1950 articles on Gadgets

  • Easily Charge Devices at Home or On the Go With Idapt
    These days, most of us have several electronic devices that have specialized charging cables. Keeping track of them, and remembering to bring them when we travel, can sometimes be a challenge. One solution to this problem is to use a specialized charger that can charge multiple devices at once.
    07.06.12
  • British Journal of Photography iPhone App Gets it Right
    Photo mags on the iPhone struggle with the fact that photos and creative page layouts look great when they're big and the phone's screen is relatively small. Viewing a large amount of content through a limited window can be frustrating and disorienting. That's why we like the British Journal of Photography iPhone app that was released today.
    07.05.12
  • Appageddon! Apple Botches DRM Update, Crashes Dozens of Apps
    The July 4th holiday has not been kind to Apple users and app developers. Starting late in the day on July 3rd, Apple began pushing out corrupt App Store updates that cause immediate app crashes. In effect, you launch your app, then -- boom! -- it dies.
    07.05.12
  • What if Steve Jobs Had Discovered the Higgs Boson?
    Ever wonder what Steve Jobs would have done if he'd gotten into experimental physics? When CERN scientists announced that they'd probably found the Higgs boson, they got more than their fair share of smack talk from the design community for presenting their discovery in Comic Sans. Even the font's creator, Vincent Connare, wasn't impressed.
    07.05.12
  • Twitter Crackdown Would Make Steve Jobs Proud
    Users and developers may be howling over Twitter's crackdown on third-party apps, but the intent is clear: Twitter wants to gain more Apple-like control over the Twitter user experience.
    07.04.12
  • Lucky Number 7
    If you've been on the fence about Android, or tablets in general, this is the tablet you've been waiting for.
    07.03.12
  • Turn Yourself Into a Paperweight With OmNomNom Creator
    Ever wonder what you'd look like as paperweight? Now you can find out. A new app called OmNomNom (say it out loud, it's the sound of a chomping jaw) designed by a member of the MakerBot community Thingiverse just made it way easy to transform any image¿photo, jpeg, whatever¿into a 3-D print, no CAD expertise required.
    07.03.12
  • Report: iPad Mini to Feature Sharp IGZO Display, Cost $250
    We've said it before and we'll say it again: The iPad Mini is the Apple rumor that refuses to die. The latest in the long twisted history of the fabled miniature tablet is that it will feature a 330 ppi resolution, 7.85-inch IGZO display made by Sharp.
    07.03.12
  • Hex Laptop Tote Carries Your Tech in Style
    Hex is a division of August Accessories who has been designing fashion accessory products for over 20 years. This newer division of the company aims to use their design experience to develop functional and attractive solutions for taking your tech with you, wherever you need to go. I tried out the Hex Fleet 15" Laptop Tote and found that it did exactly what was promised.
    07.03.12
  • A Start Up Trek - Rules of Thumb, the Revenge
    I see all of these benchmarks as knobs to turn and adjust to maximize the effectiveness of MindGear. In reality though I don't know ahead of time where these knobs should be set. The data I've collected gives me some comfort that I know generally where to set things, but for instance I won't know whether I need an employee for every four, five or six customers until I start operating and see how things go. Hopefully I'll be in the right operating range on all my knobs, that way my engine won't explode in my face when I first crank it.
    07.03.12
  • Kickstarter: Hone Means No More Searching For Keys
    There's nothing quite as frustrating as getting ready to leave the house in the morning and not being able to find your keys. This is usually more likely to happen on a day when you're already running late or you overslept and can't see straight or your kids are missing a shoe, or a glove or their school bags. It's one of those moments of parenting hell that we've all endured. Lucky for all of us, the days of searching the house for our keys are soon to disappear thanks to the folks behind Hone.
    07.02.12
  • Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants From Gondwana at the ROM
    My family and I visited Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum (the ROM) over the weekend to take in the museum's latest exhibit. Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants From Gondwana opened a few weeks ago and is available as an add-on to the standard ROM admission prices. While the museum already boasts an impressive, permanent dinosaur exhibit, Ultimate Dinosaurs is an entirely different experience and one well worth the price of admission.
    07.02.12
  • Alternate Apollo 13 (1970)
    If the Apollo 13 Lunar Module Aquarius had malfunctioned en route to the moon, NASA had a plan: the crew would have dumped the failed moon lander, entered lunar orbit in the Command and Service Module Odyssey, and photographed candidate future landing sites to aid Apollo planners. Beyond Apollo blogger David S. F. Portree looks at this ironic twist on actual Apollo 13 events.
    07.02.12
  • Things Look Cloudy for Google's Oracular Orb
    Google's media streamer is a visual and tactile joy, and a marvel of engineering. But beauty is only skin-deep, and the Nexus Q's functionality is so severely limited out of the box, it's difficult for all but the most hardcore audio gadget fanatics to justify the $300 price tag.
    07.02.12


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