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Long-time Apple hacker George Hotz is ahead of the iPhone Dev Team, having released the purplera1n tool, which is not unlocking the iPhone 3Gs but at least capable of jailbreaking it by allowing the iPhone 3GS to install unofficial 3rd party applications.

The purplera1n jailbreak tool is only available for Windows users, can be used to jailbreak iPhone 3GS that runs the OS 3.0 and the process of doing it is pretty straightforward as follows:

Connect your iPhone normally. Click “make it ra1n”. Wait. On bootup, run Freeze, the purplera1n installer app.

The tool is still in BETA, so you’d better backup your iPhone before attempting it. Hotz disagrees the approach that the iPhone Dev Team takes for their their own ultrasn0w unlock/jailbreak, which is they will only address the iPhone 3GS until OS 3.1 is generally released, so Apple will not have time to close off the loophole which their tool takes advantage of. Hotz feels that they should not wait, his approach is when Apple has released a patch for a known loophole, he’ll then continue to find the next loophole.

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For parents for who wanna know more why a baby cries. Your baby could be stressed, sleepy, annoyed, bored or hungry. With this baby crying analyzer, you’ll know how to tackle it when the baby is crying.

Such as when you get awaken by the baby’s cry in the middle night, and you’ll get the answer right away from the baby’s cry analyzer, then you will know what the best way to get the baby stop crying – when the analyzer tells you that the baby is hungry then you’ll have to feed the baby with milk. Without this analyzer, you’ll definitely have to spend a couple of hours or even the whole night, trying to figure out on how to stop the baby crying.

Buy online, ThinkGeek, $100

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The Michael Jackson Thriller headphones are an awesome pair for remembering the pop superstar legend, Michael Jackson and his world’s biggest selling album Thriller.

The Thriller headphones were created before the death of MJ. They’d even won the designer, Johnny Lighthands, the Nokia headset design competition in 2008. It features graveyard imaginery that might come a little bit too soon.

Nokia produced only one pair of working model. The passing of MJ may get Nokia to produce more or some limited edition.

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We’ve seen some USB flash drives come in the form of necklaces but most of them look a bit tacky. Forget about those tacky ones, now we’ve got some here that look really stylish and they’re made of Swarovski crystals and scratch-proof metal.

There are a number of versions of these stylish necklace USB drives. If you have a geeky one in your life, you can get a matching pair that features Male and Female symbol as shown above, give one to her and keep one for yourself. Each USB flash drive has a storage capacity of 4GB and priced from $55 up to $130 for the matching pair and they’re available on Etsy.

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Rumor tells that the iPod Touch 3rd generation is due in September this year. Uxsight has even got an anti-slip silicone skin case that is waiting for the arrival of the iPod Touch 3G. And this case also shows what additional the iPod Touch 3G would offer – a camera, which is apparently hinted by a hole near the top of the case.

This anti-slip silicone case costs as little as $1.70 at Uxsight.com. It is not much of a risk with that price, get one ready so you could then wrap the new iPod Touch 3G with this anti-slip skin to ensure it won’t easily slip off your sweaty hands.

Buy online, Uxsight, $1.70

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i-gotU is a little GPS logger which allows frequent travelers to record down every point of their traveling journey. The little i-gotU can be used with any digital cameras to geotag those photos you’ve taken throughout your trip and then present those photos on the Google Map or Google Earth.

The i-gotU travel logger also comes with easy-to-use yet powerful software for you to organize and view your trip memories. Besides, the user will get a free Travel Blog Space on www.a-trip.com for easily sharing those photos on 2D map or 3D virtual reality view. Attached below are some examples of the photos of the users displayed on their A-trip.com travel blogs. This little travel GPS logger costs only $70 and you can get it from Amazon.

Buy online, $70, Amazon

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We’ve seen the spoon-feeding robot, but now comes the Chewing robot. My first guess was the Chewing Robot could probably be chewing the food on behalf of the laziest butt on earth. But nope, the chewing robot was made by researchers for the sake of helping understand and study deeply the dental structures and wears of the human teeth.

The Chewing Robot was developed by the researchers from the University of Bristol’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in collaboration with the Department of Oral and Dental Science. This robot will be used to test dental materials, so dentist can experiment with many new materials before making them into the human jaw.

The Chewing robot is based on 3D mechanism with six linear actuators reproducing motion and force sustained by teeth, it actually replicates the human jaw to the fullest. This robot serves as a chewing simulator that lets dentists try out all possible elements and test them to perfection.

The Chewing Robot is currently on exhibition at the ongoing Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition (June 30 to Jul 04). This is definitely a helpful robot to ensure dentists can test all the possible materials and ensure that no wrong materials to go into our mouth that may break our jaws.

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The USB Tube Delight Audio is a USB sound card shaped like a vacuum tube. If you love electronic components in the old days, you’ll love to have this vacuum-tube-shaped USB sound card to spice up your work desk as well as boosting the quality of your music.

This USB sound card offers portability for you to carry around. When you need better sound quality from your laptop, just hook up this USB sound card to the USB port. It comes with ports for connecting to speakers/headphones and microphone. It’ll have its LED to glow in blue when plugged in with a 3.5 mm headphone jack. The mic-in can be switched to line-in by simply disabling the mic-in function via software.

Buy online, $32, Brando

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HK-based Audrey Charm has introduced a few Swarovski decor frames for the iPhones (3G/3Gs) and iPods (Nano and Touch). These Swarovski decor frames are handmade using 100% genuine Swarovski crystals. For those who love Swarovski crystals, now you can easily crystallize the iPhone or iPod by simply putting the Audrey Charm frame on the gadgets.

Made from silver, gold, or chromium plated metal, each frame features protective neoprene inner lining, cutouts for access to all ports and controls, as well as holes for attaching a lanyard or decorative charm, and either pink, clear, or black Swarovski crystals on the front.

Audrey Charm’s Swarovski decorative frames for the iPhone 3GS/ 3G, iPod touch (2nd Generation), and iPod nano (4th Generation) are available now and are priced at $66, $56, and $46, respectively. Find out more on Audreycharm.com

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The DuoSense touchscreen controller was created by the team-up between Fujitsu and N-Trig. This touchscreen controller offers highly sensitive multi-touch capabilities that can respond to 10 or more touch points simulteneously at very high refresh rates.

The DuoSense touchscreen controller also uses capacitive touch, making it possible to use both stylus and fingers on its touchscreen. The DuoSense is pretty thin, there are some electronics that needed to run the DuoSense are tucked around the edge of the frame. To use the DuoSense, you just need to place it on top of the screen of your computer, so your computer will then have the multi-touch touchscreen capability.

This technology is especially good for the Windows 7 OS launches in August and comes with the native multi-touch support built into the OS. Simply add the DuoSense touchscreen to a tablet or netbook that runs Windows 7 and you’ll get to enjoy the multi-touch features on Windows 7. The following clip shows the previous model of DuoSense and how it works.

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