rumor watch: Supposed iPhone 5 Display Meticulously Detailed in Video

The next iPhone could have a slightly thicker screen. Photo: iPhone5parts.net

Next-generation iPhone parts seem to be lining the streets in Asia. Last week a website in Japan said it built the outer casing of the upcoming iPhone from leaked parts, and on Friday a website in China released an elaborately detailed video show-and-tell of what it says is the front glass of Apple’s still unannounced new smartphone.

If all of these components being publicly demoed in Asia are actual leaked parts, then Apple definitely needs to work on its “double down” on secrecy.

Chinese forum iPhone5Parts.net says it got its Latex-fingered hands on the glass covering of an iPhone 5 front display, and then proceeded to compare it to the equivalent part from the current iPhone 4S. If the component in the video is the real deal, then the comparison is quite thorough and educational. But if the glass covering is just a fake — an opportunistic ploy to capture video views and notoriety — then we all just watched nearly seven minutes of a guy wearing bizarre Latex finger covers (they’re actually finger cots) instead of gloves. But, hey, at least the video was entirely SFW.

The iPhone5Parts.net video narrator wields a micrometer, detailing the differences between the current iPhone front cover and what he describes as “one of the components we got from reliable sources, this iPhone 5 front glass lens.” Obviously, the new display is taller. The iPhone 4S is 76.65mm while the narrator reports the next-generation iPhone display is 90.25mm — an increase of 13.6mm in height. The width is the same at 51.60mm, he says. However, the display area jumps from 3.6 inches to 4.065 inches and the thickness of the glass increases by 0.1mm.

Get ready to buy jeans with larger pockets.

If we are to believe the video as reliable evidence, the much taller display also moves the front-facing camera from the left of the earpiece to above the earpiece, and moves the light and proximity sensors from above the earpiece to the left of the earpiece. Basically the components have done a switcheroo.

The best information to come out of the video — assuming it’s legit — is that the new glass is even more scratch-resistant. The narrator goes to town on both screens with “the common keys we use every day” and proclaims the new iPhone display to be the winner.

So what are we to make of the video? Well, if nothing else the alleged screen glass corroborates previous purported leaked parts. At this point, if the new iPhone arrives and it doesn’t match the new 4-inch screen size in the aspect ratio we’ve all been seeing, Gadget Lab will be quite surprised.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/alleged-iphone-5-display-painfully-detailed-in-video/

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Windows 8 to feature adaptive Aero colorization, get it now on Windows 7

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While we've still yet to see anything truly Earth-shattering, the tandem of Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott continues to churn out insight about interesting new features they've discovered in Windows 8 milestone 3. The latest discovery is that Aero in Windows 8 will be able to automatically adapt itself to match your current wallpaper image. It's a bit like what Windows 7 already does with your taskbar icons: if a program alert needs your attention, the icon will glow using the predominant color (e.g. Firefox should glow orange).

And yes, you can already make Windows 7 behave this way if you like. Over at CodePlex, there's a little program called Aura that parks itself in your system tray and automatically adjusts your window borders to compliment your wallpaper images. The effect is quite nice, and you can try it out by minimizing your windows and cycling through your theme's wallpapers (right click on your desktop and choose next desktop background).

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Furby pre-orders start at Walmart, threaten your wallet with nostalgia

Furby pre-orders start at Walmart, threaten your wallet with nostalgia

Overwhelmed with nostalgia for a childish pseudo-creature with a glaringly absent off switch? Sounds like you're looking for a Furby. No, not the old, mangy monster whose batteries died in your toy cabinet all those years ago, we're talking about a new animatronic animal -- one kitted out with capacitive touch sensors, glowing LCD eyeballs and even a companion iOS app. Six colorful variations of the chatty creature are now available for pre-order at Walmart, each commanding a $54 price tag. Not sure if this is the simulated pet you're looking for? Check out our hands-on and see just how much Furbish you can take.

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Altaro Hyper-V Backup beta launched, only 250 places available

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This one's for the sysadmins in the audience: Altaro, makers of our favorite "time machine for Windows" back solution, OopsBackup, have just announced a new product entering beta called Hyper-V Backup.

It's a backup solution for virtual machines running on Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization solution. If that sentence just seemed like a bunch of buzzwords crammed together, Hyper-V backup is not for you. But, if you actually use Hyper-V and are hankering for a good backup solution, Altaro might be worth checking out.

The beta run is limited - Altaro are looking for just 250 testers. All participants will get a free license key to the final, production version. So if you're interested in helping test Hyper-V Backup, get yourself over to Altaro now and join the beta.

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tit for tat: Phil Schiller Testifies: ‘You’re Stealing All the Value We’ve Created’

Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of product marketing, is a regular speaker at all Apple media events.

