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iPhone Wish List: Vote On It

We know you have a long wish list for the iPhone, but here’s your chance to vote on it, Digg-style. There’s now a site dedicated to iPhone feature requests, and it works on the same concept as community-based popularity website Digg. Vote for your favorite feature that was left out of the iPhone on the…

iPhone, Box and Dock Made From Clay

Adding to the iPhone made out of various materials club, we submit this clay iPhone. Doesn’t quite look as good as the other one we saw, but there’s even a dock and a box in there too. [Flickr via BoingBoing] https://gizmodo.com/knitted-iphone-made-of-pure-wool-and-love-is-shatterpro-275543

Google and Apple Both Failing to Satisfy

The American Customer Satisfaction Index has just released its second quarter update, and things aren’t looking so good for high performers like Google and Apple. In the Web Portal category Google has slipped three points from last year, while Yahoo has gained three points. The result: Yahoo has overtaken Google in the top spot, with…

Logic3 First Out with iPhone-Dedicated Speaker System

Logic3 has beaten everyone else to the punch with its i-Station Traveller for iPhone. Just 6.7 inches across, the system can go lengthways as well as widthways. Four-watt output, 35 mm neodymium drivers, and compatible with other media players, the i-Station Traveller costs 29.99 ($60). Another pic and press release after the jump. Fit for…

Video of “Lights Out” the First Native iPhone Game

The iPhone’s hacked video conferencing app won the Iron Coder challenge at the C-4 Dev conference, but the silver prize is tons more fun. “Lights Out” is the world’s first third part iPhone game to run native on the system. It’s free, but you’ll need to download iActivator to jailbreak and run the app from…

ShapeServices brings Skype IM chat to the iPhone via webapp, but there’s no real Skype voice chat over Wi-Fi. [PRNewswire]

Nike Amp+ iPod Watch Appears on FCC Website, More Photos Surface

Here’s are more photos of the Amp+, one of those Nike iPod watches we saw leaked early this year. Recently appearing on the FCC website, the Amp+ gives you normal iPod nano controls along with a scrolling LED that displays information on your Nike+iPod running status. https://gizmodo.com/nike-ipod-watch-details-leaked-230120 The design of the unit is slick and…

The Madness Begins with a 300-Page AT&T Bill for iPhone

Click to view[UPDATED: Check Justine’s interview after the jump] Following this weekend’s Gore Alert post, Justine Ezarik —of JustinTV fame— has just received her first iPhone bill. Three. Hundred. Pages. See her unwrapping the package from AT&T in the video after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/huge-at-t-iphone-bills-destroy-resources-break-postmen-288562 Click to view Come back later to find out what she…

Universal Partners With Google To Rival iTunes

Another online music download service is set to enter the ring. The difference this time? The partnership is between Universal and Kingpin, Google. The pairing off was announced earlier last week, but now more details have emerged on the business plan. The service called gBox, (not a euphemism), will be different to traditional offerings such…

Microsoft Fanboys Do Stupid Things Too…

There has been much ado in the last week about how incredibly stupid Apple fanboys are. Eat some humble pie MS lovers, how crazy is this? A Microsoft House! In contrast, we had the plastic surgeon that operated on his big clunky thumbs so he could use the iPhone with improved accuracy. Then Heather got…

DOOM is on the iPhone! (almost)

DOOM is on the iPhone! Hoorah! The iPhone was worth the $599 after all! Well, almost. The game runs, but it can’t be controlled and it’s lacking audio of any sort. Think of it as a Hello World app but with satanic monsters attacking your defenseless body. We do, however, very much look forward to…

Ars Benches the New iMac, Predictably Decent Performance

While we poked and prodded our new iMac trying to answer all of your questions, Ars Technicha went their traditional route and benchmarked the hell out of the poor iMac. The 20-inch, 2.4GHz machine with 2GB or RAM ” outdid a MacBook Pro with an identical CPU and FSB in my testing, and it was…

Apple has released an update for the new iMacs which allows the new keyboard’s F13-F19 keys to be programmed for use with Exposé, Dashboard and more. [Apple]

Universal announced it will start selling DRM-free music through a variety of outlets, but iTunes won’t be one of them. [New York Times]

How the iPhone and iPhoto ’08 Sync Galleries Over .Mac

iPhoto + .Mac + iPhone = pretty cool syncing of photos to and from your handset and desktop. Couple of things not addressed in the video: a) images sent from the iPhone are actually sent using the mail program, to your gallery’s specific email address, and so images are 640 by 480. When you sync…

Giant Moron Surgically Trims Thumbs for Better iPhone Use

Thomas Martel surgically altered his thumbs with a new technique called “whittling” to better enable his naturally oversized digits to use his iPhone. The plastic surgeon made a small incision to each thumb, shaved down the bones, and even made some enhancements to his muscles and fingernails. “Sure the proceedure was expensive, but when I…

iPhone Games on the Way?

People are still rooting around the innards of the iPhone, and some inquisitive Brits found a couple of clues that there might be games forthcoming for Apple’s as yet game-dumb cellphone (that’s a simulation in the graphic you see here). Come with us as we see the telltale iPhone code that asks if the user…

PC World’s McCracken wonders who the “brilliant engineer” behind iMovie ’08 is. Apple generally doesn’t glorify individual engineers, so he won’t get an official answer. Anyone know? [PC World]

David Elsewhere: Behind the iPod Dancer

You know all those ads, including the iPod one, that has a guy dancing like he’s made of rubber? It’s all the same dude: David Elsewhere. The nimble virtuoso has basically invented his own style of dancing, and it’s so unique that basically any time you see it in an ad, it’s him. Even if…

Apple Applies for Patent on MultiTouch Interface for Laptops, Too

Apple is a further tinkering with its MultiTouch interface, now showing how it might be implemented on a Macbook Pro in a patent application that extends the idea from an earlier filing in 2004. No, you won’t be smudging up that gleaming screen with your pasty paws—the touchscreen on this Macbook is not actually a…