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The “Spy Wi-Fi Signal and Camera Lens Detector” is a cheap version of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s yacht, which can detect and shield against the paparazzi’s peeping lenses. A very cheap version, in fact, coming in at just $40 instead of a rather more ...
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A second iPhone worm is in the wild, and unlike the jokey Australian worm authored by hacker prankster Ikee two weeks ago, this one is dangerous.
Unlike Ikee’s hack, which merely rick-rolled owners of infected iPhones, the new Dutch variant targets customers of the bank ING. When ...
iPhone
iPhone
TomTom is set to sell a GPS Kit for the iPod Touch, further closing the gap between Apple’s top-end iPod and the iPhone. The unit will have a built-in GPS receiver which “turns your iPod touch into a mobile navigation device.”
Many people choose the iPod Touch over the ...
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The Dutchess, from magnificently-named designer Wytze van Mansum, is the best concept bike we have seen in a long time. It is both practical, innovative and, even better, exists in the real world as a proper working machine.
Designed for Cannondale, the Dutchess is a woman’s bike ...
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The first two iPhones had terrible cameras, something Apple fixed with the 3GS. Those of us who like to complain can still find fault with the lack of an optical zoom lens. Those who don’t just whine go out and fix this for themselves.
Instructables member T-skware did just that, ...
iPhone
iPhone
You may remember (and even be excited by) Wuss Bee , aka WUSB aka Wireless USB. It’s a protocol that lets you hook up USB devices over the air, thus eliminating most of the cables that clutter and choke your workspace.
Imation has just shipped the first ever Wuss Bee hard drive, which ...
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Who takes Apple’s rumored touchscreen tablet seriously? Wired ’s parent company Condé Nast. Earlier this week, the corporation revealed its plans to work with Adobe to repurpose magazine content for upcoming digital devices, including the highly anticipated Apple tablet (even ...
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With all the gadgets, remotes, and thingamajigs piling up on your coffee table, finding the right remote can sometimes be a real pain. But thanks to a few heroic Android developers, there are tools to consolidate some of those pesky remotes … into your Android phone. While you ...
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Sometimes you have to take a step down to step up. That’s what Google should’ve done with its open-source PC operating system Chrome OS, which the corporation demonstrated Thursday.
Instead, Google is positioning Google Chrome OS against Microsoft with a lightweight OS shipping ...
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It’s surprising that Yelp, the go-to site for finding restaurants, bars and other venues, has no presence in the Android Market. But that’s okay. Foursquare does the job with a social incentive to boot.
Foursquare is a location-based social mobile network that allows users to ...
Mobile
Android
Apple is mighty protective of its iPod trademark, and if you violate it, you’ll get no sympathy from Steve Jobs.
Apple recently sent a letter to software company Little App Factory, requesting that it change the name of its most successful applications: “iPodRip,” an app ...
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The title character of Ray Bradbury’s book The Illustrated Man is covered with moving, shifting tattoos. If you look at them, they will tell you a story.
New LED tattoos from the University of Pennsylvania could make the Illustrated Man real (minus the creepy stories, of course). ...
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The Power HotSpot from Solis takes something good (solar power) and makes it easy to use. For $375, you get a portable solar panel and base unit which puts out a 12 Volt supply. Plug in anything with a car cigarette-lighter adapter and you have gadget-power, wherever you are.
Or at least, ...
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How many times have you wanted to eat something whilst out and about but been unable to do so because you had no cutlery? Me neither, and that’s because, like you, I have hands and teeth. But for the prissier amongst you, those who have what my mother calls “good manners”, ...
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The Cyberus Smart Info Engine may sound like a steampunk computer which connects to the Victorian Internet (which would actually be awesome) but it is instead the most full-featured digital photo-frame ever.
To be fair, the manufacturer, Sungale, wouldn’t describe it like that. The ...
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In Cory Doctorow’s latest novel, Makers, one of the main characters puts together an amazing little hack using a bunch of Boogie Woogie Elmo toys. These have been stripped of their fur and let loose on a tiny electric Smart Car. Reprogrammed to know how to drive, they collectively take ...
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When Apple dropped support for Atom processors in OS X 10.6.2, effectively killing Hackintosh netbooks, we knew that somebody would fix things. We didn’t know that it would happen so fast.
Just over a week after the update, Russian hacker “Tea” has made a patched kernel ...
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks.
With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers.
“We ...
