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Tablet Sutra: How Are We Supposed to Hold This Thing?

Speculation and guesswork aside, if Apple’s got a tablet, we need to know how to handle it, physically. So, with two pieces of cardboard, scotch tape and Photoshop, we crudely mocked one up. It was… unusual. Tablet PCs have been around for years, but they’ve got keyboard, ball-jointed necks and all manner of extraneous fixture…

Tech News John Herrman

The Apple Tablet Dates Back to 1888

Apple started working on Newton in 1989, but as this infographic shows, the first seeds of tablet technology were sown well over a hundred years ago. While we don’t expect the iSlate iPad Apple tablet to come with a 19th-century stylus, this still provides great perspective on how long it’s taken to get us to…

Tech News Brian Barrett

iPhone App Helps Woman Fall Pregnant, Baby Branded ‘iPhone Baby’ Forevermore

After trying to conceive for four years, mother Lena Bryce fell pregnant two months after downloading an app on her iPhone. Sadly, for story’s sake, it wasn’t an augmented reality app showing men with the highest sperm count. The Menstrual Calendar iPhone app tells women when they’re most fertile, acting almost as an alarm for…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

10 Year Old Video of Steve Jobs (In Shorts) Defining Apple

Sometime after 1997 when Jobs returned to Apple, he gave this motivational speech defining Apple and their “core beliefs”. While wearing shorts. While we can’t promise he’ll be sporting bare legs this Wednesday, this minute-long clip is powerful stuff. https://gizmodo.com/apple-january-27th-come-see-our-latest-creation-event-5451005 My favorite quote from the video shows the lack of modesty that Jobs manages to…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Apple Tablet Prototypes Possibly Identified By Web Analytics, Running iPhone-Like OS 3.2

Up to 50 different “Apple Tablet” type devices were “detected” by Flurry Analytics testing various types of apps that may make its way to the upcoming machine. Flurry was able to geographically locate the devices to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino. In short, there were about 200 different apps being tested on the devices, most of…

Tech News Jason Chen

Apple a Day Calendar Reminds Me of a Certain Gadget Blog…

Haha. An apple a day. Just like Gizmodo with all this Tablet news! Get it?! Funny. But this is different. It’s a calendar concept. An ingenious one at that—and healthy too! Unfortunately, these calendars are only available in AOK health insurance offices. They were created by Serviceplan, an ad agency in Munich, and can hold…

Tech News Jack Loftus

The One Where I Turn a Stolen $100,000 Apple Prototype Into a Crime Scene

Detective’s Notebook, January 24: It’s raining. Again. Always raining. Hard. Thunder, lightning. Sounds angry. The bald guy in the black turtleneck’s angrier though. Can’t blame him. This company loves its secrets, and $100,000 worth just left out the back. https://gizmodo.com/the-post-where-i-turn-an-old-transforming-sofabed-into-5405043 $100,000 worth of super secret Apple laptop prototype, to be precise. Lifted, sold, sold again—probably…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Apple Defense

Microsoft and Apple, already strange bedfellows if we’re to believe Apple’s seriously considering Bing over Google on future iPhones, are at it again, albeit indirectly. This time it’s Microsoft’s turn, as they present counterarguments in an Xbox 360 antitrust case. https://gizmodo.com/apple-microsoft-in-cahoots-bing-to-replace-google-as-5452448 The disgruntled player is a company called Datel Design & Development, which dubiously argues…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Apple Patents: iPods Get Solar, Gestures Get Funky

Apple patents come a dime a dozen, but these two seem both practical and implementable. The first outlines a solar powered iPod and the second details more specific gesture-based input methods, including scoops, nudges, and tilts. The first patent, published last week, details a system in which an iPod draws power from solar cells covering…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Card Speaker At Least Thinks It Sounds Good

There’s no shortage of portable, wafer-thin speakers for iPods, iPhones and other pocketable media devices. But the “oh-look-at-me-and-my-cool-case” Card Speaker, designed by IDEA International, has the trappings to make it stand out from the pack. The Card Speaker is about the same size as an iPod and shares its design principles, too: simple and clean.…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Empire Building: Visualizing Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Yahoo

It’s no secret that Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Yahoo are always expanding their reaches, slowly but surely adding new products and services into their line-ups. The New York Times’s Nick Bilton took a step back and surveyed their empires. It doesn’t come as much of a surprise to see how much these four behemoths overlap,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

This Week’s Best iPhone Apps

In this week’s distracted app roundup: Grand Theft Auto, committed! Live video, streamed over 3G! Photos, psycedelicized! Blocks, stacked, smashed, and squeezed through holes! Casual gaming norms, subtly subverted! Spying spouses, caught! Songs, made with magic! Barack, Obama’d! And more… If you want to view this post as a single page, click here https://gizmodo.com/this-weeks-best-iphone-apps-5455047 Chomp:…

