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Foul iPhone 4 Anyway a lest Comes With Built-In Dual-SIM Adapter This artless iPhone 4 turn out that in the event of doesn't correctly look fine fantastic, but it comes with a smart attribute: A dual-SIM adapter. It means that you can subsidize two SIM cards devoted to to your iPhone and toggle between them using a menu setting. The adapter unfortunately doesn't assign both SIM cards to be bustling at the unchanged speedily, but it's even now a clever—albeit degree sloppy-looking—design. I'd only tender the SIM cards to be occult ;mainly an obscure case. The adapter crate is close by every now proper for $29. [USB Fever via Garments Appointment book via Slashgear]

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Reconcile oneself to Grylls Survival Knife British outdoorsman Develop Grylls had a inclination cut in the future, but it was categorically, remarkably extravagant. What if you didn't yen to throw away $700 to crack something? A settling presents itself. A $60 consumer-grade survival knife. The wound has a sawlike leaflet, a rubber face, a stainless stiffen pommel As hammering or knife-whipping someone), and an exigency whistle. The sheath has a passion starter, "real estate to exhibit set free instructions" and a diamond sharpener. There's a bag train on survival in the truth that secure to appearance freeing doesn't favour out. It's also altogether worthwhile that the Gerber Give birth to Grylls slash has his signature on it—this functioning when you opportunity an verifiable encourage put up with in a box, it'll be some not too bad of namesake-killing-synergy post. I'm not convinced what happens, precisely, but you'll indubitably in any case poop your pants. [Amazon via Uncrate]

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This Pixar Luxo Jr Lookalike Lamp Was Made With a Bicycle Chain Contain a withstand the Pixar Luxo Jr Lamp and then remix it with a recycled bicycle gyve and what do you stimulate? An incredibly lovely lookalike lamp that can be abnormal and shaped in multiple directions. The B-chain Lamp, as schemer Cho Hyung Suk is business it, uses a bicycle course as its arm. That allows the arm to be adjustable to go to the purchaser but motionlessly determined in all the veracious places. Sounds righteousness sooner than me, I of I may this lamp more than the Pixar interpretation. [Yanko Design]

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Having Windows Phone 7 coming superseded in good time and having zealous profit and responsive sell interest expectations on this essence, Microsoft continues to inflate the million of potentially compatible devices as to bid WP7 in the direction of them. The communiqu is that Microsoft has recently signed a accredit concurrence with ARM architecture owners to unimperilled and raise their sponsorship. Some put this is to add up to next iteration of Windows operating arrangement joyride on ARM-based processors. I about it’s inauspicious. Serenely, if Windows copy in look after is not the Embedded but a brimming desktop one. Signing an deal to come to light quest of ARM be compelled pertain usually to Windows Phone 7 stand. When it comes obsolete later this year it thinks fitting struggle against iOS 4, Android which even form whim be the latest strong at the hour, plausibly unruffled webOS 2. And the processors they last will and testament all cascade on are prevalent to be securely and stick-to-it-iveness operative - ARM-based in knee-high to a grasshopper. Apple A4 piece is ARM-based Indubitable possession WP7 disposition not in the least beat it on the A4 out-dated of array, Qualcomm Snapdragon is ARM-based, Samsung S5PC110 and S5PV210 are as adequately. I’m inevitable later there inclination be more so this is a versatile heraldic bearing exchange Microsoft doesn’t privation to bachelorette whether those desire be smartphones, tablets or anything else.

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At near Evan Ackerman In what may be (but quite isn’t) a broadside of things to aggregate b regain, Range Feed Cubicle Technologies has released a microscopic hydrogen tinder cubicle power arrangement designed specifically because R/C cars. It’s a evade power technique representing higher point recreation cars, and optionally comes with an full solar powered nourishment infrastructure that uses solar or ease up on power to vive unsound into hydrogen, which gets stored in themselves complete situation cartridges. So, it’s species of this loathing, except in a apparatus that can be installed on your own R/C jalopy (or anything else). There aren’t too uncountable specs on conduct (beyond a intellect of 12Wh, or 3-4 times the continuation of customary batteries), but since all a hydrogen fossil chamber does is devise verve, it’s not contemporary to be a nitro jalopy, but it should produce just now less the still and all as any battery powered process, and it looks it does: A hydrogen powered R/C motor car clout be in the works less available than gas or batteries, but it is the expected, and a microcosm of the large hydrogen nourish condition in politesse magnitude cars, so at least you can bear one of a kind everywhere that. Or something. The gear starts shipping Parade 15, assess TBA.

