1681 articles on Gadgets

  • Apple Patent Shows 3-D Interface Calibrated by Eye Positioning
    An Apple patent titled "Three Dimensional User Interface Effects on a Display by Using Properties of Motion" illustrates how eye tracking and other sensor information could be used to display a user interface that automatically adjusts to your positioning and environment.
    02.09.12
  • Protesters Crash Apple Stores, Demand Apple 'Manufacture Different'
    Today at Apple Stores around the globe, users gathered to deliver a petition calling for Apple to make its next iPhone model "ethical." The petition's more than 250,000 signees want Apple to respond to allegations of worker abuse in its Chinese factories, and dedicate itself to developing ethical products in the future.
    02.09.12
  • FCC Teardown Reveals Lytro Camera Secrets
    The amazing Lytro camera was recently torn down by the FCC, which revealed its processor, sensor, and other innards. The teardown also sheds light on what sort of features we could expect from Lytro in the future.
    02.09.12
  • Purported Pictures of iPad 3's Rear Casing Emerge
    The launch of Apple's next iPad is just around the corner, if the presence of leaked parts images are any indicator. Today, what reasonably seems to be the rear casing of the new iPad has popped up in photo form on the interwebs.
    02.08.12
  • Adobe Splashes Out With Creative Cloud
    Adobe is making a big splash into the cloud with its Creative Cloud service, launching an enhanced online version of its sought-after Adobe Creative Suite for $50 a month on a one-year contract.
    02.08.12
  • Greenpeace Hates Big Tech, But Wants To Kill Google Least
    Greenpeace looks down on the tech giants of the world. But it looks down on Google the least. On Tuesday, the big-name environmental-rights outfit unveiled its annual ranking of the tech giants working hardest to combat climate change and shift their operations to renewable energy sources. It's called the "Cool IT Leaderboard," and this year's leader is Google, which scores a mere 53 points out of 100. Cisco, last year's leader, dropped to second, with 49 points.
    02.08.12
  • Chinese Firm Demands $1.6 Billion from Apple in iPad Trademark Dispute
    Apple is embroiled in a trademark suit over ownership of the iPad name, and the battle has taken a dark turn for Cook and company. Apple might have to shell out anywhere from $38 million to $1.6 billion if Chinese courts don't rule in its favor -- and it's looking like they won't.
    02.07.12
  • Why Telcos Would Be Testing an Apple iTV Prototype
    According to the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, telecom companies Rogers and Bell Canada have in their labs an early prototype of Apple's rumored television set. Although the possibility of an honest-to-goodness prototype being tested is exciting, the idea that it's being scrutinized by telco operators is actually the more interesting part of the report.
    02.07.12
  • The Amazon Store? Maybe Try an In-Store Shop First
    Apple has been successful with its retail stores for reasons that are almost entirely specific to Apple. There is no reason, besides ego, for any company to mimic Apple's approach unless that approach is a good fit for their business. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has plenty of ego, but he isn't foolish.
    02.07.12
  • Chrome Web Browser Finally Comes to Android Phones, Tablets
    Google launched a beta version of Chrome for Android smartphones and tablets Tuesday, delivering a mobile version of the popular desktop web browser after a very long wait. Indeed, both Android and Chrome launched more than three years ago, and users have demanded unification ever since.
    02.07.12
  • API: Three Letters That Change Life, the Universe and Even Detroit
    There was a time when APIs were just a way of building applications for a desktop operating system like Microsoft Windows. But in the age of the internet, they have the power to plug applications into, well, almost anything. They've already transformed websites like Google and Facebook and Twitter into services that talk to a world of other applications, across PCs as well as mobile phones. But that's small potatoes. They're also reinventing old-world operations, including mobile carriers like AT&T; and even auto makers like GM.
    02.06.12
  • Giant Thermostat Company Sues 'Nest' Creators
    Honeywell, a company long known for its commercial and residential thermostats, filed a patent infringement lawsuit on Monday against Nest Labs, the outfit that launched the highly publicized Nest thermostat last October.
    02.06.12


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