With the interconnectivity of everyday items comes an interesting back-to-the-roots countermovement, and the Light Phone is a great example of that. Dubbed as "your phone away from phone", this is a credit card-sized mobile device that works in conjunction with your 'real' phone. You tell it which calls to forward and it shuts out everything else. Currently being kickstarted, of course.

I'm in the process of creating digital copies of all important paper docs, but I'm still not sure how to store and manage them securely. Docady looks like a great solution for just that. It even allows sharing documents and editing rights within a small group (like your family). Now I just need to find out where they're storing all of that information...

I've heard a great many things about the Do Lectures series, which someone recently described to me as 'a less pretentious version of TED talks'. Well, they recently started publishing compact, 100-page pocket guides on a variety of topics related to work and life — written by speakers of past Do Lectures. 

With Facetime frequently failing on me and Skype turning into a cumbersome piece of software with a Facebook integration nobody wants, this simple web-based video conference tool looks like a great no-installation-required alternative. (They're currently seeking funding on Kickstarter.)

This is definitely on the geekier side: the Particle Internet Button is a programmable piece of hardware that lets you trigger actions online by pressing a physical button. Automate all the things!

Moleskin (that paper notebook company) now seems to make apps for iOS too. Their first digital offering is a minimal calendar app that combines a few nice features like weather, maps, Uber times, etc. Not that there is a shortage of calendar apps out there. ;)