Posts tagged as iPhone
Soon The Surface Of Your iPhone Will Be Even More Gross
"Many believe that in the future collecting samples of saliva, urine or blood could be performed using a cheap, USB-stick-sized throwaway device called a lab-on-a-chip. The user would inject a droplet of the fluid in the chip, and micropumps inside it would send the fluid to internal vessels containing reagents that extract target disease biomarker molecules. The whole device would then be sent to a lab for analysis. But Hyun Gyu Park and Byoung Yeon Won at the Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology in Daejeon think touchscreens could improve the process by letting your phone replace the lab work. Park suggests the lab-on-a-chip could present a tiny droplet of the sample to be pressed against a phone's touchscreen for analysis, where an app would work out whether you have food poisoning, strep throat or flu, for example."
The Turntable iPhone App is Exceptional
For once, what all the tech blogs say is true! The Turntable iPhone app is out and it's gooood. Not that many people at all use Turntable, it's strange to say, but it's a really smart company that's built a great product and is trying to keep it on the up-and-up. READ MORE
My Gigwalk Experiment
I’m broke. And, like a lot of people in New York, one reason I'm broke is because I sink a lot of money into my iPhone. So when I heard about the recently launched and revamped Gigwalk, the app that lets you make extra money by using your iPhone to find odd jobs that businesses need doing, I jumped at the chance to be a guinea pig. Basically, you open the app, tap the red dots around you on the map and do a small job for a few dollars. There are tons of these red dots all over the city, and most consist of just taking photos. Submitted gigs earn you “streetcred," or Gigwalk karma points. The more streetcred you have, the more those map dots pay. The app keeps track of what you earned, and you collect the money through PayPal. It sounded easy enough, so I set out to see if you could make enough on Gigwalk to have a solid supplement to a too-small paycheck. READ MORE
If You Lose Your iPhone You Will Have A Baby
For the latest example of Americans' growing inability manage their own lives without the help of a trendy technological device, let's meet Doug Wilson of Arkansas. READ MORE
Never, Ever Go To Canada! The $1723 AT&T iPhone Bill
It's never a good idea to go to Canada. And there were some other bad choices here-such as keeping the phone in "roaming" mode in a "foreign country," which, yes it is Canada but they do have a phone network. But no one should have to suffer like film publicist Reid Rosefelt: "I went to the Toronto Film Festival for 5 days and 4 hours and received a $1524 AT&T bill for data charges on top of the $199 paid for the first 200 MB. A total of $1723." And it ends... not well! "Eventually I found a sympathetic operator who filed a 4-page application for a full refund. On Friday I received a text saying there would be no reduction of any kind. An operator confirmed that there would be no explanation for the denial or any possibility of reconsideration." AT&T breaks up with customers by text! So modern. (via)
Your Pervy Apps May Still Not Run Wild In The Apple Store!
Apple came up with a crazy idea-it's going to make the guidelines for iPhone and iPad app approval public! Nuts right? "For the first time we are publishing the App Store Review Guidelines to help developers understand how we review submitted apps" is how Apple put it. But bad news too, because here's the part of the guidelines: "'Apps containing pornographic material, defined by Webster's Dictionary as 'explicit descriptions or displays of sexual organs or activities intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings,' will be rejected." It's crazy that the technology of the would-be future refuses to allow the present to catch up with it. (Also, Webster's Dictionary! I bet there's an app for that. But who cares.)
The iPhone's FaceTime: Too Soon!
Just as you suspected, no one feels comfortable using the new iPhone's "Facetime" videophone thing... unless they really miss their cats.
Having an iPhone Doesn't Mean You're Necessarily a Slut
The data suggests that iPhone users have more sex. READ MORE
The Solid Gold iPhone
"Someone would have fashioned Apple's iPhone 4 out of gold and diamonds sooner or later," notes Freshness mag. Correct! So the diamond version, by Stuart Hughes, is £12,995. His gold one is £21,995. The nice thing about having solid gold and diamond-encrusted iPhone cases is that when you flee your tottering regime of slaughter and despotism they can be scrapped or melted down into cash in some nice non-extraditing country.
