Some high-tech iPhone Cases in CES 2014 You Should Know

Guess Jobs would be very happy to see that his cellphone series had created a thriving industry – iPhone case. If you still use some silicon, leather or hard case with some cartoon or beautiful pattern, you are out! In 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show, we found a lot of weird but hight-tech cases. And we wonder they can be used in our daily life?

Gun grip material for iPhone case? Obviously this case would never be for ordinary people daily use! It’s manufacturer Element Case claims, “Some of our best selling cases had been our tactical styles, it was only logical to push further in that direction for its new lineup.” The material is a version of G10, which the military uses for radio antennae, among other things. It’s very dense and light and, of course, super tough. “It’s basically military grade fiberglass,” Element CEO Jeff Sasaki said. Give your iPhone a military grade security, sounds good, but not necessary for daily use. (Price $300)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A pressure-sensitive case may change the way you use iPhone. When you touch the case back, it makes you look like touch the screen. Canopy, a Minneapolis-based startup, thinks touch screens limit how we interact with our smartphones. The company debuted its product, an iPhone case that transforms the back and sides of your phone into large, pressure-sensitive touch pads. There two advantages:  It allows people to use their phones without touching the screen, increasing the viewable area (great for playing games). It also lets people use varying pressure to get different responses from apps and games. A full touch pad? Maybe it helps when you watch a video on iPhone. (Price: $99)

A case lets you see heat. FLIR Systems Inc. is launching its first consumer product, an iPhone case that contains a heatcamera. This case now can give you a heat vision which you can stalk people in the jungle by their heat signature or check your home’s insulation for leaks. The thermal camera can detect temperature differences of about one-tenth of a Fahrenheit degree, and the temperature readout is accurate to within 2 degrees. (Price: $349)

An iPhone battery case also boosts storage

You may have a battery case for iPhone. To be honest, a battery case is not a new thing, but when it adds some new function, it’s creative. In 2014 consumer electronics show, Mophie’s Space Pack, it’s an iPhone case that marries both a backup battery and additional storage.

 

The concept for iPhone 5S case strikes us as an attractive one, especially to iPhone owners who are stuck with both a sealed-in battery and without the benefit of external memory. As it comes in both 16GB and 32GB versions, the Space Pack could also potentially double or triple your existing capacity. During a brief hands-on with the case, we can say that it looks very similar to the current Juice Pack Air-- indeed, it's almost indiscernible as far as look and feel goes. The only difference seems to be a silver brushed button on the back instead of a simple plastic one.

If you're expecting the Space Pack to merge seamlessly with your existing iPhone storage to be one giant hard drive, you're sadly mistaken. The Space Pack really acts more like an external USB stick to which you can offload files. This is why Mophie requires you to use a special iOS app called Space, not only to manage that additional storage, but to access it at all. Unfortunately, this means that iPhone apps like the Camera Roll and iTunes are not integrated with that extra capacity -- after you transfer over those files, they're only accessible through the Space app. As such, Mophie has recommended that most first-time users simply dump their entire Camera Roll or iTunes library into the Space Pack so that they can empty out their iPhone's capacity and start "fresh."

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Wearable Gadgets for fitness in CES 2014

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is turning out to be a blockbuster—and with good reason. Last year's attendance topped a record 150,000, and every indication is that this year will match or exceed that number. And you would think that with Mobile World Congress looming in February that we'd see little action in the mobile space, but that's not the case.

CES is not only a good indicator of what's hot, but it's also indicative of what's dead. So what’s the new trend in CES 2014? Manufacturers aren't giving up on smartwatches yet; it was pretty clear 2013 was a trial run, and better designs are definitely in store for 2014. And while hybrid tablet and laptop designs are all the rage this year, conventional laptops and desktops are few and far between.

There are a lot of wearable gadgets for fitness this year. Now here we will introduce two kinds for you.

The LG Lifeband Touch and heart rate monitor earphones aim to help you keep fit. It is a fitness band with a swipe-friendly OLED touchscreen that displays physical activity info and calories burned. Naturally, it pairs up with Android and iOS devices to get incoming calls and text information, but if you want to make the most out of it, you'll need to pair it with the company's second CES wearable: a pair of Heart Rate Monitor earphones. Aside from functioning as normal earbuds, they can track heartbeats by measuring signals from the inner ear.

Razer’s Nabu, a smart band is half fitness tracker and half smart watch. According to its CEO Min-Liang Tan, "It's not a smartwatch," he said. "It's not a fitness band. It's what we're calling a 'smart band.'" The device is actually an odd combination of both, featuring the bio data-tracking features of fitness products, while also dispensing notifications via two small OLED displays -- a small 32-pixel square that displays notification icons, and a larger 128 x 32 panel that ticks off texts, emails and other personal data. By positioning the screens on opposite sides of the user's wrist, Razer hopes the second screen will act as sort of a privacy screen, keeping folks from reading your texts by glancing at your wrist. The band can also track a user's location, altitude, steps walked, sleep data and everything else one needs to quantify their body. All of this, Min adds, works right out of the box, for both iOS and Android.

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