Ah, the end of the year. The perfect time for publications of every stripe to dust off old content, repurpose popular packages, and name their best/favourite/top everythings of the last twelve months. And, as NPR highlights with delicious accuracy, the commenters that come with those lists.
I hope you're ready for a day of iKnight jokes, because Apple's Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, Jonathan Ive, has officially been made a Knight Commander of the British Empire.
Or boyfriend! Password sharing is a lynchpin of intimacy in the 21st century—and it can be complete nightmare unless you're savvy. So when should you do it? And for what?
Developing for iOS has its share of tradeoffs: you get to put up a stall in the busiest app bazaar in the world, but only if you jump through Apple's many, many hoops. Or, as these clever underminers did, just find ways around them.
From the almost-too-good-to-be-true department comes this iOS gamepad that connects through the headphone jack for minimal battery drain. The catch? Games have to be specifically written to use the controller. And, uh, they haven't been yet.
Of all the trends to close out 2011, I couldn't be happier with the emergence of Animals Playing Games On Gadgets. First came the agile bearded dragon, then the vicious African Bullfrog, and now, in perhaps the most impressive display yet: a cat that is very, very good at Fruit Ninja.
There's a pill to cure almost everything these days, including elderly boredom if I understand those vague Viagra commercials correctly. And now even one for remedying a lame party, even if it literally looks like a tough pill to swallow.
Sometimes who you work with can be just as important as the job itself. And if physics is your passion the opportunity of a lifetime has just popped up, as Stephen Hawking is now looking for a new assistant.
I don't know about you, but my high school chemistry class was filled with equations and titrations and the occasional back row nap. The gentlemen at the Periodic Table of Videos, however, have spent the last year making elements go boom. And here's every last fiery feat of 2011, for your last-work-day-before-New-Year's pleasure.
Gadget design is in a pretty good place these days. Even companies like Sony and Dell—known to commit many a design atrocity in their days—are starting to make devices that look pretty. But there's still one crutch companies and designers lean on when they want to make something they think people will lust after.
A little over a week ago, Nokia killed off the Symbian name, instead calling the platform Nokia Belle and, hopefully, letting it die a swift and unencumbered death. And then yesterday we find out that the very same Symbian, is the most popular mobile platform in the whole wide world.
I haven't played around with Siri enough to see if it's possible to set the user's name as a seven word-long string, but according to an enraged mother whose young son was told to "shut the f*ck up, you ugly twat" when playing with an iPhone 4S in Coventry's Tesco, it seems to be possible. Whoops.
Conventional hair transplant treatments can last eight hours or more. That causes fatigue in even veteran surgeons, and you don't want a tired doctor plowing for follicles on the back of your head. Luckily, the new ARTAS system can do the heavy hair-pulling.
A lot of gadgets come across our desks, but we try to review only the ones that matter the absolute most—good, bad, or buggy. Here's a rundown of some of the best reviews we wrote this year.
It's only been a little over a year since former HP CEO Mark Hurd resigned in a hailstorm of innuendo and disgrace, but—with HP having had two CEOs and and webOS saga since then—it already feels like ancient history. So this, er, blow by blow of sexual harassment charges dug up by AllThingsD? Strictly for you lovers of antiquities. And late night hotel room propositions.
Acer's new high-end Iconia Tab A700 has been pictured, offering a quad-core processor and incredibly high-resolution 1920 x 1200 screen in a super-skinny case.
