Oh, iPhone Dev Team, you are a hoot. It isn’t that you managed to jailbreak the iPhone 2.0 firmware on the day of its release, although we can’t help but smirk at that. It isn’t even that you revealed your handiwork in a playful way. We simply love that you expertly work us into a frenzy for the new jailbreak … Read the rest
iPhone: 2.0 firmware jailbroken, 3G taken apart
July 10, 2008 By 6 Comments
Magnetic Movie
July 10, 2008 By 3 Comments
Magnetic field lines may be invisible to the naked eye, but they behave in ways that would amaze us if only we could see them. [Ruth Jarman] and [Joe Gerhardt] from Semiconductor wanted to make them visible for everyone, so they produced Magnetic Movie, a film that combines animations, theoretical models, and actual VLF recordings of the entire Earth’s … Read the rest
New Sparkfun designs
July 10, 2008 By 6 Comments
Sparkfun has recently released a bevy of new boards and other devices, with some very intriguing new builds among them.
The first board that caught our attention is the Wee. It is a compact Arduino compatible controller that features a small size, low voltage, and many other minimalist attributes. It is built around an ATMega 168V and uses … Read the rest
New Drobo has Firewire support, old model drops in price
July 9, 2008 By 11 Comments
Data Robotics has released an updated Drobo with two Firewire ports and an updated processor, allowing for faster data transfer and daisy chaining multiple Drobos. The new models of this storage and backup device also features a quieter and larger case fan. The case itself has been modified slightly but to great effect, looking sleeker than ever. Sadly, they still … Read the rest
Xbox 360 and LCD HDTV rolled into one
July 9, 2008 By 9 Comments
What happens when you take a little [Ben Heck] ingenuity, a little Lian Li utility, an Xbox 360 and an LCD HDTV and mix it all together? You get the Microvision 360, a combination LCD HDTV and Xbox 360.
The mod is not particularly complex. The Microvision 360′s creator [PvP_LostKnight] only removed the working parts from the … Read the rest
Pet photography and tracking
July 9, 2008 By 11 Comments
We’ve seen numerous products geared toward tracking the location and activities of your pets, two in the last month, but we feel sure you can make more functional devices than those you can purchase. Let’s look at a few and consider our options.… Read the rest
Nokia Haptikos patent application reveals its technology
July 8, 2008 By 3 Comments
We’ve been waiting for more information on the Nokia Haptikos, the haptic feedback touchscreen announced last October and largely forgotten until now. We knew that it would be a device that could raise sections
of its touchscreen to simulate the feel of buttons or keys, we just weren’t sure how Nokia would pull that off.
Now we have a better … Read the rest
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