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Apple reveals new glass cube at 5th Avenue Apple Store

by Matt Tinsley (Nov 4th, 2011)

The revamped glass cube entrance of New York City's 5th Avenue Apple Store has been revealed. While the store didn't officially open until 10:00 AM Eastern time, work was finished on the cube earlier this morning, revealing the new, streamlined structure. According to the store's web page, it ...

5th Avenue Apple Store new glass unloading: Video and pics

by Steven Sande (Sep 1st, 2011)

As astute TUAW readers know, the flagship 5th Avenue Apple Store in New York City is being renovated. The glass cube is being rebuilt, this time out of 15 huge panes of glass instead of the 90 that were in place. While construction is going on, the store is still open 24/7. One of our ...

Flex testing iPad glass

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 25th, 2011)

The folks at iFixYouri had some glass panels from an iPad 1 and an iPad 2 laying around the shop and did some informal tests to see which panel would break under stress. An earlier analysis by iFixit revealed the glass in the iPad 2 was 27% thinner than the iPad 1. The California repair company ...

Could future iPhones charge with the power of the sun?

by Michael Rose (Mar 23rd, 2011)

Mark Spoonauer at LAPTOP got a nice story at CTIA today when he sat down with French company Wysips. The prototype he saw puts a solar panel -- a transparent solar panel, thin enough to work with touchscreens -- directly atop the screen of a phone, and with enough oomph to charge the phone with ...

iPhone 4 glass spawns class action lawsuit

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 27th, 2011)

Apple faces a class action lawsuit from California resident Donald LeBuhn over the glass used in the company's popular iPhone 4 handset. LeBuhn accuses Apple of misleading customers by pointing to Apple's website, which boasts that the glass used on the iPhone 4 is "20 times stiffer and 30 times ...

Are higher iPhone 4 accident rates really something to worry about?

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Oct 15th, 2010)

A report that surfaced from SquareTrade a couple days ago claims that accident rates are higher on the iPhone 4 than its 3GS sibling. SquareTrade says that in the first four months of the iPhone 4 being out in the wild, there is an 82 6 percent increase in reported broken screens over the rate ...

iPad used for 3D effect

by Mike Schramm (Jul 21st, 2010)

This is really wild -- Japan's Aircord lab has used the iPad to create a 3D effect, but not what you'd think, with the standard glasses and views. Instead, the iPad is used to project a set of three images onto a specially-coated glass pyramid, which then reflects the three video images in all ...

Wrap your iPhone 4 in Swarovski crystals

by Mike Schramm (Jul 19th, 2010)

Now that Apple has all but confirmed that the iPhone 4 needs a case to work correctly, you might as well go as over-the-top as possible, right? Enter this Swarovski crystal case from Caze -- over 1500 Swarovski glass crystals covering every part of the iPhone's sides and back, encircling your ...

Jonathan Ive on Apple's material obsessions

by Mike Schramm (Jun 30th, 2010)

Core77 had a chat with Apple's Jonathan Ive about the iPhone 4 and the materials that it's made out of, and Ive says that the process is very holistic; Apple has really gone from start to finish with the types of metal and glass that make up the latest iPhone, and they've worked at every step of the ...

Hands-on: Savant shows off their iPad interface

by Mike Schramm (Apr 9th, 2010)

Savant AV brought their iPad road tour to a location that happens to be pretty close to me in Irvine, California. So, I headed down there to take a look at their brand new iPad app, an interface for wirelessly controlling their high-end home automation systems. The company helps dealers put ...

iPhone vs. gravity is no contest

by Michael Rose (Apr 9th, 2008)

Apple's MagSafe power cords have probably saved thousands of laptops from untimely impacts -- too bad there's no such insurance policy for the iPhone. Brett Peters' phone had an unfortunate encounter with his young son and moments later, with the floor, and the result is as you see above. While the ...

Three stories of Mac woe

by Mike Schramm (Aug 20th, 2007)

Maybe there was something about this weekend, but we received not one but three stories of busted Mac stuff in the past few days. Warning, these pictures are pretty graphic, if you consider seeing computers worth thousands of dollars in disrepair graphic. First up, we have Katie W's iPhone vs. ...

iMac design vs. Audi

by Mike Schramm (Aug 11th, 2007)

We've already seen the iPhone's influence on the new iMac, but the Audi? A British ConceptCar site claims the aluminum and glass casing of the new iMac reminded them of another chrome, aluminum and glass design-- that of an Audi. As you can see in the picture above, the comparison kind of works. ...

Apple announces new iMacs with aluminum enclosure, glass displays

by David Chartier (Aug 7th, 2007)

Well the rumors that date all the way back to May were true - today Apple announced a redesigned, cheaper iMac and the loss of the 17-inch model. Let us all take a moment of silence for our fallen comrade. Now that that's over, let's get to the good stuff. The new iMac tosses aside the old 'n ...

Apple announces iPhone now delivers up to 8 hours of talk time, new glass display

by David Chartier (Jun 18th, 2007)

Talk about last minute upgrades: In a press release today, Apple has revealed a number of significant upgrades to both the iPhone's battery life and touch screen. Instead of what I believe was around 5 hours of video/talk and 16 hours of audio playback, Apple has updated the iPhone's battery life ...