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Just because you don’t have/want/like the iPad doesn’t mean you can’t have some fun with one anyway. Set any of these images as the background on a your friend’s iPad, and watch the chaos ensue when they turn it on. Peruse a few childish iPad pranks in the gallery below. And to see them all…
Apparently this guy must’ve realized that he doesn’t need all three of the iPads he purchased, so he brutally destroyed one with a baseball bat. Hope the minor Internet fame was worth $500. [iPad Insider]
“He gets behind the steering wheel console of his PC, puts on his real game face – without the helmet – and pays attention.” With sport-oriented video games becoming more and more realistic, professional athletes are beginning to sneak them into their training regiments in order to stay sharp and focused. For example, NASCAR drivers…
One other key tidbit was just added to the Mercury article about Steve Jobs showing up at the Apple Store. Tech Analyst Gene Munster over at Piper Jaffray, believes that 600,000 to 700,000 were sold today alone. Earlier, he believed 300,000 would be sold over the entire weekend. As a point of reference, 270,000 iPhones…
Ok, maybe it’s cheating a little because the graphics are rendered in the cloud and then streamed to the device via a service called OTOY, but still: The iPad runs Crysis. Kinda. [TechCrunch]
Now that people have started to receive their JooJoo tablets, it was only a matter of time before someone tore it down and revealed its inner secrets. The question is, what did they find? Well according to Engadget it’s pretty easy to crack into the JooJoo, as it only requires you to remove 10 screws.…
Posted from my iPad. [ComicsGoneBad]
Not satisfied with inciting mass frenzies across the nation, Steve Jobs just had to show up at the Palo Alto Apple Store to survey the iPad carnage for himself. You, sir, are a sadist. According to the SJ Mercury, Jobs spent 30 minutes at the Apple Store with his family, talking to customers and reveling…
Let’s face it: We’ve been waiting for someone to give us porn optimized for iPads. Sure, it’s not free, but it’s porn on the iPad. Beautiful, perfectly formatted porn streamable to iPads over 3G, Edge or Wi-Fi. Oh la la! The name of the site is PinkVisualPad, the costs range from a $1/day previews to…
HTC’s HD2 might have only been out for less than two weeks, but they still can’t keep the phone in stock, selling out again this week. Furthermore, up to 21,000 HD2 phones have sold in a single day. T-Mobile doesn’t know when they’ll get more HD2’s in stock (and be able to keep them in…
Any idiot can use an iPad at a basic level. It’s designed that way. But even still, there are things that you’re just supposed to magically know—things no one ever necessarily tells you. So we’re here to help. The Soft Reset The single most common thing people don’t realize about the iPhone OS (from my…
iPad supports manual file transfers through iTunes. However, at this moment, it doesn’t work as smoothly as you would expect. There is a dedicated area at the bottom of the Applications pane (click on the iPad icon inside iTunes to access it) dedicated for this task. On the left side there is a list of…
The iPad is a solid video-playing machine. But you have a whole slew of choices when it comes to finding and watching videos on the new tablet. Which is right for you? Let’s explore your options. Load Videos From iTunes This is the way Apple would prefer you do things, as it would presumably involve…
So you’ve got an iPad with an “HD” 1,024 by 768 pixel screen and a boatload of video files on your computer. You’re ready to get some serious video watching done. I can make that happen. Should I Transcode My Videos? If they’re over 720p, you’ll have to. The iPad can’t play back anything with…
After weeks of speculation over when the HTC Incredible would officially surface, Gearlog spotted Verizon’s VZWOffers Twitter account referencing the “superphone” in a tweet yesterday. Verizon hasn’t revealed any official specs or plans for a release date (nor do they plan to for the time being), but here’s what they did say: “@studentbuddha It’s a…
Gizmodo Loves You. That’s why we gave away around 50 bags full of glorious freebies to iPad linesitters today, at Apple’s flagship 5th avenue cube store. Anyway, about that: It was a scene. It was fun, sure, but man. The video describes what everyone saw better than I can, but a few words come to…
Here’s a great factoid from iFixit’s teardown: the iPad power source is made up of two batteries that are each roughly the same size as that found in the iPhone. The kicker? Each has 2.5x the capacity. UPDATE Overall, the iPad has 5x the power capacity of the iPhone. Why is this interesting, beyond being…
Decent iPad RTS games were somewhere between numbers one and four for on the Giz staff’s various wishlists, and Command & Conquer: Red Alert is one of the all time greats of the genre. It’s tough to imagine a better type of device for playing RTSes than a flat slab of multitouch glass. Scrolling across…
A Boy Genius Report tipster found references to these new iPad, iPhone and iPod touch model numbers in the filesystem for the iPad (which totally went on sale today, if you didn’t notice). The following models were listed in the iPad software: * iPhone3,2 * iPhone3,3 * iPod4,1 * iProd2,1 Boy Genius thinks that iProd…
Playing with an iPad, one of the first things you notice is its speed. Everything zips into place. Our side by side tests comparing it with the iPhone proved that (for the most part) its snappiness isn’t just imagined. Updated. The most telling test was loading Plants vs. Zombies. To keep things consistent, we ran…
