Last year I wrote a celebratory article to mark the 30th anniversary of the first Sony Walkman going on sale. Today I write with a heavier heart as I bring you the sad news that the last cassette Walkman has left Sony’s Japanese factories. The company has now revealed that it has not made any […]
Apple has been ordered to pay $208.5 million for violating a patent, despite holding a patent on the same technology. The patent, on the Cover Flow system for browsing albums visually, is one of three patents held by Mirror Worlds that Apple was found to have infringed. The others were for the Time Machine backup […]
Interactive media artist Mio I-zawa designed this iPhone charging cable to look like some kind of gross / alienesque umbilical cord. As soon as someone connects it to an iPhone, it starts pulsating in an absolutely gross manner. Yuck. [Via Pink Tentacle]
Apple receives a level of media coverage that could be argued as disproportionate according a new report. (And yes, we at GeeksAreSexy are aware of the irony involved in covering this report and giving the company even more publicity!) The Pew Research Center looked through 437 tech stories across 11 newspapers, three cable news channels, […]
We live in the future, having finally achieved the tablet computer if not our jetpacks. But are we happy? According to CNBC, if you own an iPad you most likely are. A study by the American Consumer Satisfaction index has put Apple high atop the technology tree, as it were, with a whopping 86% satisfaction […]
Jeff at the Aplepi blog recently wrote an article flatly dismissing the lineup of peripherals designed to bring a keyboard interface to the iPad, in an article entitled: “Please, for the sake of advancing technology, just let the keyboard die already.” Not because any specific peripheral was poorly made, but that “there are still plenty […]
Most product unboxing videos are boring as hell, but not this one. This enthusiastic japanese dude is unboxing an iPad, and even if I can’t understand a darn word he says, I don’t really care. Check it out, I’m sure you’ll understand why right away:
Apple says it will allow app developers to more easily transfer Flash-based applications to the iPhone system, under certain circumstances. In a statement released today, the company said it was “relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code.” It’s billing […]
What do you get when you combine the base of an old iMac G4 with a Larson scanner kit? Why, An iMac cylon helmet, or course! [Via Technabob]
There are several reasons why the iPad is particularly suited for sharing: it’s comparatively expensive for a gadget, it’s portable enough to continually move around a home yet too big to be buried away in a pocket, and its the type of device likely to be a secondary machine rather than a main computer. The […]