Geek In Me

via ubergizmo.com

They say water and electronics don’t mix, but certainly the iBeer and the iPhone go down well along with one another. This iPhone application is available for purchase at $2.99 at the iTunes store, and it simulates a mug of beer right inside your iPhone itself. Each movement of your handset will result in a corresponding beer swishing, and this will be accompanied by relevant sounds to make the experience all the more authentic. Despite being wildly popular (it is the sixth top seller in the iTunes App Store), reviews have been less than glowing, including angry comments such as “don’t waste your beer money” and “runs slow not very realistic”. Perhaps they’d be kinder with words after having a few swigs of the real stuff.

by Donald Melanson via switched.com

Want to attract attention (and the police) every time you answer your cellphone in public? Then perhaps this build-at-your-own-risk Bluetooth handgun handset project is for you. As far as DIY mods go, this one looks to be simple enough (if somewhat time-consuming), with it involving nothing more than stuffing a disassembled Jabra Bluetooth headset into a suitably realistic-looking airsoft gun, which apparently fits just right so that the trigger operates the call start/end button. If you’re still on board, you can find all the necessary details by hitting up the link below. [Source: Instructables]

by Christina Warren via tuaw.com

The iPhone Dev Team has just released PwnageTool 2.0, thus bringing jailbreak and non-App Store third-party application support to iPhones/iPod Touches running firmware 2.0. First-generation iPhones can also be unlocked. At this time, the iPhone 3G cannot be unlocked or used with BootNeuter.

As always, be cautious if you decide to install PwnageTool 2.0 and make proper backups of all of your data before proceeding, understand that installing software like PwnageTool is unsupported by Apple, blah blah blah.

by Giles Turnbull via tuaw.com

What do you do when you’ve got a pre-queue queue downstairs, then an actual queue proper upstairs? There’s a lot of tired people involved, and twice as many tired legs. The answer, of course, is the iQueue. Dozens of plastic chairs brought in solely for the comfort of your customers’ backsides.

This pic was snapped in the London Regents Street Apple Store on Thursday afternoon as a great many people wait for their chance to buy an iPhone. Photographer Chris Mac Morrison was less than impressed.

“I’ll wait until waiting time is less than 10 mins before i hand over any cash,” he told us. Good plan.

by Joshua Topolsky via engadget.com

So we heard some really over-eager folks have decided to get a jump on the iPhone 3G line — a really, really big jump. Obviously, we had to head down and see if it was true… and it is. Right now, about ten people have started a line outside of Apple’s flagship store on 5th Avenue in New York. Word is that the family at the head of the queue are attempting to break some kind of record which involves their baby — which kind of sounds a little intense if you ask us. On the other hand, you didn’t hear Greg Packer complaining, right?

via ubergizmo.com

Owners of the yet-to-be-released 3G iPhone will be able to pick up the Rockridge iCooly stand that comes with a 90-degree pivot joint and dock-connector cut-out.
Being able to hold your iPhone in either horizontal or vertical formats, it is just the thing to get if you prefer watching movies on your handset.
Each $50 purchase will come with a cable extension for hooking up an external speaker or headphones.