Apple's New iPhone App Policy: All Your Code Are Belong To Us

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Amidst all the hullabaloo surrounding the launch of Apple’s iPhone OS 4.0, the contentious company from Cupertino is coming under fire for a quietly made change to its iPhone developer’s agreement. The change, first noted by John Gruber of the Daring Fireball blog, effectively prohibits developers from using any “intermediary translation” tools in building native … Read More

Pencil Case Urn or I Read Dead People

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I am all for creepy odd things and I am fully aware that the corpse will have burnt at temperatures that will kill even the most badass nasties but this is just a little too far out there for me. Somehow it seems unsanitary and just a little disrespectful. Pencils made from the carbon of … Read More

New Developments on the X-Ray Vision Front Get Our Hopes Up

Categories: Awesome, gadgets

Our quest to secure a pair of X-ray-vision glasses appeared to take a great leap forward recently when researchers at the City of Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution (ESPCI) recently found a way to see through opaque materials. The findings, reported in Physical Review Letters, explain, “It’s possible to focus light through … Read More