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They’ve finally delivered: the Dev Team has released the Ultrasn0w full unlock for last-gen iPhones running firmware 3.0. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-dev-team-unlocks-iphone-3-0-with-new-ultrasn0w-5293367 The instructions are nice and short: 1. Ensure you have upgraded to iPhone OS 3.0 2. Jailbreak your iPhone 3G using redsn0w or PwnageTool (this will also install Cydia/Icy) 3. Run Cydia or Icy 4. Please…
Scientists at Columbia University are working on a sort of synthetic tree that aims to capture about 1,000 times as much carbon dioxide as more organic versions. They’re hoping to extend the technology even to heavy-emitting cars and planes. The units, demo versions of which already exist (this is assuredly not a concept), take CO2…
We here at Gizmodo are anything but fearmongering sensationalists. We’re analytical, skeptical, and rational at all costs. That being said, this robot train ran over some dude in Miami and everyone in south Florida should run for their lives. The story: An unmanned, computerized train slowly rolled forward onto a repairman, who unfortunately did not…
Everyone’s favorite witty, one-product-per-day often-electronics online warehouse reseller, Woot!, is doing one of those fun Woot! Offs where they sell the remainders of all their stock at once. Let us know what you’ve snagged! [Woot!]
What’s up, Gateway? You think you’re too good for the Atom? All the other netbooks are using it. Doesn’t this really make your new LT3100 more of a tiny-screened, $400 laptop? Yes, plus LED backlight and multitouch. Well, we might think so, but that enticing price and surprisingly good looks are enough to keep us…
It’s usually considered irresponsible to leave a toddler (or as I like to call them, walking babies) alone at the helm of a massive backhoe. But that’s no problem with this new breed of Superbabies. We don’t know much about this Superbaby, and in fact I’m not totally sure he’s even Russian (or human. Get…
Lenovo’s new T400s laptop aims for the sweet spot between portability and performance, offering up a whole bevy of options in a device with a 14.1-inch screen that weighs under four pounds. https://gizmodo.com/you-can-run-over-a-lenovo-thinkpad-t400s-with-a-26-000-5294658 The T400s is essentially a cross between the bulkier T400 and the super-slim X300. It’s got business-dude-friendly features like a dock connector…
The Gamebone is an external gamepad for the iPhone platform that hopes to add buttons (and therefore gaming cred) to the buttonless devices, but we’re just not confident it’s been fully thought through. First of all, games would have to be compatible with the controller, and given that so many games are dependent on the…
Here’s the stuff that we didn’t post today. (Until now, obviously.) • CNBC “confirmed” that Steve Jobs was back on campus, even though it had been “confirmed” a few times before that, and still very well might be “confirmed” again before it’s actually confirmed. Incidentally our own “proof” that Jobs is back came from the…
Anandtech went through the trouble of running various speed-based benchmarks on the iPhone 3GS and Pre, clocking the time it took to launch various apps and load web pages. Though they share similar hardware, the iPhone 3GS was deemed “faster.” In general, the iPhone 3GS was about 20% faster than the Pre in any given…
These RROD coasters are clever, sure. But anything with Perler beads is about as classy as black velvet Elvis paintings or those creepy ceramic dolls your grandma collects. Translation: save these for D&D games in the basement. [GamerGrrlz via Technabob]
I’m really, REALLY not understanding why Brando, purveyor of all things strange and gadgety, is selling a tissue holder looking like a certain fried chicken bucket— WITH OBAMA’S FACE on it. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! To top it off, the slightly stereotypical product has Obama dressed up like Colonel Sanders, and also features a coin…
And it is oh-so-cute in its diminutive USB flash memory form. The opening mechanism is simple and ingenious. It’s just too bad this seems to be just a concept. [Guaraná Rosa via Book of Joe via BBG]
There are two versions of the AIM app in the App Store right now. The free one, with ads, and the $2.99 one, with no ads. They both have push notifications. The app does what was touted this year at the iPhone 3.0 event: display notifications when the app is closed, show you how many…
This is the iLuv iMM153 Desktop Dual Alarm Clock for iPod, which has a bed shaker that is supposed to wake you up better than any alarm. Obviously, these guys haven’t tried this thing with me yet. Like any other alarm clock with dock—compatible with iPod touch 2nd generation, iPod nano 1st to 4th generation,…
Verizon nonchalantly upped FiOS’s basic “triple play” broadband-phone-TV fee—$5 or $10 extra per month, depending where you live. The only drop was in the priciest bundle, which swapped out HBO for Showtime—finally, Dexter fans get a bone. [NYT]
British scientists have developed a new breed of hard drive that uses not spinning discs, but rather a rectangular platter and millions of moving data heads to read/write data. In theory, this could mean transfer speeds of 500 MB/s. Register Hardwaresays that The Hard Rectangular Drive (HRD), developed by DataSlide, is roughly 4x faster than…
You know Tron Guy, that chubby embarrassment in a Lycra suit? Apparently, he was making enough scratch to own a plane that matched his outfit. Sadly, the economy has made his lifestyle a little less sustainable, so he’s selling it. Seriously, this guy owns a private plane. To be fair, he made most of his…
The caption says: “Our intern starts today. We figured we’d start her off with a little prank.” I don’t see how this is funny. It looks like our interns’ cubicles. [Flickr—Thanks Alice] https://gizmodo.com/new-york-summer-intern-still-wanted-5286741
Every time I’ve seen these Jansen walkers—usually driven by the wind, sometimes on electricity—they have crept the hell out of me. This one is solar powered, and it creeps me just the same. https://gizmodo.com/vex-walker-inspired-by-terrifyingly-beautiful-beach-wal-5154248 One day someone will put AI on these, add razor blades to each leg, and the whole thing is going to…
