Monster’s Clarity HD Model One had me thinking back to party night at church camp, and the sound system that was required to fill an outdoor pavilion. Those speakers were towers, and there were stacks of LPs or CDs in milk crates surrounding them. The relatively tiny Clarity HD Model One may have been able to out-power those rigs, and all from a tiny little iPod.

The world exists in 360º, so why should your photographs and movies be limited to the tiny sliver that your iPhone’s camera captures? With the GoPano Micro panoramic lens and GoPano’s companion iOS App, you can shoot, share, and explore the world around you in a whole new way. The panoramic lens attachment coupled with the free app build a great experience for shooting and sharing 360º panoramic videos.

There’s certainly no shortage of screen protectors available for the iPhone 4/4S, or any Apple touchscreen device, really. Many cases ship with them, but are those really all that good? If they’re thrown into packages with other products, can you really trust them? Probably, yes, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t look elsewhere for standalone products. And if you simply want some basic screen protection, a good place to look is at MediaDevil.

When we last left Isla Nublar, vet Gerry and his daughter Jess had survived a T-Rex attack but were being held at gunpoint by the very woman they’d rescued. Okay, what next? Well, episode two, Cavalry, begins with three mercenaries, loaded with weapons and ammunition, arriving on the island. Do you see the problem here?

Bean is a small, easy-to-use, and free rich text editor and lightweight word processor that supports open/save of Microsoft Word format (.doc and .xml) documents (less images). Lean, fast and with an attractive, uncluttered user interface Bean starts up almost instantly on my not exactly cutting-edge 2.0 GHz Macbook, but still has cool stuff like a live word count, page layout mode, full-screen mode, split-screen mode, regular expression search/replace, multi-column text, inline graphics, detailed statistics, and more word-crunching and document formatting bells and whistles.

Sprocket Slip, Film Leader, Light Leaks, and Grunge FX, though sold separately, work together to give your footage the grainy, distressed, and ill-treated look of the entirely disreputable and occasionally beloved trash cinema of the ’70s. If you want your high-def digital footage to look like it was put into a film can and left to congeal in a sleazy Times Square theater, boy, have I got some plug-ins for you!

Many people are caught up in Siri and how it has revolutionized the future of voice recognition technology without realizing there are many alternatives out there that are just as good, and in some cases even arguably superior. One such opponents I’ve had the pleasure of using on my iPad (an iDevice that does not (currently) support Siri) is vokul by KulTek.

Jazz: Trump’s Journey is quite likely my new favorite iOS app. Here’s a game that takes traditional platform gameplay, gives it a refreshing twist, and wraps it up in such a beautiful package that it’s difficult to not be won over by its charm. Eggball and Bulkypix have teamed up to created something kind of magical here for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

The Handler is a grip-less and stress-free bracket and handle that facilitates extended one-handed iPad operation with less strain and fatigue; a heavy gauge, high-strength plastic bracket that holds the iPad securely, incorporating a 360° rotation hub that allows instant switching from portrait to landscape orientation or anything in between without engaging in any hand contortions.

Nucleus by Pangea takes the next step from the old Asteroids game by adding a chemistry twist. Not only do you need to shoot the asteroids, but you need to collect “electrons” as they emerge from the blasted asteroids so you can build “atoms.” Nucleus is fun to play, cool to look at and easy to get into.