Daily Interesting iPhone News

With the last post suggesting iPhone 5 to feature a 3D camera and a detachable DSLR lens, we think it’s quite timely to share the new concept brought to you by LA-based 3D artist Mike Ko!

However, try to stay relevant after watching it and remember that this is just a concept, having nothing in common with Apple plans. Although this masterpiece is at least years away from being implemented, let’s imagine how wonderful the movies and videos would be if our iPhones supported 3D….

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A young Steve Jobs and other early Apple executives appear in a previously unreleased internal sales video for the Macintosh, circa 1984. A rare, internal video that Apple originally aired during its 1984 international sales conference has been put online.

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New Apple iPhone 4S TV ads feature Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel using Siri. Samuel L. Jackson is using Siri to plan a date night and Zooey Deschanel needs to be reminded to clean up her room.

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Man’s best friend? There’s an app for that. Robotic dogs are nothing new; Wikipedia, God bless it, even has a list of them. The AIBO may be the most iconic (at least, it’s the only one I personally encountered), even though it was discontinued in 2006.

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An entertainment software startup founded by two creative-industry professionals has launched the “Human in a Box” iPhone app—its first product on Apple’s iTunes App Store.

Human in a Box is one of the only interactive applications based on a live-action human avatar available in the App Store. The main character, Jerry Jenkins, is played by Miami-based actor Brent Battles. The app features a proprietary system in which the character’s reactions to the user evolve based on how he is treated.

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I never find myself using Siri on my iPhone 4S. I have a “Siri block.” I just do not get myself to engage Siri for the tasks I am doing on the iPhone. I am used to type a search query.

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Just when it seemed Siri’s gentle, informative voice had been twisted every which way in one YouTube video or another, along comes “Psycho Siri” to totally freak us out all over again about talking so intimately with our devices.

Filmmaker Andrew McMurry directed and acted in the clip, which stars his brother Nathan McMurry as a guy who finds an iPhone.

Read more www.wired.com

iPhone users can play the Hyundai driving app on a huge screen in Times Square

If we could drive the streets the way we do in video games, getting from point A to point B would be way more fun.

Read more www.dailytech.com

glowing iphone Make your iPhone Apple logo glow with this case hackI’m not one for hardware hacking. The last time I opened up a piece of electronics was to install a mod-chip in the original Sony Playstation. It was worth it for all of two months, then my Playstation went belly up. But, a nifty case tweak for the iPhone has me re-evaluating my stance on hardware hacking.

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Last week, we looked at an iPhone ad from Amnesty International that turned the device’s “Slide to Unlock” feature into a symbolic act of political protest. Here’s another ad that toys around with that feature—this one a bit more playful. It’s from Audi and AlmapBBDO in Brazil, and it reimagines “Click to Unlock” as a winding racetrack.

Read more www.adweek.com

The typical elementary school curriculum doesn’t include programming, so how can a kid interested in computers and technology learn how to build apps? Sixth grader Thomas Suarez taught himself using the iPhone software development kit and then launched an app club at his school to share what he learned with his peers.

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Crazy Monkey Studios today reveals the official trailer of Siegebreaker for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. In this unique mix of real-time strategy and role playing game, players - in the guise of rock star Keith Rock - must rescue the kings of the Brookelands from a mysterious evil which has befallen the land. Siegebreaker will be available for free on the App Store at December 2nd,2011. Additional content can be purchased via in-app purchases.

A hidden panorama mode has been uncovered by iOS jailbreakers.

Your iPhone’s camera can do something you didn’t know it can do: shoot panorama photos! This secret feature was uncovered by hacker and software developer conradev, reports iDownload Blog. He did so by tinkering with the iOS SDK, which unlocked the world-grabbing feature. Once enabled, the shooting mode allows users to shoot continuously from left to right.

Read more www.digitaltrends.com

We’ve previously seen Apple’s much raved about Siri intelligent assistant feature hacked to work on an iPhone 4, but now developers have managed to hack the feature to work on an old iPhone 3GS. The hack comes from developers Grant Paul and Steve Troughton-Smith, while a video demoing the hack was posted by Ryan Petrich.

Read more www.slashgear.com

Volkswagen Canada is using a large-scale augmented reality campaign to introduce the latest incarnation of its Beetle to Canada. The campaign represents one of the more ambitious implementations of augmented reality for an advertising campaign in that country - or any other - to date.

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The new iOS 5 has just over two hundred new features, which will help many iPhone 4 and 3GS users stay contented with their older iPhones, although for some people this is still not enough and they need to jailbreak the device to add the little extras.

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Apple’s most enhanced mobile operating system—iOS 5—is finally available to consumers, along with the near-mythical iPhone 4S. The new OS (operating system) boasts 200 new features for the company’s range of mobile devices, and so far the reviews have been mostly positive. However, consumers’ rush to acquire the new smartphone did lead to some glitches, such as cancelled software updates.

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My iPhone is always with me, and I will admit to having mild panic attacks if I misplace it around the office or house. Only once have I had cause to go into major panic mode though, and that was when I managed to leave my iPhone and my car keys in a shop. Luckily it was the last shop I had been in, and my good fortune held up as not only had I left them at the checkout counter but the checkout assistant was a very honest person.

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Are you excited about Siri? If so, this video on Stuff.tv is going to knock your socks off. In the video, users ask Siri to open a website, send an IM to someone, ask it about the weather both locally and in San Francisco, set an alarm, do some currency conversions, and find the distance to the Moon.

Read more www.tuaw.com

iPhone nano, rumored to be one-third the size of the current iPhone 4 and supposedly releasing alongside the iPhone 5, has been making headlines since the start of the year thanks to speculations that it may be priced as an entry-level model.

Read more www.gizmocrunch.com