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No comment: Unimpressive iPhone app, Airplane

by Dave Caolo (May 15th, 2012)

There are more than half a million apps in Apple's App Store. Some are stunning achievements. Others are not. Below is a video demonstration of the app Airplane. Touch the "Take Off" button to hear the sound of an airplane engine. Shake the phone to hear a flight attended tell you to put your ...

No comment: iPhone case has a "discreet" storage compartment

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 27th, 2012)

Have you ever been out and realized you forgot your wallet just as you were going to pay for something? Bummer, right? And it probably makes you wish that Apple would go ahead and build a mobile payment system into the iPhone -- because you never leave your house without that. Now imagine ...

No Comment: Apple pulls Bluetooth OnOff switch app from the App Store, blogger overreacts

by Steven Sande (Apr 27th, 2012)

Apple has pulled an app that allows iPhone users to turn Bluetooth on and off with a single tap, and that's not sitting right with ZDNet blogger Jason O'Grady. According to O'Grady, that one app removal "demonstrates how (Apple) has become lethargic and how iOS innovation has slowed to a crawl." ...

No Comment: The depths people will plumb to secure a WWDC pass

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 25th, 2012)

We knew there'd be some broken hearts when WWDC tickets sold out in two hours this morning, but even this might be pushing it. A San Francisco resident has posted an ad to Craiglist pleading for a WWDC ticket. Since they're nontransferable, this would presumably require a legal name change on ...

No Comment: MacBook perfume project smells like new unboxing

by Erica Sadun (Apr 20th, 2012)

It may just be an art installation and not a commercial product, but what Apple fan wouldn't want to buy a bottle of scent offering the essences of, ink, paper, foam, sticky tape, and a hint of glue? For the enthusiast who has everything, who has ransacked the Mothership store for wardrobe, the ...

No comment: iPhone money clip

by Steven Sande (Mar 29th, 2012)

Yeah, here's the way to make your iPhone even more attractive to thieves. Add a money clip to it, and then make sure that you put a wad of cash or a couple of credit cards in the clip. The Poddities Money Clip for iPhone 4 (US$32.80) is available now and comes complete with a screwdriver to ...

No Comment: Rovio exec's wife dresses up Angry Birds style

by Mike Schramm (Dec 7th, 2011)

In these pics over at the Hollywood Reporter, you can clearly see Peter Vesterbacka, the CEO of Rovio, who you may remember from his speech earlier this year at GDC 2011. The woman he's pictured with is none other than his wife, Teija Vesterbacka, who, according to the pictures, looks like a ...

No Comment: Proof that Samsung shamelessly copies Apple

by Chris Rawson (Sep 28th, 2011)

We saw this image posted to Reddit after seeing it linked on Daring Fireball, and it was just too good not to share. Below you'll see a very long image that shows how extensively Samsung has copied Apple in its products, packaging, presentation, marketing, and even app interfaces. Any one of ...

MacBook Air as kitchen utensil

by Dave Caolo (Sep 7th, 2011)

The MacBook Air is thin, especially at the end of the taper. One might even say "razor thin." One user took the notion to a ridiculous extreme by using the laptop to prepare a meal, slicing shrimp, mushrooms, lettuce and other things with the Air's case. It's not the first time an Air has been ...

No Comment: Woman buys wooden iPad

by Mike Schramm (Aug 30th, 2011)

This is a completely hypothetical situation: Someone in a McDonald's parking lot says he picked up an iPad for a cheap $300, and wonders if you'd want to buy it off of him for just $180. You decide why not (because reputable salesmen always just hang around in the parking lots of fast food ...

No Comment: The iPhone Megaphone

by Mike Schramm (Aug 23rd, 2011)

We've actually seen this megaphone idea implemented before. While it's probably easiest to just go ahead and plug your iPhone in rather than trying to mechanically amplify the sound waves with a series of cones and chambers, that hasn't stopped some designers from putting together some intriguing ...

No comment: iPhone fan attachment blows (air)

by Chris Rawson (Aug 16th, 2011)

If you're looking for a way to beat the heat where you live, you have many options. If every last one of those options is unavailable for some reason, you can always give this iPhone dock accessory from Cellularfactory a try. Dubbed the "Newest Cool Dock Fan Gadgets Cooler," this dock attachment ...

No Comment: Video game systems vs. non-iPad tablets

by Mike Schramm (Aug 12th, 2011)

Marco Arment posted this graph today, which shows some relative sales numbers of what he calls "obscure game consoles" (which presumably just means those outside the Microsoft/Sony/Sega/Nintendo dominion) right up against tablets which aren't the iPad. It's true -- the numbers do kind of put ...

No Comment: Angry Birds in convenient bra form

by Chris Rawson (Aug 2nd, 2011)

From Etsy seller SceeneShoes comes the custom brassiere pictured above, which Technabob has dubbed "Angry Boobs." Featuring the red bird and a pig from Angry Birds, giving this US$35 creation as a gift will probably inspire either laughter or thrown objects, depending on how good a sport your ...

Angry customers respond to fake Apple Stores

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 22nd, 2011)

A casual blog piece about a fake Apple Store in Kunming, China went viral this week and exposed a thriving underground retail industry based on false appearances. From the inside and out, these fake Apple stores look real, but they're not. And their customers who are just now discovering the ...