Apple patent could lead to face-based user switching in iOS and beyond
Apple continues to consider ways to enable easy user switching and control for iOS devices using facial recognition, which may eventually lead to facial unlock features in the iPhone or iPad....
Google Trends reveals clues about the mentality of richer nations
Countries that focus on the future tend to have a higher per capita GDP, suggests a study published in Nature's Scientific Reports. Using Google Trends, a group of researchers compared the number of searches conducted...
Hands-On With Zoom, Fisheye, Wide And Macro Lenses For iPhone and iPad [Reviews]
One disadvantage of using an iPhone or iPad as a camera is that you’re stuck with a single, fixed focal-length lens. Optical zoom can work only so...Professional Abuse: How Zeiss Lenses Are Stress-Tested [Video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LVssYtOJP2U If you were to only read about his antics, Norbert Wittekindt might appear like some kind of psychopath. He takes top-end Carl Zeiss lenses and drops them onto hard floors. Not only that, he freezes them and then brings them into warm rooms and...Panasonic GF5 With New Super-Sensitive Sensor And Faster Autofocus
Panasonic’s GF5, leaked a couple of weeks ago on Instagram, is now officially official. The new Micro Four Thirds camera skips right over the superstitiously suspect name GF4 (which apparently sounds like “death” in Japanese),...iPhone 4S goes rural with regional US carriers on April 20
Apple plans to expand its potential customer base later this month when the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 launch on a number of small, regional CDMA wireless networks here in the US. The soft launch expands...
Condom-Carrying iPhone Case Guarantees You’ll Go Home Alone
True story: When I was around 14 years old, there was a kid who would come to school sometimes already wearing a condom. His reason? In case he suddenly got lucky. Needless to say,...Feature: The Nokia Lumia 900 review
The Nokia Lumia 900 has the weight of two big names on its shoulders. It's Nokia's big re-entry into the US market; it's also the flagship Windows Phone Mango in this...
Feature: The Nokia Lumia 900 review
The Nokia Lumia 900 has the weight of two big names on its shoulders. It's Nokia's big re-entry into the US market; it's also the flagship Windows Phone Mango in this...
Apple holds the master decryption key when it comes to iCloud security, privacy
Ars recently attempted to delve into the inner workings of the security built into Apple's iCloud service. Though we came away reasonably certain that iCloud uses industry best practices that Apple...
Apps bar users from Internet, Facebook—and prove surprisingly popular
Fred Stutzman, a post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, has written two programs that allow users to block their own online activities. At first blush, they seem like the answer to...
Analog Joystick Works Via iPhone Camera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZC8fX1HHx3A The Fling controller from TenOne Design (soon to be reviewed) is a great way to add a physical to your iPhone or iPad, just by suction-cupping it onto the screen. This means that it works with any game on your iOS device that uses...
