And you can even wrench around corners with it.

Handpresso Auto plugs into the cigarette lighter receptacle of your car and delivers a frothy espresso shot with the push of a button.

The iPhone takes 8-megapixel pictures. For anyone who snapped pictures with an early digital camera, that’s an astounding leap in quality. And yet, forgetting that just a few years ago smartphones didn't even have a photo option, we want the iPhone camera to do everything short of talk to us. (Or maybe we do want it to talk to us--let’s ask Siri.). Fortunately, a pair of designers has managed to fill in the gaps, with an ingenious clip-on, three-in-one lens accessory that expands the iPhone’s photo repertoire to include fish-eye, wide-angle, and close-up shots.

Sometimes an idea is so obviously good, it's hard to know what to say about it other than "that's clever" while grinning ear to ear. Last year's unbelievably successful Kickstarter darling LunaTik, designed by Scott Wilson, was one of those. It took the new square iPod Nano, which kind of looks like a watch, and gave it a watch strap, raising nearly $1 million along the way. The ODDIO1 by Jeremy Saxton and Jacob Hall is like that but for the Shuffle.

I visited the Brooklyn offices of a prominent technology influencer last week and was surprised to see that the man worked at his desk on a MacBook Air. That minuscule screen is great for computing on planes, trains, and automobiles--but why would you want to squint at it day in and day out at your own desk? Of course, given how irritatingly cumbersome most laptop docking stations are to get in and out of, it's easy to understand why people don't bother. Read More »