SAN JOSE, California — Phil Schiller was the first witness to speak at the Apple v. Samsung trial Friday, and his words sent a very clear message to the assembled jury: The iPhone and iPad’s designs are revolutionary and iconic, and Samsung outright copied all this unique (and patented) Apple-owned mojo.

“[Copying] creates a huge problem in marketing on many levels. We market our product as the hero and how distinctive it is, how consistent we’ve kept it over time,” said Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, as he was questioned by Apple lawyer Harold McElhinny. “Now when someone comes up with a product that copies that design and copies that marketing, then customers can get confused on whose product is whose…. If you steal [the way the iPhone looks] you’re stealing all the value we’ve created.”

Dressed in a suit (an unusual sight in Silicon Valley), Schiller came across as calm and practiced. Compared to his performances during high-stakes Apple media events (see image above), it appeared that speaking in front of a jury was a piece of cake for the senior VP. When he first took to the stand, Schiller talked about how Apple transitioned from the audio player business to the smartphone arena.‪

‬’I was pretty shocked when I saw the Galaxy S phone and the extent to which it appeared to copy Apple’s products. My first thought was they’re going to steal our whole product line.’
– Phil Schiller

‬”There were many things that led to the iPhone at Apple,” said Schiller. “We were searching for what to do after iPod that would make sense. If we can make the iPod, what else can we do?” Apple employees tossed around ideas like making a camera, a car, and other “crazy stuff,” Schiller said.

“We realized at the time cellphones weren’t any good as entertainment devices,” Schiller said. Additionally, at the same time, Apple started working on a tablet device that would later become the iPad, which used multitouch so you could type directly on the screen. These ideas eventually led to the iPhone. Schiller testified that what the device did would be important, but Apple also cared about how it looked.

“It’s important to me that a product be unique and distinctive over time,” Schiller said. Looking at a slide of each iteration of iPhone design, Schiller commented that “you see the very consistent shape to it.” He also took Samsung to task for copying the iPhone’s design: “I was pretty shocked when I saw the Galaxy S phone and the extent to which it appeared to copy Apple’s products,” Schiller said, adding later, “My first thought was they’re going to steal our whole product line.”

Schiller also said making a tablet was a “big gamble” because it would mean entering a new device category. “People had tried to make tablets before and failed miserably,” he said, and the iPad was following in the footsteps of the very successful iPod and iPhone.

There were unique marketing challenges for the iPad, Schiller said. “The advertisement has to give you a sense of how it might work, and what it might do for you before you have a chance to head to the store and try it yourself,” he said. Apple’s TV ads have to “create a reason that you might want a tablet in your life,” he said.

Samsung Gets Its Turn to Dine on Grilled Schiller

After Apple’s legal team questioned Schiller, Samsung attorney Bill Price began cross-examining the senior VP. Schiller’s responses were generally terse, and often just supplied the bare minimum of a response. Much of Price’s questioning tried to establish that some of Apple’s patented design elements — such as the shape of the iPhone with its curved corners — were functional, not just aesthetic. Providing an example, Price said curved corners simply make it easier to put the device in one’s pocket. Schiller didn’t bite.

Whether consumers become “confused” by iPhone and Samsung smartphone similarities was also a hot topic. After seeing and reluctantly handling some Samsung smartphones (CNET’S Josh Lowensohn described Schiller’s handling of the Samsung Continuum “like it might give him a communicable disease“), Schiller said, “I looked at this phone and it was my opinion that Samsung has ripped off a number of our design elements and in doing that may be causing confusion.”

Price also tried to demonstrate that “ease of use” is more important than “attractive appearance and design” when people buy iPhones. He used data from Apple customer surveys in an attempt to undermine both the importance of Apple’s design patents, and the amount Apple is asking for in damages. Price followed this up with a bar graph showing that 78 percent of iPhone owners use a case or bumper with their iPhones.

At one point in the questioning, Price needled into the topic of future iPhone design — an area of intense interest for tech watchers worldwide. Trying to make a point that Apple changes its design every few years, Price asked Schiller if Apple would be changing the design of the iPhone for the iPhone 5.

The question was immediately objected to by Apple counsel Harold McElhinny, but Judge Koh, surprisingly, didn’t overrule — the query was relevant to Price’s point. Every reporter’s ears in the room perked up and the room hushed in anticipation of Schiller’s response. But unfortunately, after a brief back and forth with the judge, Schiller simply responded with, “I’d prefer not to tell confidential information about future products.” 

