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An Augmented Reality Made With Hand-Drawn Cartoons and an iPhone

Prolific doodler Marty Cooper carries around animation cels, a marker, and some Wite-Out as he wanders the city, creating whimsical scenes that turn mundane background imagery into charming mini-stories. And he painstakingly captures them on his iPhone to create the animated world of Aug(De)Mented Reality. http://mcgnarcal.tumblr.com/ These grin-inducing little vignettes defy rigid definition: are they…

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Hey friends, it’s the weekend—and not just any weekend, but a holiday weekend. For a lot of you, that means an extra day off work, and therefore an extra day to idly play around with your smartphone. Make it a great one with these, our favorite new apps. Android Gmail A few nice updates arrived…

Your Phone Will Break Before These Fortified Charging Cables Do

It’s widely assumed that printer manufacturers make all of their money from expensive replacement ink cartridges, not the hardware. Perhaps the same can be said for smartphone makers, given how often their USB charging cables break. But you can put an end to constant replacements with these MOS Spring cables that are reinforced six ways…

Osmo Uses Your iPad to Get Your Kids Playing in the Real World

A lot of kids love iPads, to the point where they’re almost never just, y’know, playing with kids stuff. Osmo is a nifty little gadget that does both, encouraging kids to play with tangible, real-world toys that magically interact with games on the iPad’s screen. And you can pre-order one through Osmo’s crowdfunding campaign starting…

Apple Admits iMessage Screw-Up, Has a Fix Coming… Sometime

If you’ve tried to transition out of your iPhone into an Android or Windows Phone device, you’ve likely known the singular frustration of having your text messages vanish into the iMessage ether. Today, in a statement to Recode, Apple acknowledged the problem, explained why it’s been particularly awful lately, and promised a fix. https://gizmodo.com/when-apple-damns-your-texts-to-imessage-purgatory-1575937398 The…

Look At Apple’s First 1980s Stab at the Smartwatch

A design book that promises to show the “true design story” behind Apple features some glorious retro designs from the company, including this early concept of a form of smartwatch that makes up for in buttons what it lacks in screen — and pairs with a wireless headset. The image is one of many from…

Report: Apple Is Taking Over a Seven-Building Campus in Sunnyvale

Not content with a 2.8 million square-foot flying saucer, Apple is apparently taking over a seven-building campus in Sunnyvale, too. https://gizmodo.com/norman-foster-on-apples-hq-over-1-000-bikes-four-sto-1538670795 The San Jose Mercury News claims that Apple has agreed to lease a seven-building campus in Sunnyvale which can house 1,450 workers. The buildings, which provide 290,000-square-feet of office space, are decades old but…

Apple Still Wants to Use Liquidmetal in Its Hardware

Apple has long held ambitions to use liquidmetal in its devices, having bought exclusive rights to Liquidmetal Technologies’ metal alloys for use in consumer electronics way back in 2010. Now, it’s renewed those rights. The initial purchase happened in September 2010, but only ran until February of this year. Now, Apple has extended the agreement…

Apple’s iWork for iCloud has been updated to allow 100 people to collaborate on Keynote, Numbers or Pages files—which can now be up to 1GB in size, too.

What iOS Looks Like on a 4.7-Inch Display

Rumor has it, the iPhone 6 is going to have a 4.7-inch display, so 9to5Mac has created a mockup of what a phone of that size running iOS would look like. Spoiler alert: it’s not all that different. https://gizmodo.com/could-this-curvy-screen-be-the-front-of-the-iphone-6-1573512156 Funnily enough, 9to5Mac actually used a Moto X to make this simulator, because it has the…

You Can Buy These Original Cupertino Rainbow Apple Signs

Fanboys, form an orderly line: true Apple fans can take their chance at buying these original rainbow logos that once graced the walls of the company’s Cupertino HQ in a forthcoming Bonhams auction. The larger of the two signs is made from foam and measures 46 by 49 inches, while the smaller is built out…

Apple and Google Agree to Stop Suing Each Other into Oblivion

According to breaking reports from the Wall Street Journal, consumer electronics titans Google and Apple have just agreed to drop pending lawsuits against one another and work together to reform patent law. Wonder Twin powers activate! http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304908304579566583336822024 Earlier this afternoon, Apple and Google informed a federal appeals court that they had agreed to settle all…

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

The work week is over, the weekend is here, and Gizmodo’s Home of the Future is about to open! If you’re in NYC any time during the next week, come check it out! If not, please take these apps as a consolation prize. https://gizmodo.com/save-the-date-for-the-gizmodo-home-of-the-future-1567214872 Multi Platform Updates Sonos Controller Version 5.0 of Sonos’s free remote…

Breakfast burger replaces bread with freshly glazed apple fritters

The Wake-n-Bacon Burger tries to solve my weekly brunch dilemma: Sweet or savory? The proposal is interesting: “Sandwiched between two warm and freshly glazed apple fritters, sits a maple bacon-wrapped beef patty, draped with melty cheddar cheese, and drizzled with a caffeinated maple, espresso syrup.” Hmmm, I don’t know if it succeeds, but I want…

Apple Just Put Its App Design Bible On iBooks For Free

Apple’s iOS Human Interface Guidelines, a set of tips and rules for designers that was previously only available through the developer portal, is free on iBooks as of today. It’s a little glimpse into how Apple hopes app developers will follow its lead when it comes to design. The “book,” which is more of a…

Why Fake Apple Chargers Totally Suck

So your iPad charger goes kaput, and you aren’t so keen on giving a pretty penny to Apple (yet) again. It can’t be that bad to buy a cheapo one online right? It even looks exactly like real Apple charger! But then it heats up like a burning coal and stops working after a couple…

When Apple Damns Your Texts to iMessage Purgatory

I recently switched from an iPhone to Android, and discovered shortly thereafter that my phone number was still associated with iMessage, meaning that any time someone with an iPhone tried texting me, I’d receive nothing, and they’d get a “Delivered” receipt in their Messages app as though everything were working as expected. I spent the…

Google search for iOS just got updated with Siri-style voice searching—including follow-up questions like “what’s the weather like?” followed by “how about this weekend?”. It also features custom alerts to keep you updated on your favorite sites, blogs, and more. Download it here for free. [iTunes via 9to5mac]

What Other Companies Could Apple Buy With Its $150 Billion In Cash?

At the end of its last financial quarter, Apple had $151 billion in cash just sitting there collecting dust. Is it any wonder it’s going after profitable companies like Beats? What’s $3.2 billion? Here’s a humorous look at just how many companies Apple could buy with its stack-o-cash—and just how easily a corporate shopping spree…

Of Course an Apple Engineer Has an iPhone Business Card

You’d assume that if any company on Earth had a well-designed business card, it would be Apple. But apparently one of their engineers still felt they could create something that left an even better first impression, so they designed this incredibly unique business card made from an actual iPhone glass sourced straight from Foxconn. The…