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First Look at What’s Inside Apple’s New Dock Adapter: It’s Impossible to Tinker With

I just got my dock adapter in the mail. So naturally, I want to destroy this one. The dock adapter has a plastic shell on it that is glued. You can’t cleanly get it off without the dremel, as the glue is not hot glue, that I can tell. Peter from Double Helix Cables was…

Instapaper Founder Starts an iPad Magazine Called, uh, The Magazine

Instapaper, one of the best things to happen to digital reading, has now spawned an iPad magazine, called The Magazine. Besides having a clever title, it’s edited by a clever dude, Instapaper founder Marco Arment. But will it be any good? The Magazine is available now through the app store for $2. According to Arment’s…

It Only Costs 41 Cents a Year to Charge an iPhone

The highly anticipated iPhone 5 is finally in millions of people’s hands. Within three days of its September 21st launch, Apple had sold a record-breaking five million units. And within a year, analysts project that sales of the iPhone 5 will reach 170 million. The popularity of the new device got us thinking: how much…

Apple Wants To Use Your Fingerprints to Unlock Your iPhone

Apple was just granted a patent for technology that could lead to a fancy new biometric unlocking mechanism on future Apple products. The technology could also be used to implement new security features for ecommerce. The patent comes just a few months after Apple bought security technology company AuthenTec for $356 million over the summer.…

After a successful Samsung appeal, the Galaxy Nexus injunction has been lifted. You are free to enjoy your Nexii again!

This Case Makes the Back of Your iPhone Touch-Sensitive

Mimicking the touch sensitive pad on the back of the PlayStation Vita, the Sensus iPhone case lets you interact and play games with your handset without ever mucking up its display with fingerprints. The case features capacitive sensors on its back and right edge so there’s at least one spot left where you can hold…

iPod Touch 5th Gen Teardown: Tiny, Powerful, and a Gigantic Pain in the Butt to Fix

The new iPod touch is out, so naturally it’s already been cracked open for a look at its guts. The verdict? Tightly packed goodness, according to iFixit. The iPod touch’s innards are intricately laid out to make it even thinner than the iPhone 5. While you can pry off its face after blasting it with…

Eric Schmidt Would Love to Be CEO of Apple, Doesn’t Take Microsoft Seriously and Is Wary of Facebook

In an interview with AllThingsD, Eric Schmidt answered a fun question from the audience: If he had to be CEO again, would he choose Apple, Amazon or Facebook? Schmidt chose Apple. He also dissed Microsoft and keeps mentioning Facebook’s billion users. His first answer to the CEO question was a very smooth political sidestepping of…

Recall: Never Miss a Book/Album/Movie Release

There are new movies, books, TV shows, and albums coming out every week. The worst feeling is when you want to see a movie, but you space on it, and before you know it, it’s not even in the theaters anymore. Without a a reminder—in the form of an app called Recall—you might forget something…

Apple’s Latest Slide-to-Unlock Patent Basically Prevents Other Phones From Dragging Anything Around a Lock Screen

Apple was just granted yet another patent for slide-to-unlock, and it’s even more general than the first two. https://gizmodo.com/apple-now-owns-the-unlock-slide-gesture-5853398 The new patent throws a lot of the limitations of the others out the window, specifically the part that required an unlock gesture to move along a very specific path. Now there are just two main…

This App Will Give Any iPhone NSA-Grade Encryption Powers

Privacy is becoming something that is more and more valued as technology seeps deeper into our lives, but is harder and harder to find in pure form. But as Buzzfeed’s Russell Brandom points out, when you have two ex-Navy Seals and a cryptology legend working on an iPhone app called Silent Circle, privacy suddenly just…

Jetsetter‘s been updated for Passbook, joining our running list of Passbook-compatible apps.

These Laser-Engraved iPhone 5s Look Really Cool

Another reason why you don’t need a f*cking case for your iPhone 5: laser engraving. They look really cool and, as far as I know, they are the first ones out there. https://gizmodo.com/you-dont-need-a-f-cking-case-for-your-iphone-5-5945198 I remember the laser etchings that Phil Torrone made at the first Gizmodo Gallery, back in the day of the first iPhone.…

Cheap Third-Party Lightning Cables Could Finally Be On the Way for Your iPhone 5

If you’ve been wanting an extra iPhone 5 cable, but haven’t wanted to pay the full $40 for one, help might be on the way: a Chinese company called iPhone5mod says it has cracked the authentication chip found in the lightning connector and is now selling the cables for $20 apiece. According to TG Daily,…

iPhone Production Slows as Apple Improves Aluminum Quality

Bloomberg is reporting that Apple’s iPhone 5 production is slowing, as it attempts to cut the number of devices shipped with nicks and scratches by improving aluminum quality control at Foxconn. https://gizmodo.com/does-your-new-iphone-5-scratch-easily-5945777 Sources have told Bloomberg that Senior Apple managers insisted at the end of September that Foxconn picked up its game to tighten production…

WineRatings+: Wine Info for the Oenophile and Wine Idiot Alike

I know people who buy wine based on the label design because they know nothing about wine. And by people I mean myself, which is what makes Wine Spectator’s Wine Ratings+ app incredibly handy. What does it do? Gives you reviews of around 300,000 wines. Imparts you with a viticultural education by showing you how…

The Crazy Journey of an MMS from Your Phone to Your Friends

Any message transmitted from one phone to another—whether it’s a cute video of your kid or a nakey celebrity shot—appears almost instantly on the recipient’s screen. Amazing! Now, how did it actually get there? Turns out, the exact path traveled by millions of messages is long, complex, fascinating, and top-secret. But we got a chance…

Using an iPad to Animate a Print Ad Is a Huge Waste of Time

If you happen to stumble across the ad for the 2013 Lexus ES in your favorite magazine, you’ll be able to bring it to life using a technology the carmaker’s ad agency is calling CinePrint. But ‘technology’ is a generous description since all it does is use an iPad placed under the page to play…

New App Puts Old iOS Google Maps Back on Your iPhone—Sort Of

There’s a new app out called ClassicMap that offers a half decent fix for anyone who’s looking for an alternative to Apple’s maligned Maps app, but really just wants things back the way they were. ClassicMap is built as basically the exact same app as Apple’s new Maps, but you can switch over to a…

Anyone Else Having iOS Buyer’s Remorse?

Despite the problems I had with the HTC One X, I find myself missing it. More specifically—and I never thought I’d hear myself saying this—I find myself missing Android. The widgets, specifically. I just had that thing so damn dialed in. Anyone else? https://gizmodo.com/htc-one-x-after-4-months-weird-batteries-and-wimpy-gor-5931430