Articles tagged "ipad"

If there was any remaining confusion over whether or not Apple gear has fully conquered the soul of consumerist America, it's gone now.

If your'e going to steal an iPad, do it right. Don't gank one of an unsuspecting subway passenger or stash it in your pants before sprinting out of an Apple store. Go to the airport hangar where the expensive little devices are kept after they arrive…

The students were working on an assignment and asked to use the teacher’s iPad. She agreed under the condition that they would only use two apps. She also probably didn’t realize that the neck-down picture she took of herself on her iPhone has been s…

One year ago today, the world of technology, the family of Jobs and everyone who waits in line for iPods and iPhones, iMacs and iPads lost someone special. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, died this day at the young age of 56 after an incredible battle w…

Ever since CERN found the Higgs boson, they seem to just be showing off their giant science brains just for fun. A few weeks ago, the European megalab hosted American "Congress folk and Astronauts":http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57479585/gabriel…

Apple is getting ready to finally sell the new iPad in China after paying the struggling display manufacturer Proview $60 million to settle a two-year long trademark dispute over the device's name.

This is a story about software, but it begins with hardware. On Monday, Microsoft unveiled its first ever Windows PC that it built from the ground up, the new Surface tablet. It’s a bold move for a company that built an international monopoly on the…

The iPad’s light, sleek, simple construction belies its complex origins. There’s a lot of stuff in the iPad: aluminum and glass, of course, but also other heavy metals and toxic chemicals. And manufacturing each "1.44-pound iPad":http://www.google.co…

The iPad instrument-app landscape is already plenty cluttered. A quick search yields a fairly bottomless reserve of apps with which to make cool sounds on your iPad (or whatever tablet), most of them pretty cheap and most of them claiming some kind o…

Anyone planning on buying a new iPad should know what they're getting themselves into by now. In recent years, Apple and other hardware manufacturers have made liquid-crystal clear that they're not fond of the idea that customers can tear open and fi…

Last September, Foxconn assembly line worker Li Qi (not his real name) moved from the iPad unit to iDPBG, where iPhones get put together. It was a temporary thing, just ahead of the Christmas rush, but he was excited. The move, reports the "First…

There are thousands of apps for making music on an iPad, and most of them are actually pretty dull. Touchscreen devices, possessing all the tactile finesse of a featureless slate of rock, just aren't great physical synthesizers. But as it turns out,

Jobs basically invented the iPad over noodles with an actor from the TV show ER.

h5. I wish there were some hip videos of Abe Lincoln. He's my favorite. I hate that one "friend" everyone has that always brings up television shows from yesteryear and is all like, "remember this song?" and starts singing the _Punky Brewster_ th…

_Hey, whatever it takes to get the Belugas to chill out_ h3. ONE: Naked female scientist tries to tame beluga wales in below freezing water ("Daily Mail":http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2004042/Naked-female-scientist-tries-tame-beluga-whal…

Like many people these days ("these days" being any day after November 19, 2007), I own a Kindle. And while I'm definitely a fan, like any self-respecting Kindle owner, I also wish it were an iPad--not because iPads do what the Kindle does only bette…

The Marquee's dazzling custom media system is controlled by an iPad.

The race toward speed and elegance, exemplified by nearly every technology, from the wheel to the bizarre but soon-to-be-normal Google Instant, has met the iPad in the form of the Smart Cover.