Engadget’s back to school guide 2013: docks

Welcome to Engadget’s back to school guide! Today we’re talking docks. Head to the back to school hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the month. Be sure to keep checking back; in early September, we’ll be giving away a ton of gear, including some of the picks in our guides.

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Plug and play… and then party in your dorm. That’s how the kids do it nowadays, with their iPods, iPhones and Android devices connected to virtual libraries of stored and streaming music. But unless you’re rocking an HTC One with BoomSound, the dinky speakers on your daily driver just aren’t going to adequately pump out the late-summer jams. For those at-home boogie breakdowns, you’re going to need some serious hardware. And lucky you, we’re here to sort through the clutter and highlight the best back to school picks for any budget.

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This is the Modem World: Please fix two things

Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology.

This is the Modem World Please fix two things

We can all agree that technology is pretty cool. It allows us to communicate with one another, entertain ourselves, meet new people, learn new things and even find love and health. We love to discover new technologies, see it do amazing things and get a glimpse of the future. We, the early adopters, are pioneers, beta testers and happy to be first in line. This is all good.

But despite our hammering, our pleas and our shouts from the tops of the greatest blogs we know, some bad things just don’t change. When I say “bad things,” I’m talking about two annoying little facts of technology that, in my opinion, don’t need to be so painful. These are things we can and should fix.

Perhaps we’re not heard loudly enough, or perhaps the technology isn’t there to fix what we want, or maybe the manufacturers have better things to do. Whatever it is, let’s list those things out here, perhaps so that some engineer or product designer will read this and think, “Why, yes… Yes. I should fix this.”

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Apple iPhone 5 Lightning Connector

Apple iPhone 5 Lightning Connector

Apple has recently unveiled a new connector for its new iPhone 5 smartphone, the iPhone 5 Lightning connector. As a successor to the 30-pin connector, the new Lightning connector is smaller, smarter and more durable than the previous connector. Apple has also introduced a new adapter that will convert devices and cables with the old 30-pin connector into the new iPhone 5 Lightning connector. [Apple]

What’s Changed in Apple’s New 8-Pin Lightning Dock Connector [Dock Connector]

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