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Just when we thought Steve was trying to pull something over our eyes. Steve Jobs has announced that the iPhone SDK should be available to developers some time in February 2008. Jobs says that Apple would love to form a community of third-party developers around the iPhone, though have been trying to protect user security by making the SDK as ...

With his tin toy robot look and corrugated cardboard body, the RoboCard is willing and ready to do the extremely bizarre task for which he was created. Believe it or not, RoboCard will hold and protect up to 14 CDs and a roll of extra toilet paper “for any spill, leak, drip, drop, or other emergency.” At W8.7″ x D6.3″ ...

Mmm, we love ourselves a nice banana. Most of us primates do. We don’t know if we could eat enough to make an entire chandelier of the packaging (instead of with the actual product like with the Bic Pen Chandelier), but maybe we should consider it. Using only cut outs from recycled crates of Chiquita bananas,� this chandelier blocks most ...

With some official Leopard info just fresh off the wire, Apple is understandably excited about their upcoming OS. They’re so excited, they deemed it necessary to build an entire page built around the greatness of the new Leopard operating system. Featured on the page is all 300+ innovations that Leopard brings to the table as the first official OS upgrade ...

Apple has officially confirmed that Mac OS X Leopard will hit store shelves on Friday, October 26th starting at 6pm. Steve Jobs is calling it “the best upgrade we have ever released” and with new features like the redesigned 3D Dock with Stacks, Time Machine, Spaces, Quick Look as well as updated Finder, Mail, and iChat– he just might be ...

LG-Phillips LCD (yes, a joint company project) has announced a new LCD display technology that could allow for larger screens on many mobile devices in the near future. By building the driver circuit right into the screen console itself, the new technology reduces the bezel siding of the screen to be only 1mm thick. This means that some screens could ...

Sony’s new DoCoMo SO703i may come with GPS, TV, and music player functions, but what’s really interesting about these phones has nothing to do with the specifications. That distinction goes to the fact that one sniff of your phone could make you think about lunch. That’s right, the DoCoMo SO703i is available in 11 unique scents, like “apple pie” for ...

A teenage hacker claims to have found an easy way to allow third-party applications to be used on the iPod Touch. While this method doesn’t work on the iPhone (yet), which had its various bugs and app access fixed with the Apple 1.1.1 update, those of you who have bought an iPod Touch will be happy to know that there ...

� Vice Versa is a concept clock by Yiran Qian from China. If you like staring your gadgets right in the face, you might have a tough time with this gadget, seeing as Vice Versa has no face. The clock uses a set of revolving displays with an analog time style, with digital numerals. Basically, you get both an analog ...

Our girlfriends and mothers nag us enough. “What are you doing to yourself? You should see how your lungs look!” And now our cellphones could be joining the nagging bandwagon. FixNixer is a phone app which is designed to aid smokers to break the habit. Though we don’t know how much good it will do if you have a phone ...