Awesome Tech

Want to protect your precious iGadget, but don’t like to add bulk? The super-slim Peel iPhone case adds just 0.35mm to your iPhone, has zero branding, and is as close to weightless as you can get. Available for iPhone 6/6+ or 6S/6S+ in either grey or gold.

Lonely Planet’s free Guides app for iOS and Android comes with offline maps, location-aware functions, curated sights and handy tips. It also lets you bookmark places. It covers 38 cities, with more to come soon.

These colorful little quadcopters are the perfect indoor timekillers. They’re small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, and take flight as soon as you toss them in the air. Flight time is about 5-8 minutes per charge.

A simple but effective chiller that cools freshly brewed coffee by over 130ºF in as fast as 1 minute. The Hyperchiller has two cups that you fill with water. When the Hyperchiller is frozen, the 12.5oz middle chamber is sandwiched between and cooled by the ice in the cups.

Zoom, Enhance! does exactly what it says. This iOS app lets you turn static images into animated gifs that zoom in on your selected portion. Pick a photo from your device then pinch and zoom in for each step of the animation.

Lazy Game Reviews checks out some of the weirdest, ugliest and dumbest computers that came out in the ’90s. Like the stereotypical beige box PCs, these oddballs were expensive and bloated, and their gimmicks weren’t enough to make them successful.

Face Swap Live does exactly what it says, exchanging two faces in real time. You can take a photo or video of the resulting anomaly and then save or share it. It’s finicky, especially if you’re wearing glasses, but it’s still a ton of fun, and the results are highly disturbing.

A power outlet that has four sockets yet still fits into the standard electrical box. You can reveal theOUTlet’s second pair of sockets at the push of a button, then push it back in when it’s not needed. It will have two USB charging ports if its stretch goal is met.

This extravagant APS-C digital camera packs Leica quality in a rugged design that’s waterproof, dustproof and shockproof. The 16.2MP camera’s fixed f/1.7 23mm lens is also sealed, so the camera can be used under 50ft of water for up to 60min. Sample photos here.

Let’s call a spade a spade. MagicTime is a copycat of the White & White Clock, albeit a more affordable and versatile one. It has 86 customizable RGB LEDs and can also be used as a countdown timer or a scoreboard. Available with a walnut or a bamboo body.

Fizzics gives bottled or canned beer a fresh, draft-like taste. It pressurizes the canister and uses sound waves to agitate the beer and generate a foamy head at will. It fits up to a 64oz growler. CNET says it works best with sweet beer.

New additions to the cheap and compact synths. The PO-20 Arcade is loaded with chiptune sounds, the PO-24 Office uses samples from old hardware such as typewriters and fax machines, and the PO-28 Robot has a real 8-bit synth with separate melody and drum channels.

IK Multimedia’s desktop speakers are designed to provide accurate and transparent sound, perfect for music mixing. Each speaker is powered by a Class-D amp (50W RMS total), has a 3″ woofer, and a 3/4″ tweeter. They even work via Bluetooth. Out Q2 2016 for $299/pair.

Cyris Cloete’s Super Browse is a browser add-on for Chrome and Firefox. It adds a dropdown menu to your Netflix homepage that shows a searchable list of all of Netflix’s not-so-secret categories.

Torch is a set of 3 detachable heat pads that you stick inside your coat using the included adhesive-backed Velcro patches. It has four levels of heat – 95ºF, 115ºF, 120ºF, and 135ºF – and lasts up to 4 hours per charge.

Audio-Technica challenges the beloved Bose QuietComfort 25 with an active noise cancellation variant of its critically-acclaimed MSR7 headphones. Audio-Technica says these sound equally great even with the ANC turned off. Drops 04/16 for $300. More on Reviewed.

A compact analog synthesizer at a great price. The four-voice, 37-key synth offers up warm and rich sounds, and has a built in 16-step sequencer, arpeggiator, and delay, along with an OLED display that doubles as an oscilloscope for tweaking sound waves.

The X100T’s little brother. The new X70 has the same 16.3MP APS-C sensor, a new 18.5mm F2.8 wide-angle fixed lens, film simulation filters, a 180º tilting LCD touchscreen and a light and compact retro body.

Blipcast is a small device that sends sound from your TV, home theater receiver, or anything with an audio output to one or more Android or iOS devices so you can listen without disturbing others.

Porsche Design integrated the rear silencer and twin tailpipes from a 911 GT3 into a 200W 2.1 Dolby surround sound system such that they now amplify sound instead of dampening it. The speaker has a subwoofer output and Bluetooth, RCA, coaxial and optical inputs.

A contextual remote control for smart appliances. SmartRemote will come with an app and three location modules that plug into bulb sockets, allowing it to identify which device you’re pointing at and change its interface accordingly. Drops 9/16.

The Sony MP-CL1 weighs just half a pound and is about the same size as a pocket book. It can project up to a 120″ display with a 1920×720 resolution. It has an HDMI port and lets you mirror Android devices and other devices that support Miracast.

LG’s new 15Z960 laptop has a 15.6″ 1080p screen and a full-size keyboard with a numpad, but it’s only 0.66″ thick and weighs just 2.2lb – even lighter than the 11″ MacBook Air. It has a Core i5 or i7 CPU, 8GB RAM and 256GB or 512GB SSD.