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Rather than slogging through a lake of reviews to find something you’re just going to put down after 30 minutes, Cult of Mac has once again waded through the iTunes store to compile a list of the best new movies, albums and books to come out this week.

Enjoy!

Movies:

 Captain Phillips

Captain Phillips was one of the best movies to hit theaters in 2013, but you can finally cuddle up to it on your iPad. It’s up for like 50 Oscars, including a best supporting actor nod for Barkhad Adbi who had never even acted before taking over Tom Hanks’ ship.

iTunes – $17.99

About Time

On the surface About Time seems like it’d be just another romantic comedy starring Rachel McAdams of The Vow, The Notebook and Wedding Crashers fame, but romance takes a back seat in this moving story about the relationship between Tim, played by Domhall Gleeson, and his father, both of whom have the ability to travel through time.

iTunes –  $12.99

Sepideh

Sepideh: Reaching for the Stars premiered at this year’s Sundance, and for the first time ever, Apple’s made the film available on iTunes while it’s on at the indie film festival.  The documentary follows a young Iranian woman, Sepideh, who teams up with the first female space tourist to follow her dreams of becoming an astronaut.

iTunes – $7.99

Albums

Bad Suns – Transpose

Fans of Imagine Dragons, AWOL Nation and the like are destined to enjoy the new EP from Bad Suns. I’m allowing them a spot on this week’s list even though they’ve desecrated my the Zia Symbol. Groovy bass lines and great guitar are followed with some impressive vocals in the four-track EP full of earwormy tunes.

iTunes – $3.99

Warpaint – Warpaint

Warpaint has been around for almost 10 years, yet they’ve only managed to drop two LPs in that decade. Despite the wait, their second album, Warpaint, oozes with slow-flowing pop moodier than your teenage sister ever was, making it one of my favorite albums of the month.

iTunes – $9.99

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – F*** Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything

The title for Thee Silver Mt. Zion’s seventh album is a bit ridiculous, but what else would you expect from the motley group of Montreal rockers? Lead guitarist Efrim Menuck and violinist Jessica Moss recently became parents, so the album fittingly intros with their son Ezra before the group jumps in declaring, “We live on the island called Montreal, and we make a lot of noise… because we love each other!” before unleashing a new wave of orchestro-punk mayhem.

iTunes – $9.99

Books

Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
by McKenzie Funk

Most of us look at global warming as an ominous threat, but in McKenzie Funk’s new book Windfall we learn that some people view Earth’s looming disaster as a ticket to the One Percent. Funk spent six years traveling the planet to study climate change and dives into three major categories of global warming – the melt, the drought, and the deluge – that have nations and major corporations lining up to cash in on the global meltdown.

iTunes – $14.99

The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
by Steve Sheinkin

We enjoyed a great MLK day this week and if you’re looking for more background on civil rights stories, check out Sheinkin’s book which covers the events of a massive explosion that rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago in 1944. More than 300 sailors were killed in the blast and when 244 men refused to go back to work because of unsafe conditions 50 were charged with mutiny, facing decades in jail and even execution.

iTunes – $9.99

The Days of Anna Madrigal
by Armistead Maupin

Armistead Mauphin’s Tales of the City series is finally coming to an end. The ninth and final novel features Anna Madrigal, a wry 92-year-old transgendered landlady who has found peace with her “logical family” in San Francisco, and culminates with the group attending Burning Man in this memorable and captivating capstone to the series.

iTunes – $14.99

At Cult of Mac, we pride ourselves on our obsessive love for everything Apple, which is why we’re crashing through the walls with excitement to have Apple pioneer, Susan Kare – the person responsible for creating most of the original Mac icons – designing this week’s cover.

Since 1983, the San Francisco-based designer has crafted thousands of software icons that have become familiar to anyone who uses a computer. Designed on a minimalist grid of pixels and constructed with mosaic-like precision, her icons communicate their functions immediately and memorably.

Kare was working as a fine arts curator when she was recruited in the early 1980s by Andy Hertzfeld, a high school friend, to design the look and feel of the first Mac, the first commercial computer with a GUI – which happens to celebrate its 30th birthday this week.

