iPhone-branded gas stoves seized by Chinese authorities

Ordinarily, if you use your iPhone to fry eggs, it’s time to check when your warranty expires.

Not so for these KIRF iPhones.

Source:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/24/iphone-gas-stoves/

Apple looking to improve water sensors for detecting iPhone damage

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Source:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/17/apple_looking_to_improve_water_sensors_for_detecting_iphone_damage.html

Sprint Reports Strong iPhone Sales in Q4 2011

Sprint’s Q4 2011 earnings report is out, and strong iPhone sales are among the highlights.

Source:
http://mashable.com/2012/02/08/sprint-q4-2011/

iPhone soaks up 75 percent of all mobile phone profits

Apple holds only a 9 percent share of the global mobile phone market but it grabbed 75 percent of the industry’s overall profits last quarter, according to data from Asymco.

Read this blog post by Lance Whitney on Apple.

Source:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57371790-37/iphone-soaks-up-75-percent-of-all-mobile-phone-profits/

Virtual Projection team puts iPhone writing on the wall (w/ video)

A collaborative team from the University of Calgary, University of Munich, and Columbia, have figured out a way to use a smartphone to project the phones display on to external displays nearby.

The team thinks of its technology approach, Virtual Projection, as “borrowing available display space in the environment.” Dominikus Baur, Sebastian Boring, and Steven Feiner are behind Virtual Projection. Feiner is Professor of Computer Science at Colu

Source:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-virtual-team-iphone-wall-video.html

BreathalEyes App Brings A Sobriety Checkpoint To Your iPhone

While the most common way of testing ones sobriety is blowing into a breathalyzer machine, its far from the only way.

At roadside checkpoints, one thing police often look at is called horizontal gaze nystagmus (HGN).

Source:
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1071363_breathaleyes-app-brings-a-sobriety-checkpoint-to-your-iphone

BreathalEyes app helps give you some sobering info, lets you know if youre too drunk to drive

Help your friends, and yourself, make the responsible decision of driving sober by utilizing the power of the iPhone 4 with the BreathalEyes app.

A simple app that helps gauge your ability to drive after drinking.

Source:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/breathaleyes-app-helps-give-you-some-sobering-info-lets-you-know-if-youre-too-drunk-to-drive/

Apple iPhone 5 ‘coming in March’ – and WILL have four-inch screen as sources report mass orders of larger touchscreens

Japanese fan site Macotakara reports Sony and Hitachi are making four-inch screens for the new phone – and have already shipped early prototypes to Apple’s Cupertino HQ – hinting at a release as early as March.

Source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2068123/Apple-iPhone-5-coming-March–WILL-inch-screen-sources-report-mass-orders-larger-touchscreens.html

Top 100 Funniest iPhone/Android Auto-Corrects (PICS)

Dont you hate when your smartphone corrects the simple things you are trying to say? Usually we see it to correct the mistake ourselves but these people werent so lucky.

See how these people text the worst, but funniest, auto-correct messages to their friends and family!

Source:
http://wildammo.com/2011/11/30/top-100-funniest-iphoneandroid-auto-corrects/

Dudes Send Beer Into Space, Then Drink It *VIDEO*

A little while back, some guy made a splash on the internets by sending an HD video camera and an iPhone into space using a weather balloon.

Source:
http://socialhype.com/offbeat/awesome-dudes-send-beer-into-space-then-drink-it-video/