Jan 23, 2011

It seems that Apple have introduced a new type of screw head into the casing of the iPhone 4. The “pentalobe” presents an entirely new interface to your tollkit, and is not compatible with hex heads, or torx, or phillips heads, or …. And no, you can’t buy tools that undo them yet either; not easily, at any rate. The latest MacBook Air...

Jan 23, 2011

Over at 9 to 5 Mac, they’ve been digging deeply into the new iOS SDK, and in so doing, they’ve found a very firm reference to a “Back Facing 1MP Camera”. They’re actually saying that both cameras will be quite low resolution.

Jan 23, 2011

The central IPv4 address pool is about to exhaust itself of address allocations. This basically means that we should really start to use IPv6 addresses. All we need is for all of the ISPs to start supporting this.

Jan 16, 2011

And here is something that we truly didn’t know that we needed. Cereal boxes that can be recharged using induction charging technology. This is a late entry into this year’s CES must haves. I think. Think in terms of a boring neon sign. One that lights up different parts of the sign sequentially in order to attract your attention. Now, instead of...

Jan 16, 2011

Now you don’t. Using a special ink, the Eco Printer allows you to print something, use it, erase what’s been printed on the paper, so that you may then reuse the paper to print something else on it. And then you can repeat the process … The content can be erased by zapping the page with UV. But here’s the problem: I may print something,...

Jan 16, 2011

Using liquid crystal technology, PixelOptics have designed some new spectacle lenses, that self-adjust their optical properties … as the wearer of the spectacles tilts his head. Generally when using bi-focals, the user’s head will be raised to use the distance part of their glasses, but then their head will dip to use the near-focusing reading...