Here’s a scenario. You’re returning late from work, super tired. All you want is to fall a sleep in your bath, but you just hate waiting for the water to fill it in. What to do? Guess what – there could be an app for that. One of the projects shown at the recently held…
Shure’s SE115m+ Sound Isolating headset is an expensive but cool replacement for your standard Apple headsets
Shure has a new headset product for iPhone users. It’s the SE115m+ Sound Isolating Headset which also comes with a remote and microphone. Their trick is using three rather than a single button for controlling music and calls. In that sense, the SE115m+ comes with dedicated volume control buttons, as well as the standard play/pause/answer…
See where your tax dollars are being spent in Layar’s augmented reality
Want to see where the the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is being spent? There’s an app for that. Or, to be more precise, there’s a new Layar “layer” for that. The new “Recovery.org” layer is now available on the Layar augmented reality browser, giving iPhone or Android users the power to pin-point…
blackra1n RC2 now available to jailbreak new (OTB) iPhone 3GS
iPhone hacker George “geohot” Hotz has released an update to his “blackra1n” jailbreak utility that should give new iPhone 3Gs owners reason to celebrate. The blackra1n RC2 update will jailbreak factory-fresh iPhone 3GS’s loaded with iPhone OS 3.1.2 by Apple, but only through a “tethered jailbreak” method. The latest iPhone OS 3.1.2 update was released…
Study: iPhone Mom demographic could be a lucrative marketing target
Soccer moms, move over, your time is over. It’s time to make room for the “iPhone Mom” – a relatively new demographic made up of female iPhone owners with children. A new survey from Greystripe indicates that the usually slow-to-adopt “mommy” segment has quickly become a significant consumer of mobile content and mobile applications. As…
HSPA and iPhone 3GS Landing on TELUS November 5
We had heard that the iPhone was coming to Canadian carrier telus next month, but they’ve just gone official with a release date (November 5) and pricing ($99.99 for 8GB 3G, $199 for 16GB 3GS, $299 for 32GB 3GS). telus will be also be cutting the ribbon on their brand new HSPA network on the…
Photos of the SIM card tray from the 4th generation iPhone out in the wild
The iPhone is the only mobile device I know of that has a SIM card tray. Insert a paper clip into a small hole, out pops a piece of plastic designed to hold your SIM card, lay your SIM inside, shove the tray back in, and boom, start dialing AT&T customer service and ask them…
Kluckr iPhone app is made for chicken wings fanatics
Kluckr Communications wants to monetize on the ever growing chicken wings eating culture. In that sense, they’ve launched an iPhone app called Kluckr, which rates, reviews, and locates wing joints. As I just said, the 99 cents application goes beyond simply locating places where you can eat wings. Kluckr can also be used for rating…
Real-Time Jobs gives job-seekers an edge to get job postings before they appear elsewhere on the web
The company behind the real-time job search engine, TwitterJobSearch, is using the same technology (QuickPitch) for a new iPhone app called Real-Time Jobs. Using the application, job-seekers can attach an online CV, social media profile, and/or a video CV to job offers that have been posted to Twitter with a single click. As a result,…
ESP Mobile helps iPhone-ownin’ health care professionals involved in pain management or addiction medicine
Emerging Solutions in Pain released its own iPhone application called ESP Mobile, which is designed for health care professions involved in pain management or addiction medicine. The app provides clinicians with robust multimedia medical information, allowing them [clinicians] to “stay current with the latest information and educational programs in pain management.” Here’s what’s included in…