Modem

Hands On With Telstra’s Ultimate USB

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10:46AM September 3, 2010 | Alex Kidman

At the briefing for Telstra’s Ultimate USB Modem on Monday, company representatives handed me a modem for review.

This isn’t that review. More »


Software

How A Guy Tricked Apple With A Disguised iPhone Tethering App

10:48PM July 21, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Oh, Nick Lee, you clever clever man. You see, Nick here tricked Apple with a very simple iPhone application: Handy Light. On the surface it looked like any other $1.19 torch application. But, secretly, it was a lot more useful. More »


The Silly Human Modem Video

9:20AM June 18, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

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Remember the analogue modem? Those noisy unreliable screamers that used to rule our online life? Anna Jane Grossman* – Gizmodo collaborator and author – made this video of people paying homage to the venerable device: The human modem handshake, 2400bps full duplex. More »


Gadgets

Four Old Gadgets We Love (And Four We Hate)

6:20AM October 10, 2009 | Anna Jane Grossman

Anna Jane Grossman, author of Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By, has compiled a special short list for Giz readers, four things we’ll really miss, and four we’re glad are gone. (She’s pictured below, not above.) More »