It’s my iPhone, and I’ll break it if I want toCompanies like Apple and Sony are doing everything they can to stop users from modding, hacking and jailbreaking their gadgets. But if people want risk poking and playing around with their expensive tech toys, that’s their right, argues Devin Coldewey.
Gadgets
It’s called iPad, and the Kindle is rooted
2009 wasn’t just the year of the ebook reader. 2009 was the only year of the ebook reader. Goodbye Kindle, hello iPad.
Hand jobs: gadget boom creates new market for models
The booming gadget industry of mp3 players, e-Readers, netbooks and digital cameras has created a new demand for hand models, with the most in-demand mitts earning up to $10,000 a day.
How gadgets are created
From e-Readers to iPods, the market for newer, faster and tinier gadgets is booming. But just what goes in to designing and creating the Next Big Thing in consumer electronics? Wired investigates.
Tech experts imagine Apple products of the future
Apple’s distinctive products and design defined tech in the last decade. What will it come up with next? Five experts from the tech press imagine future iGadgets, including augmented reality glasses and one that lets you create your own Apple products.
The 20 best gadgets of the decade
iPods, flash drives, smart phones and eReaders: the noughties was truly the decade gadgetry came into its own. Paste looks at the 20 most innovative and important gadgets of 2000-2009.
Silicon sweatshops
Global Post is running a five-part investigation into the dubious labour practices of the Third World factories manufacturing the First World’s favorite high-tech gadgets. How cool does your iPhone look now?
The world’s first Twitter-only gadget. Er, why?
Tech company Peek has created a hand-held gadget that only does one thing: tweet. For US$199, you can’t make phone calls, send SMS or check your email, but you can tweet on-the-go. Perfect for friendless geeks with no need for a real phone, we guess.
PHOTO GALLERY: Yesterday’s gadgets, today’s technology
Photos of gadgets once considered high-tech creations. Sure they’re primitive and funny, but many also foreshadow the technological innovations we’re seeing and using today.
Do gadgets make us lonely?
Is our high-tech world really ruining communication and driving us further into isolation? Not at all, says DVICE: smart phones, portable games, digital cameras and other gadgets just give us new ways to share and play.
What gadgets are early adopters searching for?
HitWise share a sample of what people in their early technology adopter demographic groups have been searching for recently.
