This jailbreak will allow most devices to manually load IPSWs. If you have an iPhone 3GS and old bootrooms you can create IPSW files without blobs. However, this jailbreak is still tethered.

There are also some reports of lost functionality with the jailbreak, like loss of the ability to download over-the-air operating system updates from Apple is an obvious, and some new problems with the Skype app for iOS. Mobile Support Forum has a thread going with more details and download links to the files.

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Samsung Full HD HMX-P300 (Left) and the HMX-P100 (Right)

Combining portability with quick and easy use, Samsung has developed two new point and “share” camcorders, the Samsung Full HD HMX-P300 and the HMX-P100. Pocket-sized and fashionable, the sleek, black cameras are designed for all you social-networkers.

Through the unique One Touch sharing feature and built in Intelli-Studio 2.0 software, the P300 and P100 allow users to use the built in USB arm to upload videos automatically to websites, eliminating long waits for file transfers so that videos can be posted as quickly as possible. Because you know, if your dog ran out of 7-11 with a bag of hickory sticks, everyone should know about it.

The P300 comes with both 3x Optical Zoom, ensuring brilliantly clear footage, and Pivot Mode, making it possible to shoot video from any angle. The P100 makes use of the innovative 5M BSI (Black Side Illuminated) CMOS sensor which dramatically improves the quality of low light recording and cuts noise and light distortions.

A number of features are found in both cameras, making recording as easy as possible: Auto Focus and Smart Auto automatically adjust colour, focus and brightness, while the Record-Pause allows users to take brief pauses before resuming recording within the same file. The P300 and P100 can also function as cameras, boasting 8M Pixel and 5M Pixel still-image capture respectively.

The P300 can be had for $199 in March, with the P100 coming out at $150 next month.

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Though the DoT is exploring, spokeswoman Olivia Alair wanted to make sure everyone understands that the department is just “examining this technology,” and has “no intention” to require it at the moment. LaHood’s campaign has focused on “raising awareness, getting good laws on the books, stepping up enforcement, and most importantly, taking personal responsibility,” she added.

Would you feel safer having cell phones completely blocked from being used in cars? That also means passengers would not be able to make calls. Or is the hands-free mandate enough to satisfy you’re safety needs?

[Telecom TV, The Hill]

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This holiday season could be all about tablets and smartphones, as those are easy buys and will guarantee a smile on the face of the gift receiver, but what about all those other tech toys out there that well, may not be so typical or expected? We’ll, we’ve put together a list of some things we would love to see under our tree this year, so you can bet that any gadget-lover out there would feel the same way. Here they are in no particular order:

Sony PS-LX300USB USB Stereo Turntable

Vinyl is not dead. In fact, it’s picking up again, especially with special edition releases from various artists and hard to find rare titles. You could also hit the garage sale scene, or dig out those LPs from the basement. Converting your tracks to digital with this turntable will still maintain some of that analog goodness, a bit of crackly warmth in the recording makes it unique and one of a kind. Not a bad gift for $115

Celestron Deluxe Digital LCD Microscope

Getting in close is something fun and can open up the imagination, looking at everyday objects in a way you’ve never imagined. This Celestron microscope has a large LCD for viewing slides at up to 1200x, it also has a 2.0 megapixel digital camera which can snap photos or record videos on an SD card. Price: $263

Apple iPod Touch 4G

The new iPod Touch 4G is nothing less than amazing. With dual cameras and facetime support, you may soon forget this was originally just an MP3 player. It comes in 8GB, 32GB, or 64GB storage capacities and can record 720p HD video. Prices start at $230

Groundspeak Geocaching App for Android and iPhone

You can gift an app to your loved one just as easily as wrapping up a physical boxed item, but with the Geocaching app by Groundspeak, you’ll be giving not just a piece of software, but an adventure.  The app costs $9.95 and a yearly premium subscription is only $30, that gets you access to many extra features like favorites, instant updates of new caches, search for caches along your route, and more. The app also has many advanced navigation features, even a friendly designed UI. A basic membership is free, but the app is still $10.

