Apple iPad

Sexual Predator in Your Neighborhood? There's an App For That

If you want to know what's happening in the world of child sexual predators, there's now an app for that. And it was developed by the federal government with your tax dollars. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arm today launched its "Operation P ... More >>

1 of 3 Hipsters Lives With Parents, Apparently

We've finally figured out how young hipsters in Los Angeles can afford all that swag, from high-tops to iPads, American Apparel to Coachella tickets. They're living at home! (Duh. Smacks self in head). Yeah, a new study says that more than 1 in 3 young adults in America lives with mommy and daddy:

The iTray: Restaurant Invents Flying Drone Waiter Tray

Ever wanted your food to fly at you on a whirling automated tray? Not really? No, me either. But if you're in London, you can have this fine experience, at a restaurant called YO! Sushi. They've developed a flying waiter tray called the iTray. There's a video of the waiter-copter (posted below), bu ... More >>

Four Lessons From Bjork's 'Biophilia' Class at MOCA

See also: *Björk Brings Her Crazy Nature Project to L.A. On Big Family Sunday at the Museum of Contemporary Art, kids and family members got to take part in a number of art-related activities, most of which took place under canopies outside the museum. But inside something a very different program ... More >>

Man Who Allegedly Took Upskirt Photos of Model Brittanie Weaver Charged

Model Brittanie Weaver says a perv "picked the wrong girl" when he used an iPad to take upskirt photos of her at a Sherman Oaks pet store in March. The L.A. City Attorney's office this week might just be on its way to validating that claim. Prosecutors announced that suspect Julio Mario Medal, 38, ... More >>

Model Brittanie Weaver Finds iPad Upskirt Suspect Herself; He's Court Interpreter

Model Brittanie Weaver says a perv who allegedly used an iPad to take "upskirt" photos of her in a Sherman Oaks pet store Friday afternoon "picked the wrong girl." She's right: The 22-year-old told the Weekly today she tracked the suspect down herself. Yep. The man in question was wearing an ID ba ... More >>

The Best Grammy 2013 Swag, Including a Vagina Steamer

I don't know who won the Grammys, and I don't really care. What interests me is what people had in their swag bags. Luckily, as a reporter I was invited to cover the Official Backstage Talent Gift Lounge, where I was chaperoned like a 13-year-old at a Bar Mitzvah. See also: Our Best Tweets From the ... More >>

Your iPhone Food App of the Day: Rocio's Mole de los Dioses

For those of us who have spent WAY too much time lost near the Burbank airport, driving down one street or another in the concrete tangle of one-way streets chasing Bob Hope's ghost, searching, often in vain, for Rocio Camacho's latest mole palace and maybe a stack of bright green tortillas made in ... More >>

Teen Girl Caught Near Border With $35,000 Worth Of Meth, Say Feds

Kids these days, you say. They're so advanced with their iPads and texting and ... meth smuggling. Yeah, so says U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which alleges that a 15-year-old girl was caught near the Mexican border in Southern California with $35,000 worth of methamphetamine strapped to her. ... More >>

L.A. Mobile Arts Festival Showcases iPhone and iPad Art, With Not Even One Shot of a Yelped Dinner

For anyone who wants to augment his or her iPhone photos, there's an app for everything -- except mounting them in a gallery. Daria Polichetti and Nathaniel Park, co-founders of the artists' community and sharing platform iPhoneArt.com, decided to take up that task. The pair collected the iPhone-c ... More >>

Buy Me Some Peanuts and ... $60,000 Worth of Cracker Jack Memorabilia

Before kids were playing with iPads in restaurants, entertainment could materialize in less lustrous packages -- literally, the package of a mediocre snack. The classic baseball gut-stuffer (along with peanuts and a couple of sweat-beaded hot dogs), the Cracker Jack combination of globbed-together ... More >>

iPads For All at Rich Manhattan Beach Middle School

While teachers in some inner-city schools struggle to get supplies for their students, sometimes buying books, paper and pens themselves, the pupils at tony Manhattan Beach Middle School will each get an iPad as part of the educational experience there this fall. About 75 percent of the kids will b ... More >>

Crafted, the $8 Million Crafts Market That Will Be the Biggest in the U.S., Opens in San Pedro

Collapsible Christmas trees, Barbie dolls and iPads -- a tidal wave of goods mass-produced overseas hits the Port of Los Angeles every day. Moving this bounty from ship to shore is the lifeblood of San Pedro. It may seem odd then, that the latest attraction at the port is a humungous marketplace of ... More >>

Surface Tablet Crashes During Microsoft Unveiling in Hollywood

You have to love Microsoft for complicating the uncomplicated and making the computer experience a nightmare for going on two generations now. The behemoth unveiled its Surface tablet in Hollywood today and, in typical Microsuck fashion, the thing "crashed badly," according to News Photos LA. A rep ... More >>

Invasion of the Beauty Bloggers

Erika Brechtel's kid is only 3 years old, but she knows the perils of being raised by a fashion blogger. "Mom, put your iPad down," she'll say. Or rather, scream: "Mom! Put! Your! iPad! Down!" Brechtel, 38, is a mom, homeowner and full-time graphic designer married to "a workaholic architect husban ... More >>

