21DEC2025: At All Space Curious
The best clipboard manager, learning languages on the go, a minimalist leaf blower, tracking wildlife, and more...
Happy Sunday everyone!
I'm just getting back from an epic trip to Johnson Space Center in Houston for one of their overnight experiences—if you're at all space curious, I highly recommend booking a visit! Other than that, this week, I've been geeking out on this new research from Apple on making immersive environments from single photos, testing out Net.Inc (thanks McCy!), reading the incredible original script for Sinners, and dreaming about this incredible $32,000 spaceship recliner pod from the 1982 Neiman Marcus collection.
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On to the Good Stuff!
📱 MagSafe iPhone Monitor Mount - I saw a cool video from Scott Yu-Jan this week where he attached one of these to his computer monitor so his iPhone could ride sidecar via a Qi 2 charging MagSafe connection. (Thanks for the tip, Eric!) It honestly seems like a great way to save desktop real estate and can be handy for folks who may not be able to pair their phones to their work computers, etc.
✂️ Paste App for MacOS/iOS - I've been using Raycast's clipboard manager for a few years now and recently decided to give Paste a try... it's a big level up! Whereas Raycast's clipboard manager covers all the basics of letting you quickly search your clipboard history and re-paste your content wherever you wish, Paste offers a great iPhone app and keyboard so you can copy and paste from your clipboard history across both devices. It also lets you copy multiple things in a stack and paste them all together in one place. Like Raycast, you can set limits on how long it remembers things, forbid it from remembering certain types of sensitive information, which is great for privacy.
🗣️ Capwords AI for iOS - This 2025 Apple Design Award winning app is a clever tool to help with language learning—it lets you snap pictures of any object you want to learn how to pronounce in another language, and then it will create a flashcard with both its name, spelling and pronunciation. It also creates a digital sticker of the object that you can collect along with the translation. A really cool use of AI combined with on‑device image processing for privacy.
🐘 Fahlo Animal Tracking Bracelet - My family and I grabbed a few of these during our last trip to the Zoo and have had a lot of fun with them. In short, these bracelets each come with a small unique QR code that lets you track the specific animal featured on your bracelet. You get photos and bio data for your critter, and periodic app notifications with its location as it travels its habitat. Just a neat concept and a fun way to support wildlife.
🍂 Hoto Leaf Blower - Not that the bar was terribly high, but this is the best looking leaf blower I've ever seen. The specs on it are not necessarily the most powerful you can find out there, but like all Hoto products it's minimalist, compact, and (importantly) rechargeable via USB-C. I need to grab one.
That's it for this week! For those of you celebrating this week, have the merriest of Christmases!