Ordinary Guys Send Picture-Taking Balloon 22.27 Miles High

Behold the view from 117,597 feet, taken on August 11, 2007 by a camera hanging from a helium balloon launched by a group of guys in Alberta, Canada. Called the SABLE-3 (Southern Alberta Balloon Launch Experiment #3), it was packed with a Byonics MicroTrak 300 APRS tracking device, a Nikon Coolpix P2 digital camera set [...]

iPhone Unlocked - Twice

So there are a couple of stories from late this week about people hacking the iPhone and unlocking it.  In both cases this unlock makes it work in the US with T-Mobile and will make it work more widely overseas.  Since I have an iPhone working on ATT’s network, I don’t see any need to [...]