Category: 871: Crystal Powered iPhone, Action Cameras, UPDATE | iOS 7.1, Half-Ass Bracket Contest: 3/17-3/28, Party With Us in Burlington on St. Patty’s Day!

I miss my pups, but Grace is heading out today on the long drive down I-95. I have been working from home this week, and find that it is a bit of give-and-take. I find that I am much more productive without a lot of interruptions, but I miss my co-workers, the interaction and excitement.…

Record all your action moments in full 1080p at 60fps on the hill, trail, surfing, driving, biking and view it all on your iPhone with built-in WiFi. Waterproof up to 15m, so go ahead and dive into the fun. *Enjoy free shipping this week!*

The ZAGG Folio iPad Air and iPad mini with Bluetooth keyboard makes it one of the thinnest keyboard cases available. But while it is smaller and easier to carry, it actually offers 30% more typing room than the competition. In addition, it features a pivoting hinge that allows you to place your iPad Air at…

Engineered around workstation graphics with dual GPUs, PCIe-based flash storage, high-performance Thunderbolt 2, new-generation Xeon processors, ultrafast memory, and support for 4K video, the new Mac Pro delivers state-of-the-art performance across the board. *Enjoy free shipping this week!*

Stop by our South Burlington location “*next Monday the 17th from 5:30pm – 7:30pm*”:https://www.facebook.com/events/1541869492704925/ for some fun, food, drinks and giveaways and to help us kick off our “Half-Ass Bracket” contest. (*Prize = a $400 Small Dog gift card,* picked at the end of March Mayhem. Details below!) Wear your St. Patrick’s Day best or…

With over $800 in prizes on the table (court?!) you’ll want to make sure you get your bracket set — our “*March Mayhem*”:http://www.smalldog.com/marchmayhem/ contest kicks off this Monday, March 17th, and you have *two chances to win.* # Enter in-store on any of our demo machines (in any store) and you’ll have a chance to…

This past Monday, Apple released an “*update to iOS 7.*”:http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7-update/ Last week, I wrote about “*Apple’s announcement of CarPlay*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles/kb870/ — and like magic, here’s the update to support that. Along with CarPlay, Apple has fixed bugs and enhanced its Touch ID for people who have the iPhone 5s. You’ll also notice that certain Apple apps…

Call it a new fad, call it adrenaline junkies getting their fix — there’s no denying that these new action cameras are everywhere. GoPro, Contour, Sony, Polaroid, Drift…these are just the top hits I found when I googled “action camera.” So what makes one better than the other? Is is picture quality, mount-ability, frames per…

In last week’s Kibbles and Bytes, I talked about “*thermoelectric power generation.*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles/kb870/ Thermoelectrics are actually part of a larger family of devices and techniques used in something called “*energy harvesting*”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_harvesting. I alluded to this in describing how thermoelectric devices are sometimes used in industrial processes to recover waste heat energy. Energy harvesting generally describes the…

_Dear Friends,_ I am sitting outside writing Kibbles in the sunshine in Key West while the crew in Vermont is shoveling up to 3 feet of snow and battling below zero temps. I am glad I am here, but I’m thinking of Grace as she is getting her snow tires off before driving down here…