Influenced by road signs, her whimsical, easy-to-understand icons defined the visual language of computers for decades —such as the Trash Can, the Bomb, the Paint Can, to name a few

Kare later designed the Mac’s fonts, and then went to work for Steve Jobs at NeXT. She also designed icons for Microsoft’s Windows 3.0. More recently, she created a line of virtual gifts for Facebook, stickers for Path, self-published an art book, as well as a ton of wonderful prints she makes available on her site when she’s not out surfing.

Kare is widely recognized as the groundbreaking designer of graphical user interfaces, mostly because the meaning of her symbols were instantly apparent.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York praised Kare’s designs for being able to “communicate their function immediately and memorably, with wit and style.”

Did she have any idea she was making history at the time?

“You can set out to make a painting, but you can’t set out to make a great painting,” Kare said in an interview. “If you look at that blank canvas and say, ‘Now I’m going to create a masterpiece’ — that’s just foolhardy. You just have to make the best painting you can, and if you’re lucky, people will get the message.”

We’ve featured her work heavily on the site, and oogled at the incredible prints available on her online store, but its truly an honor to have her work her craft on the Cult of Mac Magazine.

Last night Bill Gates jumped onstage at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to talk about how he’s curing the world of polio as well as the next big tech ideas – weirdly there was no mention of an iWatch. What begins as a gushing interview takes an awkward turn when the former King of Windows starts eying Jimmy’s MacBook at the of his desk corner.

Watch the awkward exchange in full glory below:

Carl Icahn’s relationship with Apple has been rocky ever since he became the company’s most loquacious investor last Fall. While ribbing Tim Cook publicly with one hand for not doing a bigger buyback, the other has been busy forking over fat stacks of cash for more and more AAPL shares.

This morning Carl went classic Icahn and took to Twitter again to complain about Cook and the Apple board not giving him and other investors more money with his proposed $50 billion buyback, while also announcing he’s been gobbling up AAPL shares faster than Jaws went after those guys on the boat:

https://youtu.be/8ShyrAhp8JQ

Apple added two new videos ads to its YouTube channel this afternoon – ‘Light Verse’ and ‘Sound Verse’. The two ads have been running on TV for a couple days now and are pared down 30-second variants of their new 90-second ‘Your Verse’ ad that debuted during the NFL playoffs.

As the name implies, Light Verse features a bunch of scenes featuring the iPad Air, light beams and enough lens flair to make J.J. Abrams proud. Sound verse focuses on, you guessed it, sound. Both ads also featureRobin Williams’ narration from Dead Poets Society.

Here’s Sound Verse:

There was a rumor early this morning that iOS 7.1 beta 4 was coming to developers to tomorrow, but it looks like it’s here now. Apple just made iOS 7.1 beta 4 available to developers as an OTA update. You can also grab it from the Dev Center.

Along with the iOS 7.1 beta 4 release, there’s a new beta for Apple TV as well. We’ll update you with all the new changes once we get it downloaded on our devices. Feel free to yell at us on Twitter (@cultofmac) if you come across anything yourself.

In the meantime, get to downloading. Here are all links:

Apple will hold its quarterly earnings call next Monday, which means analysts are beginning to weigh in on how many iPhones Apple sold during the holiday quarter. Although Apple’s new sales with China Mobile didn’t make it into the quarter, Apple still had a ton of pent up demand to go along with a set of new phones, plus its was the holidays. All those conditions should make for a perfect storm of sales, and so far top analysts are predicting Apple sold a record-shattering 55.3 million iPhones.

Smartphone crime has become an epidemic. Especially in places like New York City where the crime rate went up for first time in twenty years thanks to thieves mugging people for their iPhones.

As a response to the iPhone crimewave, Apple added some significant improvements to iOS 7, including a new Activation Lock feature, but according to the New York Police Department’s new commissioner, Bill Bratton, that’s not enough. Not only that, Bratton is pretty sure Apple and other U.S. smartphone makers are in cahoots with insurance companies to make a fortune by not installing a kill switch.

Apple released the second beta build OS X 10.9.2 to developers today, nearly a month after the first beta was released. Developers can grab Build 13C39 from the Mac Dev Center, or by running a software update if you’re already running the first beta.

The seed notes don’t list any new features, but ask devs to focus on Mail, Messages, graphics drives, VoiceOver, VPN and SMB2. The last beta added FaceTime over audio to the Messages and FaceTime apps.  Apple also seeded the first beta of Safari 6.1.2 to developers that looks like it’s mostly filled with bug fixes.

