Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

This awesome spoof video is for the iPhree, the “Ultimate Hands Free Gadget:”

You can check out the iPhree website for more laughs.

People have figured out how to run commands on the serial interface of the iPhone, which apparently isn’t protected:

Your friends at #iPhone made a major breakthrough this morning.
we got a serial console working, here is how
the serial has the same pinouts as iPod serial
use a 6.8kish resistor from pin 21 to gnd
tie pin 11-sergnd to the real ground
use iphoneinterface to send the following commands in recovery mode:
setenv debug-uarts 1
saveenv
reboot
that should work

IT GIVES YOU A FULL INTERACTIVE SHELL
I REPEAT, A FULL INTERACTIVE SHELL

The command list is:

iphone.fiveforty.net/geohot/cmdlist.txt

You need a level converter, like the max 232 to make this work

This means that within a few days someone will package an unlocking program and an easier-to-use interface together to unlock the iPhone’s SIM card and make it do what it was really meant to do–let anyone have three or four Apple devices on their person.

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A company called 267 has a new product, which blends different fruits and spices into your choice of Vodka or Tequila. The big attraction is the packaging, which features a glass bottle and the suspended vegetation. Take a look at their Tequila Chile Peppers product:

*drool*. … .. . . yes it’s gorgeous. There are also rum and vodka infusions with citrus, olives, etc. I googled a little, but I haven’t seen anything like this either online or yet in stores. Looks good, though! Whenever I see “lemon vodka” in the stores or some other flavor, thoughts of artificial nasty flavours just gross me out. This looks better.