Ages ago we showed you a DIY version, but now the removable-head Teddy Bear USB drive is a real product, ready to trigger-off those childhood nightmares all over again. The little guy is around 7.6 x 9.5 cm, is USB 2.0, stores 1GB inside its teddy guts, and costs US$17. Not much else to say. [Geekalerts]
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digg_skin = 'compact';digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa';digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Huge_iPhone_Security_Flaw_Opens_All_Private_Information';There’s a huge security problem in the latest iPhone 2.0.2: if you have your JesusPhone password protected, using a very simple trick gives anyone full access to your mobile phone private information in Mail, SMS, Contacts, and even Safari. The two-step trick is even simpler to the one used in the past to gain access to the phone to install unlocking cards or jailbreak. Fortunately, there’s a way to avoid this obvious security breach until Apple fixes it.
Samsung came up with news that it was going to make 128GB SSDs cheaper last month, and now its saying that it’s adjusted its production to also give low-cost, low-density 32GB drives. The SATA II drives will be just 30% of the size of 2.5-inch SSDs, based on the same muti-level cell technology as the earlier 128GB devices, and will come in 8, 16 and 32GB versions. The 32GB version will even have pretty good access speeds: 90MBps to read data (sequentially) and 70MBps to write. Since the devices are “highly cost-efficient to manufacture” you should expect the pricing to be attractive—just the thing for your cheap netbook, perhaps—when they go in to mass production next month. Press release below.
Ok, so the much-rumoured Nikon D90 is now official, but over at Chase Jarvis Photography they know all about the camera: they were asked to “test the bejeezus out of the Nikon D90 for weeks-on-end prior to anybody even knowing it existed.” Armed with a bunch of D90s taped-up to disguise their identity they piggybacked testing the device on top of some commercial photo shoots, looking at the D-movie 720p video recording, IS03200 shooting, the ergonomics… basically putting the advanced amateur-targeted cam through some pro-user tests, as the video shows.
As rumored, Nikon’s D90 is the first-ever DSLR with HD video recording, but maybe more importantly for actual photographers, Nikon is promising much of the same low-noise performance of their higher end DSLRs. The brand new 12.3-megapixel image sensor was developed in-house like the D3 and D700′s (the D300 uses a Sony sensor) and you can crank the ISO up to 6400, so we’re hopeful. It’s a mutant DSLR (not in a bad way) bringing down features from the higher-end cameras at the same time it cribs more hold-your-hand consumer stuff from the point-and-shoots. Now about that HD video. galleryPost('NikonD90Official', 3, '');
The Draganfly series of heli cams have been impressive, but the just announced X6 is freaking amazing. The triple-tipped carbon fibre body has two carbon rotors on each end. The design allows it to move in all directions rapidly, provide enough control to zip around indoors yet resist up to 29 kilometres per hour of wind. galleryPost('draganflyx6', 3, '');
Maclife reviewed the Apple Cafeteria, perhaps under the guidance of the director of food they poached from Google. The verdict is that the sushi and tomatoes are great, and the automatic tray carousel is pretty snazzy. [Maclife]
There are only four acceptable reasons I can think of for buying this US$30 dollar Crayola EZ Type keyboard: 1) You’re a little slow. 2) You’re under the age of five (and still maybe a little slow). 3) You have a kid under the age of five (and you’re both a little slow). 4) You really, reeeeally hate the offset alignment of standard keyboards. If you’re not buying for any of the above reasons, you’re probably a pedophile who knows no child can resist a bunch of bright colours and the Comic Sans font. Shame on you, and may God have mercy on your soul. [Crayola via Red Ferret via BB Gadgets]
Jason Wells got to toy around with a few blocks of Aerogel, the fantastically light (and fantastically expensive) material made famous by its use as insulation in NASA spacecraft like the Mars Rover. Using just everyday materials from his house, he managed to test the futuristic product’s strength, optical properties, reaction to different liquids and temperatures, and electrical conductivity. He concludes from the experiments that it should work really well as a fire retardant or insulation, as well as pulling moisture out of pretty much anything (including his finger!). Aerogel weighs only three times as much as air, but is even more effective than your everyday pink insulation. It may only be the world’s coolest insulation material, but are you the world’s coolest anything? Didn’t think so. [Jason Wells via Crunchgear]
