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Click to viewApple has told us that—first—unlocking software causes “irreparable damage” to the iPhone and—second—this “will likely result” in a “permanently inoperable” device in the future. Is this true or is Apple trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt among potential unlocked-iPhone users? The short answer: Yes, it’s FUD on both accounts. We’ve worked with…
Harmony 880, kick-ass universal remote available for $119.99 (plus shipping) at Dell, or $128.48 at Amazon with free shipping.
The Palm Centro was a joke until the price dropped this morning. $99 for a full featured touchscreened Palm device is a great value. It loses the heft found in previous Palm Treos, and it’s even a little bit…shiny. The only thing to be concerned with is that tiny keyboard. Despite it being targeted toward…
Sling Media spreads location-shifting love far and wide, and now we’re hearing that the company is further sowing the seeds of TV everywhere by preparing SlingPlayer Mobile for the Blackberry. On the heels of the company’s announcement that it will be supporting Symbian S60 software, and after supporting Windows Mobile for over a year now,…
12:25 There’s little doubt today’s event is about Centro. We’re here, and we’ll just see how it goes while we eat lunch. 12:37 Ed Colligan is up on stage, says he’s going to announce a new phone, but first, goes into marketing. Yay. 12:38 Why aren’t people buying smartphones? He says it’s because they’ve been…
HP announced today at DigitalLife that its 42″ and 47″ MediaSmart TVs, with dual-band 802.11n, would be upgraded to be fully functioning Windows Media Center Extenders in early 2008. https://gizmodo.com/hp-slc3760n-mediasmart-hdtv-194001
The Pitch Rarely does wanton demolition fail to entertain, and this Microsoft spot is certainly no exception. The ad starts off as a shoulder-shrugger—with a crane slowly lifting a pallet of telephony equipment into place—then turns uproarious when the cable snaps. A car is thus pancaked in spectacular fashion, and the handheld camera pans across…
This week at Uncrate: We get ready for some football with a Gameday Customs Ultimate Tailgate, keep our car interiors tidy with the Hoover GUV Garage Utility Vacuum, and wish that we could replace our rides with the Lamorghini Reventón. We also party like it’s 1945 with the Collector’s Edition Slinky, support our favorite font…
The fourth and final MCE extender is by niveus is the best looking, has 3 USB ports which is two more than what you probably need for thumbdrive playback, and best of all passive cooling. The passive cooling, if it is like the type in the full sized Niveus Media Center PCs, it uses heatpipes…
Hands up who had one of those wooden Labyrinths round which you had to maneuver a silver marble without dropping it down a hole or biting your tongue off in the process? Knowing just how powerful a marketing tool nostalgia can be, Nissan has used the concept for the commercial for their new Rogue SUV.…
Who knew this kind of dice stacking was even possible? Damn, this guy is good. Are those trick dice? [Break] UPDATE: Impressed by that video? Think it’s a camera trick? On the next page, see another dice stacking video that’s even more amazing. They can’t all be camera tricks! Thanks, Andras and Thomas Fischbach, the…
If you ever saw the HP video Roku’s Reward where a kid walks around with a PSP-ish handheld, playing a real-life video game, you might have wondered if HP will ever release the said gaming device. It is real, at least that’s what HP Personal Systems CTO Phil McKinney claimed as he held it aloft.…
This is not the first cellphone jammer on the market and won’t be the last, but this $166 model is small enough to discreetly carry anywhere. It’s powerful enough for personal use, slam-dunking GSM calls within about a 30-foot radius. That might be just the range of earshot in a movie theater, unless there’s yelling…
Click to viewAs we wait for the release of the new firmware that, according to Apple, “will likely” brick all unlocked iPhones—hits update for the 75,453rd time— here’s the promised Star Wars timeline which narrates the quest for the free software unlock, complete with dates, links and commentary. It all started here, when Frucci asked…
Cell towers are ugly. They either look like, well, big ugly antennaes, or they look like big ugly anetnnaes poorly disguised as gigantic metal trees. Whereever they’re set to go up, property values drop and local communities get in an uproar. But everybody likes having five bars of service, so what can you do? Well,…
A new generation of airport x-ray machines might make your trip through security a bit quicker, at least until they give you a full cavity search. Utilizing four x-ray cameras as opposed to one, the scanner takes a peek inside your luggage from four angles looking for guns, drugs, and bombs. It can also scan…
Hop on the Electrobike Pi, and through the courtesy of your two feet and its 1hp motor, no one will ever be able to blame you for global warming again. Three reasons? It’s efficient, it’s fun, it’s socially responsible and it looks cool. Okay, maybe the cool look is the “.14” reason. It still has…
If you’ve been waiting for a 3G Nokia N95, now’s your chance to drop $700 on one, as they’re officially released as of today. [Crunchgear]
Today at the Gateway One press event, Gateway quietly revealed a potentially more exciting product, the 30-inch ExtremeHD 1600 monitor. It could very well be the only screen you ever need, because it takes everything from a VCR to a high-end gaming PC and upscales it all with HQV Realta technology to display on its…
Ross Lovegrove, designer of beautiful, yet useful, things, has teamed up with Artemide and Sharp Solar to produce these solar-powered street lamps that are to light up the Ringstrasse outside Vienna’s Museum for Angewandte Kunste (that’s the Museum for Applied Arts and Contemporary Art.) They’ll be going up on a tree-line boulevard, so expect the…