Category Archives: Hardware

iPhone Deconstruction by Ben Millen

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Ben Millen, an industrial designer and engineer from Canada, has constructed an interesting diagram of the ecosystem that supports Apple’s iPhone: These are not maps in any conventional sense, but rather diagramatic representations of the interconnected space of technology, capital, instrumental value, exchange value, social and environmental impact that surround the device… via Ben Millen [...]

iPhone, Safari, IE 8, Firefox hacked in CanSecWest contest (via InSecurity Complex, CNET News)

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Old news. Forgot to post this earlier: Researchers on Wednesday demonstrated that they could hack a non-jailbroken iPhone, Safari running on Snow Leopard and Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox on Windows 7 as part of the annual Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest security show here. iPhone, Safari, IE 8, Firefox hacked in CanSecWest contest | [...]

Steve Jobs looking…good?

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Steve Jobs has never been trend-setter fashion-wise. His taste in clothes is impossibly bland and predictable. He probably cares much more about the mark that Apple’s hardware and software will leave on the world than the medium-washed blue jeans and black mock-turtleneck he wears without fail.

iPod is now backwards compatible…with radio

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A scant few weeks shy of its 8th b-day, the iPod gets an FM tuner. Wow. Actually it’s just the iPod Nano (8GB @ $149, 16GB @ $179), and it also gets a video camera. Here’s a list of the other features: Video camera (640×480) Integrated mic Integrated speaker FM Radio!!!!! One-click YouTube uploads Voice [...]

Apple Store is being updated…

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Jobs has a new liver and Apple is about to get some new products….iTablet? The Apple Store

Sony announces PS3 Slim and drops price of all PS3 hardware

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Jack Tretton (President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America) provides a video shpiel full of marketing-speak, but the gist of the big news is that Sony will release a slim, $299 version of the PS3 on September 1 (in North America) and will immediately lower the price of existing PS3′s to $299. Glad [...]

Student Arrested for Jailbreaking Game Consoles (via Threat Level)

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I predict this guy will have a decent tech career…after he pays his legal fees and does his time… A Southern California man was taken into custody Monday on accusations of running a home business of jailbreaking videogame consoles so they can play pirated games. Student Arrested for Jailbreaking Game Consoles — Update (via Threat [...]

Obama’s a Mac guy!

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Awesome!!!!!! x_obama2.jpg (JPEG Image, 811×540 pixels)

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