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Yes, yes, we only reported on an Apple patent application a few hours ago, but interesting stuff is interesting stuff. While this morning’s news focused on Apple’s future attempts to get into and control your living room, this is an altogether more feasible idea: an iPhone case made entirely out of glass. Read more

Apple’s always been resolute on the topic of the iPhone’s screen: they developed the most perfect, optimum-sized display for a phone ever, and everyone else is just plain wrong. Right? Perhaps not any more, if rumours from the far east are to be believed. Will the iPhone 5 have to ramp up its display size to stave off the competition? Read more

Amazing research being carried out by the University of Munich, the University of Calgary and Columbia University has shown the future of what’s possible in the field of screen sharing. The video of their software shows how your smartphone could very well be your next computer. Read more

While little is currently known about the iPhone 5 that Apple’s likely to launch later this year, we can be safe in guessing that the camera will continue its steady rate of improvement. Now, if word from Adam Lashinky’s book Inside Apple is to be believed, the next-gen mobile cam will benefit from a little bit of magic. Read more

At CES 2012 Toshiba unveiled a tablet. Everybody did. But Toshiba’s was different. It was a tablet that offered wireless charging via inductive technology, even while completely submerged in water.

It’s got me thinking all the way back to the Palm Pre, and how wireless charging should, by all rights, be a part of our everyday lives by now. So how come it’s not? Read more

Happy New Year from Electricpig!

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Happy New Year! If you’re reading this, it means we all made it through last night in one piece, and that 2012 now lay stretched out ahead of us like a big stretchy thing. So what’s in store? Read more

It’s hard to believe, but 2011 has almost wrapped. Of course, the latest, hottest gadgets don’t stop for recantations of Auld Lang Syne or annual Hootenannies, and 2012 will be packed with even more incredible kit. From the Samsung Galaxy S3 to a Kinect sequel, here’s what on our radar for 2012.

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It’s mere minutes away. We’re sandwiched in Apple’s UK iPhone 5 iPhone 4S launch event. There are fewer journos than ever here, which means fewer hands-on reports than ever before. We’ll be bringing you our first fingers-on impressions, just as soon as Apple dishes up the goods. Turns out Apple didn’t have samples for us to play with. For shame! We’re busy tracking them down, so stay tuned, and read on for the nitty gritty.

 

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