Source: Apple

iBeacons are pushing to become the big new retail trend of 2014. The tech debuted last year with a demo by the MLB, before launching in Apple Stores nationwide as well as some Macys stores.  You can add American Outfitters to the list too as ShopKick announced this morning that its partnered with the clothing company to bring iBeacons to 100 locations.

Let’s admit it. You’re the best goddamn drummer your bus stop has ever seen. When “Hot For Teacher” rounds the corner on your iPhone, you transform into a radiant drumming beast. Sadly, all of your gut-busting drum sessions take place right there in your lap. Nobody can hear the majesty of your air drum solo, but thanks to the latest advances in drumming technology, now they can!

That’s pretty much the pitch for DrumPants, a set of Bluetooth LE-enabled sensors that capture triumphant thigh thumping to play more than 100 different sounds controlled by your iPhone or iPad. They’re kind of like those ridiculous Keyboard Jeans, except the sensors aren’t a part of your clothing, allowing you to attach DrumPants to anything you’re wearing. They come as both drum pads and foot pedals, so you can take your customized instrument wherever you go.

Check out the promo video below:

Rather than slogging through a lake of reviews to find something you’re just going to put down after 30 minutes, Cult of Mac has once again waded through the iTunes store to compile a list of the best new movies, albums and books to come out this week.

Enjoy!

Books

Duty
by Robert M. Gates

Love him or hate him, there’s no denying Robert M. Gates has been one of the biggest figures in American national security over the past few decades. Not only did he serve as Secretary of Defense under both Bush and Obama, but he also worked under six presidents during his time in the CIA and the National Security Council and transformed the Pentagon during turbulent times. In his autobiography Gates dishes on his campaign for power and the cut throat politics in Washington. Some have called it a fascinating bridge-burning memoir, while others haven’t been as kind. Either way, Duty is bound to be a compelling read as one of the most talked about books of the new year.

iTunes – $11.99

Lone Survivor
by Marcus Lutrell

Lone Survivor isn’t new – in fact it’s seven years old – but I just saw the movie adaptation by Mark Wahlberg this weekend was absolutely blown away by the real-life account of the four U.S. Navy SEALs and their mission to capture and kill a notorious al-Qaida leader. I’ve never wanted to join the military, but Marky Mark’s depiction of the intense training, struggles, and brotherhood got me so proud and grateful to be an American. Predictably, everyone I know who read the book said it’s so much better than the film, but the movie launched a grenade of patriotism right into my soul, so it’s going to be hard for the book to top it.

iTunes – $5.99

Andrew’s Brain
by E.L. Doctorow

If you’d rather take a pass on these patriotic book suggestions, check out E.L. Doctorow’s new book Andrew’s Brain. Not only does the book explore Andrew’s life story of love and tragedy, but as he confuses details of his past to an unknown interlocutor the reader is treated to questions about what we really know about truth, memory, personality and fate, thanks to Doctorow’s probing lyrical prose.

iTunes – $12.99

Albums

Sharon Jones & The DAP-Kings – Give the People What They Want

My only challenge for you this week is to play this album and try not to get out your seat and dance. You won’t be able to. It’s too soulful. Too fun.

iTunes – $11.99

Black Sabbath – Paranoid

Ozzy’s solo stuff has been available on iTunes for ages, but for some reason Black Sabbath’s first eight studio albums – the good stuff – only landed on the online store this week. There’s also three compilation albums if you just want a sampling of Ozzy and Tony’s majesty.

Ozzy commented that it was “about [expletive deleted] time” that the albums were released digitally, while guitarist Tony Iommi said it had “been a long time trying to explain to fans why the music wasn’t available.” Whatever the delay, we’re just happy to finally have them in the store. Start with Paranoid and work your way down.

iTunes – $9.99

Bastille – All This Bad Blood

Bad Blood was a huge success for Bastille in 2013, so the bad has decided to re-release the album with a bunch of new songs, rarities and cover versions. If you missed out on discovering Bastille last year there’s no better way to dive into their spirited sound than the new All This Bad Blood album which only three bucks more than the original but packs a whopping 25 tracks.

