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Steve Swasey, Netflix’s VP of Corporate Communications, was asked if there’s an iPhone app in the future—after all, we are getting one for the iPad. His response? Netflix is working on it. He explains: We wouldn’t invite you to dinner without planning to serve dessert. In other words, we’re working on it so stay tuned.…
So maybe the promo for the GQ app is a bit silly with its suggestions that you swipe, tap, and flip like a man, but the magazine actually looks rather nice on an iPad: Click to view You can purchase individual magazine issues—including back issues—through the app which is now available in iTunes for $2.99.…
I don’t know why this guy revealed what the switches in his car do, but I certainly wish my gas-guzzler could produce magic at the flick of a switch—heck, I’d settle for a card trick. [TwitPic via Reddit]
Are people near you already lining up to wait for their iPads? Show us! We want to see pictures of the iPad lines near you—be they in front of Apple Stores or Best Buys. Update: Woz spotting! Please send your pictures to [email protected] to me!-and use “iPad Line Photos” as the subject. [Thanks, Anonymous Tipster…
We had plenty of complaints about the QWERTY remote for the TiVo Premiere, but it turns out that any ol’ USB and “most standard IR or RF HID-compliant wireless keyboards” will work with the device. Dave Zatz proves it: The keyboard mapping isn’t completely perfect yet—for some reason the backspace and space bar are elusive—but…
Let’s say you want to dig yourself up a little garden or terrorize the local rodentia. Or both! Well, meet the EC280 Excavator. It’s a tiny little monster with a kickass demo soundtrack. Everything about this is ridiculous and wonderful. It’s a 1:14.5 scale replica of a hulking Cat excavator, but don’t worry about that…
We wondered about the Kindle iPad app and whether we’d get to purchase ebooks with it despite the competition it poses for Apple’s iBooks app and store, but here we are. It’s official, purchase options and all. [iTunes via Amazon]
Think about it: US Postal Service employees actually opening and scanning all your letters, and then sending you emails with their content with the option to receive the physical letter if you choose to. Scarily unreal? Not if you’re Finnish. If you live in Finland, that’s exactly what the government wants to do to “reduce…
We’ve already seen the insides of the Wi-Fi only iPad, but now the 3G version of the shiny Apple device is baring its soul—its communication board. [iFixIt]
Nuclear fusion is a tricky business: the last thing you want is any of the residual radioactive isotopes leaking out from the reactor. So how might California’s National Ignition Facility mitigate that possibility? By laser punching. Obviously. The NIF may begin nuclear fusion later this year, according to the New Scientist: To kick-start the reaction,…
Everybody, it seems, has a damned opinion about this iPad. And since everyone is so happy to tell the internet what that opinion is, it’s very easy to fit them all into neat little categories. The Fanboy This guy will buy anything Apple releases, no matter what, so of course he pre-ordered an iPad as…
You didn’t preorder an iPad. But you want one now. Can you still buy one? Where do you go? What’s it going to be like? This is what you need to know to buy an iPad tomorrow. Updated. The Apple Store Are there gonna iPads for people who didn’t preorder? Yes. In fact, the Apple…
What can you fit in a huge 7676 x 630-pixel image? One hundred characters created by Pixar drawn to scale by Chilean designer Juan Pablo Bravo, from Luxo Jr. to Mr. Incredible to Up! protagonist Carl Fredricksen. Zoom in. Click on the image above to see the full graphic. [Juan Pablo Bravo via Geekologie]
Apps are still getting approved at a terrifying clip. We’ve added the best of the second wave to the Essential iPad Apps guide, including iBooks (ebook reading), iDisplay (use the iPad as a second monitor), SoundHound (recognize any song via microphone), Pandora (unlimited, custom radio), Dragon Dictation and more. Bookmark the original post; we’re going…
Mac users wanting an extra monitor can turn their iPhones and iPads into external multitouch displays. All you do is download the iDisplay app, an extension for OS X, and let the data flow over either 3G or Wi-Fi. Tada! Yes, the connection goes both directions, so you’ll be able to use your multitouch gadget…
The iPad itself looks OK, but it has a drab, pansy background. So we picked the two movies that we’re the most shamelessly excited about and resized their images (to 768×1024) for you: Tron Legacy and Iron Man 2. Check them out in the gallery below to save the images in their native resolution, or…
Henceforth, all four-legged tables shall have at least one hollow leg which shall be named the magic leg. And should a table have more than one magic leg—a rare splendor—they shall be named the magic legs. [dezeen]
Intrinsity is a chip design company that specializes in really fast, really power-efficient ARM processors, like the ones found in the iPhone, iPad and basically every other smartphone. Well, it looks like Apple just bought them. [EDN, MacRumors]
There’s another Photoshop preview vid out today, this time for a feature called Puppet Warp. And if you thought Content-Aware Fill was amazing, wait until you see how Puppet Warp lets you bend and twist images. If this applies to pictures of actual humans half as well as as it does to a wooden puppet,…
Are you looking to commit suicide very slowly with food? KFC is here to help! Its new Double Down sandwich is coming to a KFC sad factory near you on April 12th. You see, it’s a sandwich, but instead of bread it uses fried fucking chicken. And in between those two pieces of fried chicken?…
