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Auction Starts for Airbus A380 First Flight Seats
The auction for seats on the first Airbus A380’s flight starts today: Singapore Airlines will fly it from their home city to Sydney. All profits will be shared between different non-governmental charity organizations, so not only will you have the opportunity to be first to fly the biggest passenger aircraft of all time, you will … Continued
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Mil Mi-12 “Homer” Is World’s Biggest Helicopter, Looks as Dumb as Simpson
We missed the Mil Mi-12 in our roundup of crazy Soviet aircraft. The “Homer,” as NATO calls it, is the biggest helicopter in the world at 220ft from blade to blade, as wide as a Boeing 747’s. https://gizmodo.com/craziest-weirdest-coolest-soviet-airplanes-ever-284244 This beast was able to lift 88,636 pounds to 7,398 feet, which was another world record. Sadly, … Continued
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AT&T Cracks Down On Commercial iPhone Unlocking Groups
It was bound to happen: AT&T is going after the mercenary group trying to profit from the iPhone unlocking. Apparently they can hunt these guys down, but it’s still undecided whether or not they’re in the clear or in hot water. You can still do a 100% unlock with the TurboSIM method but, once again, … Continued
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Support the iPhone Dev Team to Get the True Free iPhone Software Unlock
Click to view[UPDATED 11:30AM EST: There was an error in the PayPal donation address. Check the correct address and new info after the jump.] Today was the fourth time someone has claimed a 100% unlocking method for the iPhone. All four methods work great, but there’s a problem with all of them: they cost money. … Continued
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Apple Special Event on September 5th May Bring New iPods
Get ready for another in crescendo orgy of Apple rumors, because according to Jacquie at Infinite Loop —Ars’ Apple blog, not The Mothership’s address— the iPods are coming. “Specifically” she says, in a special event on “September 5, according to our sources within the company.” [Infinite Loop] https://gizmodo.com/ipod-nano-spy-shots-confirmed-as-real-by-apple-legal-292524
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iPhone Unlocked (AGAIN!) With Paid Software Fix
After being unlocked not once but two and even three times, Engadget is reporting today that the iPhone has been unlocked for the “first time.” Well, it’s not the first iPhone unlock (as my european Vodafone-TurboSIMed iPhone shows), but apparently this method uses only software: a commercial application that will be for sale “soon.” [Update: … Continued
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TomTom Rider 2nd Edition Is Out (UPDATED)
[UPDATED 9:20EST: jump for US release information.] The new TomTom Rider 2nd Edition, the GPS for bike riders, is finally out in the US and Europe and it looks great. It comes loaded with new features, like its easy-to-setup RAM mount (as the male sheep, not the memory) which fits almost all motorcycles and “withstands … Continued
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The Soviet Union vs US Jet Train Race
Click to viewAh, the good old times of the Cold War: Space race! Arms race! Spy race! Trains race? While astronauts were floating in their tinfoil suits, the real action was happening down on rails: The Soviet Union and the US were in a race to get the fastest and spiffiest train ever. The story … Continued
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World Largest Anti-RF Chamber Looks Like Mario Galaxy Level
This is the Benefield Anechoic Facility in Edwards Air Force Base: the largest chamber of its kind in the world—a room in which RF and sound signals don’t bounce off the walls, so you can get clean radio frequency testing on all kinds of gear. In this case, electronic warfare systems in huge toys like … Continued
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Viliv X2 AIO Multimedia Player Does Everything Else Too
Following on last year’s P2, the new Viliv X2 AIO comes with absolutely everything on a tight 4.3-inch screen package: movie, music and picture playback with picture in picture capabilities, digital TV tuner, GPS and electronic dictionary, which would be great if you live in Korea, where it’s going to be launched. https://gizmodo.com/viliv-p2-portable-media-player-183660 The 30GB … Continued
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Water Tower Apartment Looks Great Inside, Misses Fiery Magical Eye on Top
Someone in the Netherlands transformed a water tower into a cool vertical apartment. The results are amazing, and the spiral stairs are guaranteed to keep you fit and/or drive you mad with so much spinning. Looking at the guy sliding down the wall, someone already thought about a better route for descent. [Materialicious via Boing … Continued
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Wizz Dual Screen DVD Player Is Double the Fun, Allegedly
For a $232 price tag, this Japan-only Wizz CSDP-500 portable multimedia player and matching CLCD-507 7-inch LCD dual screens looks like a good option for video-on-the-go fans. The $86 40-ounce CSDP-500 plays DVDs of all kinds as well as video, music and picture files in MPEG-4,MP3,WMA and JPEG formats using it’s built-in USB port, SD … Continued
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How To: Install Nintendo Games and Play With Tactile Feedback in Your iPhone
Click to viewUnlike the original version, the NES emulator for the iPhone works great now —except for the sound. There’s still one big problem: the lack of tactile feedback on the buttons. Natetrue, the creator of iBrickr, came up with an ingenious hardware patch: a transparent vinyl layer cut like the gamepad buttons. It seems … Continued
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Sony HVR HD-1000U Entry-Level Pro HDV Camera Heralds New Era in HD Weddings, Education, Amateur Tentacle Porn
Sony says that their new entry-level HVR HD-1000U video camera brings professional high definition moviemaking for “wedding videographers, freelancers and educational video creators.” So why is this camera good for filming high-def porn? For one, the shoulder-mount design will tighten those pans, as will the Super SteadyShot optical image stabilizer. Not to mention the Smooth … Continued
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How To: Install Apps on Your iPhone for Total Dummies (Mac OS X and Windows Edition)
Click to viewRemember our tutorial on how to install applications on your iPhone, no hacking skills required? It just got even easier: now you don’t need to get into the Terminal to do it. It’s as simple as starting up the new GUI-based installer from Nullriver. It just works and it won’t void your warranty … Continued
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iPod Nano Spy Shots Confirmed as Real by Apple Legal
Click to viewApple Legal has asked Giz to take down the iPod nano spy shots from earlier today because they are their “intellectual property.” Out of respect for The Steve, we’ve complied. This pretty much confirms they belong to Apple, whether they are final or a prototype. However, the image above is all ours —done … Continued
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AT&T Confirms End of Detailed Billing for iPhone, Other Unholy Cells
Apparently, AT&T has confirmed what was rumored: they’re going to cut their huge paper waste and environmental mayhem in a radical way. One 300-page iPhone bill and probably a couple of calls from the Mighty Green Jobso later, some readers are reporting short messages from AT&T saying that the detail billing is over: https://gizmodo.com/at-ts-unofficial-response-to-300-page-iphone-bill-defa-290597 AT&T … Continued
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The iPod nano Mock-Up (UPDATED again: Yes, It Is Real)
Click to view[UPDATE 10:30PM EST: Apple asked us to take down the spy shots because they are their intellectual property. So yes, it’s real, even while we don’t know if the design is final or just an old prototype. However, we are keeping this. It’s exactly like the spy shots but it’s our own rendering, … Continued
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Weirdest Guns Ever Amuse and Scare the Hell Out of Me
This terrifying revolver-knife straight from Resident Evil is real and ready to hunt zombies, like all the weird guns in this gallery. My favorites: the three-barrel pirate gun for my Guybrush Threepwood moments, the Thunder for my Lieut. Cobretti moments and the old-style black handgun with ultra-big knife —for when I have to shave, John … Continued
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