Kindle Wireless e-Reader

An alternative to paper, with available options like integrated Wi-Fi, free 3G connectivity, and sizes of 6-inches and 9.7-inches, the Kindle is the standard for e-reading. The E Ink Pearl technology gives 50% better contrast, making text and images sharper then ever before. Prices range from $139 for the Wi-Fi only 6-inch model, $189 to get free 3G, and $379 for the 9.7-inch.

Wacom Intuos 4 Wireless Tablet

Wacom is the leader in pen tablets. They’ve been making them for years and have mastered its design which is used by professionals all across the world. What better to get the artist or photographer than a tool they will adore. The Wireless Intuos 4 is our top pick, it costs $399 and has 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity and 60 degrees of tilt recognition. If that’s out of your price range, there are the $99 Bamboo series, although not quite as responsive as the Intuos 4 line, they’ll easily advance your photo retouching abilities. It’s like going from a bar of soap, to a pen.

Guppie Multi-tool

The Guppie multi-tool is one of those gadgets you can always have with you, forget about, and then one day out of the blue can save your life. It has many uses, but it’s small size and strength makes it a worthy accessory to loop on your pants or sling on a backpack.  It has an adjustable wrench, multi-bit tool, knife, LED flashlight and a bottle cap or jar lid opener.  $44.99 from CKRT, a smaller version without the flashlight called Lil’ Guppie is also available for $10 less.

Zagg Sparq 2.0

Don’t leave your loved one without power on the go. The Zagg Sparq 2.0 is a versatile portable charging pack that well, really makes things mobile. Not only is it the exact same size as the Apple power adapter for laptops, but it’s got dual USB ports as well to charge devices directly with. And when you’re on the road, the internal 6,000 mAh Lithium Polymer battery can get your gear a little more distance until you’re back at your base. $99 from Zaqq.

Eton Soulra Solar Powered Sound System for iPod and iPhone

This little stereo packs a 2000 mAh battery pack to keep your tunes playing on your outdoor adventure.  With a semi-rugged splash-proof design, it’s ready for the beach, campground, or anywhere else you’re ready to take it.  A flip up solar panel lets it recharge on those sunny days keeping your music going.  4 hours will charge it full indoors, 10 hours in the sun.  The Soulra is $185.

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Does the thought of removing your gloves to answer a call or send an important message from your touchscreen smartphone in the dead cold winter make you shiver? Perhaps you’ve opted for a stylus and are getting tired of its lack of accuracy?

Clearly, everybody who uses a Smartphone would prefer a capacitive touchscreen over the resistive alternative, as capacitive touchscreens offer much better precision and feedback and the uptake from the capacitive touchsceen divulges its superiority over the other.

However, until recently, the perfect touchscreen that would accept input from a gloved finger as well as a stylus, and be responsive as today’s capacitive screens was a white whale of the cell phone industry, a thing to be dealt with in the future! The capacitive touchscreens currently lack the compatibility with using an input device other than finger.

Hitachi has brought that future in the present, though.  At this year’s IFD International conference, Hitachi displayed to the world that it has overcome the problem on their new capacitive touchscreen display by adding a controller chip that detects input from non-conducting items and turns it into capacitance. The end result: an all-purpose display that receives input from any object, which is destined to be popular with phone and tablet manufacturers.

With the versatile touchscreen that accepts input from any device, Hitachi is the first company to have made such a huge breakthrough in the mobile world, which could address the U. S. and European markets; as well as the Asian markets, where handwriting recognition and stylus input are required by many.

Hitachi unfortunately won’t be marketing the device until the end of 2011, so until then, grab your conductive finger-tip gloves from Fivepoint.

SOURCE: Diginfo.tv

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If you’re not one to be caught perverting your capacitive touchscreen device with a sausage, perhaps these magic finger gloves would be more “proper.”  If you dont see snow outside, you probably wont need these.  The Fivepoint gloves are made of 95% pure wool and 5% mixed fibers to keep your fingers warm while tapping on your favorite touchscreen device in the cold winter months.  The real technology lies inside the conductive fingertips.  Etre, a company from some god forsaken land of frozen fingers (UK) just as where I am now, is selling them.  Whether it be for an iPhone, iPad, Galaxy Tab, so long as the screen is capacitive, you’ll want the Fivepoints.  Shipping in “Oxford Blue with Grey fingertips” with “more styles coming soon!” the Fivepoint conductive fingertip gloves are £24.99 GBP (about $40 USD).

