Tabletmania continues! This week saw a slew of new rumors on Apple’s mystery device and some healthy speculation on the next iPhone, too. Also making noise: Pre Plus, HTML5, SSDs, Kindle apps and the punch heard ’round the Apple Store.
Apple’s January 27th event was confirmed with a splatter of paint.
https://gizmodo.com/apple-january-27th-come-see-our-latest-creation-event-5451005
And oh were there rumors. One report said it was an iPhone flattened with a rolling pin. The WSJ said that we’d share our Tablets with our families (yeah right). One even suggested it could cure lupus (not really).
https://gizmodo.com/the-apple-tablet-a-first-generation-iphone-thats-met-i-5453903
We started our Apple Tablet Sweepstakes. There’s still time to enter, so guess the mystery device’s specs and features and we’ll buy you one.
https://gizmodo.com/guess-the-apple-tablet-features-win-one-for-yourself-5451391
Jesus reflected on the Apple Tablet interface and sorted out what makes sense and what just plain doesn’t.
https://gizmodo.com/the-apple-tablet-interface-must-be-like-this-5452501
John rounded up some of the dumbest tablet rumors of all time.
https://gizmodo.com/historys-five-dumbest-apple-tablet-rumors-5452286
Adam rounded up all the iPhone 4 rumors he could find, the dumb along with the not so dumb.
https://gizmodo.com/the-complete-iphone-v-4-rumor-roundup-5451175
Brian added up all those subscriptions you’re paying for and it’s a serious chunk of change.
https://gizmodo.com/the-subscription-war-youre-bleeding-to-death-5448321
Mark is still fighting the good fight on the yellow iMac front.
https://gizmodo.com/the-faulty-imac-saga-chapter-2-even-steve-jobs-cant-f-5452083
Joel revealed the secret of Apple’s magic: they show off products that you can actually buy.
https://gizmodo.com/show-and-sell-the-secret-to-apples-magic-5451242
We reviewed the Palm Pre Plus. Turns out it’s not “plus” a whole lot.
https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-plus-review-5453043
Last week we brought you customers’ Genius Bar horror stories. This week we came back with tales from the other side of the bar.
https://gizmodo.com/apple-genius-war-stories-i-got-punched-in-the-face-a-5454367
We teamed up with our buddies at Gawker TV and put together this extensive montage of tablets and futuristic interfaces in film and TV.
https://gizmodo.com/the-tablets-of-our-dreams-5454430
We explained solid-state drives and why you should want one.
https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-ssds-and-why-you-wish-you-had-one-5453498
You guys took to Photoshop and plugged the Late Night battle into your favorite sci-fi movies. Conan as Leia? Hot.
https://gizmodo.com/the-late-night-battle-goes-sci-fi-in-48-hilarious-ways-5451921
If you thought Sexting was embarrassing, wait until you read Brian Barrett’s hard-hitting report on the seedy subcultures of Becksting, Hexting, and more.
https://gizmodo.com/beyond-sexting-the-spectrum-of-shameful-text-messaging-5454148/
Rockers OK Go wrote in and explained that whole business about non-embeddable YouTube videos.
https://gizmodo.com/open-letter-from-ok-go-regarding-non-embeddable-youtub-5453042
Speaking of rockers, the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne was chilling in a bathtub on his front lawn when the Google Street View van rolled by.
https://gizmodo.com/street-view-catches-the-flaming-lips-wayne-coyne-in-a-b-5452733
Jason got to live out some lifelong fantasies with the Star Trek Online Open Beta. The verdict: pew pew and pppptththhhbbffffooooo.
https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-online-captains-log-1-a-trek-fans-dream-5454873
With YouTube and Vimeo jumping in bed with HTML5, we wonder if the end of Flash video is drawing near.
https://gizmodo.com/first-youtube-now-vimeo-how-html5-could-finally-kill-5454115
A guy did a text input speed test with a laptop, an iPhone, a Palm, a Newton, a pen and pad, and a Magnadoodle. Okay, okay, all except for one of those.
https://gizmodo.com/the-fastest-text-input-test-laptop-iphone-pen-palm-5454313
We read the incredible story of a man whose iPhone saved his life when he was trapped under the rubble in Haiti.
https://gizmodo.com/iphone-apps-save-man-trapped-in-haiti-5453248
Amazon opened up the Kindle for development! That exclamation point is all the enthusiasm I can muster.
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-opens-kindle-up-for-development-app-store-ahoy-5453395
We checked out an electromagnetic cannon that can stop cars dead in their tracks. Unless your car was made before the era of computerized engines (before the drastic change / in production when cars were metal instead of plastic).
https://gizmodo.com/this-emp-cannon-stops-cars-almost-instantly-5454295
Sega Genesis is coming to the iPhone, official-style.
https://gizmodo.com/ultimate-genesis-segas-official-console-emulator-for-i-5452354
Mark shared a pretty good tip for snagging a free phone charger: hit up a hotel’s lost and found.
https://gizmodo.com/how-to-replace-a-lost-cellphone-charger-for-free-5454612
Steve Ballmer signed a MacBook Pro. Somewhere in the boreal forest, an endangered snow leopard dropped dead.
https://gizmodo.com/ballmer-desecrates-macbook-pro-5454712
We found an iPhone app that catches cheating spouses, but if you read the news these days it seems like they’re doing pretty OK on their own.
https://gizmodo.com/itrust-iphone-app-catches-snooping-spouses-in-the-act-5451325
I couldn’t spot this super-sophisticated ATM card skimmer. Could you?
https://gizmodo.com/atm-card-skimmers-are-getting-frighteningly-sophisticat-5453857
US Airways misinterpreted “red ring of death” and destroyed a kid’s XBox 360.
https://gizmodo.com/us-airways-saves-flight-from-dangerous-xbox-360-threat-5452938
A Photoshop user traced his mouse movement during a three-hour session. The result probably looks neater than whatever he was working on.
https://gizmodo.com/one-man-one-mouse-three-hours-5454172
That wild picture of the wolf that won that National Geographic photo contest? It’s deadly acoustic weapon, as not to upset it.
https://gizmodo.com/judges-decide-wolf-jumping-over-fence-photo-is-fake-5454325
There are tree houses. And then there are tree houses.
https://gizmodo.com/in-the-future-lets-all-live-in-treehouses-just-like-th-5453563
Twelve South released the BookBook, a MacBook casecase that lookslooks really goodgood.
https://gizmodo.com/bookbook-case-puts-your-hardware-in-hardcover-5453980
A crazy, crazy dude with some serious, serious cajones is going to attempt to break the sound barrier by free-falling from 120,000 feet.
https://gizmodo.com/man-to-break-sound-barrier-jumping-from-edge-of-space-5454895
MacGruber is coming to the big screen.
https://gizmodo.com/macgruber-movie-will-change-action-movies-forever-5451971
We looked at some instances in which sci-fi movies became blowing up the flight you’re on. Just don’t.
https://gizmodo.com/seven-futuristic-movies-that-got-it-right-5453687
Microsoft finally got around to fixing a seventeen year old bug.
https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-finally-gets-around-to-fixing-17-year-old-win-5454034
Oh, and those naked airport scanners everyone’s always up in arms about? They might not be so good at actually detecting bombs.
https://gizmodo.com/naked-airport-body-scanner-sees-everything-but-the-bomb-5454626
