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I Could Stare All Day at These Beautiful Studio Portraits of Cameras

It’s true that photographers have a way of fetishizing their gear. But it’s fun to appreciate the craft and aesthetic of cameras, just like in these amazing studio portraits by photographer Julian Calverley. The series is called Treasured Cameras, and they are nothing more than gracefully lit and composed shots of some of Calverley’s own…

Shooting Challenge: Panoramas

It’s hard to take an enchanting photo. But it’s even harder to take an enchanting photo that’s 3x or more the normal length. So for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re going wide. We’re going panoramic. The Challenge Take a panoramic photo. Feel free to use an app, like the iPhone’s, to do so. You can…

Report: Steve Jobs Will Appear on a US Postage Stamp

He might have favored email over physical post, but a document obtained by The Washington Post suggests that Steve Jobs’ face is set to appear on a US Postal Service stamp in 2015. The document suggests that Jobs is one in a list of U.S. icons to appear on stamps that year, including Elvis Presley…

This App Shows You What Your Photos Will Look Like With Any Lens

Sometimes when shooting or conceptualizing a scene, it’s hard to visualize composition without actually looking through a specific lens. This new iPhone app shows you just how hundreds of lenses will see your subject. The app is called Mark II Artist’s Viewfinder. Weird name. But yeah, what it does is simulate frame lines in your…

Stop Carrying Credit Cards With This Fob That Can Fake Them

George Costanza would love the Loop: it’s a tiny device that stores all of your credit card information, lets you pay at any terminal, and guarantees you’ll never live with the threat of your wallet exploding again. And you can buy it right now. If Loop sounds familiar, you might be thinking of Coin, the…

Apple’s Touch-Sensitive MacBook Patent Embeds Controls in Screen Bezel

Ever since the rise of Apple’s touchscreen devices, it’s seemed only a matter of time until a touchscreen MacBook arrives. But those who wince at finger-smeared screens may not need to worry — a newly uncovered patent suggests Apple is more interested in revamping the bezel. Patent number 8,654,524 describes a laptop that houses sensors…

Finally, an App That Lets Strangers Listen to Your Phone Calls

While you were busy worrying about the NSA spying on you, artist -slash- software developer Lauren McCarthy made an app called Crowdpilot. It lets everybody spy on you. Actually, Crowdpilot is a little more specific than that. The basic idea behind the iPhone app is to let people listen in on your phone calls so…

A portrait of Steve Jobs made entirely out of e-waste

It seems fitting that the man whose company produced tons of e-waste should be immortalized in this way. San Francisco collage artist Jason Mecier built this incredible portrait of Apple founder Steve Jobs out of 20 pounds of discarded phones, memory sticks, boards, and more. Apple products like iPhones and iPods make up an enormous…

Apple’s Fitness-Tracking Ambitions Go Beyond the iWatch

Lately, all the talk has been about the fitness-tracking, health-monitoring smartwatch that Apple is assumedly building. But a patent granted to Apple today shows the company wants to get into fitness tracking not just on your wrist, but in your ear, with sensor-laden earbuds to measure your athletic performance. https://gizmodo.com/imagining-life-with-the-iwatch-1520143311 The patent, first filed in…

Report: Apple Is Working on Medical Devices, Mulling Cars

A report from the San Francisco Chronicle suggests that Apple is working to develop new product lines—including medical devices and cars The newspaper is light on detail, but does describe how , according to their sources, Cook & Co. are working with with audio engineer Tomlinson Holman—who invented THX and 10.2 surround sound—to develop a…

Good news for iPad-using spreadsheet lovers: Microsoft Office for iPad should be coming out soon—even before Office for Windows 8 debuts,according to ZDnet.

Use Your iPhone To Send Smoke Signals Even When There’s No Service

If you’re tired of iMessage failures, spotty coverage from your carrier, and sickeningly cute emoticons, here’s a clever iPhone case that will revolutionize how you chat with your friends—using technology that’s been around for hundreds of years. Dennis Be Bel’s S.M.S.—or smoke messaging service—case heats and vaporizes lamp oil every time a simple button is…

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

It’s Valentine’s Day. You knew that. You’re probably sick of hearing that. It’s okay! So are we. But just because you’ve got nobody to share it with doesn’t mean you can’t pamper someone today. Make that someone yourself, and also your smartphone, with these sweet, romantic apps. Multi Platform Updates BBM Blackberry’s messaging app got…

Even I Would Read the Bible If It Were This Pretty

Despite having grown up in the Bible Belt, I’m not terribly religious. Sure, I still go to our quaint little Episcopal church with my mom on holidays but, if you asked me what happens in the Book of Revelation, I’d be dumbfounded. Unless I had an app like this. A British design studio called Family…

Apple: Our Supplies (Largely) Don’t Come From War Zones

Apple has just published its supplier responsibility report, which audits its contract workers who produce and assemble hardware in factories outside the US. Perhaps most interestingly, Apple explains in the report that it has confirmed that none of its suppliers use tantalum—a metal that is regularly used in mobile electronics—from areas engaged in warfare. The…

Report: Apple Could Announce Its New Apple TV as Soon as April

Bloomberg reports that Apple’s next-generation Apple TV will likely be announced as soon as April. The new Apple TV would be faster and easier to navigate, and it might even host video content from Time Warner Cable, the first such deal with a cable company. Bloomberg also notes that the device is expected to hit…

What would Google, Apple, and Facebook look like if they built cities?

Large technology corporations like Google, Facebook and Apple already have employee populations that rival those of some small towns. So what would it look if they actually did become their own towns? Alfred Twu of First Cultural Industries created these imagined cityscapes to show what it would like if tech companies were to build up…

First Video of the Steve Jobs Time Capsule Being Unearthed

This past September one of the most sought after “lost” time capsules of the 20th century was finally found. After years of various people searching for the thing, the so-called Steve Jobs capsule was finally unearthed in Aspen by a team of excavators from the National Geographic Channel show Diggers. And now we have video…

This Anti-Snooping App Catches People Who Spy on Your iPhone

Have you ever wondered if people are spying on you? Not to be paranoid or anything, but we all leave our phones unattended sometimes. It’s not hard for a friend—or foe—to take a quick look at your text messages. But don’t fret. Catchr ($2) does one thing, and it does it pretty well. Once you…

How a Rogue Developer Got Apple to Approve a Drone Strike App

After nearly two years and a ton of media attention, you can now download an iPhone app that alerts you every time a drone strike kills someone abroad. It only took the app developer six tries and several different names to get Apple to approve it. The app is called Metadata+ and, officially, it provides…