Owning an iPhone or an iPad is half the fun – the other half is accessorizing it. Dressing it up, adapting it to perform other functions, adding gadgets to enhance its usage. Here are eight new iPhone and iPad accessories that will go on sale this summer.

Just because I write about technology – and have been for more than a quarter century – doesn't mean I like all technology. As futurist Ray Kurzweil once noted, fire can heat and cook but also burns. Here are a half dozen bytes of modern digital life that inflame me.