The Joy of Cooking Gets A New Website

Sure, we could interpret The Joy of Cooking's new website (!) as yet another sign of the cookbook publishing industry's demise, a near-certain Armageddon of the printed recipe word. If a book that has been in print continuously since the 1930s (and sold nearly 20 million copies) has jumped ship to g ... More >>

L.A. Animal Shelter Is Selling iPad Art Created by Cats (and People Are Buying It)

So there's this iPad app called "Paint for Cats." Here's how it works: A little mouse scampers across the screen, prompting your cat (whom you must coerce into sitting still in front of your iPad) to take a whack at it. When paw hits iPad, the mouse makes a little squeak (incentives!) and a splotch ... More >>

HotPad: The Coffee Warmer for Your New, Overheating iPad

If you're one of the over three million or so proud owners of the new iPad, you also are the proud new owners of a coffee warmer. All you need to do is visit the HotPad website and hit Run; the site then will run a script to purposely overclock your iPad's processor and make the tablet nice and toa ... More >>

The iPad is L.A.'s Hot Accessory, But Critics of Apple Factory Conditions Are Tainting its Hipness

We've seen some bizarre fashion accessories in this, strange, star-struck town: Chihuahuas, stolen necklaces and adopted babies to name a few. The hottest accoutrement these days seems to an Apple iPad. Because it goes so well with a $1,500 handbag.

Internet-Savvy Kids Will Someday Rule The World

Kids who grow up with iPads, iPhones and computers will not be the same as you and I. Oh no. They're going to be "quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who approach problems in a different way from their elders," according to a summary of the latest technol ... More >>

Hey, Moron! Why Are You Recording Concerts on Your iPhone?

Rebecca Haithcoat​People who record shows on their iPhones baffle me. At the Jay-Z and Kanye West show in November, a dude took it to a new level by recording practically the whole thing on his iPad. I was reviewing the show and had a seat on the floor, which went for $250. The guy with the i ... More >>

LudoBites 8 Reservation Lottery Starts Now (You Have 24 Hours)

Got your computer open and your dates and times picked out? If not, well, find your iPad and stop, oh, working at your job. The lottery for LudoBites 8 reservations starts now. (Voiceover. Padma.) LudoBites 8, which takes place at Lemon Moon on weeknights between January 18 and February 22, is using ... More >>

iPad Saves Christmas For 2 Families After it Reveals Location of Burglary Suspect, Stolen Presents, L.A. Sheriff's Officials Say

Bart Vis​Tracking software on a stolen iPad saved Christmas for two Southern California families this weekend, L.A. County Sheriff's officials said. In the tony community of Westlake Village a man was awaken by noise at 3:30 a.m. on Christmas, and it wasn't Santa Clause in his home, sheriff's ... More >>

Read This Now: Lucky Peach Issue 2

​If your tonkotsu-stained pages of the first issue of Lucky Peach are no longer functioning reasonably well and you're tired of ramen (okay, right), you can get over to your nearest applicable bookstore (or Momofuku restaurant or Whole Foods) and buy a copy of the new food-as-lit magazine. T ... More >>

Accessories for Keeping Your iPad Out of the Chicken Stock

The only thing that has stopped us from buying an iPad -- besides lack of money -- is our paranoid fear that we'll use it in the kitchen and accidentally knock it into the simmering pot of chicken stock. Or helplessly smudge it with flour-dusted fingerprints. Or absentmindedly put the milk in the ... More >>

iPad Killer Sought by Tribune Co., Corporate Parent of L.A. Times: Try Not to Laugh

Newspaper suits want to go head-to-head with this.​The Chicago-based geniuses at the Tribune Co., corporate parent of the Los Angeles Times, have their sights set on an iPad killer. Really. Because nothing says "future-forward high-tech hub" like the land of hot-dogs and coronary disease. The ... More >>

Pope Sends 'Historic' First Tweet (VIDEO)

news.vaDon't strain a knuckle there, champ.​Was it something about the visit of modern-minded Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, currently in Vatican City for to receive a special wool pallium, that inspired Pope Benedict XVI to warble out his first Tweet, via Twitter for iPad, this afterno ... More >>

Crystal Harris, Hugh Hefner Call Off Wedding?!

Trouble in paradise?​Updated after the jump: Hef squeezes out a sad, sad Tweet. (Breakup confirmed.) Egads! Say it ain't so, TMZ: "Our sources -- who are all at the mansion -- say Crystal and Hef had a nasty argument this weekend on the phone. When the dust settled Crystal decided to 86 the n ... More >>

Stacked: food well built Opens in Torrance Next Tuesday

The exterior of Stacked in Torrance.​ The first outpost of Stacked, a new technology-driven fast-casual chain, opens at noon next Tuesday, May 31st. The full name is "Stacked: food well built," and the concept is customization. Guests order their own hamburgers, pizza, salads and sausages via ... More >>

