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View Small Things on Your iPhone with This $30 Microscope Mod

UC-Davis researchers developed a lens that’ll turn your iPhone or any camera-enabled smartphone into a 350X microscope. The mod is a simple 1-mm ball lens mounted in rubber that’s taped to your phone’s camera. It costs about $30. Besides its obvious uses in the classroom and research field, this basic lens could be a useful…

Tech News Kelly Oct 10

You Can Detect Radiation with a Freaking iPhone Now

Scosche’s RDTX is a radiation detector for your iPhone. Seriously, it turns your iPhone into a Geiger counter—you just attach the wand to your iPhone and the RDTX will tell you the radiation levels around you. Once attached to your phone, the RDTX displays results in a digital scale or classic green/yellow/red analog needle on…

Health Casey Chan Oct 10

iPhone 4 Cases Probably Won’t Fit the iPhone 4S

Though the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S look the same, it seems like the AT&T iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S are just different enough—the silent switch and volume up/down buttons are shifted ever so slightly—that your old cases won’t fit. The iPhone 4S button layout is a lot like the Verizon iPhone 4 (though…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 10

Apple Sells One Million iPhone 4Ses In 24 Hours

Apple has officially announced that they have sold one million iPhone 4S units in 24 hours, which beats down the previous 600,000-unit record set by the iPhone 4. Insane. Phil Schiller is “blown away”: We are blown away with the incredible customer response to iPhone 4S The first day pre-orders for iPhone 4S have been…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 10

Report: Sprint’s Total Equipment Protection Won’t Cover iPhones

It looks like Sprint iPhone users will have to buy AppleCare+ like the rest of us if you want a safety net for dropped, submerged, and otherwise demolished handsets. SprintFeed got its hands on a slide saying Sprint’s Total Equipment Protection plans won’t cover the iPhone. Here’s the thing: the $100 for AppleCare actually comes…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Oct 10

This Is Why the iPhone’s Screen Will Always Be 3.5 Inches

Why does the iPhone have a 3.5-inch screen? Why do larger smartphones feel awkward on your hand? Dustin Curtis has an answer, and I think it is spot on: Touching the upper right corner of the screen on the Galaxy S II using one hand, with its 4.27-inch screen, while you’re walking down the street…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 8

No iPhone 4S for You! Come Back, Two Weeks!

If you weren’t quick enough in pre-ordering your iPhone 4S, you’re going to be waiting an extra week or two. Launch Day supplies of the newest Apple phone have been depleted, according to MacRumors, which cites the new waiting times on the pre-order site above. [MacRumors] https://gizmodo.com/it-only-took-at-t-12-hours-to-unload-200-000-new-iphone-5847865

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Oct 8

It Only Took AT&T 12 Hours to Unload 200,000 New iPhones

I spent two hours trying to pre-order my iPhone 4S last night. According to AT&T’s press release, I wasn’t the only person swearing at its site every time it told me it couldn’t process my order. AT&T announced that they processed 200,000 iPhone 4S pre-orders in 12 hours. That’s approximately 278 iPhone pre-orders a minute.…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Oct 7

Giz Explains: What’s So Smart About the iPhone 4S’s Antenna?

With the iPhone 4S, Apple says it will deliver an iPhone that works anywhere in the world, and with fantastic reception. How did they do it? One word: antennas. Apple’s marketing guru Phil Schiller said the iPhone 4S “intelligently switches between two antennas to receive and send.” Brilliant! But vague. How exactly does a smart…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Oct 7

AT&T Wants to Make Its iPhone 4S the iPhone “4G” (Update: Confirmed)

We knew that AT&T’s the only major US carrier that’s going to be able to take advantage of the iPhone 4S being a HSPA+ device, but it’s kind of unexpected that Apple might help them make that distinction with a 4G network indicator in the status bar. Updated. Update: AT&T confirms to us that Apple…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Oct 7

Apple Cards Make Laziness A Virtue

You’ve probably forgotten about Cards. They were the thing Apple announced this week that used something called the Postal Service to send images through something called the “mail.” Despite sounding like something for old people, Cards are kind of cool. Apple rolled out some details on its Cards program today. Cards let your take a…

Tech News Mat Honan Oct 7

These Are the Prices For the Unlocked iPhone 4S

In case you haven’t noticed yet, Apple is now offering the unlocked iPhone 4S. They will only work on HSPA networks, no Sprint and Verizon’s CDMA. But you can take it around the world and use a pre-paid microSIM card. The prices are $649 for the 16GB model, $749 for the 32GB and $849 for…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 7

