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Apple has trained iPhone owners to enjoy paying for digital content more than the general online population, a survey suggests. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/iPhone_Owners_More_Likely_to_Pony_Up_for_Digital_Content'; Media law firm Olswang on Wednesday published its 2009 Convergence Survey, which analyzed e-shopping trends among iPhone owners and general online consumers. Apple enthusiast blog 9to5Mac summarizes the findings regarding the iPhone demographic: 73 percent [...]

Apple’s new 27-inch iMac is a speed demon, especially the model shipping with the new Core i7 processor. Even better, the latest iMacs ship with the new Magic Mouse, Apple’s first single-button mouse that gets it right thanks to the powers of multitouch. Wired.com’s Mike Calore is mesmerized with his Core i7-powered iMac. He gave it [...]

Wired’s wish list is our annual roundup of the gadgets, appliances, accessories and toys that we want: 100 of the year’s coolest, most interesting, most exciting products. The product editors of Wired put together this list, which appears in our December issue. But this year, thanks to our sponsors, you can also get some of the [...]

Recently, I have been toying with experimental packing. A suitcase with all the clothes, cables and computers layered neatly inside is a good idea right up until you open the lid to check you packed something. Then it all goes wrong. My latest method is to first layer and then tightly roll clothes into a few [...]

My first thought on seeing the rather raggedy Multi-Format LED Display Watch was “that thing looks hand made”. Not hand made in the sense of a Vertu phone, put together by craftsmen one precision engineered bearing at a time, but home made as in “A bit of gaffer tape should hold that together OK.” Reading further [...]

Several Palm Pre customers have reported major problems with their handset’s online backup system, resulting in the loss of phone numbers, calendar events, memos and other data. The issue stems from corrupted backups, according to Pre enthusiast blog PreCentral. The Pre backs up its data as a “Palm Profile” online, and it only stores the most [...]

Sega’s Mega Drive was first born in 1988, made its way to the US a year later and at last to Europe in 1990. In the United States, it got a change of name: Genesis. At the time, the 16-bit marvel was just amazing, giving us an almost perfect home version of Streetfighter II and [...]

Coasties takes the fixed-gear trend for clean, cable-free lines and single cogs and applies it to the cruiser. The company offers cheap deep-V wheel-sets which swap out the rear track-hub for a coaster hub. This means you get all the aesthetic advantage of running a fixed-gear — non-visible rear brake, no cables or brake levers, [...]

BassJump is a subwoofer that turns your MacBook into a pair of satellite speakers. Instead of silencing the MacBook’s surprisingly good built-in speakers when you hook it up, like a regular external speaker, it augments them with what they lack the most: bass. After installing a preference pane on the host Mac, you plug in the [...]

It’s called ProFORMA, or Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition, but it is way cooler than it sounds. The software, written by a team headed by Qui Pan, a student at the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University in England, turns a regular, cheap webcam into a 3D scanner. Normally, scanning in 3D requires purpose-made gear [...]