User Devices

From the, like, Hey thats cool Dept.

A teenager in New Jersey has broken the lock that ties Apple's iPhone to AT&T's wireless network, freeing the most hyped cell phone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including overseas ones.

The New Jersey teen collaborated online with four other people to develop the unlocking process.

George Hotz, 17, confirmed Friday that he had unlocked an iPhone and was using it on T-Mobile's network, the only major U.S. carrier apart from San Antonio-based AT&T that is compatible with the iPhone's cellular technology.

While the possibility of switching from AT&T to T-Mobile may not be a major development for U.S. consumers, it opens up the iPhone for use on the networks of overseas carriers.

And here I am in the UK with a SimCard in my hand

Respect!

He worked with 4 other people, 2 in Russia. The shape of things to come......

Read all about how to do it here.

Usually in our world, when we talk about a great rack its something to put lots of blade servers in. So, the opportunity to talk about it in the context of women's boobs* should be grasped with both hands (as it were....



Pinny Grylls, who we met at the BBC Innovation Lab thingy, is doing a series of short films for Channel 4 on....the Bra. She's asked us to pass on the good news...here's her blurb piece:

After much sweat and tears Pinny Grylls has finally finished directing her series of 4 x 3 minute films for Channel 4.

The series is entitled BRAVO! and is about THE BRA - we need the best audience figures achieved by 3 Minute Wonders EVER - so get tuning in every night of the week beginning the 13th of August to see some serious titty action...

TIGERLILY FILMS PRESENTS
BRAVO! 4 x 3 MINUTE WONDER FILMS ABOUT THE BRA ON CHANNEL 4
Dir. PINNY GRYLLS, UK, 2007, 4 x 3 MINS

In the week commencing 13TH August, Tigerlily Films present a series of films that celebrate the centenary of the invention of a woman’s most essential undergarment - The Bra. Of all garments invented by man or woman to improve their appearance only the bra truly defies nature itself, struggling against the force of gravity. This series sees us riffling through the knicker draw of brassiere history to shine some light on what makes an everyday object truly remarkable.

Film 1: The Bra Lady – 13th August 2007
It's an often-quoted fact that 80% of women are wearing the wrong size bra. Sadie 'the bra lady' Ayton has fitted over 50,000 women in her 37 year career – transforming their lives as well as their busts.

Film 2: Me, My Bra and I – 14th August 2007
Stop frame animation of real women wearing the same bra in progressing sizes together with a few home truths from women about their relationship with their bra.

Film 3: The Liberators – 15th August 2007
Did women really burn their bras? Two feminists re-visit the toe-curling wonderbra adverts of the 1970s to explore why the bra became the ‘bete noire’ of the women’s movement.

Film 4: Happy Birthday Bra – 16th August 2007
A Whistlestop tour through one hundred years of the bra! This film takes a look the changing silhouette of the bust from the invention of the bra in 1907 to the present day – from flattened flappers through to cone shaped ‘Sweater Girls’ - from Jane Russell to Eva Herzigova – for 3 minutes the bra’s ‘supporting’ role in history takes centre stage.

This series of films attempts to look sideways at the history and cultural legacy of this not-so-ordinary undergarment, exposing the secrets we tell ourselves (and others) and revealing something about humanity’s ability to shape our history – despite the constraints of reality.

Web Address:
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/B/bravo/index.html

On consideration we have filed this under "User Devices", though "Quad Play" was tempting.

* Or tits, breasts, hooters - yup, we are unashamedly going for the Porn 2.0 traffic here