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Click to viewThe iPhone 1.1.3 Jailbreak is here, courtesy of Nate True and the iPhone Dev team. It’s a Windows-only download right now, but Nate tells us that they’ve got a Mac version coming soon and it “should be quick”. Make sure you have more than 300MB free, otherwise Nate tells us that you might…
Having built many a PC in my day, I have a tremendous appreciation for cable organization done right. Generally, I think most data centers are organized halfway decently, but there are quite a few examples out there that are truly hideous. The gallery below should provide a little inspiration for anyone with a bag full…
Toyota’s invention of sticking a camera in the dash of a car to monitor the eyelids for dozing off seems pretty smart, even if the concept isn’t entirely new. The system would look at your upper and lower eyelids and see whether it’s “properly open”, which Jalopnik guesses is about 60 to 100% of max.…
According to estimates based on carrier’s numbers, only 2/3 of iPhones are “legally” activated, which means 1/3 of all iPhones sold are SIM unlocked and being used sans carrier contract. Here’s how they arrived at this number. First, AT&T put out a press release saying that 2 million iPhones were subscribed on their service by…
Apple’s in the midst of shoving multi-touch into every single thing they own, which means that this patent for a two-fingered iPod scroll wheel seems quite likely to come to fruition. Besides allowing you to do the “Churchill”, the patent details an illumination of the wheel as your finger passes by, possibly making a comet…
I have mixed feelings about this Complete Sports Pack for the Nintendo Wii, with 18 Wiimote accessories in one box. Yes, they seem to cover every single game known to mankind and yes, I know that everyone loves their Wiimote accessories. But this fully-loaded $45.80 set—not surprisingly by some company called Mad Cow—is strangely disturbing.…
Holy crap, what country is LA in? I mean, last time I was there I was surprised enough at the billboards offering medicinal marijuana cards, but this is insane. Starting on Monday, people who have medical conditions such as glaucoma, cancer, and the deadly not-stoned-enough virus can start getting their fat buds from special “AVMs.”…
Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but here’s the final take on the subject of Mr Macbook Air‘s comparative girth, including not only the Dell m1330 and Sony Vaio TZ again (Little Big Red and Lil’ EVDOFace), but also the 15-inch Macbook Pro (Sled Zero), the 13-inch Macbook (Spare Tire), and Apple’s last…
Now that manufacturers are creating add-on lenses for cellphone cameras—similar to the one we saw at CES—they need to step up their game to attract your attention. This iPhone telescopic lens from Brando does just that, adding a nifty protective case to go along with the lens. The good news is that it does seem…
Remember the Pentax K20D, with its Samsung co-developed CMOS image sensor? Well, Samsung has their own take on it—same imaging viscera, but with a different body and software. Oh, the JPEG processing is done in a slightly disparate way as well. Since the choice between the two largely comes down to looks, which one seems…
There’s been a slow trickle of details on the upcoming Treo 800w, but this poster on WMExpert’s forums seems to know a little more than everyone else about the phone. He says the 800w will look like a Palm Centro with rounded corners and thin body. It will ship with Windows Mobile 6, but be…
This ring gun is all old-timey, and there’s not a lot of info out there about it, which is too bad. I wonder how it actually works, and if it can fire shots without breaking the finger of the wearer. I also wonder how safe it’d be to carry a loaded gun around on your…
Apple sent us a Macbook Air and we’ll be putting it through its paces today. It’s the 80GB, 1.6GHz version so no SSD for us until later. What kind of coverage do you want to see from us? Drop a note in the comments.
One of the nice things about the Wii is that there’s only version to buy. Luckily for Best Buy shoppers in the market for a PS3, they’re about to get that same convenience. According to a supposedly leaked internal memo, Best Buy is only going to carry the non-backward-compatible 40GB version of the PS3 as…
The Pitch Nokia ramps up its N95 8GB campaign with this lyrical-yet-baffling spot, featuring an array of international archetypes absorbing media in ways that may soon be obsolete: sitting in darkened cinemas, listening to battered boomboxes, watching interference-addled TVs. The narrator’s ghostly voice spills forth from the various antiquated devices on display, warning the actors…
Artist Gamper Martino must have been planning a hell of a party to need the 100 chairs that he designed in 100 days. Not all of them have ass-comfort in mind, but they do look amazing. The aesthetic range—smooth and modern to woodsy and retro (sometimes both in weird, wonderful ways)—is why the project is…
As part of its earnings call, Netflix dropped the bit they intend to finally launch their all-you-can-eat Watch Instantly online video service for Macs later this year. The only holdup is/has been the lack of a Mac-native DRM system that Hollywood approves as sufficiently draconian. Hurray! Sorta. Mostly. [Electronista] https://gizmodo.com/earnings-roundup-nintendo-at-t-and-nokia-make-mad-ban-348463
Okay, so while Dell’s had Linux on a meager smattering of systems for a while, it wasn’t on anything A-team or available globally. Sweet news, freetards (in FSJ’s words): Ubuntu 7.10 is now available in several Euro countries on the XPS 1330, Dell’s compact, almost un-Dell-like performance notebook. Stateside, we’ve got about a week’s wait.…
It’s the end of the quarter, which means it’s raining earnings reports—companies tell investors (and the world) just how much coin they’re swimming in (or bleeding out). Today, Nintendo revealed that the Wii is printing money twice as fast as last year; AT&T pulled in almost 3 million new subscribers; Nokia now commands 40 percent…
For Google’s Android platform to succeed, it could use a helping hand from cellphone-crazed Japan. NTT DoCoMo is Japan’s largest wireless provider, and in addition to being a logo on Android’s Open Handset Alliance, the company has started discussions to get the Linux-based platform on some percentage of their phones. Whether or not such discussions…