In Apple and Samsung’s year-plus long court battles, Apple claims Samsung is infringing on design patents for the iPhone and iPad, as well as utility patents covering things such as the “bounce-back” effect when you reach the end of a list in the UI. Samsung is claiming Apple is infringing on its essential 3G transmission patent holdings. The jury trial for the case began on Monday, and each side made opening statements presenting its case to jurors on Tuesday.

Before the jurors entered the courtroom Friday morning, Judge Koh addressed a public statement made by Samsung in which the company released evidence excluded from the trial. “I will not let any theatrics or any sideshow distract from what we are to do, which is to fairly try this case,” Koh said.

“My sole concern is to preserve the impartiality of the jury,” Judge Koh said sternly. To this end, Koh questioned each juror individually to ask if he or she had been influenced by any media since last in court. One juror had seen a headline about Apple’s design team working at a kitchen table, but said this would not influence his judgment in the case.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/phil-schiller-testifies/

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Shot Shot Pirate is a fun, simple physics game

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Shot Shot Pirate is very satisfying, because each level is short and to the point. You know what you have to do and you just do it.

As you may have gathered from the name, you're cast in the role of a pirate. Your goal is to shoot at a diamond and make it fall off a tower of bricks. The height of the tower changes as you progress through the levels. It's not enough to just make the diamond fall off the tower of bricks - it has to fall below a certain line (drawn on the screen) for the level to be completed.

There are also different kinds of bricks, with some heavier than others, and different kinds of ammo. You only get a certain amount of ammo for each level, and when it's gone, you lose. But don't worry! If you don't make it on the first try, it's very easy to restart the level and just give it another shot (or three).

All in all it's a cute game. I've seen similar games with better graphics and music, but the game delivers on its main promise - a few minutes of pure time wasting!

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DARPA calls on Cubic Corporation to develop frighteningly accurate One Shot XG sniper rifle

ARPA still looking to arm sharpshooters with digital super-scope, calls on Cubic Corporation to develop One Shot XG

Sighting in a target through the scope of a high-caliber rifle can be a bit more complicated then it sounds -- snipers have to account for cross-winds, range and a whole host of external factors that could put their projectile off course. It isn't easy, and the required calculations can seriously slow down a shooter's time to trigger. The solution? High tech laser-equipped sniper scopes, of course. DARPA has actually been working on this problem for quite some time, and calls its' project One Shot.

Previous iterations of the targeting system helped shooters increase their chance of hitting their mark by a factor of four, but suffered from short battery life, range finder accuracy errors and overheating problems. DARPA is putting its faith into Cubic Corporation to overcome these faults, awarding the firm with a $6 million contract to develop a "compact observation, measurement and ballistic calculation system" that it calls the One Shot XG. Like its predecessors, the XG is designed to give the shooter a offset aim point to counteract the environmental conditions that would impact bullet trajectory. DARPA is hoping to see ten weapon or scope-mountable field devices within 15 months. Consider this fair warning, Segway bots.

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Here's an Internal Email Thread from Apple About a 7-inch iPad [Apple]

Today in court, during the current ongoing legal battle between Apple and Samsung, an internal email thread between four Apple execs—Eddy Cue, Tim Cook, Scott Forstall, and Phil Schiller—was released into evidence. The subject of the email: size matters. No, really. Those are Cue's words, not mine. More »


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Google updates PageSpeed Service so you don't waste precious seconds waiting for pages to load

Google updates PageSpeed Service to further reduce website load times

Last year, Google launched its PageSpeed Service, aiming to improve our experience across the web while reportedly deferring its own financial interests. The concept was sound -- similar services like Akamai work to accelerate web browsing by caching pages in much the same way -- but there's always room for improvement. The latest PageSpeed beta uses some straightforward techniques to improve performance even further, using a new rewriter called "Cache and Prioritize Visible Content." Using this new tool, your browser will load content that appears "above the fold" before fetching text and photos that would be initially hidden on the page, while also prioritizing other content ahead of Javascript, which often isn't needed as quickly as more basic elements. Finally, for pages that contain HTML that isn't cacheable, such as when personalized info is returned, standard portions of the site are cached and displayed immediately, while other content loads normally. The new tool isn't a perfect fit for every webpage, but we'll take a boost wherever we can get it.

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Inhabitat's Week in Green: 30-foot 'Buckyball', Olympic stadium Lego replica and the 'Mantabot'

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.

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Building a robot that can stand and walk on two legs like a human is challenging enough -- but what about a robot that swims like a human? A team from Tokyo University of Technology has created the Swumanoid, a swimming robot that's based on the physique of a human swimmer and can swim a variety of strokes. But why should a swimming robot have to look like a person? Most fish swim much faster, more gracefully and more efficiently than humans. That's why scientists from the University of Virginia are developing the Mantabot, a robot that looks and swims like a ray.

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