We finally got our gear and tried the forged SIM card method to completely unlock iPhone. It works but beware, because it depends on what kind of SIM card you use with your current unholy phone. SIM cards come in... Read More »
'Albert's Helmet-Mounted Pistol' is a patent back from 1953, when life was simple and people just wanted new hats that could blow away their adversaries. Intended to free the user's hands (hopefully for more guns), the pistol was supposed to be fired by blowing into a tube—like blowing bubbles in milk through a straw, but you know, with more blood.
It seems like a minor oversight that the kickback may kill the participant, or at least leave their neck in severe need for a good rubbing. But even more than we're interested in the helmet, we'd like to see the mega pistol that's strapped on top. Maybe we'll pick a fight with a clown and see if he whips one out. If only mimes were strapped for real... [thebachelorguy via neatorama]
Here's a chew toy commemorating alleged dogfighting impresario and Pit Bull torturer Michael Vick, the Atlanta Falcons quarterback accused of various animal atrocities. Vick is in heap of trouble after he was caught allegedly running a kennel full of fighting pit bulls. When the fighting dogs didn't quite measure up, Vick and his cohorts are accused of drowning, strangling, hanging, shooting and electrocuting the losing pups.
The proceeds from sales of this $10.99 effigy will be donated to animal rights charities. Here's what the makers of the Vick's dog chew toy had to say:
Vick's Dog Chew Toy is made of state of the art "dog" material. The Vick's Toy Doll is so strong and flexible, it will challenge every breed. Especially The Pit Bull.It's a doggone shame. [Vick's Dog Chew Toy]
You'd expect a $53,700 backpack laser to be some DARPA super weapon that's stuck in a perpetual "5 years away" as more and more cable specials are produced on the matter. But actually, the backpack laser already exists and it's reserved for the men and women risking their lives to restore old buildings.
Mobiles are impolite, whiny little bitches lurking in your pocket, lying in wait to interrupt you no matter what you're doing. That's why researchers at Intel Labs Seattle are trying to teach them some manners, creating software that turns the dumbass machines into politenessPhones that can avoid interrupting your real-world conversations with their obnoxious ring tones and insistent vibrations.
It was only a matter of time before Japan's color craziness spread from its cell phones to other gadgets. This Poketo DAP player from Japanese company Palama may be basic and cheap, but when has basic and cheap ever stopped people from buying gadgets?
XMI's X-Mini claims to be the "the world's first pocketdize speaker with a built-in bass support and rechargeable battery." Apparently either feature alone is not a world's first, but together...stand back. You have the stuff PR is made of.
Focused on portability, the X-Mini features an extendable, accordion-style vacuum tube that attempts to mimic the resonance of a subwoofer (we don't mean to be complete dicks by saying "attempts" but we'll believe it when we see it). Mids and highs are represented through that top speaker. Playback lasts anywhere from four to six hours, after which time you'll need to pack up the portable party and call it a night. Well, that, or just put on some headphones instead. $37 [product via ohgizmo]
Netflix's online movie-streaming service has been hacked by a Very Clever Personâ„¢. The tools: Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player 11, FairUse4WM, and Notepad. The method: finding and downloading the URL of the video file, getting the license key and stripping the DRM. Sounds simple enough. The catch: only Netflix subscribers can do it. Logically, the rights management stripping only works on videos you have downloaded from their service. [Rorta via TV Squad]
A "mole" at Microsoft has told Ars Technica that after the current inventory is spent, they're going to "soft launch" new Core and Premium Xbox 360s in late August or September that are loaded up with HDMI and possibly quieter DVD drives, along with the long-awaited 65nm process CPUs. While this is complete hearsay, the guys at Ars has better bullshit detectors than most, and we've been expecting these updates for a while, so it's not exactly flailing speculation—but be sure to keep breathing. [Ars Technica]
T-Mobile made it official today: it launches the Samsung Blast, a pretty black and crimson slider otherwise unromantically known as the T729. We heard rumblings about this MotoRIZR-like cellie a couple of months ago, and as promised, here are the... Read More »
Lukas Koh's Space For You printer is rather a clever concept, combining a table with a printer, saving space - and, probably, your printer, if you've ever parked your coffee on it by mistake. It's a simple idea:
Rollerman, aka Jean-Yves Blondeau, a crazy Frenchman whose Buggy Rollin' suit effectively turns him into a 60-mph trolley, was pitted against a racing motorcyclist for a TV show earlier this year. Blondeau chose the racetrack, but it was a close run thing.
Here's a video I took in Cupertino today of the new Apple keyboards, iMacs, and what I consider the best features of iPhoto and iMovie: skimming and...skimming. As for the rest of the day, here are the highlights:
Unleash your inner explorer with the adventurous Triton handheld GPS from Magellan. There are six models in total, all sporting QVGA touch screens (2.2"or 2.7") that are waterproof up to one meter. Some feature expandable memory via an SD slot alongside a 2-megapixel digital camera and digital audio player. The top-of-the-line Triton 2000 has a 3-way electronic compass and a built in barometer. All the Triton models can be enhanced with National Geographic's own topographical maps, which have never been commercially available on a GPS unit.
Set to be launched next month, the whale-looking Aeros ML866 uses a combination of buoyancy (like a blimp) and lift (like a plane) to cruise comfortably through the air with over 5,000 square feet of interior room, it has more room than some houses. It can take off vertically, without taking up runway time at crowded airports, and even fields, and man, this thing is designed to fit a "business center" with video conferencing, but we were thinking more like a swimming pool with adjoining hot tub, and a few of those 103-inch plasmas from Panasonic. The downside is a rated 120 knots of top speed, which means a world tour on this baby wouldn't be nearly as quick as it would be roomy. [GizMag]
I don't know how carving a bunch of geometric lines in a phone helps a company "tap into the cultural zeitgeist," but that's what Nokia is claiming their now-official line of Prism phones does. The lower-end 7500 is your basic multimedia phone complete with music player (MP3/AAC/WMA), 2-megapixel camera and Opera Mini for web browsing via EGPRS/GPRS. The 7900 improves on its predecessor by offering dual band 3G/quad band GSM, a 2-inch OLED screen with "living wallpaper" that morphs based on your usage pattern and 1GB of internal storage. If mounds of triangles do it for you, you should be able to snag a 7500 for about $290 or a 7900 for $550.
Full size image below the fold.
[Nokia Prism Collection via CrunchGear]
Posted by Seamus Byrne at 10:35 AM on August 8, 2007
ASCII has been doing the rounds online since the first acoustic coupler connected to a BBS. But what about going seriously old school? Melbournian Andrew MacRae has been creating ASCII art 60s style with a couple of typewriters: 1965 Olympia SG3 and a 1968 Hermes 3000.
It's a great blog of his work from over the past year and a half, and you can see the complexity develop over that time. Nods to Star Wars, and even one for the hoons, makes this a must link for mine.
See his art in this blog, and his Live Journal is over here.
[via Boing Boing]
It's impossible to ignore the unique brand of fun the Wii brings to the table with its motion-sensitive controller, but if you aren't into minigame fests, you don't have a lot of options for taking advantage of it. That's why one dedicated gamer decided to meld the power of the Wiimote with the game library of the Xbox 360, producing what he calls the Xbox 360 Input Machine (XIM). As you can see in the video above, Master Chief is running around the Halo 2 world, jumping and firing via instructions from the Wiimote (including motion-sensing swings). But can you realistically expect to be plugging your Wii into your 360 any time soon?
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