Sanho had its Kickstarter-funded CloudFTP at Macworld | iWorld 2012 this year, and the project has generated a lot of excitement. Sanho's Daniel Chin originally sought $100,000 in funding through Kickstarter, but wound up with more than 2,700 backers and more than $262,000 by the time the pledge drive ended three weeks ago

Pad & Quill has been making book-bound iPad and iPhone cases for a couple of years. By book-bound, I mean that the cases made using traditional book-binding materials and techniques.

IK Multimedia is showing off new products in the North Hall of CES 2012 in Las Vegas this week, and they were one of our first stops around the Las Vegas Convention Center. IK Multimedia is behind the popular Amplitube software , and has seen a lot of success with the iRig guitar port for iOS , and its followup, the iRig mic.

XtremeMac makes a variety of cables, chargers and other accessories for the Apple's line of portable devices.

Apple’s Magic Trackpad is a loathe it or love it kinda thing. While some just can’t live without its free-scrolling, flicking and pointing abilities, some see it as a step down from the traditional mouse. Something that should be consigned to laptops, if you will.

The chances are that you can relate with this situation. You’ve got your expensive smartphone, 3G modem or whatnot, and it’s somehow ended up submerged in the nearest puddle/bath/wash basin or worse.

It's January 6th, 2012, and today marks the end of the TUAW Best of 2011 awards . This was a massive undertaking, with 25 separate categories all requiring their own nominations and voting from our readers. We've learned some lessons for next year's event -- start earlier, watch for astroturfing in the nominations, drop some unpopular categories -- and the Best of 2012 will be even better.

Most gaming weapons don't look too realistic, but now there's a full line of accessories that were developed by CTA Digital in tandem with the U.S.

Just ahead of the first days of CES 2012, Hitachi has introduced a line of new hard drive solutions for the Mac. The drives range in capacity from 750 GB up to a whopping 8 TB, and cover the gamut from internal drives to desktop and mobile solutions. The internal drives that Hitachi is bringing to the table include the 2.5-inch 5,400 rpm 1 TB Travelstar 5K1000 and 3.5-inch, 7,200 rpm 4 TB Deskstar 7K4000

Devon Read spent five years in the Marines , serving in both Iraq and Africa.