Tag: adapters
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Auxillite iPhone 7 Adapter Is As Elegant As These Things Go
Apple’s boneheaded decisions can often create opportunities for other manufacturers to develop products to fill in the gaps the company so courageously opens up. The lack of audio port on the iPhone 7 is creating a secondary industry of dongles and adapters, and the Auxillite is one of the more elegant ones we’ve come across.…
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The iPhone 7 Is Invigorating The Dongle Market, For Proof, Here’s the iLDOCK
Last time we wrote about a similar dongle, it was for Belkin’s offering, which had a bunch of shortcomings. For one, it simply added a second lightning port so you could charge and listen to headphones at the same time, but if your headphones were “old school”, you would’ve needed an additional dongle for it…
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Here Comes The iPhone 7 Adapter Parade
Thinking of listening to music while charging your brand new iPhone 7? Think again, my friend. Or at least, don’t think you can do it without an adapter. What you see above is Belkin’s take on how this should be accomplished. It lets you connect a Lightning charger and a Lightning headphone to the device’s…
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Cosby Adds Modular I/O Ports To Your New MacBook
One USB-C port for everything… Brilliant. Just brilliant… But if you’re, I dunno, a normal person who might want to connect your brand new MacBook to your TV while it charges for instance, the One Port solution just won’t do. There are thus quite a few solutions to this problem on the market, the Infinite…
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Znaps Adapter Gives Your Mobile Device MagSafe Powers
If you’ve ever owned a MagSafe-equipped device, you’ll know how great it is to be able to magnetically snap your power adapter in place, and just as easily tug it free. You can now give that same functionality to any mobile device, thanks to the Znaps adapter. You simply plug the small dongle into the…
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Retrode 2 Proves Retro Gaming Alive And Well
By David Ponce Although not everyone agrees to this definition, there’s a loose consensus that people born in the 80s are Generation Y. They’re relevant in this article because they’re the ones who grew up as console gaming was coming of age. The Nintendo Entertainment System was launched in 1985 in North America and nothing…
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Add USB 3.0 To Your Laptop
By Chris Scott Barr With USB 3.0 devices slowly trickling to the market, some people are going to be on the lookout for ways to add such ports to their computer. We’ve already seen a desktop solution and now it seems that road warriors will be able to upgrade their laptops to the standard as…
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DVI-To-Mini Display Port Allows Older Computers To Play Nice With 24-Inch Apple Cinema Displays
By Chris Scott Barr If you’ve had your eye on Apple’s latest 24-inch Cinema Display, then you no doubt know that it doesn’t play nicely with older hardware. Specifically, it only has a Mini DisplayPort connector. Unfortunately unlike DVI and VGA, you aren’t going to find a simple $2 adapter. In fact, if you were…
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Belkin Introduces Adapter For iPod Shuffle Headset
By David Ponce The third generation iPod shuffle is great and tiny and whatnot. But it’s also pissed off a few people by forcing them to use Apple’s own earbuds, since all the controls were moved to the cord. While these are capable, they’re also nothing to write home about. So you should be happy…