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While this iPhone security hole isn’t nearly as gaping as the last one we covered (which was fixed by Apple), it too exploits the emergency call feature in password-protected mode. In password-protected mode, there’s an option to disable SMS preview, so if someone picks up your locked phone, they can’t see incoming text messages. However,…
DARPA is pumping money into developing a submersible aircraft: a vehicle that can fly in the air and dive straight into the water, becoming a submarine (kind of like this one). Badass! The DARPA Submersible Aircraft research project is focused on making a submersible aircraft, not, as they not, a flying submarine. There’s a difference!…
Remember that deal from last week where you could save $50 on a new Xbox Elite at Dell? Well, I really hope you didn’t listen to us. Because this week—today only, actually—you can save $80 on an Elite at Dell. Enter the code ‘NP?CKPRH$KTWLL’ at checkout and knock the price down to $320 (with free…
Niners, Giants, and Berkeley fan Trey D. built this fully-loaded BBQ trailer from the ground up. It has 2 charcoal grills, one covered gas grill, a hot plate, 4 propane burners, a huge prep area, a smoker, and a sink. There’s also a stereo system located in the side compartments with 4 speakers surrounding the…
You’ve gotta love Japanese television. Two nights ago, the show NTV showed the results of an experiment it attempted involving baseball, tanks and rocket launchers. I don’t speak Japanese, so I don’t know what their scientific justifications were for the experiments, but I do know the results, thanks to the below videos captured by Japan…
Can Man place a pricetag on the comfort of his rump? Yes. Yes he can. And the Embody chair—the sequel to the iconic, $1.5 billion grossing Aeron chair by Herman Miller—is probably way, way too good for your posterior at its $1,600 asking price. But that doesn’t mean you can’t gawk for a while.Built from…
When T-Mobile announced that they had sold out of the initial G1 pre-order and were tripling production to meet demand, they said that you could still pre-order a phone through Oct. 21 to receive it at a later date. Unfortunately, it looks like a much later date. If you pre-ordered one after Oct. 3, you’ll…
It looks as though the highly anticipated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (aka ‘Tube’) will not make its way to the US in time for the Xmas season. Instead, Nokia seems to be content with focusing on emerging markets like India, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia and Spain before setting their sites on…
News about the possibility of manual auto-correct shut-off showing up in the iPhone 2.2 software has sparked a minor debate amongst the editors about the usefulness of such a feature. Most people would probably leave it on, but it would be nice to type the word “fuck” now and then without iPhone wholesomeness turning it…
MSI has announced that people wishing to get their hands on an MSI Wind U100 Netbook can stroll into their nearest Best Buy starting today and pick up the 10″ 3-cell version with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor and Windows XP for $399. Before your rush out to get one though, keep in mind that…
Who knew sugar wafers and Rolos could so accurately recreate the situational Pavlovian response we get from looking at the latest silicon wonders from Intel, AMD, ATi and NVIDIA? While we’ve never before craved some motherboard and milk or hot motherboard à la mode, we must admit, we’re coming around to what could be the…
A guy named Vin Marshall along with a team of nine talented but misguided individuals have constructed a 2000 pound pedal-powered Panzer tank replica complete with a pneumatic cannon that fires water, wieners or whatever onto unsuspecting crowds. Then they painted it pink—making it the most effeminate war machine ever constructed. The “Pink Panzer” is…
Parents! Are you looking for a way to make sure your teenagers are safe while they drive? Also, are annoyed while they drive? Well Ford has your back. Its new MyKey system is sure to make driving an infuriatingly annoying ordeal. When enabled, MyKey can cap the top speed of the car to 80MPH. That’s…
After getting resoundly swatted in court by Tivo time and again for walking all over its patent for a “multimedia time warping system” (cool retro-future speak for a DVR), Echostar (now just Dish) is finally admitting defeat once and for all. Following its loss to TiVo in a US Appeals court earlier this year, Echostar…
Logitech has quietly released a new entry-level universal remote, the Harmony 510, for $100. Looking quite similar to the Harmony 550, it offers basically the same features as the rest of the Harmony 500 with a slightly different button layout and a lower price. You should be able to find this online for less than…
Even though the blank media companies have been touting 200GB Blu-ray discs for years, mostly as part of the psy-ops war against HD-DVD, the largest discs today’s players and burners can handle are dual-layer 50GB blanks that burn at up to 8x. A new 450 mw blue laser diode unveiled by Sanyo, however, will enable…
When we saw Firefox Mobile in action a few months ago, it looked pretty snazzy, but we were a bit concerned by a few reports floating around that it might be a long wait to actually get our hands on it. Happily, that’s not the case. Mozilla CEO John Lilly says that we’ll see the…
You probably assume that most major magazine covers are designed on top-of-the-line systems with the most advanced software available. Most of the time, you’d be right. But this week’s New Yorker cover was created by Bob Staake on some pretty ancient technology: Mac OS 7 and Photoshop 3.0. Mac OS 7 was released in 1991…
The Cameo is T-Mobile’s $100 digital picture frame that’s loaded with a GSM cellphone tech. Users, who are willing to fork over $10 a month for a subscription, will be able to snap shots on their phones and have the pictures automagically beamed to their Cameo. For those who ditch out on the subscription, the…
It is no secret that there has been a major shift towards UAVs for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. With big contracts on the line, researchers are scrambling to come up with the next big breakthrough in unmanned military technology. One group of researchers believes that the “next big thing” could be a dinosaur…
