Tag archive: Grove

If you've hung around the DT site long enough, you've no doubt noticed a few posts about the iPhone and iPad cases made by Portland, Oregon company Grove. Using bamboo and a keen artistic eye, the young company designs thin and snug iPhone cases (as well as a great iPad 2 case) that are most often laser-engraved with quirky and fun designs. Cofounders Ken Tomita and Joe Mansfield combined their respective talents: Tomita had… Read More

If you have one or more Apple fanatics on your holiday shopping list, then this post is just for you. Not everyone is an Apple fan, but those who are tend to end up with more than one iDevice and an unbridled love for the Cupertino, CA company. If the fanboy on your list already has a Mac, an iPhone, and an iPad, we have narrowed down our favorite accessories and gifts so that you don’t have to resort to buying an iTunes gift card (although… Read More

We've told you about the iPad 2 case by Grove ($129+) before, but this time we've had time to sit down with our very own hand-delivered (by our Portland friends at Grove) case with a custom DT logo laser-engraved on the cover so we can give you our hands-on impressions of the bamboo and leather case. The case is specially built to fit the iPad 2 and features a perfectly-fitting bamboo hard case and a leather three-panel smart… Read More

From the purveyors of stylish bamboo iPhone cases comes a new case just for the brand new iPad 2. The new Grove iPad 2 Case ($79+) combines a hard bamboo back and a fold-over leather cover that uses similar technology and design to the Apple Smart Cover. The magnets in the leather cover wake the iPad when opened and put it to sleep when closed, and the case folds into a stand for either typing or viewing. The 100-percent bamboo body offers full… Read More

Back when we toured Grove’s Portland-based workshops in May, the crew’s CNC machine was still busy buzzing away at standard iPhone 3GS cases, but not for long. The leak of iPhone 4 photos just weeks later sent Grove founder Ken Tomita back to his digital drawboard in a frenzy, mocking up cases for a phone which – officially at least – did not exist. It all paid off in June, of course, when the real deal hit the streets in the same form Tomita… Read More

The whine of a saw greets you the second you open the door, the smell of cut wood fills the nostrils, wood scraps, rags and paint cans line the massive shelves crawling up the cinder block walls. Ken Tomita’s furniture workshop looks, sounds and smells a lot like any other. Except, of course, for the hulking computerized milling machine in the corner – the size of a compact car with suction tubes snaking over the top, a NASA-worthy control… Read More

Andrew Grove might have retired from chipmaker Intel back in 2005, but he still has some words of advice for current CEO Paul Otellini: consider making advanced batteries for plug-in electric cars. The Wall Street Journal reports that Grove, who still works for Intel in an advisory capacity, has urged Otellini to consider getting the company into high-end batteries as a way to diversity its business. The automotive industry will likely be… Read More

But in recent years Apple's visionary chief executive, Steve Jobs, has found another world to conquer: the field of digital media. Bent on bringing music, photography and video to the home computer, Jobs reportedly is seriously discussing the acquisition of the world's largest record company, Universal Music Group. The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that Apple is set to offer conglomerate Vivendi Universal up to $6 billion for… Read More