Tech News John Herrman

A 27-Year-Old Apple Tablet Prototype

Meet Bashful, an older brother of the upcoming Apple tablet. Unlike the Newton, this tablet didn’t go past prototypes whipped up by an industrial design firm, but at least we have some pictures to sate our curiosity about the device. https://gizmodo.com/the-story-behind-apples-newton-5452193 You might remember Frog Design as the company who kindly let us show off…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Finally, a Solution for Those Poor Two-iPhone Owners

The duaLink cable is essentially a specialized USB hub: It splits from one USB connector into two iPod/iPhone cables. Great for incredibly rich people with two iPhones, or upper-middle-class folk with two iPods. Available now for $26. [Engadget]

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Apple Genius War Stories: “I Got Punched in the Face” and More

This is the life of an Apple Genius: Computers caked in toxic waste, screaming customers, dead cats, raging homophobes, and oh yeah—getting punched in the face. We’re protecting the identity of the Geniuses who relayed these tales of total cockbaggage with pseudonyms, since some of them might still work for Apple. If you want to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Tablets of Our Dreams

Computers in movies look nothing like the beasts we lug around today. They’re thin and light, a single pane that jumps to life when touched. Technology follows Hollywood dreams; here’s hoping this montage is a portent of what’s coming soon. The world will be shocked if Apple doesn’t reveal a tablet computer next week. It…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Keep Waiting For A MacBook Air Upgrade, If ULV Core i3 and i5 Shortages Are True

The MacBook Air hasn’t been refreshed since last June, but even then it was a pretty minor upgrade. We’ll have to keep on waiting for a newer model apparently, if a shortage in ULV Core i3 and i5 processors is anything to go by. [Hardmac via Slashgear] https://gizmodo.com/is-the-new-macbook-air-actually-slower-than-the-last-on-5302911

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Fox News: Apple Tablet May Be Sold By Both Verizon and AT&T

Fox News. When they’re not talking of celebrity chests, they’re opining about Apple rumors! They got next week’s event date wrong, but now they’re quoting sources saying Apple “is in talks” with both Verizon and AT&T for the tablet. https://gizmodo.com/apples-january-26th-event-confirmed-by-fox-news-5437293 Supposedly there’ll be two versions of the tablet, one offered on CDMA with Verizon’s and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Fastest Text Input Test: Laptop, iPhone, Pen, Palm, or Newton?

In this totally unscientific but reasonably fair test, one man writes a long paragraph on several different devices (including pen and paper) to test speed. The results may surprise and anger you. The contestants: MacBook (unibody), pen and paper, iPhone (portrait), Apple Newton, Palm Treo 650 (hardware QWERTY), and Palm VX (Graffiti handwriting recognition software).…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Our Job Just Got Harder Edition

In today’s Remainders, David Pogue is distressed about the Nook’s weight problems, America’s Cup entrants ditch sails for wings, Engadget spots an HP Smartbook on the FCC’s site, and iLounge coughs up some unconvincing Tablet rumors. Heavy Being a gadget blogger can be tough. We’re talking sitting-cross-legged-all-day, sharing-one-3G-dongle-to-four-of-us, popping-Modafinil-to-stay-awake-at-CES tough. But according to the Times’s…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Tablet Sutra: How Are We Supposed to Hold This Thing?

The Apple Tablet Dates Back to 1888

iPhone App Helps Woman Fall Pregnant, Baby Branded ‘iPhone Baby’ Forevermore

10 Year Old Video of Steve Jobs (In Shorts) Defining Apple

Apple Tablet Prototypes Possibly Identified By Web Analytics, Running iPhone-Like OS 3.2

Apple a Day Calendar Reminds Me of a Certain Gadget Blog…

The One Where I Turn a Stolen $100,000 Apple Prototype Into a Crime Scene

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Apple Defense

Apple Patents: iPods Get Solar, Gestures Get Funky

The Card Speaker At Least Thinks It Sounds Good

Empire Building: Visualizing Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Yahoo

This Week’s Best iPhone Apps

A 27-Year-Old Apple Tablet Prototype

Finally, a Solution for Those Poor Two-iPhone Owners

Apple Genius War Stories: “I Got Punched in the Face” and More

The Tablets of Our Dreams

Keep Waiting For A MacBook Air Upgrade, If ULV Core i3 and i5 Shortages Are True

Fox News: Apple Tablet May Be Sold By Both Verizon and AT&T

The Fastest Text Input Test: Laptop, iPhone, Pen, Palm, or Newton?

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Our Job Just Got Harder Edition

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

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Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

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