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If you’d asked me before today what a bumper is, I would’ve said a part of a car—but according to Apple, a bumper is now an iPhone 4 case which comes in six colors. We’re talking white, pink, orange, green, blue and black. It’s got holes on the left-hand side for the three buttons, and…
WWDC keynotes are usually carefully orchestrated affairs. But you might have just read in our live blog how Steve Jobs had to bail on a demo because of network trouble. Awkward. Apple attempted to do their demo over Wi-Fi, but as you can see couldn’t manage to get things up and running due to overload.…
Steve Jobs usually saves the meatiest bit of his keynotes for the end. But WWDC’s “One More Thing” was a little tame: FaceTime, a video chat system for iPhone 4. So, what’s special about FaceTime, and how does it work? First, let’s get this out of the way: Yes, FaceTime is video chat, similar to…
Along with HD video recording, the iPhone 4 is getting a way to edit it right on the phone itself: iMovie for iPhone. Obviously, it’s pretty basic video editing, as its on a phone. But you’re able to combine various clips, add music, photos, titles and transitions as well as basic effects. You’ll recognize the…
Steve Jobs mentioned an all-new “Retina Display” for the iPhone 4. But what exactly is a “Retina Display?” Apart from a marketing buzzword, it’s essentially a high-end screen with four times as many pixels in the same screen real estate. …It’s a screen… A fancy screen, with a 326dpi resolution. Jobs said “there’s a magic…
We already showed you the new iPhone from every angle, inside and out. Today, Steve Jobs re-revealed it, telling us about the remaining details. Here’s the exhaustive guide to all the features of the new iPhone 4. The design The hardware design hasn’t changed from the one we already knew about. It uses the same…
We knew that Netflix had grand plans for the future and today we know what they are: An iPhone app. A full version of Netflix in an iPhone app. We’ll be able to start movies on our TVs or iPads and resume them on other devices. Sounds great and reminds us about a patent we…
iBooks just got a decent-sized update, bringing native PDF support (yes!) as well as bookmarks. Your PDFs will get their own seperate bookshelf. The update drops later this month. GDGT” /> Click to view Follow Everything iPhone on Facebook From the best iPhone apps and games to the biggest iPhone news stories and all the…
Do you know why you can’t concentrate on one thing at a time? Why you can’t get engaged with your family? Why you need to check your email every five minutes? Because gadgets and multitasking are screwing up your brain. According to this lengthy NY Times article, our brains just aren’t wired for the amount…
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Melbourne is famed for having four seasons in one day, so it’s only fitting that a 14m (diameter-wise) animated scale model of the sun should be suspended in the sky, controllable with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. It was created by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer for the Light in Winter festival in Melbourne. Beamed onto…
UK cell carrier Orange always puts out a publicity-garnering concept device before the Glastonbury Festival to drum up chatter about its sponsorship. This year’s? Cellphone-charging Wellies. Yes, these sure-to-never-be-produced rain boots charge up your phone via the heat generated by your feet. Nevermind the obvious silliness of sticking your cellphone on the outside of boots…
It was only a matter of time before someone ruined the iPad’s simple elegance with an atrocious webcam. By a company named Photofast, this iPad webcam is planned for launch later this year. With a 2MP still camera (not 200, despite what the picture may say), it promises 640×480 video streaming in messaging apps. It…
As you heard, we weren’t invited into the WWDC keynote itself, but that doesn’t mean we’re not going to be liveblogging today’s events. We’ve had an impressive outpouring of support from our readers on the inside to help us liveblog. Our liveblog is, as usual, over at live.gizmodo.com, so head over on there now, because…
HP’s vision: a fleet of printers, all connected to the cloud, all with their own email addresses. No more drivers, no extra cost. You’ll be able to print from your smartphone or iPad. If printing has a future, it’s this. It’s not as though we didn’t see this coming: the New York Times spilled some…
We’re just a few hours away from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Before we know for absolute certainty what they’ve got planned, let’s see if we can’t separate probable fact from probable fiction. UPDATED: Will the new iPhone be announced? Ever since Apple’s next-generation iPhone was uncovered, there’s been speculation that the early reveal would push…
The worst thing about all these eBook readers taking over? Future generations of small-minded twits will miss out on the simple pleasures of a burning pile of books. Unless, of course, they’re really committed. [xkcd]
According to 9-to-5’s reliable sources, Apple filmed a funny sketch re-writing the story of Powell and his lost iPhone prototype. The short features John Hodgman—who plays PC Guy in Apple’s commercials—playing a barman getting a guy drunk. In the sketch, Hodgman plays a bartender who “gets a guy drunk in order to get his hands…
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