It turns out that Apple’s innovative Smart Cover might be more dangerous than its colorful appearance would tell. 14 year old Gianna Chien has done a study proving that the smart cover’s built in magnets have a high risk of turning off implanted defibrillators for those with serious heart problems. If someone with one of these devices inside of them falls asleep with their iPad on their chest, it could potentially turn off their defibrillator, putting them at serious risk. Read the full story at Bloomberg.

The security software Apple uses to protect its iPhones is good. Perhaps too good. The devices are allegedly so hard to crack that police need to go to Apple themselves to retrieve information from them. Sometimes Apple can put these police on waiting lists that last for over a month until they can finally get the information they want. Read the full story over at CNET.

One of the best innovations that has happened with the advancement of smartphones is camera quality. Thank goodness the days of watching flip phone quality footage on YouTube are pretty much all behind us. The folks behind the Camera+ app wanted to show just how far camera quality has come along just since the introduction of the original iPhone. It’s incredible how much better what we have now in our iPhone 5s is than what we had back in 2007 with the first iPhone camera. To really show off the evolution, they have taken a variety of pictures, all from

I love my gadgets, but carrying around three different cables to charge and sync my Lightning, 30-pin, and Micro USB devices can get annoying. However, the folks at iPhone 5 Mod have recently developed a USB cable that has attachments to work with both Lightning and 30-pin devices as well as standard Micro USB devices. This cable is essentially a standard Micro USB cable with a Micro USB to Lightning adapter and a Micro USB to 30-pin adapter. These adapters are removable but can attach to the side of the cable using a set of nubs. To attach one of

Sharp, a company that has found itself on hard times lately, caught a break a month back when Samsung invested over $100 million into the company. This clearly wasn’t enough to advert all disaster, however, as Sharp will reportedly announce plans Tuesday to let go of 5,000 employees over the next three years. The Asahi Shinbum reports that Sharp’s corporate head office in Osaka, Japan will have half of its executive staff cut. Besides its head office, most of the job cuts will reportedly take place outside of Japan. The job cuts are being made in an attempt to bring