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Who takes Apple’s rumored touchscreen tablet seriously? Wired’s parent company Condé Nast. Earlier this week, the corporation revealed its plans to work with Adobe to repurpose magazine content for upcoming digital devices, including the Apple tablet (if it is indeed real). The first mag to get the tablet treatment, of course, is Wired. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Wired_s_Concept_iTablet_App_Video'; All [...]

With all the gadgets, remotes, and thingamajigs piling up on your coffee table, finding the right remote can sometimes be a real pain. But thanks to a few heroic Android developers, there are tools to consolidate some of those pesky remotes … into your Android phone. While you can’t use an Android app to turn your [...]

Sometimes you have to take a step down to step up. That’s what Google should’ve done with its open source PC operating system Chrome OS, which the corporation demonstrated Thursday. Instead, Google is positioning Chrome OS against Microsoft with a lightweight OS shipping with netbooks next year. Chrome OS will function as a modified browser, enabling [...]

It’s surprising that Yelp, the go-to site for finding restaurants, bars and other venues, has no presence in the Android Market. But that’s okay. Foursquare does the job with a social incentive to boot. Foursquare is a location-based social mobile network that allows users to check-in at different places, post tips and to-do items with their [...]

Apple is mighty protective of its iPod trademark, and if you violate it, you’ll get no sympathy from Steve Jobs. Apple recently sent a letter to software company Little App Factory, requesting that it change the name of its most successful application: “iPodRip,” an app that enables you to copy and transfer songs from your iPod. In [...]

The title character of Ray Bradbury’s book The Illustrated Man is covered with moving, shifting tattoos. If you look at them, they will tell you a story. New LED tattoos from the University of Pennsylvania could make the Illustrated Man real (minus the creepy stories, of course). Researchers there are developing silicon-and-silk implantable devices which sit [...]

The Power HotSpot from Solis takes something good (solar power) and makes it easy to use. For $375, you get a portable solar panel and base unit which puts out a 12 Volt supply. Plug in anything with a car cigarette-lighter adapter and you have gadget-power, wherever you are. Or at least, wherever it is sunny. [...]

How many times have you wanted to eat something whilst out and about but been unable to do so because you had no cutlery? Me neither, and that’s because, like you, I have hands and teeth. But for the prissier amongst you, those who have what my mother calls “good manners”, we might have the [...]

The Cyberus Smart Info Engine may sound like a steampunk computer which connects to the Victorian Internet (which would actually be awesome) but it is instead the most full-featured digital photo-frame ever. To be fair, the manufacturer, Sungale, wouldn’t describe it like that. The company (which does make LCD photo-frames) is selling this as a device [...]

In Cory Doctorow’s latest novel, Makers, one of the main characters puts together an amazing little hack using a bunch of Boogie Woogie Elmo toys. These have been stripped of their fur and let loose on a tiny electric Smart Car. Reprogrammed to know how to drive, they collectively take the car for a spin: [...]