This Is Why the iPhone's Screen Will Always Be 3.5 Inches
Why does the iPhone have a 3.5-inch screen? Why do larger smartphones feel awkward on your hand? Dustin Curtis has an answer, and I think it is spot on:
Why does the iPhone have a 3.5-inch screen? Why do larger smartphones feel awkward on your hand? Dustin Curtis has an answer, and I think it is spot on:
Say what you will about the rabidness of Star Trek and Star Wars fans, Battlestar Galactica has fans like Gary King who build incredible six-foot-long, hyper-detailed models of obscure ships entirely out of LEGO.
Nobody's sure why the glass vial of Clostridium perfringens spores was buried in a cornerstone of Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1897, but its discovery could help scientists understand how much this common microbe has evolved in the era of antibiotics.
With the iPhone 4S, Apple says it will deliver an iPhone that works anywhere in the world, and with fantastic reception. How did they do it? One word: antennas.
Audiophiles love tube amps because of the warm, full sound they provide. But vacuum tubes wear out requiring a technician to diagnose which ones are bad. High-end audio manufacturer McIntosh say their redesigned MC275 tube amp remedies part of that problem.
Wired's Danger Room has learned that a computer virus has infected the United States' Predator and Reaper drones. The virus is a keylogger that keeps track of every pilots' keystroke as they perform missions over Afghanistan and other locations.
Fujifilm's new pro-caliber X10 point-and-shoot just got a price: £499, and it'll be out in early November. The X10 can't keep pace with its big brother the X100, but it's got all the features you'd expect from a high-end point-and-shoot, and it's a damn pretty sight, too.
Screw the iPhone 4S. Screw Ice Cream Sandwiches. Screw everything. Would you stop whatever stupid thing you are doing now and buy the bloody Keyboard Cat? Christalive people. GET ON WITH THE PROGRAM.
Amazon and Google generally get all the attention for their data centers and cloud services. But you know who has the fastest servers around? Microsoft. Yep.
Siri will mean a lot of us are talking on our phones, to our phones; a nation of Kirks, barking into communicators. So unless we lay down some ground rules, things are going to get very annoying, very quickly.
You know how sometimes you sign up for what you think is some cool new service, give it access to your Twitter, and then it spams your timeline with a bunch of crap. Yeah -- it even happens to Twitter founders.
You've probably forgotten about iCards. They were the thing Apple announced this week that used something called the Postal Service to send images through something called the "mail." Despite sounding like something for old people, iCards are kind of cool.
Eye bags. No one likes them. And no one gets enough sleep. So everyone has them.
Aluminium is out. According to a rumour, Asus and Acer are planning to switch to fiberglass cases in their 15-inch models to cut production costs. [Digitimes]
Either he's a huge musical theatre fan or just a very disturbed individual. Maybe both. Whatever the reason, murdering someone and baking them in to meat pies isn't original, but it is ghastly. (Annnd, possibly delicious?)
Just a few days after we first saw the new fitness-centric iPod Nano, iFixit has already exposed its guts. Turns out the new Nano didn't just get a UI upgrade — it got some new hardware too.
