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The iPhone 4S Comes With A MicroUSB Charger (But Not In Australia)

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9:20AM October 6, 2011 | Alex Kidman

One of the most common complaints about Apple’s dock connector is that it’s proprietary. Don’t have your iPhone or iPad charger on you? You’re totally out of luck. Unless you live in the EU, that is, where the iPhone 4S will come with a MicroUSB charger — of a sort. More »


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USB ‘Port’ Wine Gets You Drunk At 480MB/s

9:15AM October 30, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

Due to a new EU trade rule, wineries can’t use the word “port” on their label unless the wine was actually made in Portugal. California’s Peltier Station Winery, however, discovered (or should I say invented?) a loophole: they called their new dessert wine “USB” and put a tree with USB roots on the label. And that’s just the beginning of the geekery.

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