When we see gadget concepts, they are in some sense finished products, whether they’re prototypes, mock-ups, or shiny computer renders. But what comes before that? As seen in these beautiful sketches for Core 77’s Invitational Design Competition: fantastic, unbridled brainstorming. More »
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Apple’s move to ban Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone compiler elicited shrugs from Adobe and complaints from Adobe loyalists. Digging deeper into the OS reveals another, albeit less dramatic slight: Apple scrubbed Google’s name from the new OS’s Safari search button. More »
Is it ethical to pirate ebooks of texts you already bought in a bookstore? Randy Cohen, the New York Times Magazine ethicist who weekly presides over readers’ matters of morality, says yes it is. More »
After gathering dust for 60 years, one of the first modern solar cells ever built was recently uncovered and sold at auction. It still works! Take whatever that original Energizer bunny was claiming in 1989 and add another “…and going.” More »
Wake Forest’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine, a group of organ-growing, tissue-engineering mad scientists, is trailblazing the cool and creepy future of medicine. Their latest effort is an inkjet-inspired bioprinter that prints fresh cells directly onto wounds. More »
If you’re set to hop on board AT&T’s network, Amazon has a tasty deal: it’s selling every AT&T phone it offers for one penny, with a new 2-year contract. Among those included: the Motorola Backflip and the BlackBerry Bold 9700. More »
The big daddy of the Zune HD family is now available for order. Aside from the increased capacity, it’s the same as the older Zune HDs, coming in 7 snazzy colors. It’ll set you back $350. [Zune Originals] More »
Mozilla’s serving up a beta of Firefox Lorentz, a version of the browser that runs Flash, Quicktime, and Silverlight videos as a separate processes. If plug-in-caused crashes and stuttering YouTubes have you red in the face, Lorentz offers sweet relief. More »
OK, sure, that Winnie the Pooh iBook looks pretty slick. But what about all of those real books that are gathering dust on your real bookshelf? Well, with this Instructable, those too can become (slightly less slick) ebooks. More »
The Solar Impulse, a solar-powered glider with a wingspan larger than that of a Boeing 787, completed its first true flight today, a major milestone in its aim to circumnavigate the globe in 2012. More »
For all that Saturday line-sitting, you’d think that every iPad in the world would’ve been snatched up by lunchtime. Nope! Many Best Buys are sold out, but most Apple stores have iPads in stock with more on the way tomorrow. More »
The iPad has everyone thinking about the future of computing, but one of its greatest achievements is what it lets you forget about: battery. We pushed the iPad as hard as we could and got nearly 6 hours of use. More »
If the iPad is supposed to let us lean back in our chairs, heralding a new era of relaxed computing, then Zen Bound 2 is an early masterpiece of that new philosophy. It’s beautiful, contemplative, and eminently touchable. More »
Our test notes on the iPad’s speed have been updated with some benchmarks comparing the iPad and the iPhone. The numbers confirm what we saw in our field tests: on average, the iPad runs about twice as fast as the 3GS. For the full numbers, check out our test notes. More »
Playing with an iPad, one of the first things you notice is its speed. Everything zips into place. Our side by side tests comparing it with the iPhone proved that (for the most part) its snappiness isn’t just imagined. More »
You finally have your iPad in hand. But wait! You can’t just plug it in and dump every app, song, and video you’ve ever downloaded. Here’s how to get things set up and curate your iPad’s collection. More »
You might’ve recently caught Rob Corddry as the show-stealing jackass in Hot Tub Time Machine. But during our talk with him we learned two things: he’s a perfectly nice fellow, and he probably owns more set-top boxes than we do. More »
For all the talk about the iPad marking a new era of computing, it’s still important to keep an eye on what’s just beyond the horizon: a future in which our gadgets shed their screens and buttons entirely. [Giz] More »
Seiko’s been exploring the weird world of E-Ink watches since 2005, when they introduced the first in a series of futuristic E-Ink wristwear. FutureNow, the latest iteration, slaps an active matrix E-Ink display (Future) on an unassuming wristwatch (Now). More »
The Chikyu research vessel is already the world’s deepest drill, probing nearly 23,000 feet beneath the ocean floor. But scientists hope to add another mile to the machine by 2013, allowing it to pierce Earth’s mantle for the first time. More »