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Adafruit Industries now selling the iNecklace

by Mike Schramm (Sep 1st, 2011)

This is great -- the iNecklace is Adafruit's latest open-sourced, electronic jewelry. It's a pendant shaped like a power button, complete with a pulsing LED inside. It's beautiful, stylish, and a nicely subtle way to proclaim your loyalty to tech in a sleek and cool way. It's all open source, ...

Patent illustrations hint at double-dock iPad, touch-based corner button

by Mike Schramm (Sep 27th, 2010)

Patently Apple has a few new patent illustrations from China that may hint at future iPad hardware features. The first is a second dock on the side of the tablet. As you can see above, the connector would come in handy if you wanted to view the iPad in landscape form, but didn't want to have a ...

Soda machine controlled by iPhone app

by Mike Schramm (May 23rd, 2010)

Recent MIT comp sci grad Chris Varenhorst found a cheap soda machine on Craigslist a while back, and he decided to do what any self-respecting computer science student would do nowadays: hook it up to the Internet. He created wiring to make the machine believe it had credits whenever a circuit was ...

Louis Vuitton selling an iPad case you don't need

by Mike Schramm (Apr 30th, 2010)

Luxist is our luxury-obsessed sister blog here at Weblogs, Inc, and even though I'm just a poor blogger, I still enjoy browsing through their site every day, checking out all of the stuff I don't need and can't buy. Enter the Louis Vuitton iPad case, patterned canvas cases made by the famous French ...

Patent: Invisible button on future MacBook Pros

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 30th, 2010)

AppleInsider has the story of a patent application that would turn any place on the aluminum shell of a MacBook Pro into a disappearing input space by utilizing invisible backlit holes. The application describes an input device made of the same material as the computer housing, so when not in use, ...

Mac 101: Where'd my send button go?

by Robert Palmer (Sep 28th, 2008)

More Mac 101, TUAW's series for beginners. My mom called me up last week with this question about Mail: "Where did my send button go?" Turns out she had mistakenly clicked the white chiclet (pictured) in the upper-right hand corner of her message's compose window, hiding her toolbar. When she ...

iPhone 101: Triple click to go to a previous song

by Cory Bohon (Sep 16th, 2008)

When Apple first introduced the iPhone, they also announced a new set of earbuds to go along with it. These headphones sport a nice clicky button that allows you to pause/play/skip a song. However, they forgot to include a function to go to a previous song. If you are running the new 2.1 firmware, ...

Extending your iPhone's battery

by Mike Schramm (Jul 23rd, 2008)

IntoMobile has a few good tips on how to extend your iPhone's battery life, and most of them involve the most obvious thing you can do to keep your iPhone running: cut down on any and all extra functions. They actually recommend to turn off 3G, but you don't have to go that far -- just by holding ...

iPhone GUI Inconsistencies: Take 1

by Erica Sadun (Aug 27th, 2007)

The iPhone offers many ways to send mail. Unfortunately, consistency is not the strong point here. You'd imagine Apple would have designed a single universally recognized "compose email" button and placed it more-or-less in the same place for each application. You'd be wrong. Here's a quick ...

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