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Girl Uses Classic iPhone Prank on Mom to Hilarious Results

A few years ago I told you about an amazing prank you can pull on your friends/co-workers/family. This girl just executed it with beautiful precision on her mother. https://gizmodo.com/ios-5-shortcut-feature-enables-a-hilarious-prank-5855293 Here’s how it works: Go into someone’s iPhone settings and change their shortcuts so that some normal term they would type then automatically changes to something…

Just Tap Your Phone On Every Wall and This App Will Draw a Floorplan

It’s not a bad idea to measure a room before you go out and buy a bunch of new furniture. And if you’ve got an iPhone, that becomes less of an ordeal because you can trade your tape measure for this slick app called RoomScan. It automatically generates floorplans by simply tapping your phone on…

I Want These Gorgeous Wood Panels on My iPhone Right Now

Those two little glass panels on the back of the iPhone 5 are a little silly. They look pretty cool, I guess. But what are you supposed to do if they break? It’s definitely not worth getting a new phone. Well, thanks to a sympathetic designer, you now have a very pretty option: wood. Richard…

A Three-Pound iPhone Case Turns Texting Into a Weirdo Workout

What if every call you answered, every text you sent, and every Facebook status update you posted actually worked to improve your fitness? It’s kind of a ridiculous notion, but the ToneFone—which is basically the heaviest case you’ll ever slap on your iPhone—promises just that. So how does it work? It’s heavy, and that’s pretty…

Apple has launched a cheaper 8GB version of the iPhone 5C in Europe, making it around $80 cheaper to get the lowest specced iOS handset. There’s no word on when—or if—the phone will arrive in the U.S..

A Simple Adapter Lets the iPhone Assist in Eye Exams

We’ve already got machines that give ophthalmologists a close-up view of the inside and outside of the human eye. The problem is they’re big and heavy, expensive, and rarely accessible to those in third world nations. So researchers at Stanford University have created a simple iPhone add-on that lets almost anyone, anywhere, perform eye exams.…

As spotted by 9to5Mac, Apple will trim its iPhone return window from 30 days to 14 as of tomorrow. Carriers had previously offered 14 days, so now at least it’s consistent across the board. Still, for Apple Store customers, that’s less than half the time to decide if parallax effect is right for you. [9to5Mac]

iOS 7.1 is now out, bearing mostly minor tweaks and bug-fixes, but also CarPlay support. At the moment there aren’t any cars to support it, but as soon there are you’ll be good to go. Well, if you’re picking up a fancy new car anyway.

This Slim iPhone Case Works Like a Real-Life Tricorder

You’ve seen the iPhone accessory that can check your blood pressure, as well as the one that can monitor your heart rate. There’s even one that can turn your phone into an electrocardiogram (ECG). But, now, there’s an iPhone case that can do all of that—and more. Meet Wello. This thin, ultralight iPhone case can…

Apple Patents Emergency Alert That Calls the Cops When You Can’t

An Apple patent published today details a theoretical feature that would enable your mobile device to detect an emergency and alert your designated contacts or the police. And y’know what? It actually makes a lot of sense. The patent application for “mobile emergency attack and failsafe detection” outlines a series of ways your smartphone could…

Your iPhone Can Search These Storage Boxes Without Having to Open Them

You know that stack of storage boxes buried deep in your closet that you’re too lazy to dismantle to find that one item you’re looking for? These boxes from King Jim feature a small tag on one side that lets you catalog photos of their contents, so when it’s time to find something you can…

Orion Nebula: first photo from 1880 outclassed by 2014 iPhone

First the iPhone camera was used for a microscope. Now it’s being used in astrophotography.

The first photo of the Orion Nebula compared to one taken by an iPhone

Back in 1880, astronomer Henry Draper required an entire 50 minutes to capture the first telescopic image of the Orion Nebula. Now, over 130 years later, Andrew Symes has accomplished the exact same thing using his iPhone — and he only needed a single second. Canadian astrophotographer Andrew Symes does most of his photography through…

Horizon, the clever camera app that forces your iPhone or iPad to only shoot horizontal videos no matter how they’re held, is now free on the iTunes App Store for a little while. So now you have no excuse for shooting vertical videos ever again. [iTunes App Store]

WSJ: Apple Is Hiring Engineers in Asia to Launch More Products, Faster

Good news, perhaps, for the impatient: the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is “hiring hundreds of new engineers and supply-chain managers” across Asia in an attempt to “speed up product development and launch a wider range of devices.” According to “people familiar with the matter,” Apple is poaching staff from HTC and other…

Ellen DeGeneres used an iPhone backstage instead of that Samsung

The Oscars 2014 feel like (are?) a commercial for Samsung, with Ellen DeGeneres flashing a Galaxy Note and taking selfies left right and center. It’s ridiculous. Backstage? She actually used her iPhone, of course. PR people will never learn. I really don’t know what were they thinking. DeGeneres is a well known iPhone fan.She even…

Moov Might Be the Most Advanced Fitness Wearable Yet

As you may have noticed, there are a million activity trackers out there right now. Most of them are glorified pedometers. The upper tier add altimeters, heart rate monitors, and sleep-tracking to the equation. But what if you don’t just want to be reminded to work out—you want to work out better, safer, and more…

Apple Finally Explains Touch ID Security in Detail

You shouldn’t really have been worrying about how Touch ID works too much, but if you have been, then Apple has finally explained most of the security details behind the technology in detail. https://gizmodo.com/stop-worrying-about-the-new-iphones-fingerprint-scanne-1326146704 Apple has released a new white paper about iOS security, which explains with more detail than before how Touch ID works—and,…

29 Epic Panoramas From Around The World

Humans can see an impressive 120-degree arc, but we’re not capable of focusing on all of that vision at once. Panoramic photographs stretch that sight to 180 or 360 degrees, and even better, 100% of that image is in attention-grabbing focus. Here are the 29 panoramas from this week’s Shooting Challenge. WINNER: Exit Shots were…

This Hearing Aid Connects to an iPhone and Adapts to Your Surroundings

For centuries, humans have been using technology to make up for their shortcomings. People missing limbs got prosthetics. People with weak hearts got pacemakers. But, at a certain point, becoming a cyborg is less like fixing something broken than it is like gaining new powers. Such is the case with the brand-spanking new ReSound LiNX…