This installment of the holiday gift guide features Brittany Smith and Mike Potter sharing standout picks ranging from stylish backpacks and powerful travel chargers to compact cables, AI-powered webcams, and tools for extending the life of older Macs. The conversation offers practical, creative gift ideas that blend portability, productivity, and smart tech upgrades.
This holiday gift guide panel shares practical tech presents for Apple fans and travelers, including a 16-port USB hub, a money-saving approach to Apple’s refurbished hardware store, compact GAN chargers, a versatile MagSafe camera grip, and a slim portable monitor. They explain how these accessories improve everyday and on-the-road workflows while keeping budgets in mind.
The 2025 Holiday Gift Guide series continues as the panel shares practical tech ideas for Apple users, from a 16-port USB hub and a powerful 75W USB-C charger to a MagSafe camera grip and a slim portable monitor. They also explain how to get great deals through Apple’s Certified Refurbished Store while trading stories about hubs, mice, and multi-display travel setups.
In the Atomos booth at NAB in Las Vegas, Shaki Prasanna, Creative Collaboration Director, explained how their Ninja Phone product transforms an iPhone into a high-quality monitor and recorder with the features of the traditional Ninja devices. The device enhances functionality by providing input/output connections for ProRes or H.265 recording directly onto the iPhone. While not intended to replace professional recording devices, Ninja Phone offers convenience for shooting, editing, and publishing content to social media. Shaki highlighted its versatility with accessories, various recording formats, and advanced features while maintaining user-friendliness.
At CES Unveiled in Las Vegas, BlueAnt introduced Soundblade, an under-monitor sound bar that is designed to improve your desktop video experience. Head of Sales Michael Wallace talks about its modern look, the design aspects that deliver an appealing footprint, and of...
At CES in Las Vegas, we talked to Hsin Cynthia Chen, Sales Manager for EZCast about how their device can wirelessly cast any HDMI signal to a separate screen, even if it is in another room. This edition of MacVoices is supported by The MacVoices Slack. Available to...
Glenn Fleishman has a brand new, very timely, and absolutely free title from Take Control Books, Take Control of Working from Home Temporarily. He taps his experience as a work-from-home freelancer, as well as tips from others in the same situation, to help you adjust...
From CES Unveiled in Las Vegas, we get a look at “the world’s smallest 360-degree, 8K camera on the market” from Jeff Martin, Consultant with Labpano. Jeff shows off the camera, which includes a built-in touch screen to control and monitor your results. It also...
At CES Unveiled in Las Vegas, Ryan Herd, the CEO of Caregiver Smart Solutions, outlines how their system of sensors and devices can be placed around the home to monitor seniors or others with care needs, without having to wear or carry them. Fall detection, behavior...
At CES Unveiled in Las Vegas, Vice President of Global Marketing for Targus, Andrew Corkill, introduces a new docking station that can drive four 4K monitors for both Macs and PCs, and a smart docking station that will monitor and collect usage data from the device it...
In this Briefing, Chuck talks about the set-up and performance of IOGEAR Wireless HDMI Transmitter and Receiver that transmits Full HD 1080p video and audio from a video source to a separate, unwired TV, monitor or projector. [audio...
At CES Unveiled in Las Vegas, Alexander Wesley, the co-founder, President and CEO of Arovia talks about where the idea for Spud came from. Spud is a projector-based portable, collapsable display that is perfect when you need either a primary or extra display when you...
On the show floor at International CES, John Grzeskowiak of RadTech tells us about their newest product and how it goes beyond the expected uses. Their anti-glare film helps make screens of all sizes, including your flat screen television glare-free without...
The Avatron Software booth at Macworld/iWorld 2014 was drawing lots of attention not just for their software,but also for a little hardware accessory that lets you physically attach iPads to your Mac screen to deliver a multi-screen environment. Thomas Penberthy...
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