added benefit to using rice silica is its higher rate of efficiency compared with traditional silicon alloys.

 In an effort to recycle rice husks for high-value applications, we convert the silica to silicon and use it for high-capacity lithium battery anodes. Taking advantage of the interconnected nanoporous structure naturally existing in rice husks, the converted silicon exhibits excellent electrochemical performance as a lithium battery anode, suggesting that rice husks can be a massive resource for use in high-capacity lithium battery negative electrodes.

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Never get stranded without your foosball table again with this mini-foosball dock and app for iPad. Perfectly sized for eight tiny hands, this app and dock turns game time into a cozy foosball tournament.

The iPad dock is powered by your iPad, so it’s portable and ready to go as long as you have a charged tablet. while at home, the foosball table and accessories doubles as charging and syncing station for your iPad.
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Electronics and water make a sad mix, but it doesn’t have to be. Now, everything you own can be more water resistant with a coat of NeverWet. The solution is a hydrophobic spray that imitates the Lotus Effect – a micro textured surface that encourages beading of water to maintain cleanliness of the white lotus leaves. Evidently, NeverWet’s nanotech spray also works on smart phones. In the video below, the demonstration shows a NeverWet iPhone staying functional when submerged in water for about 30 minutes. However, I would not try this because I am a klutz and I would certainly do something wrong and kill an innocent phone.

NeverWet is a Rustoleum product for consumers that comes in two cans, a base coat and a finishing top coat. You can find it at Home Depot or other DIY stores.

Not many iPhone Accessories have the stamp of approval from Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak, but this is what he had to say about this iPhone Pocket Tripod:

Great project. Never would have come about without a great deal of creativity and desire to do something different…it’s perfect for me. You can count me in. I never had thought that something like that could be done.

 
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