The great thing about bamboo is its propensity for growth. The grass practically nurtures itself and is a great renewable resource for product manufacturing. However, most products made from bamboo tends to be shredded then laminated, meaning more energy and more glue. This speaker, however, is as minimal as it gets. The bamboo’s hollow core gets refined as a conduit for sound and a small incision is made to hold an iPhone where the speaker and wood channels sound waves. I especially like the warmth the wood imparts on the sound.

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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

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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As expected, Tim Cook’s keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference included major changes for the new iPhone iOS 7 – a sleek redesign that is clean and full of Helvetica.

In essence, it looks a lot like Google, Windows, and Yahoo’s latest flat designs that have fully abandoned the 3D realism of skeumorphism in favor of flat interfaces and large readable fonts. The wooden book shelves are finally gone! In addition to iOS’s new layouts with new color palettes and icons, the new iOS will come with an amazing array of new user interfaces as well as great theft protection. Read more

This pistol-shaped, plastic protective case is made for iPhone 5 users who happen to own too many holsters and not enough guns. Unfortunately, the plastic gun doesn’t shoot anything, not even a tweet… so don’t bother pulling any triggers.

The gun comes in silver and copper. Buy three or more and get $2 off for a special tweet-off among your besties? If you’re more of the brass knuckles type, be sure to get the Ghost Head Rings case, it’s a lot cheaper and is deadly in combination with steely knuckle punches. Read more

If you have an iPhone, you’ve discovered that the mute button doesn’t actually mute all sounds – and that’s annoying. To deal with iPhones and their inconsistent audio behavior, Ron Adair created the Mutator, a small plug that connects to the iPhone via the headphone jack. The Mutator assures that all of the sounds from all of the apps are silenced. The end.

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Conch shells are nature’s amplifiers that also happen to hold an ocean inside its dry spirals. If you put an iPhone into its crevices, will it sound like your dream beach vacation or a $75 rip-off? If you have some tool skills and a lot of DIY energy, you can probably make this analog amplifier. If not, head over to WAAM Industries to turn your digital tunes into some summery sounds.

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Did you know that mining one ton of iPhones would yield 9.72 oz. of gold? What’s more impressive is that this is 324 times more gold than ore from Peru’s Yanacocha gold mine. Humans have had a long history of re-use. In 19th century England, rag-and-bone men collected discarded rags and clothing for cash – these were subsequently turned into cotton paper (higher quality than today’s wood pulp paper).

Are smart phones the next mine for urban recycler? The recycling value of an 8GB iPhone 3GS is worth $175 in valuable minerals. Check out this infographic to see if  there are enough incentives for you to strip your old smartphones. Read more

Imitation is flattery, because the only better thing than an iPhone is an iPhone flask that holds your favorite booze. The iFlask is the product of recent graduates and bros Ethan and Dan from Indiana University whose initial project Kickstarter failed. This did not deter the team, as they’ve managed to set up a relatively simple webshop to spread the joy of drinking.

While in college we had countless friends get open container tickets during tailgates or complained about paying too much for drinks at concerts and sporting events. And unless you’re a 70 year old talking about the good ole days, carrying around a standard flask looked kinda weird! We knew there had to be a better way to discretely bring the joy of throwing one back with your friends to countless events worldwide…Thus the iFlask was born!

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What do you do when you need to create an epic video of 10,000 iPhones falling like dominos? Use Computer generated graphics of course! The video shows an interior of a typical office environment with each iPhone lighting up the nest fallen phone with perfect orchestration and a short elevator ride.

The creative team behind Aatma Studio created this stunning CGI video as an advertisement for the phone’s Near Field Communications Concept Read more