Griffin’s PowerMate USB controller may be a few years old, but it still manages to pull in buyers. Anyone not willing to spend $45 on a glorified volume knob, though, might find something to occupy them in MAKE’s weekend project, the Powerfake.

Griffin’s PowerMate USB controller may be a few years old, but it still manages to pull in buyers. Anyone not willing to spend $45 on a glorified volume knob, though, might find something to occupy them in MAKE’s weekend project, the Powerfake.

If you’re regularly charging and synchronizing your iPod then you probably know – or could imagine – how useful a dock can be. Thing is, it’s also yet another lump on your desk; enter Griffin’s Simplifi, which basically says that if you’re going to grant something real-estate in your life then it really ought to bring more to the party. That’s why the Simplifi has a multiformat card reader and USB hub.
