PLX Kiwi Wifi – Connect your iPhone / iPod Touch to your car’s OBD2 OBDII Port.

Kiwi Wifi is a plug and play wireless device measuring only 2.75 x 1.25 x 0.6 inches. Kiwi Wifi comes attached with a 6 ft OBDII cable for easy installation. It also comes included with a power switch built-in to prevent the need for having to constantly disconnect your unit from the OBDII port. It Read more about PLX Kiwi Wifi – Connect your iPhone / iPod Touch to your car’s OBD2 OBDII Port.[…]

Nano-Gyroscopes Will Let Cell Phones Navigate Indoors, Underground

Israeli researchers have created the tiniest-ever optical gyroscopes, as small as a grain of sand, but still maintaining the keen accuracy of their counterparts hundreds of times larger. Optical gyroscopes are generally used for navigation in airplanes, ships and satellites, in which they track movement without reference to external navigation points, by measuring the vehicle’s Read more about Nano-Gyroscopes Will Let Cell Phones Navigate Indoors, Underground[…]

Texas Instruments doesn’t want you to own your hardware either

In a growning and disconcerting trend among hardware manufacturers, TI has released a new version of it’s OS for the TI-Nspire series, that blocks off a whole load of its’ user base from using the machine the way they want to. I guess Apple, Android, TI, et al are afraid that the community will program Read more about Texas Instruments doesn’t want you to own your hardware either[…]

Iphone 4 reception issues

It turns out that the metal band around the casing of the iphone 4 is part of the antenna. If you hold it like you would hold a phone, you hamper reception. Steve Jobs doesn’t think it’s a problem though: his response? Steve Jobs on iPhone 4 “Just don t hold it that way”.