iTunes – $12.99

Movies

The Other Shore

Drop me out in the open ocean and I might make it half a mile before I sink to the bottom. Diana Nyad on the other hand is a beast. Forget that she’s 64 and hasn’t swam competitively in over 30 years. She’s obsessed with pushing her body to the limit and in the new documentary The Other Shore, Nyad goes for her ultimate goal of swimming from the coast of Cuba to Florida, 103 miles, non-stop. And she doesn’t use a shark cage.

iTunes – $7.99

The Crash Reel

The Winter Olympic games start in just three weeks, so what better way to get ready for all the action of the games than by reliving the behind-the-scenes action between the two best snowboarders in the world leading up the the Vancouver games?

The Crash Reel follows the rivalry between half-pipe snowboarding legends Shaun White and Kevin Pierce in the winter of 2010. It’s packed with incredible arial stunts from the Flying Tomato, but things take a serious turn when a serious crash leaves Kevin Pierce hospitalized, turning the film into much more than just an exhibition of 1080s and frontside rodeos.

iTunes – $12.99

A.C.O.D.

It’s movie award season, which means we’re all supposed to focus on those incredible – but sometimes totally depressing – dramatic performances in the serious, artsy movies.

Try mixing up the pace of your Oscar-nominated-movie-binge with a solid comedy. Adult Children of Divorce didn’t get any Oscar nods but it’s also not up from a Razzie either and offers a great cast, including Adam Scott, Amy Poehler, and Richard Jenkins.

iTunes – $14.99

While Microsoft and BlackBerry are still trying to piece together a decent mobile user base in the U.S., Apple and Samsung managed to widen their lead against the competition in terms of smartphone marketshare in the U.S. Both companies experienced a significant bump in 2013, but Apple claimed the largest increase despite murmurs that the company is getting out innovated by Google. 

The Los Angeles Board of Education has voted to continue its efforts to provide every student and teacher in the L.A. Unified school district with a computer by approving a new $115-million proposal to distribute iPads to 38 more campuses. The proposal also calls for the purchase of laptops for every student at seven high schools, and picks up a couple thousand extra iPads for new state tests in spring.

Overall the board thinks it will buy somewhere around 67,500 new tablets just for the spring testing, even though an oversight committee recommend only purchasing 38,500. The board decided getting everyone the same model at the same time is of the utmost importance for revolutionizing education, even though the $1-billion effort is expected to exhaust all their tech funds made available by voter-approved school-construction bonds.

After negotiating with the Federal Trade Commission for months regarding the use of in-app purchases in the App Store, Apple has reached a consent agreement with the agency, according to a company-wide email Tim Cook just sent employees.

Apple’s in-app purchases practices have frustrated regulators since debuting in the App Store back in 2009. In his letter to employees, which was obtained by Re/code, Cook says a host of complaints from customers led Apple to investigate its practices. Last year Apple emailed 28 million App Store customers regarding their in-app purchases and subsequently refunded more than 37,000 in-app purchases that parents claim were unauthorized. The FTC announced that Apple will refund $32.5 million to customers as part of the settlement.

The settlement also requires Apple to change its billing practices by March 31 to ensure customers give their informed consent before billing them for in-app purchases. Apple also has to add an option for customers to remove that consent at any time.

Cook says “it doesn’t feel right for the FTC to sue over a case that had already been settled. To us, it smacked of double jeopardy,” but the FTC’s deal isn’t going to require Apple to do anything extra, so they decided to sign it and move on.

Here’s the full letter:

A lot of us were surprised that Apple didn’t even put up a fight to outbid Google for Nest – co-founded by Tony Fadell aka, the Father of the iPod –  and its army of smarthome employees. Not only did Google score Nest’s innovative smart-thermostat and smoke detector in the $3.2 billion deal, but in an age where quality talent is getting harder to come by, the company also scooped up 100 ex-Apple employees in the process.

Ylvis’s song “The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)” quickly became one of the most popular internet memes of 2013 thanks to its crazy weird but uncontrollably catchy video.

Just how popular has the meme become? So damn popular that Apple decided to add it as a Siri easter egg.

You can now cackle “What does the fox say?” to Siri and she will answer back with one of four secret sounds of the fox hiding somewhere deep in the woods – ‘Wa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow!’ or “Fraka-kaka-kaka-kaka-kow!” or “Chacha-chacha-chacha-chow!” or “Ring-ding-ding-dingeringeding.”

