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Apple’s Magic Television: Why it’ll be the most disappointing gadget of 2012

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You may have heard that right before Steve Jobs died, he wanted to make a television. And not just any television, an Apple Television. And, by all accounts, Apple is building a television: there are reports and rumors of it putting together 22 and 27 inch displays. Read more

Apple may have just gotten your Android phone banned

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Currently, across the world, a war is raging. It’s a war of patents: Apple has been dragging pretty much everybody who makes a smartphone or a tablet computer to court for trademark infringement. Read more

HBO Go finally comes to Time Warner Cable, but still useless

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It’s pretty bad when your first reaction to a service announcement is “Hooray!” immediately followed by “Oh, come on, seriously?” But at least there’s partial good news. If you’re a Time Warner subscriber with HBO, you will finally be able to access HBO Go on your computer, which includes iPads. Read more

iPhone Carabiner is hilarious, also stupid

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As long as man has had iPhones, he has had the problem of making sure the expensive computer in his pants doesn’t get destroyed. He has used titanium cases, he has used Gorilla Glass, and now, apparently, he has just given up. Read more

xPrintServer makes printing from your iPad a snap

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There are many wonderful, wonderful things about the iPad: its design, its functionality, its apps. One thing that stinks majorly about it, however, is the pretty much total lack of printing support. Sure, it has a “print” button, but that might as well just touch off a laugh track. Read more

Which tablets to avoid this holiday season

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So, Christmas is nearly upon us, and you want to buy that special someone in your life a tablet to make their lives easier. Good for you. Unfortunately, with tablets being the only growing market, that means a lot of people are trying to jump on the success train…and a lot of manufacturers have been ... Read more

VIDEO: Siri gets stuck in the middle of an awkward argument

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The iPhone 4S’s Siri application can do a lot of things (so long as it’s not involving a foreign accent). But this sketch from College Humor shows that one thing Siri can’t do is handle conflict. Read more

VIDEO: G-Form iPad case protects your tablet from a quarter mile drop

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iPads are expensive: $500 at minimum, and that’s if you want to go without a cellular plan. So you want to protect them from damage. But how do you pull that off? Get the guys who specialize in keeping extreme sports types from breaking bones to make you an iPad case, that’s how. And G-Form, ... Read more

Your new iPhone 4S has autocorrect after all

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Whenever a new Apple product hits the market, the first thing gadget nerds do is dig around in the code and the hardware to see what they can find. Usually it’s nothing interesting, but they’ve finally found something you’ll use more than once: an auto-correct keyboard similar to Android’s. And you don’t have to be ... Read more

VIDEO: Reason #976 why Nintendo is doomed

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The once mighty giant is on the ropes and needs to make a comeback, bad. Especially this holiday season; with the iPhone 4S to content with already, and PlayStation Vita on the horizon, Nintendo needs to do everything possible to demonstrate how serious the 3DS is. Too bad the following says they’re anything but. Read more

VIDEO: The Mobile Mount sucks…and that’s a good thing

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It’s one of those things so face-smackingly simple you wonder why you didn’t think of it: a mount for smartphones and tablets that uses suction cups. Read more