Gadgets

Apple designer Jonathan Ive, who is known as the designer behind just about every major Apple product of the past ten years, is rumored to be preparing to leave the company.

There was a time when games like 'Doom' required top-of-the-line computing to play. Now we can play it on a graphing calculator.

Apple has announced a new line of MacBook Pros that range from $1,199 to $2,499 and include new Intel Core i5 and i7 CPUs and Thunderbolt I/O.

Numbers that have leaked out of Apple show that the Verizon-branded iPhone 4 sold just under 4,000 units in its first five days. While many outlets are saying that these figures are disappointing, it's far from the worst news in the world.

Reports coming out of Taiwan are that Apple has shown interest in upgrading their next iPhone model to a 4-inch display.

Living amidst a cornucopia of products that aren't products, we're learning that cultivating our gardens means working together. The final post in a series of chats about the Chrome notebook, with blogger Adam Rothstein.

If I were to equate gadget blogging to some occupation in a slice of modern cinema, the film that most immediately comes to mind is The Human Centipede: First Segment. That 2010 parable, directed by Tom Six, focuses on the misadventures of three people who, through a wacky series of missteps, are each sewn... shall we say... input-to-output to one another. Gadget blogging, you see, is primarily an act of chain digestion.

A sleek, design-fictional robot railway inspector promises to make costly train derailments a thing of the past. It's a harbinger of the ambient, automated infrastructure to come�and a reminder that the future lies in the inevitable and necessary failure of beautiful ideas. Video after the jump.

Precorder provides a buffer interface for iPhone video, letting you choose your shots after they've happened. Or seen another way, it's a reticle for aiming special effects at points in space and time.

You bought it? You own it; don't let esoteric screwheads take it away from you. Video after the jump.