Since the iPhone 5 Lightning adapter has a chip that prevents you from using third-party cables, you can forget about using an inexpensive off-brand dock. And since Apple hasn’t yet released its own branded dock, you’re basically stuck, for now, just plugging the phone into a loose cord. More »
Most contractors are honest professionals who finish their jobs on time and do great work. But a few bad ones have given entire trades a bad name, leaving customers with cost overruns and unfinished work. More »
The iPhone 5 has been the most anticipated mobile device of 2012 together with its cousin the iPad Mini, which we expect to be seeing shortly. Apple has made displays their most prominent marketing feature because it determines the quality of the visual experience for everything on a smartphone or tablet—including apps, web content, photos, videos, and its camera. The retina displays on the iPhone 4 and the new iPad were significant advancements—not just in sharpness but in picture quality and color accuracy, which is what provides the display’s real wow factor. More »
If you bought yourself an iPhone 5, and are looking for a cheap, third-party lightning adapter to save a couple of bucks, you might want to hold off. There’s an authenticator chip in the official adapters, and third-party adapters probably won’t work without it. More »
Getting old isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Sure, you get a hefty discount at the Country Kitchen Buffet. But you also suffer from stuff like age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a retinal disease that afflicts more than 10 million people a year in the US alone. There’s hope for the eyes of America’s elderly, though: A new pea-sized ocular implant can restore vision to the those who have lost it. More »
More than most other fields, technology prides itself on being a hotbed of innovation. It’s easy to forget, though, that innovation is messy, and for every iPod, there are a few dozen portable, wrist-mounted 8-track players. Here are ten failed gadgets that were unabashedly crazy. More »
There are many issues one can reasonably have with the iPhone 5. That overpriced dock connector. An inexcusably bad Maps app. Even the fact that it’s a little, well, boring. But there’s no way Apple could’ve anticipated this particular backlash: More »
For many of the people scooping up an iPhone 5, its 8-megapixel camera will be their go-to shooter. But how much of an improvement is it over the iPhone 4S? And how does it compare to the smartphone—and point and shoot—competition? More »
Most of the world’s ice cubes are cloudy, soft, and weak. These hazy rocks are less dense, and they melt faster, leaving your drink watered down and terrible. Plus, opaque ice is just ugly. More »
We’ve got our delicate fingers on the iPhone 5, and we’ll be sharing our thoughts, joys, and concerns about Apple’s newest wonderphone all day. Let’s get started. More »
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