Aug 1, 2010
Listen to tonight’s edition of The Gadget Grill on 2RDJ FM 88.1 (streaming on www.radio2rdj.com) at 9pm tonight for your chance to win a pair of A-Jays Three in-ear headphones.
Jailbreak your iPhone. Legally!
Jul 27, 2010
Every three years, the US Library Of Congress carries out a review of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and issues rulings on certain aspects of it. In it’s most recent ruling, just handed down, it stated that the protection built in to the iPhone had little to do with copyright, and that therefore the act of bypassing that protection –...
HP’s Pocket Projector
Jul 25, 2010
HP’s Notebook Projection Companion is the projectors’ equivalent of a pocket rocket. While it won’t quite fit in your pocket, this tiny projector, aimed at those who have a need to make presentations on the go, is truly small and lightweight, and easy to throw into your laptop bag, ready to use at a moment’s notice. The appearance of the...
iPhone GPS tracks iPhone Thief
Jul 25, 2010
Timing is everything: When would be the worst time to steal an iPhone? How about while it’s being used to demonstrate a new app that tracks the iPhone’s current location using the embedded GPS facility. In San Francisco on Monday last, 32 year old Horatio Toure was riding his bicycle when he spotted Jordan Sturm, who is an assistant at Mountain...
Five Second Rule
Jul 25, 2010
Who would have thought to do a scientific study to see if food, having fallen onto the floor, would pick up germs? Some scientists from Clemson University – obviously with way too much time and funding on their hands – did. They wanted to test to see if the five second rule was true or not. And the results? Who’d have thunk it? They discovered...