4 iPhones + 1 Apple TV = Awesome Split-Screen Multiplayer Gaming

Firemint, the developer behind Real Racing 2 on the iPhone/iPad, has a demo video to show off a neat multi-player trick using the Apple TV and the AirPlay mirroring feature for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2: 4-player split-screen. It’s called Party Play. Essentially, one player hosts a local multiplayer game, and pushes their screen…

Tech News Adrian Covert Oct 7

iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Are Live

iPhone 4S pre-orders are live on Apple’s online store and from individual carriers like Verizon, AT&T and Sprint. Be patient when ordering as the Apple Store is up and down and both Sprint and AT&T are reportedly getting hammered. Just keep hitting F5 and you’ll eventually get through. It just might take a frustrating hour…

Tech News Kelly Oct 7

Turn Classic Literature Into an iPhone Charging Dock

Etsy member inbook has developed a decorative charging stand that merges two of our favorite things – our iPhone and classic literature. The charging stand takes a cloth-covered hardbound book and adds an integrated iPhone charging cable. It’s done so discreetly you would never even know it was a charging dock. The bulk of cord…

Tech News Kelly Oct 7

A Story of Steve Jobs and Gizmodo

This is a really sad day. I sort of can’t explain it. I feel helpless and wistful and overwhelmingly sad. By the time I got here, Gizmodo was already an unspoken name at Apple HQ. A publication pariah. But it wasn’t always that way. According to our former editor, Brian Lam, Steve used to be…

Tech News Joe Brown Oct 5

5 Things We Can’t Wait to Say to Siri, Apple’s Virtual Assistant

Never mind the haters; Apple’s iPhone 4S offers plenty of new stuff, including a much-faster processor called A5, and a virtual assistant named Siri. Her processing demands are such that Siri will only be found on the iPhone 4S, which has that faster processor, and not the new iPod Touch. (We’re waiting for Apple’s confirmation…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm Oct 5

How World Phones Like the iPhone 4S Could Suck Your Bank Account Dry

The new iPhone 4S is a world phone. Sounds pretty awesome right? You and your iPhone 4S circumnavigating the globe. Calls from tiny cafes in Pairs. Texts from the mighty mountains of Macchu Picchu. It’s going to be beautiful right? Sure, if you can afford it. That new iPhone 4S world phone is gonna bleed…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Oct 5

Apple Will Give You $200 Credit For Your Used iPhone 4

Bought an iPhone 4 recently and wishing you’d waited for the 4S? Well, you might not be out of luck. Apple is now offerring up $200 in credit for a used iPhone 4 in good condition. There are a few caveats. In order to fetch $200 it has to be a 16GB iPhone 4 and…

Tech News Brent Rose Oct 5

The Entire iPhone 4S Keynote in 80 Seconds

So you want to watch Tim Cook’s big fancy iPhone 4S reveal, but don’t have an hour and a half for ponderous corporate keynotes? No problem—we did it for you, and cut out everything but the good stuff. This keynote in particular was filled with… well, filler. Slide after slide of eye-numbing data on customer…

Tech News Sam Biddle and Woody Jang Oct 5

View Small Things on Your iPhone with This $30 Microscope Mod

You Can Detect Radiation with a Freaking iPhone Now

iPhone 4 Cases Probably Won’t Fit the iPhone 4S

Apple Sells One Million iPhone 4Ses In 24 Hours

Report: Sprint’s Total Equipment Protection Won’t Cover iPhones

This Is Why the iPhone’s Screen Will Always Be 3.5 Inches

No iPhone 4S for You! Come Back, Two Weeks!

It Only Took AT&T 12 Hours to Unload 200,000 New iPhones

Giz Explains: What’s So Smart About the iPhone 4S’s Antenna?

AT&T Wants to Make Its iPhone 4S the iPhone “4G” (Update: Confirmed)

Apple Cards Make Laziness A Virtue

These Are the Prices For the Unlocked iPhone 4S

4 iPhones + 1 Apple TV = Awesome Split-Screen Multiplayer Gaming

iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Are Live

Turn Classic Literature Into an iPhone Charging Dock

A Story of Steve Jobs and Gizmodo

5 Things We Can’t Wait to Say to Siri, Apple’s Virtual Assistant

How World Phones Like the iPhone 4S Could Suck Your Bank Account Dry

Apple Will Give You $200 Credit For Your Used iPhone 4

The Entire iPhone 4S Keynote in 80 Seconds

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