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The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart has weighed in on the missing iPhone debacle, and the man is bewildered about Apple’s actions, to say the least.
Stewart isn’t pleased with the aggressive behavior of the police force investigating a lost iPhone prototype, which was purchased and published by tech blog Gizmodo. Last week, San Mateo police reportedly bashed in Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s door to enter his home and confiscate his computers and other electronic gear.
“The cops had to bash into the guy’s door?” he said while a screen reading “Appholes” appeared in the background. “Don’t they know there’s an app for that?”
Stewart proceeds to mourn over the Apple of old times, when the company depicted itself as a rebel. Now Apple is acting more like “The Man,” he suggests.
Say what you will about police actions, but without apparent modesty, my favorite part of the clip is around the 4:45 mark — where Wired.com gets a mention for our scoop about a tipster claiming that Apple last week traced its missing iPhone and showed up at the finder’s front door.
Check out the Daily Show segment in the video above.
Via TechCrunch
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PadRacer is like Scalextric for the iPad, a top-down car-racing game for up to four players. The awesome twist is that those players use their iPhones to control the tiny on-screen cars.
The first game we know of to use this multimachine approach for the iPad is Scrabble, which lets players keep their tile-rack secreted on their iPhone screen and then flick the tiles onto the main board, over on the iPad, when it’s time to play.
PadRacer instead turns the iPhone (or iPod Touch) into a wireless controller, connected via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. You steer the cars by tilting the iPhone left or right.
The only caveat is that you can’t play the game without an iPhone or iPod, so the audience is slightly self-limiting (and we wonder how many complaints there will be from people who don’t read the warning first and buy the game without the right gear).
And we already know what you’re thinking: The minimum price for the hardware to play a two-player game is $900 — one $500 iPad and two $200 iPod Touches. On the other hand, the game is just $5, and if you already have the hardware, then this could be a lot of fun.
Who knows where this stuff will lead? A first-person shooter with a sniper-rifle view on the iPhone screen? IPad Poker, with your cards hidden in the palm of your hand? Or even a Keynote remote on the iPhone, complete with preview of the next slide? One thing’s for sure: The iPad is looking like a kick-ass gaming machine.
PadRacer [iTunes via Pocket Lint]
Recently, about the only thing worth getting excited about regarding the Samsung N150 was the plethora of colors that its casing could be ordered in. Now, though, the little thing has been finally been updated to include the 3G modem it’s always promised, and is ready to connect up to Verizon Wireless. Sure, it isn’t the LTE model that was spied at MWC — that is still a few months off, at least — but it does mean there’s yet another option out there for road warriors who like little lappys. Some bad news, though: this model appears to be only available in black, but we do dig red highlights.
Samsung’s technicolor N150 netbook gets Verizon-powered 3G originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Steve Jobs just posted an open letter of sorts explaining Apple’s position on Flash, going back to his company’s long history with Adobe and expounding upon six main points of why he thinks Flash is wrong for mobile devices. HTML5 naturally comes up, along with a few reasons you might not expect. Here’s the breakdown:
He concludes in saying that “Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice.” Basically, it’s for the olds. And you don’t want to be old, do you? Follow after the break for the whole thing in brilliant prose form.
Continue reading Steve Jobs publishes some ‘thoughts on Flash’… many, many thoughts on Flash
Steve Jobs publishes some ‘thoughts on Flash’… many, many thoughts on Flash originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Yeah, we spotted the Dash at Best Buy a few days ago, accidentally eating up shelf space, but we’ve finally hit that April 29th launch date and Sony has unleashed the non-tablet touchscreen device into the wild. The $199 unit, which is somewhat of a branded Chumby, sports a 7-inch screen, best-alarm-clock-you-ever-owned good looks, and access to streaming media from CBS, Netflix, Pandora, and more. If you can bottle your enthusiasm for just a bit longer we’ll have our own impressions of the device posted soon enough, but nobody’s stopping you from snapping this up from Sony’s website, your local Sony Style store, or whatever other retailer you might have in mind. PR is after the break.
Continue reading Sony’s Dash goes on sale, officially this time
Sony’s Dash goes on sale, officially this time originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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As jaded as we are, we just can’t bring ourselves to criticize this. Produced by CTA Digital, authors of other questionable gaming accessories, the Puppet Pouch acts as a superfurry (and annoyingly cute) case for your Nintendo portable console. Coming with a felt interior and elastic straps to keep your Ninty nice and minty, it also offers a zipped compartment for storing games and accessories, as well as “puppet functionality.” That last bit means you can shove your hand inside it and use the little fella as part of your awesome ventriloquist act. Priced at $19.99, it’s available now, but we’ve just got one oustanding question — what animal is this supposed to be?
Continue reading Puppet Pouch puts fur on your DS / DSi, smiles on people’s faces
Puppet Pouch puts fur on your DS / DSi, smiles on people’s faces originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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