Via: BI

After coming under fire over the holidays for being the victim of a massive hack that leaked phone numbers and Snapchat usernames of over 4.6million of its users, Snapchat is back in the hot seat as many of its users are complaining of a being suddenly assaulted by Snap Spam.

Snapchat has been quick to put out the flames by publishing an open letter on its blog, claiming that the wave of spam is totally unrelated to the holiday hack that exposed users’ info. Instead, Snapchat blames the Snap Spam on the rising popularity of the service.

Here’s the full apology:

This is Cult of Mac’s exclusive column written by an actual Apple Store Genius who answers all your questions about working at an Apple Store. Our genius must remain anonymous, but other than “Who are you, anyway?” ask anything you want about what goes on behind that slick store facade.

This week our Genius answers why the iPhone screen can be repaired in stores while the iPad has to be shipped away from special care. We also discuss whether working at the Apple Store can be turned into a solid career, plus the top 5 most annoying things customers do at the Apple Store.

Got a question you want the inside scoop on? Send us your questions and the answers will be published first in Cult of Mac’s Magazine on Newsstand. Send your questions to newsATcultofmac.com with “genius” in the subject line.

Q: Is it tough to work in an Apple store? What are some of the skills required to be a good Apple store employee?

Tough is relative. It’s not like I’m breaking my back with arduous labor to help people, although the job can be draining, both mentally and emotionally. The toughest part about it for me is dealing with unruly customers. It requires a lot of patience and composure. Customers tend to throw a fit if we do not “surprise and delight” them with their options while managers keep us busy pushing upgrades and services.

Add in the unrealistic work loads and it is a combination for madness. During our busy times, which seem to be most of the time at our store, I may be helping three people at a time while those who wait stare at me wondering when I’m going to get to them. Multitasking abilities are a must.

Q: How do I get rid of “Find my iPhone” or the activation lock on an iPhone I bought from a non-owner?

My first bit of advice before purchasing a used iPhone is to make sure the previous owner has disabled Find My iPhone and erased the contents. If the seller erases the iPhone from the settings app find my iPhone will prompt the user to turn off Find My iPhone. If you have purchased an iPhone that has the activation lock, the only way to remove the lock is to contact the seller.

They can remove the lock in two ways. The first is by entering the Apple ID and password on the device will remove the lock and them you can proceed with the setup. If the seller can’t come and unlock the device for activation, you can have them remove the device from their iCloud account on iCloud.com. First turn the iPhone off. Then have the seller log into iCloud.com and go the Find my iPhone web app.

At the top of the page is the “All Devices” button, click it to show the devices linked to the account and select the sold iPhone. Click Remove from Account on the page that shows the sold iPhone. You should now be able to power up the iPhone and set it up.

Q: How can I replace my Apple headphones when my store is 100 miles away?

If you don’t have an Apple Store near you can request service or replacement for your Apple products at getsupport.apple.com. Select the device that your Earbuds came with on the support website and follow the given steps to request service. You will be given the option to send them in and have a replacement sent to you. You will need to enter the serial number of your device when prompted to check your coverage. If you purchased just the EarPods, you can set up a call for support online or just call 1-800-MY-APPLE and ask to have the EarPods replaced since the “Send in for Service” option online requires a serial number. Have your proof of purchase ready for verification and they can set up a replacement and have you send back your old pair.

Rather than slogging through a lake of reviews to find something you’re just going to put down after 30 minutes, Cult of Mac has once again waded through the iTunes store to compile a list of the best new movies, albums and books to come out this week.

Enjoy!

