For those who want to use wireless tethering on their Motorola DROID, it is now possible thanks to users over at droid forums. For a while it has already been possible to use USB tethering to access the internet, but now it is possible to use your DROID as a wireless router and allow several people connect and share the data connection.
The hack is courtesy of a user called webacoustics who managed to build a custom firmware from version 2.0.1. To get it working does require root as can be expected as well as a custom kernel and recovery image, but the instructions are laid out easily enough to follow although as always I recommend that you proceed with any rooting type stuff at your own risk. I’ve personally never had a problem rooting a phone but it can be known to brick your phone if your not careful. [Read more…]
Ever wanted to build your own Death Star or perhaps a Light Sabre or Darth Vader mask? This book is for you. The 
Currently we only have a few snippets of video of the boot screen on the N1 (nexus one) phone. That is until now though as someone has posted a 5 minute preview detailing a number of features from the Nexus One including a full interface walk through.
According to Digitimes sources Apple [AAPL] have placed an order for a number of 5 megapixel CMOS image sensors to be used in next generation Apple products. This could mean that if an iPhone is launched next year that it will sport a better camera than previous models. Anonymous sources have stated that the order was specifically for the next generation iPhone due out in the middle of 2010.
Yesterday we came across a few more pictures of the Nexus One. One that stood out was the N1 pictures here which had the QR code revealed on the back. Previously this image was covered with post-it notes so nobody knew what was behind it.
Gizmodo managed to get to spend some time with the Google Phone AKA Nexus One. The N1 is built by HTC and is described by Gizmodo as being a Motorola DROID killer in all ways. The phone has no physical keyboard making it very thin. It’s fast and managed to beat both the DROID and iPhone in web page load speeds consistently.
A designed cammed Yves Behar has designed a next generation OLPC called the XO-3 that shows an ultra thin tablet surface computer that has an 8.5 by 11 inch touchscreen. According to the designer and OLPC it seems that they want to introduce the OLPC tablet by 2012.
Our friends over at Coolest Gadgets have a fantastic competition running at the moment for those of us in the UK. They are giving away a 42 inch LCD TV from LG to one lucky winner. The competition is running till 12PM on Christmas Eve (that’s tomorrow) where the lucky winner will be announced.
A few robotic vacuums have shown up this last week with LG creating the 
When we first wrote about the best netbooks available a few months back the ASUS Eee 1005HA was at the top of 
This is a portable handheld scanner. Think of it as the guts of any standalone image scanner that either glides from left to right or top to bottom (depending on the scanner model). It allows the user to scan the contents of any books, letters, recipes, bank statements, receipts and much more by gripping the the scanner in one hand and gliding it smoothly over the surface of the page (don’t worry though, you won’t have to go at a snails pace – images can be scanned very quickly at around 4-5 seconds). Though instead of having it constantly hooked up to a PC while you scan your various images and text, the portable handheld scanner houses a microSD card slot in which you can connect an SD card and copy those images and text directly from the page and download them to the card memory. Note also that many of these portable handheld scanners hold an internal memory of around 8mb
Codemasters have released a new game for the iPhone that allows you to take the seat of an F1 car and race around official F1 tracks. The F1 iPhone game brings 17 circuits used in the 2009 season to the iPhone and as it’s official meaning you get the real team names along with it.
