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Unlock Tool Ultrasn0w Now Available for iPhone 4

It took them a while, but the iPhone Dev-Team’s carrier unlock tool Ultrasn0w is here, and ready for downloading to jailbroken iPhone 4s. It goes without saying to proceed with caution. [Dev-Team via Redmond Pie] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-4-jailbreak-now-available-one-click-no-compute-5601874

Saudi Arabia to Ban BlackBerry Services This Friday

Bad luck to those in Saudi Arabia who were planning on getting full use from the new BlackBerry Torch—they’ve hop-skipped-and-jumped their way to the front of the BlackBerry data services ban, ruining BBMers’ lives from this Friday. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-torch-impressions-the-blackberry-weirdly-e-5603176 It’s almost like Saudi Arabia thinks this is a race, as the UAE had only just announced…

The Most Adorable Star Wars Pic Of The Day

If these kids trick-or-treated at my house, they would get every ounce of candy I had. [Buzz Feed]

First Impressions of Panasonic’s $1,400 3D Camcorder

The folks of Camcorder Info have gotten their hands onto Panasonic’s HDC-SDT750—one of the first 3D camcorders designed with consumers in mind—and reviewed it. Here’s what they concluded: https://gizmodo.com/panasonics-hdc-sdt750-3d-camcorder-will-cost-you-1400-5598163 In our time checking out the HDC-SDT750, it was clear that the camcorder was capable of capturing excellent 3D images. The recording process for capturing these…

An iPhone App To Schedule and Graph Sex With All Your Girlfriends

I once knew a guy who kept an actual database of all the women he dated so that he could always remember the relevant details about them and prevent awkward mixups. The DateMate iPhone app would’ve been ideal for him. The basic idea of DateMate is that it allows you to enter details about your…

Use a Bluetooth Headset for Improved Reception in Spotty Locations

If sitting stone still in the one corner of your apartment that actually gets decent reception sounds like a terrible way to conduct a phone call, a Bluetooth headset can act as an extender for your cellphone’s terrible reception Photo by Creative Tools. Lifehacker reader John Olinda gets really lousy reception in his home. Rather…

‘Anti-Laser’ Traps All Incoming Light

Call it the anti-laser. Instead of amplifying light, it would soak it up completely, leaving utter darkness. A laser shines by producing a cascade of photons that bounce around inside a light-amplifying material before exiting from one end. A team at Yale University wondered what would happen if they could reverse the process, making the…

The Japanese Certainly Know How To Sell Slow-Motion Cameras

I have to congratulate whoever is behind these videos advertising slow-motion cameras, because I’m convinced that I need one. The bikini-clad girls and the pudding-covered men are enough to make me want to create an epic slow-mo film. All the naughty jokes that can be made about them aside, it really is clips like this…

Samsung Files a Patent For a Front And Rear Touchscreen Tablet

Samsung’s filed a patent for a tablet incorporating front and back multi-touch screens. [Unwired View via Electronista]

Barnes & Noble Is Selling Itself

Barnes & Noble, the company behind the Nook—one of the more popular ebook readers—is apparently going up for sale. [Reuters] https://gizmodo.com/barnes-noble-nook-review-pretty-damn-good-5420216

Secret-Knock-Detecting Door is Straight Out of a Fantasy Movie

Want to get into David Glicksman’s workshop? You don’t need a key, you just need to know the right knock. So awesome. [David Glicksman via Make]

Venn Diagram Tables Show Off Overlap Between Good Taste and Living Room

From the portfolio pages of Swedish design firm Outofstock comes the gorgeously clever Hues set of nesting, venn diagram-inspired tables. Each is crafted from colored waterjet-cut glass and iron legs. One more splendid looking set of furniture confined to a lucky designer’s studio. The tables would be a refreshing change from the furniture in my…

Verizon Introduces “Unlimited Any Mobile” Plan To Texas And Louisiana Markets

The plans allow customers to call or send text, picture, or video messages to anyone of any service provider in the US. Pricing ranges from $59.99 for a 450 minute Single Line Plan to $129.99 for a 2000 minute Family Share Plan, but unfortunately, are only available if you have one of the following area…

Modded Nintendo Lets You Play Mario With Your Eyes, Poorly

This is both completely cool and totally useless: a group of engineers going by Waterloo Labs in Austin, Texas created a way of controlling an original NES by simply moving your eyes. By using electrodes placed around the eyes to track the movement of a players eyeballs, they were able to jury rig a Nintendo…

The Mosspuppet App That Could Have Been

Is Mossboard, the official Mosspuppet iPhone app, scarily accurate or accurately scary? You be the judge. Warning: reference to Steve Jobs nipples ahead. Mossboard’s pretty great, but unfortunately you won’t be able to carry Mosspuppet around in your pocket any time soon—the app hasn’t been able to get past the App Store approval process. Can’t…

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Worst time-traveling serial killer ever: The Texas time-travel massacre!

Kylie Travis is fleeing from a gun-toting serial killer (James Belushi with a truly rotten Texas accent) when she stumbles into a time machine that zaps her back 20 minutes, to listen to Belushi’s dreadful blow-job jokes all over again. Retroactive is one of those movies that you think is going to be pretty terrible,…

Motorola and Verizon Working on Android-Based, FiOS-Enabled, Dual-Camera, Ten-Inch TV Tablet?

We’ve heard rumors of Motorola and Verizon partnering up for an Android tablet before, but this one’s rather interesting. According to FT, the two companies are putting together some sort of TV tablet: Motorola is developing a digital tablet device that will allow users to watch television on it, as the US mobile phone group…

The Most Beautiful Way to Clean-Up Space Junk

Space junk is everything from spent rocket upper-stages that measure meters across, to lost bags of tools let go by careless astronauts, to shattered Chinese satellites to flecks of paint moving at 25 times the speed of sound. Under the wrong circumstances any piece of junk could kill a perfectly good satellite or even an…

Star Wars XXX casts its porno Darth Vader

The makers of Batman XXX have their next porn parody all lined up: Star Wars. They’ve already cast porn legend Lexington Steele in the role of Darth Vader. May the Force be with him. [Vivid via Big Shiny Robot]