Best Albums

Patterns – Waking Lines

Patterns broke into the British music scene in late 2011 thanks to their brokenhearted single Induction but rather than quickly releasing their debut album the group has been slowly crafting one of the best albums we’ve heard all year. Maybe that’s not saying much seeing how it’s early January, but the band’s theme’s of late-night hallucinations and dream states are filled with chilly/wavy sounds that remind me a lot of Youth Lagoon.

iTunes – $8.99

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Wig Out At Jagbags

The new year has only just begun, meaning most artists are still waiting til the holiday season settles before releasing new tunes, but Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks released the first album to really get me excited with their sixth effort – Wig Out At Jagbags. If you’ve been hungry for a solid new alternative album filled beautiful guitar riffs, tonal shifts and a stream of witty lyrics, snap this up.

iTunes – $9.99

John Newman – Tribute

I’m not going to lie, when I quickly glanced at this album title, my CES-addled brain thought it was a musical tribute to Paul Newman. It’s not. Then I saw John Newman play his single Love Me Again on Jimmy Fallon and, holy moley, this dude can sing and perform like no other. The album has been out in the U.K. since October, but U.S. listeners can finally grab it from iTunes this week.

iTunes – $7.99

Best Books

Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books
by Wendy Lesser

Reading more is one of the most popular New Years Resolutions which makes Wendy’s Lesser’s book, Why I Read, so timely and the perfect book to motivate you to read more. Wendy Lesser explores literature in all forms – plays, poems, essays, and more – as she examines the works from perspectives like “Character and Plot,” “Novelty,” “Grandeur and Intimacy,” and “Authority.” If this book doesn’t spark your desire to read you might as well give it up entirely.
iTunes – $11.99

The Secret History of Las Vegas
by Chris Abani

I just spent the last five days slogging through the horrors that CES has to offer in Vegas this year, but unfortunately I never had time to actually explore the city. Chris Abani’s book takes readers on a crazy ride through Sin City as Las Vegas detective Salazar is determined to solve a recent string of murders in this offbeat crime novel packed with explosive prose.
iTunes – $9.99

Belle Cora
by Phillip Margulies

Belle Cora is loosely based on the life of a 19th-century prostitute of the same name. It’s written as a two-part memoir by one of San Francisco’s wealthiest old women who inherits a fortune from her deceased husband. The book travels through the heroine’s story of her rise and fall, from living on a farm, working in mills to eventually bumping shoulders with the elite of New York before being drawn to California in the gold rush.
iTunes – $9.99

Best Movies

Blue Jasmine

Woody Allen is old. He’s made tons of movies. Like 71 total. You’d think by now he’d just start sucking harder than a Hoover vacuum, but Blue Jasmine is proof that the 78-year-old director from Brooklyn has no plans of slowing down with this excellent tale starring Cate Blanchett as a troubled New York socialite looking for a fresh start in San Francisco.

iTunes – $17.99

Inequality For All

The widening income gap between the mega-wealthy and all the rest of us is starting to become the hot button topic in politics as the U.S. barrels toward mid-term elections this year. Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich takes the issue head-on in his new documentary Inequality For All as he looks to raise awareness of the country’s widening economic gap and the consequences it will have on democracy itself.

iTunes – $9.99

Bad Grandpa Uncut

Johnny Knoxville and the Jackass crew have been making me laugh since I was in high school. You’d think their inappropriate stunt humor would be stale by now, but Johnny’s managed to mix it up just enough with some new twists by suiting up in his grandpa costume to take on the persona of 86-year-old Irving Zisman who takes a trip from Nebraska to North Carolina to take his 8-year-old grandson, Billy, back to his father.

iTunes – $19.99

LAS VEGAS – Adding to the long list of companies showcasing new wearables at CES, InteraXon announced its brain-reading, stress-reducing, concentration-improving headband, Muse, is coming to a frontal lobe near you really soon.

LAS VEGAS – Not a summer goes by where I don’t hear about some local kid who drowned in the family pool while the parents were distracted. Lifeguards and common sense are the most protection against drowning, but iSwimband is an extra-layer of protection for parents monitoring multiple kids in the pool.

LAS VEGAS – Now that “selfie” has officially gone mainstream as the word of 2013, iPhone users are always looking for ways to take a better self portrait. Taking selfies with your front camera is easier, but if you want to use your iPhone’s full imaging capabilities you’ll have to do some weird hand contortions to get the shot framed and snapped. That’s where Hisy comes in.

LAS VEGAS – FLIR One debuted their all-new thermal imaging camera case at CES this week, that gives the iPhone 5 and 5s the power to pick up heat signatures up to 100 meters away from live people, animals, and pretty much anything else in your environment.

LAS VEGAS — Plenty of companies have come up with cable-tidying solutions for MacBooks but few let you tame the beast as easily as this miniaturized belt for your power adapter, the Cordlupa.