The Wall Street Journal has been slowly leaking details about the iPad 3 attributed to anonymous sources, so, it could very well be all conjecture. The latest round of rumors today finds the device arriving in an 8-inch iteration, 1.7 inches smaller than the iPad 2’s screen. Yet, it’s slated to ship with a 1024×768 [...]
iPhones aren’t cool. You know what’s cool? Shooting your friends with your iPhone, mounted into a laser blaster. A couple of phone-based friend-blasting systems have crossed our radar this week — one for iPhone, one for any smartphone. First came news that Hasbro is updating Lazer Tag (remember that?) for the app-obsessed 21st century. Its 2012 edition guns, hitting toy [...]
There was a time when streaming audio meant sacrificing fidelity. Many early Internet radio stations delivered an AM-quality 64Kbps stream, while the “good ones” topped out at 128Kbps. Even Spotify for iOS, the app version of the popular music service (which CNET called “the best free music option since stealing”), could muster only 160Kbps–a bit better than FM [...]
John Paczkowski of AllThingsD is claiming that Apple will hold a press event in the beginning of March to announce the new iPad, which he calls “iPad 3″ (noting that might not be its official name). Paczkowski expects the announcement to take place in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, where Apple has held [...]
According to a slide uncovered by the Verge, Best Buy is asking its customers for thoughts on a 42-inch, $1,500 Apple HDTV. And it sounds dreamy: runs iOS, full App Store and iCloud support, an iSight camera. Too bad it’s all probably just a guess. For all the goodness (click to embiggen) packed into the hypothetical [...]
Apple has just appointed John Browett, chief executive of UK electronics retailer Dixons, as its new vice-president of retail. It’s the first external senior-executive appointment by Tim Cook, and will see Browett take over the whole of Apple’s already incredibly successful retail strategy. No pressure, John. ➤ The Guardian via Gizmodo
Darts has always struck us as an odd bar game. It’s not because we don’t like playing—we love to—but because sharp objects and alcohol don’t seem to mesh. No time is this more evident then when you’re walking over to the chalkboard to update the score and a dart comes inches from your face courtesy of [...]
New from the Department of Things I Didn’t Know I Wanted But Now Can’t Live Without: Bondi. This cute little gizmo is designed to hold and hang your smartphone. It has feet at the bottom, “hands” that hug your device, and a hanger-style head. All these limbs can bend any which way, meaning Bondi is actually [...]
Remember back when Apple first introduced the Apple TV, and the company said that it was designed to be a hobby device? Well, in 2010, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, after unveiling a new version of the device, said it was no longer a hobby. Now, though, it appears it is again, since Apple’s new CEO Tim [...]
We like Spotify as more than friends, but man, it’s been doing nothing but losing money for a while now. So it’s pretty good—and really surprising—news that it’s now got three million people paying for its service. That three million figure is actually more impressive because it’s 20 percent of everyone using Spotify, which is a [...]
Anyone who grew up reading comic books, was probably tempted to splurge a buck of their lawn mowing money on a pair of those X-ray specs advertised in the back. While any hope of seeing under people’s clothes was quickly dashed once you tried them on, now there’s a solution that actually works. This time instead of [...]
Apple’s next emerging market might not be in Asia, but in South America. During the company’s recent earnings conference call, Apple CEO Tim Cook identified Brazil as one of Apple’s future growth areas. “I think there’s a huge opportunity for us there, and we’ve more than begun to go deeper into Brazil,” Cook said. “But [...]
The answer is pretty obvious, right? It’s cheaper labor! But is that the only reason why Apple (and other companies) outsource its workforce to China as opposed to keeping them in America? No. There’s more. The NY Times has an excellent report on why Apple ignores America when it comes to making the iPhone and how that’s [...]
Luxury London retailer Harrods is reportedly next in line to get an Apple Store in among its regular shelves, with sources at the famous toff shop saying Apple’s pale wooden benches will soon be nestling in among the 1m square foot showfloor. The new section is set to be larger than the oasis of Apple currently found at [...]
When it comes to Apple, there’s only one thing you can guess on releases: you never ever quite know what you’re going to get or what it’ll be called – thats why when the name iPad 2S popped up on the airwaves this afternoon, the wheels in our minds started spinning furiously. This is not [...]
Vancouver, B.C. resident Mark Sandhu bought a new iPad 2 for his wife for Christmas, but when she opened the box, she found a tablet of another kind: a big chunk of clay. Sandhu took his purchase back to Canadian retailer Future Shop and complained, but the store initially thought he was trying to run a [...]
I don’t know if anyone else noticed, but shares in Apple, Inc. have reached another all-time high price. Just minutes ago, AAPL was at US$428.40, although as usual the stock price will probably wobble all over the place before the close. Why is AAPL doing so well? There is mucho speculation that the company will announce [...]
We still need scanners, but for many of us they’ve become too unwieldy to fit neatly into our increasingly mobile computing set-ups. But this new iPad-friendly device could be the last scanner you’ll ever need. The iConvert Scanner for iPad is the very definition of simplicity. You simply dock your iPad or iPad 2 onto the sleek device, [...]
You wouldn’t normally associate an iPhone case with Japanese automobile giant Nissan but today the car maker has announced that it is to introduce a new line of self-repairing “Nissan Scratch Shield iPhone” cases that use a special paint technology to quickly mend themselves. The iPhone case utilises the company’s pioneering self-healing paint finish that it developed [...]
Fact: Last summer, inspired by the 2005 hit Wedding Crashers with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, I crashed my first wedding. I was dressed up for a summer’s night out when I stumbled by a nearby celebration in Brooklyn. Emboldened by a desire for free champagne, I strolled in with a friend and hung out by the [...]
