iPhone

This New App Wants to Fight Your Parking Tickets For You

It’s happened to all of us. You get back to your car after a delicious brunch or productive visit to the bookstore only to find a demonic little slip of paper tucked under your windshield wiper. “But the meter was broken!” you think. “I’m going to contest this!” you say to yourself. No, you’re not.…

I Could Stare All Day at These Beautiful Studio Portraits of Cameras

It’s true that photographers have a way of fetishizing their gear. But it’s fun to appreciate the craft and aesthetic of cameras, just like in these amazing studio portraits by photographer Julian Calverley. The series is called Treasured Cameras, and they are nothing more than gracefully lit and composed shots of some of Calverley’s own…

Shooting Challenge: Panoramas

It’s hard to take an enchanting photo. But it’s even harder to take an enchanting photo that’s 3x or more the normal length. So for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re going wide. We’re going panoramic. The Challenge Take a panoramic photo. Feel free to use an app, like the iPhone’s, to do so. You can…

This App Shows You What Your Photos Will Look Like With Any Lens

Sometimes when shooting or conceptualizing a scene, it’s hard to visualize composition without actually looking through a specific lens. This new iPhone app shows you just how hundreds of lenses will see your subject. The app is called Mark II Artist’s Viewfinder. Weird name. But yeah, what it does is simulate frame lines in your…

Stop Carrying Credit Cards With This Fob That Can Fake Them

George Costanza would love the Loop: it’s a tiny device that stores all of your credit card information, lets you pay at any terminal, and guarantees you’ll never live with the threat of your wallet exploding again. And you can buy it right now. If Loop sounds familiar, you might be thinking of Coin, the…

Finally, an App That Lets Strangers Listen to Your Phone Calls

While you were busy worrying about the NSA spying on you, artist -slash- software developer Lauren McCarthy made an app called Crowdpilot. It lets everybody spy on you. Actually, Crowdpilot is a little more specific than that. The basic idea behind the iPhone app is to let people listen in on your phone calls so…

Use Your iPhone To Send Smoke Signals Even When There’s No Service

If you’re tired of iMessage failures, spotty coverage from your carrier, and sickeningly cute emoticons, here’s a clever iPhone case that will revolutionize how you chat with your friends—using technology that’s been around for hundreds of years. Dennis Be Bel’s S.M.S.—or smoke messaging service—case heats and vaporizes lamp oil every time a simple button is…

Even I Would Read the Bible If It Were This Pretty

Despite having grown up in the Bible Belt, I’m not terribly religious. Sure, I still go to our quaint little Episcopal church with my mom on holidays but, if you asked me what happens in the Book of Revelation, I’d be dumbfounded. Unless I had an app like this. A British design studio called Family…

This Anti-Snooping App Catches People Who Spy on Your iPhone

Have you ever wondered if people are spying on you? Not to be paranoid or anything, but we all leave our phones unattended sometimes. It’s not hard for a friend—or foe—to take a quick look at your text messages. But don’t fret. Catchr ($2) does one thing, and it does it pretty well. Once you…

It Took More Than Just iPhones to Shoot Apple’s New Ad

With Macintosh turning 30 this year, you’d think Apple would go big. Maybe they’d spring for another Super Bowl commercial like the 1984 ad that changed the way the world thinks about computers. Nah… they just made an Apple promo reel that was shot entirely on iPhones—with a little help, of course. Don’t get me…

Discounts On iPads, iPhones, MacBooks Pros, And Nexus 5s [Deals]

Today on eBay, you can take advantage of one of the first deals we’ve seen on the Retina iPad Mini, or scoop up some leftover iPad 4 inventory at deep discounts. Gizmodo loved the new Mini, and the iPad 4 deals are tempting if you need a ton of storage space or LTE. https://gizmodo.com/retina-ipad-mini-review-a-sight-for-sore-eyes-1465237647 Retina…

A Touch-Sensitive iPhone Case That Lets You Answer Calls While Closed

A flip-style case will protect all the parts of your expensive smartphone—from the housing to the display—but at the cost of making you a little slower on the draw when it comes to answering a call. So to solve this ‘problem’ Moshi has created the SenseCover case which features a touch-sensitive strip on the outside…

WSJ: Two Different Big-Screen iPhones Are Coming This Year

Rumors of larger iPhones that take a page from the Android phablet handbook have been swirling around for a while now, and the WSJ is now chiming in with reports that two are coming this year. One with a screen bigger than 4.5 inches, the other with a screen bigger than 5 inches. https://gizmodo.com/report-apple-working-on-two-big-iphones-for-whatever-1461762060 According…

How Much Storage Does Your Smartphone Actually Give You?

The dirty little not-so-secret of smartphones is that you’ll never get the full amount of memory marked on the case. Operating systems take up space! But different phones leave you with different amounts of storage. Here, from Which?, are the most and least generous. Among 16GB smartphones, the iPhone 5C ends up leaving the most…

iOS 7′s Reboot Bug Will Be Ironed Out… But Not Until iOS 7.1

iOS 7, perhaps the most divisive software update in Apple’s history of mobile devices, has suffered from one particularly annoying bug since launching last September. Random restarts have plagued a number of users, and finally Apple is doing something about it. A substantial number of users have reported unexpected reboots of their iOS 7-packing iPhones…

Smashed your iPhone 5C screen recently? Looks like your days of picking shards of glass from your palms are numbered. Starting next week, Apple will finally start offering in-store screen repairs/replacementsfor 5C usersat any Apple Store. For those of you carrying a 5S, don’t worry; your day will come—eventually.

Google Play Movies and TV Finally Comes to iOS

First Google Play Books made its way to iOS. Then Google Play Music undertook the pilgrimage. So, it should be little surprise that today Google Play Movies and TV has finally made the jump. This is significant not just because it brings Google’s formidable library of content to iOS, but because of the capabilities it…

Brilliant, Overdue App Forces Your Phone to Take Horizontal Videos

You can tell your friends and family they should be shooting videos horizontally all you want, but that won’t stop them from capturing unwieldily vertical clips that are impossible to fullscreen on a computer. But there’s finally a solution to this problem. Simply hide their default camera app—bury it deep in a folder somewhere—and replace…

Finally, an iPhone Case That Provides Extra Storage Space

Many of us have been there. You want to take a beautiful picture of a beautiful thing with your iPhone and up pops a very ugly alert: “Cannot Take Photo.” Storage full. And without a memory card slot, you can’t exactly add more. Until now. Mophie, the makers of those handy battery pack cases, just…

Wow, Siri Does Not Like Being Asked About Spike Jonze’s Her

Is Her a beautifully rendered near-future vision of what life will be like when we start falling in love with artificial intelligence? Not if you ask Siri. She doesn’t like Her one bit, and she’ll let you know that in no uncertain terms. Unlike Siri’s biting but witty thoughts on Google Glass, her take on…