The Residents: World's Oldest Lonely Teenagers

Aging ungracefully, thank God

Gross Video of Mistreated Farm Animals For Lunchtime in Santa Monica Tomorrow

farmtofridgetour.comFree the pigs.​Animal rights nuts or provocateurs who will make you think before you eat? You decide. Either way, you might want to avoid having lunch at Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica tomorrow. Because the save-the-piggies brigade will be in full effect there Thu ... More >>

iPad-Driven Stacked Restaurant to Open in Torrance

​ Hoping to succeed where restaurants like uWink have failed, the founder's of BJ's Restaurants are launching a new fast-casual restaurant chain, Stacked, which will try to lure consumers with the novelty of ordering by iPad. The first outpost will open in Torrance in May, with additional loc ... More >>

LG Smart Appliances: Could Be Smarter

​On January 3rd, LG Electronics unveiled a sparkling new arsenal of smart appliances at the 2011 International CES--the world's grandest consumer technology tradeshow. According to a press release, the company's refrigerators have an LCD display with removable food icons and a voice recogniti ... More >>

Don't Buy An iPad This Christmas! (A New One's Coming Out In April, Say Chinese Spies)

The iPad 2 will upgrade to laser-proof gorilla tape​Nothing to damper your love affair with the bright, shiny new iPad in your stocking like finding out in February that a brighter, shinier, probably way cooler one now exists, rendering your dark, dull 2010 version a total clunker. Luckily, de ... More >>

Does 29 Percent Of L.A.'s Smog Come From East Asia? Bay Area Study: Dust Storms Carry Pollution Over Pacific

Uncyclopedia CommonsChina makes L.A. look like a butterfly sanctuary​To think -- all that time we were faulting the scummy smog layer constantly smothering Los Angeles on our own bad habits. Turns out it's been China all along! That is, if L.A.'s Pacific positioning makes it anything like San ... More >>

Los Angeles Gets 4G Network Via Sprint: iPhone Users Are Out Of Luck

AppleMore 'G' please.​Los Angeles is finally getting a 4G network. Yay! It's on Sprint. Pout. It's cool though. It looks like, if you're geek like that, you can buy a router and get 4G speed on your nearby iPad or laptop. But iPhones, despite being in version 4, are out of luck for now. Spr ... More >>

Haiku News: Manson Goes Indie, Guns 'n' Roses Talk 'Chinese Democracy' Followup, New Sleigh Bells Video, & New Dirty Bastard?

Haiku News: Manson Goes Indie, Guns 'n' Roses Talk 'Chinese Democracy' Followup, New Sleigh Bells Video, & New Dirty Bastard?

Vertical California Driver's Licenses For Drivers Under 21? What About Oversize Ones For The Senior Set?

​As if being a young person isn't hard enough, the California DMV is now making motorists under the age of 21 carry around vertical drivers licenses that immediately identify you as underage -- and unable to purchase alcohol. Can you imagine being pulled over while on a date, with the cop ask ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>

PUPPET LOVE

MacAquarium Meets iPad, Has Baby

Remember the MacAquarium? The fish tank you could build out of an old Mac Classic? Well check out this baby. It's an iPad dock made from an old Mac Classic. If you have the Pocket Pond app (which is a nice app, by the way), it's a fair approximation of the Macquarium, only the fish are all cyber-fis ... More >>

Will.i.am Uses iPad To Track Down Thief In Los Angeles

​Black Eyed Peas Rapper Will.i.am used his iPad's built-in tracking system to locate $10,000 worth of belongings (including his new iPad) stolen from his Bentley last week. According to KTLA News, Will used the tracking system to locate the thief's location and forwarded the information to th ... More >>

Gourmet Live: Coming to Your iPad, Not Your Mailbox, This Fall

Gourmet Magazine, you will remember, closed last November. The late, much lamented publication is not, sadly, being resurrected, but it will live on, at least on your iPad. Gourmet Live will be "coming to your favorite devices" (for free) this fall, bringing together "content, social and location-b ... More >>

The Tyranny of the New

Why the future of books might be old books

iPad Music: 5 Musicians who need pro bono iPads

iPad Music: 5 Musicians who need pro bono iPads

Stephen Colbert's Lastest Forray into Cooking: iPad Salsa

Maybe the Food Network -- or any of the other networks that are currently scrambling to get their share of the reality food television audience -- should just give Stephen Colbert his own DIY cooking show. After cutting sandwiches with an ice skate at the Olympics, the host of Colbert Nation is now ... More >>

iBallz: Protective Balls for Your Tablet Device

This Saturday, Apple will begin selling the much-hyped iPad and new users of the tablet device will begin wondering, how am I going to protect my new, expensive gadget. L.A. DJs Derek Michael and Lee Doerr think they have the answer and it's called iBallz. ​ Consisting of four balls attached ... More >>

2001 Space Odyssey Monolith Action Figure: ThinkGeek's April Fools as Marketing Research

​Arrgh. It is not real! First there was the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag in which we learned the awesome power of the Star Wars fan with $99.99 worth of disposable income. Now this: a 2001 Space Odyssey Monolith Action Figure. Yup, it's not real either....or is it? If you get angry enough, those bast ... More >>