[Etre Store]

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Nearly every browser on the desktop, iPhone, or Blackberry, allows the user to choose their search engine. However, Windows Phone 7 has tied up with Bing as its default search engine, which means that Bing would block any attempt to browse using any other search engine from the start screen.

To compete with Bing on WP7, Google has developed its own app – Google Search for Windows Phone 7, which it launched on November 11. As Google Mobile team programmers Jon Skeet and Nick Radicevic note in a blog post, this app “provides quick and convenient access to a rich set of search results.” Users can download the app for free for all Windows Phone 7 devices and languages from Windows Mobile Marketplace.

Google’s search app uses the phone’s GPS to localize searches, gives suggestions as you type, and keeps track of previous searches. The search results appear in a browser window, which allows access to images, local and news results as well, the features missing on Bing app for WP7.

Since Microsoft has all but made it a mandate for phone carriers that its Bing search engine be deeply integrated on Windows phone 7, it would be interesting to watch whether this move bails Microsoft out of its flagging smartphone market share, or users download Google’s Search app for WP7 and ding the Bing!

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A number of gadgets, mostly those that are hailed as the technological miracles, do have a tendency of luring us in by popping up at trade shows.   Disappointingly, very few of them do manage to make it to the stores shelves while we can still remember them.  However, according to fresh reports doing the rounds at the FPD International 2010 trade show, the Samsung mobile display is definitely not looking to be included in the forget-me list. Samsung hints that their 4.5 inch flexible AMOLED might actually be very near to completion as a mass produced unit.

The latest reports also disclose that Samsung has decided to go in for a plastic version instead of the more conventional glass substrate. This makes sense too, as the former is bound to be much more convenient for mass production.  The 800 x 480 resolution is really quite exciting and we just hope that the availability of a new fangled gadget utilizing the technology is not too far away .

The news has also seemed to have spawned a number of arguments lately with most of them being just a little apprehensive about the super-portability factor. The durability factor is also expected to come in to play here.  A phone with a flexible AMOLED screen is making us curious indeed!  A panel which can be folded up to a small radius of 1 cm, springing back into the original form without losing any of its functionality is still a little too difficult to fathom.

The hype generated around this AMOLED may be worthwhile for its makers, especially if it manages to live up to its promise of making the smartphone even smarter or wearable.

SOURCE: OLED Display

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The Nintendo gaming system has won fans all over the world with its amazing capabilities. The uniqueness of the games and novelty of the machine makes the NES a must have for every true video game aficionado. If you like to do your own hack jobs and fabricate unique looking products then you should definitely have a look at the NES cartridge wireless router.

According to a recent DIY project, you can easily create a wireless router out from a spare NES cartridge. Yes, however unbelievable it may sound, the news is actually true. Recently, one of the true tech-hackers built his very own NES wireless router and released the pictures over the internet.  According to the Unconventional Hacker, you can actually fit in a Belkin wireless router into one of the spare NES gaming cartridges. It’s not very difficult. In the first step you will have to disassemble the cartridge . Then you will have to go ahead and disassemble the wireless router and then you will simply have to swap the two boards. The hard part is when you will have to re-solder a couple of capacitors on the Belkin wireless router to fit it into the NES cartridge perfectly.  The soldering job should be done very carefully, or else you may be left with a malfunctioning wireless router.  After you have fitted the wireless router into the NES board, put it back together just like before and voila! You have your very own NES wireless router. Now you have the bragging rights to the coolest set of hardware that will trump all your friends.

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Although the teaser image does not give much information about the device, Photoshopers have managed to reveal some parts of it, which clearly leads us to believe a recently leaked phone: the Desire HD. At first, we thought it would be a nice phone, with high-end specs. Yet it seems to be missing some key features, such as the earlier mentioned HDMI-out, front facing camera, and kickstand.
That makes us wonder what exactly is HTC proud about? Is the Desire HD going to be the next flagship smartphone? And will they accept that their flagship has lesser specs than devices that are already out? We hope to have answers on September 15th from London.

On September 15 we will see new phones of HTC [Mobile Bulgaria]
HTC schedules September 15 event, leaves us guessing as to what it’s launching [Engadget]

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