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Click to viewThe iPhone App Store is now available on both the iPhone 2.0 and iTunes. Watch this space for updates and videos as we walk through it, liveblog style. Updated after the jump with videos detailing all the store sections, downloading and uninstall. Verdict so far: works perfectly. The App Store works great on…
Here it is: the much-anticipated Apple Application store for iPhone and iPod Touch is now live via iTunes. Click here for app goodness. Watch this space for our news on the various apps. [Apple]
Clearly one to take a good idea and run with it, Brando has just come up with this new cartridge-style HDD dock that also acts as a media player. So via its s-video and composite sockets you can stream audio, pictures, and video (including divx, with subtitles) to TV and it even has a remote.…
We brought you some leaked info on Creative’s upcoming PMP not long ago, and now it’s official. The credit-card-sized player will come in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB versions, and the larger two will support 802.11 b/g wi-fi for wireless syncing of music, video and photos and an IM chat function. It’s got a 2.5-inch, 320…
Click to viewiTunes 7.7 is available in “software update” for Mac and Windows. Apple’s iTunes page also has it. You’ll need this version for the new iPhone OS 2.0 version. The new version hasn’t changed from the confidential pre-release we tested alongside iPhone OS 2.0. Like we said then, the apps sync tab in iTunes…
Batman Begins, the one HD DVD that we’ve been waiting to get on Blu-ray, has finally made it. It’s Batman. It’s Blu-ray. You want it. Buy it now. Get tickets for The Dark Knight. It’s Batman! Buy this goddamn movie! BATMAN!! [Amazon]
Steve Jobs gave the NYT a bunch of details on the upcoming iPhone App Store. It’s opening Thursday with “more than 500 software applications,” 25% of which will be free, and 90% of which will be $9.99 or less. If we’re talking software developers, they get 70% of the revenues while Apple pockets 30%. Jobs…
It’s official. .Mac is down for the MobileMe transition as of about 9ish Pacific time. It’s a little more than an hour past the start of the 8PM-2AM window, so things should be on target for coming back up before 2AM. Our only question at this point is why those four languages are the only…
Apple employees might have to fondle your iPhone 3G to activate it, but rest easy true believers, the very first smudges on it will be from your own greasy fingers. After gingerly removing it from the box, employees are instructed to let you “enjoy the feel of the phone” in your hand before slugging through…
Kodak’s first entry into the pocket camcorder pool, the Zi6, may be the new king of cams. My lab assistants and I have done more scientific research in the field of cheap-ass camcorders than anyone we can name off the top of our heads. In my expert opinion, this is a winner, ready to unseat…
Kodak has a pair of super zoom cameras that actually may be able to spot a needle in a haystack. The Z1012 IS and Z1015 IS are 10MP cams that zoom up to 12X and 15X, respectively. They both have a 28mm wide angle lens, image stabilization and full manual mode if you want to…
After the recent spate of iPhone 3G unboxing, a vid of AT&T personnel taking 3Gs out of a crate doesn’t necessarily qualify as gadget porn, but this snippet happens to contain the first sighting of the elusive white iPhone 3G, in its—surprise!—white box. Luckily for your girlfriend, it looks like we were wrong about Apple…
This concept painting of a “mono-scoot” personal transportation device was done by Richard H. Arbib in 1965. It is featured in the excellent book Driving Through Futures Past by the Petersen Automotive Museum. See also: No One Will Walk – All Will Have Wheels (1900) Gyroscopic Rocket Car (1945) Cars Detroit Forgot to Build (1950-1960)
GearLive just found that the MobileMe update is live on Apple’s site, even if it’s not live on Software Update yet. Click here to grab the package, which you can install first before the actual MobileMe is live. According to .Mac’s left column, the service will be taken offline between 8PM tonight PDT and 2AM…
It’s not often that a case mod involves modding two cases into one, but it’s not often you get to see an Xbox 360 stuffed inside an LCD HDTV. PvP LostKnight has done just that to save space, creating what’s perhaps the world’s first Xbox console console. Not only does it work but it looks…
Today we’ve got proof that the Wii isn’t just for kids with this pair of Wiimote sex toys. We’re not sure what game they’re made to accompany but if anyone can create a realistic Mii while properly using one of these, we’ll give them a prize. They come from a site that’s mysterious for two…
In a historic vote this afternoon, the Senate voted to amend the Foreign Intelligence Security Act (FISA) to expand the government’s surveillance capabilities and provide retroactive immunity for phone companies who participated in the Bush administration’s illegal wiretapping program. The margin of victory was wide, with 69 old people voting for and only 28 old…
In this week’s episode of I Survived… contestants found themselves on an elaborate interconnected exercise bike/conveyor belt contraption. The object of the game is for the tricyclist, peddling on and against a moving belt, to remain in the prize zone for as long as possible. His or her teammates peddle on stationary bikes beside the…
Today’s list from OObject features a collection of 10 videos focusing on German car factories. Why? Because they are gadgety, first and foremost-but the architecture of the factories is significant as well. In other words, German car manufacturers are realizing a vision where both the product and the factory are an integrated work of art.…
When they’re not screaming at you to pull off for discount cigarettes, fireworks and porn (at least when you’re near the Indiana border), highway billboards are apparently busy looking like menacing space station hallways from below. High-watt chemical lights under night skies make for some fantastic captures, as Slovakian photographer Branislav Kropilak has discovered. Bravo.…
