Apple patents are often quirky, April Fool's-esque, and rarely see the light of day, so be sure to consider that as you view their latest. It's one that marries proven MacBook Pro technology with unproven, kitschy pico projectors. Hilarity ensues. More »
Category Archives: Futurist
iPad on Easter Sunday [Image Cache]
Some fanboys may have assumed that yesterday marked the rebirth of their savior, but many more believers celebrate that notion today. Fortunately, the two aren't mutually exclusive. More »
Expensive Newspaper iPad Apps Not Selling All That Well [Newspapers]
What to Play On Your iPad [Ipad]
So you shelled out for an iPad, and you're staring at an empty homescreen. You need games. But which ones? More »
Apple iPad Already Jailbroken [Ipad]
After one day on the market, the Apple iPad has been jailbroken. That certainly didn't take long, did it? It was only a matter of time, sure, but this was speedy even by most jailbreaking standards. More »
Incredibly Creepy Japanese Android Gets Facelift, Still Incredibly Creepy [Androids]
Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro is at it again. He's improved upon his hellish personal twin android with a new model, the uber realistic Geminoid F. It's totally just like Lt. Cmdr. Data, except you get night terrors. More »
iPad Super Tip: You Can Put Six Icons In Your App Tray [Ipad Tips]
The Robo-Skateboard: For Pipedreams Only [Skateboards]
Costing about $1,000 and weighing 33 pounds, the Robo-Skateboard out of the Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo will shred pipes of the dream-based variety when it arrives in 2013. More »
iPad Benchmarks [Ipad]
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 »
iPad Stress Test Inadvertently Creates Donut Stylus Meme [Ipad]
PC World's "iPad Stress Test" starts out kind of lame (shampoo, my man, discover it!), but by the end I had actually learned a thing or two about what not to do with my pending 3G version purchase. Also, donuts. More »
iPad App Review Marathon Is Still Going On [IPad Apps]
We're still plowing through apps over at the App Marathon, so head on over and request the apps you want reviewed. More »
Tokyoflash Twitter Concept Watch Says It’s Meaningless Self-Promotional Update O’Clock [Watches]
Do I have the time, you ask? No! But I do know that my friend Barry just "checked in" at Denny's thanks to my Twitter update-pulling Tokyoflash concept watch. Let's go rob his house! More »
iPad Test Notes: The Screen [Ipad]
The iPad has—or rather, is—a 9.7-inch, 768x1024-pixel LED-backlit display. So how does it measure up against the iPhone? Popular netbooks? A new MacBook? More »
8 Cruel But Completely Justified iPad Wallpaper Pranks [Ipad]
Just because you don't have/want/like the iPad doesn't mean you can't have some fun with one anyway. Set any of these images as the background on a your friend's iPad, and watch the chaos ensue when they turn it on. More »
Crazy Guy Smashes iPad With Baseball Bat [Ipad]
Apparently this guy must've realized that he doesn't need all three of the iPads he purchased, so he brutally destroyed one with a baseball bat. Hope the minor Internet fame was worth $500. [iPad Insider] More »
How Professional Athletes Use Video Games As Training Aids [Games]
"He gets behind the steering wheel console of his PC, puts on his real game face - without the helmet - and pays attention." More »
Speculation: 700,000 iPads Were Purchased Today [Ipadmania]
One other key tidbit was just added to the Mercury article about Steve Jobs showing up at the Apple Store. Tech Analyst Gene Munster over at Piper Jaffray, believes that 600,000 to 700,000 were sold today alone. Earlier, he believed 300,000 would be sold over the entire weekend. As a point of reference, 270,000 iPhones were sold in its opening weekend. [SJ Mercury] More »
Yes, The iPad Kinda Runs Crysis [Ipad]
Ok, maybe it's cheating a little because the graphics are rendered in the cloud and then streamed to the device via a service called OTOY, but still: The iPad runs Crysis. Kinda. [TechCrunch] More »
Fusion Garage JooJoo Goes Under the Knife, Exposing Guts and Glitch [Tablets]
Now that people have started to receive their JooJoo tablets, it was only a matter of time before someone tore it down and revealed its inner secrets. The question is, what did they find? More »
Hey! Let’s Talk in #Whitenoise! [Community]
Need a place to gossip about that shiny gadget you saw earlier? Just wanna have some off-topic conversations with fellow Gizmodo readers? Head to #whitenoise and comment, comment, comment. More »














