Each week we pull the best Apple-related gadgets from the Cult of Mac and collect them here for your perusing pleasure.
DryZone Duffel, the waterproof camera bag
The LowePro DryZone Duffel isn’t German, but it could be. It’s a bright yellow roll-top tote with a padded inner bag (which can be used separately) and all the usual padded, configureable dividers you’d find in any other camera bag.
Buy it $150
Grovemade’s beautiful bendy wood-and-wool cases
These new flexible wooden sleeves from Grovemade are amazing. Look at them. Just look.
They’re made from veneers of maple or walnut, lined with felted wool and have leather and brass straps to pull out the MacBook or iPad within in one easy yank.
The best part is that the case is made from wood, yet flexes as if it were plastic. This is thanks to the laser-etched sections, cut geometrically to allow it to bend at these joints.
Buy it $79
SlateGo AirDesk, a portable laptop lapdesk
Remember the Slate Mobile AirDesk, which I described as resembling a “neatly-drilled chopping board”? Did you look at it and think “I like that. I could see myself using one of those, if only it was a little smaller, so I could carry it in my bag.”
If the answer to either of these is yes (or to the second question, mostly), then you will be ecstatic at the news of the SlateGo, a slightly smaller version of the laptop lap-desk.
Buy it $38
Lytro Illum, The First Light-Field Camera Worth Buying
Lytro’s new Illum field Camera is the first of its products you’ll want to buy. The original Lytro Field Camera was a nice proof of concept, but the low resolution images were pretty crappy, and the unit itself was one of the least ergonomic camera designs I’ve ever seen.
The Illum still has some ergonomics issues, but promises much better pictures.
Buy it $1,600
New Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover With Automatic Hinge And Adjustable Angle
Barely two months after I bought the original, Logitech has updated the Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad, with matching new models for the iPads Air and Mini. The Bluetooth keyboards still work as covers and stands for your iPad, but now they also hold the iPad at an adjustable angle, and have a hidden hinge that pops out when your need it.
The current keyboard cover is flawed, and now appears to have been something of a stopgap, a cut-down version of the original made to fit the Air while Logitech finished off this version. Mine doesn’t close properly, and Killian’s doesn’t line up with the iPad when it’s closed.
Buy it $https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/ultrathin-air
Evernote’s Business Notebook Splits Public And Private Notes, Adds Reminders
Evernote’s new Business Notebook (made my Moleskine) lets you share just a part of your handwritten notes with other businessy-type folks, and it also lets you check a box on each page to set a reminder. And of course it does this in concert with the Evernote suite of apps.
Buy it $33
