Apple

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…

Imagining Life With the iWatch

Apple’s making a smartwatch. By now that’s a foregone conclusion. What we don’t know, though, is what an iWatch will be. Although thepeople who are making it might offer us some clues. Stay in shape It’s Monday morning. Time to get up for work. But there are no ear-splitting klaxons in your room to usher…

According to 9to5Mac, new Apple TV hardware is showing up in some iOS 7 builds, and as it’s been rumored, a new box should be on its way in the not-so-distant future.

Sunday Deals On The iPad Mini Retina, Kindle Paperwhite, 2DS, And More

Today in the rarely discounted/most desired items we cover category, we’ve got great deals on both the iPad Mini Retina and the Kindle Paperwhite. Best Buy is the proprietor of both discounts, knocking $50 off all iPad Mini with Retina Display models, and 20 bucks off the Paperwhite. These are the Commerce Team’s choices for…

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

It’s the end of a long week and the beginning of Winter Olympic madness. Don’t let your smartphone or tablet get left behind—turn it into a gold-medal productivity star, or the olympic village of time-wasting games, with our favorite new apps. Android Beats Music Beats Music is a promising new take on streaming music—it’s curated…

Did Samsung Try to Ban Apple Logos From the Olympics Opening Ceremony?

Lucky Olympic athletes taking part in the Sochi Winter Olympics found a Samsung Galaxy Note III in their arrival goodie bags, so even if they don’t take home a medal they’ve still got something of a fairly high value to sell on the internet when they get home. But did Samsung demand they avoid being…

Good Luck Writing a Letter With This 30th Anniversary Mac Font

It might not look it, but the images above actually make up a font designed especially to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Mac. Spotted on this 30 Years of Mactribute page by iOS developer Greg Barbosa, the font is built up of line drawings of Apple’s computers over the ages. It uses special private…

From Tablets to TVs: What’s Next For Display Tech in 2014

Starting in 2010 when Apple made the retina display and display quality a central theme for their product marketing, displays have moved up from the doldrums into an unprecedented renaissance of new display technologies for smartphones, tablets, TVs, and entirely new classes of products like wearable displays. That approach impressed consumers and moved the entire…