It’s undeniable that smart phones are extremely popular today. Apple sold 47 million iPhones during the busy holiday shopping season last year, according to their site. They also sold over 37 million iPhones in the most recent quarter this year which is normally the slowest time of year. They’re popular because smart phones are so useful. Along with a slew of great apps, new plug-in devices will turn your phone into a variety of things, like a boom box, microphone or even a credit card processor.
Teddy Bear Speakers
A gift that aims right for the heart, the Jarv DJ Huggy Speakers, which you can find on Amazon, is an unassuming, cute and cuddly teddy bear packed with unique features. It’s actually a sound dock for your iPhone with high quality stereo speakers in the bear’s feet. A secret bear-pouch conceals the connector along with any other secrets you want to keep.
Stereo Studio Microphone
The Tascam iM2 stereo microphone turns your iPhone into a recording studio, according to Tascam.com. The studio quality microphone plugs into the iPhone’s jack letting your record your voice or exterior sounds in stereo. It even features adjustable capsules, a sound limiter and A/D converter.
Swipe and Get Paid
Own a mobile dog grooming shop? Or, how about a mobile car detailing company? Accept credit cards anywhere you go with Intuit’s new plug-in credit card swiper. It plugs right into your iPhone and processes all major credit cards.
Simply set up your account and start taking credit cards. There’s no transaction fees and very low swipe rates. Go to Intuit.com gopayment to see current rates and plans.
Power Your Phone or iPad
Why hassle with a tangled mess of chargers for all of your devices? The PlugBug USB iPad/iPhone and MacBook Charger powers them all, and empowers you.
Just plug it into the wall and with two different ports, you can charge your iPhone and iPad, or iPhone and MacBook at the same time, according to TwelveSouth.com. It saves time, and saves you from carrying around two or three chargers.
Swim With Your Tunes
Who doesn’t love listening to music at the beach? But no one wants to risk getting sand and water in their phone. With the Eco Terra Boom Box, you can bring your iPhone to any beach, pool, lake or pond without the fear of losing it to water damage.
This boom box is a fully waterproof case with stereo speakers on each end. You can put the boom box in water and it will float! That’s right, you can drift around on your inner tube, listening to your favorite new MP3s. It can even go under water, although you can’t really hear the words to the songs while scuba diving.
Turn Your Vinyl Tunes into MP3
You love your iPhone because it is so convenient. Yet, you love your vinyl records because they are so classy, and sound so good but how do you combine them? Simple. With the Ion iPhone Turntable.
It is a real turn table complete with needle. You simply plug the iPhone into the dock space and spin your favorite records. Your iPhone records the songs in high definition MP3 sound.
It also works on tapes. So, now you can take your collection of Donna Summers albums, or Def Leopard tapes to the beach!