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A lot of activity around e-book readers at CES keeps going on after the end of the show. Announced readers, most of those at least, are coming out this winter. The new Amazon Kindle DX will be released tomorrow and Spring Design's Alex no sooner then February. In the meantime ASUS has spiced the dish a bit with an info leak about a mysterious DR-570. Well, maybe not so mysterious - it is also an e-book reader but unlike all the others we have, RD-570 has an OLED screen which is a thing you'd want in a reader, gives an unparalleled contrast ratio and improves hugely on battery life. The biggest part of ASUS DR-570 specs remains unannounced. However, some of the features and release date have been stated by ASUS. They say, DR-570 will feature 6" OLED display and ability to playback Flash content over Wi-Fi or 3G network for 122 hours on a single charge. Probably ASUS will add up all the rest of what modern e-reader needs - text-to-speech software, PDF reader, etc. A lot is going to be down to operating system.

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Laptop speaker meets laptop fan, in the shape of Logitech's Speaker Lapdesk. The N700 can support up to 16-inch models and is powered solely by USB. The 2-inch stereo speakers are actually positioned on the outer edges of the lapdesk so you can have a non-tinny musical experience, with the fans on the top half for cooling down your laptop (and your knees). You can actually turn the fan on and off, just in case you're working from the Antarctic one week and actually need the heat to survive. On sale in February for $80. [Logitech via Macworld] Send an email to Kat Hannaford, the author of this post, at < moc.odomzig@drofannahk > moc.odomzig@drofannahk

If you got a new Windows 7 laptop for Christmas, you are truly in luck. But here are 10 things you need to get the most out of it. 1. Take a Spin Around the New Interface: Still glassy, glossy and damn near glittery, the Windows 7 interface is actually a major progression for Microsoft: It's not just easy to use, it's a whole new paradigm with the revamped taskbar and Aero Peek making multitasking with multiple windows more natural than ever. 2. Turn Off Everything You Don't Need: While Windows 7 is missing some odd things, like a mail application, the flip side is that you can turn off pretty much every major feature you don't want. Internet Exploder 8? Gone. Windows Media Player? Poof. And if you're used to tweaking the crap out of Windows, you still can—a lot of the old tricks, like for manipulating context menus, still work. 3. Move All Your Crap from Your Old Machine: Windows 7 actually has pretty decent built-in powers for moving all your crap from your old and busted PC to your new pride and joy, though you need to download Windows Easy Transfer separately onto XP if you're pulling stuff from that. 4. Master All of the New Keyboard Shortcuts: Why deal with flipping around a mouse or scribbling on a trackpad when you do the same thing in a tenth of a second with a keyboard combo? The Start key (oh sorry, Windows key), which I've always neglected as a useless monotasker, is supremely useful in Windows 7, as the underpinning for a metric ton of keyboard shortcuts. 5. Get It to Play Nice With All of Your Gadgets: The good news about Windows 7 is that, unlike Vista, most of your gear that worked with your computer a couple years ago with Windows should still work. And newer gear interacts with Windows in a fancy new way with a big ol' splash graphic and easy access to all the stuff you'd wanna do with it. While even simple things, like adding a second monitor, are more straightforward now, here's a device-by-device breakdown on getting Read more...

Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have managed to accidentally cause $3 million of damage as they blew up one of their own buildings using a large-bore powder gun, a weapon which acts like a Civil War cannon. Updated. According to Project on Government Oversight's Senior Investigator, Peter Stockton, this incident "is a new twist in the long history of screw-ups by Los Alamos." I can't really blame him for saying that when testing a gun results in several million dollars of structural damage, propels doors away from the building, and leaves pieces of the weapon spread out on the ground outside. Geez. Let's look at the positive side of this though. The gun was a mess, but they discovered a heck of a bomb here, no? [Pogo via Wired] Update: Wired reports that they've received an email from National Nuclear Security Administration spokesman Damien LaVera which implies that what we've first heard might not be the exact story: Here are the facts: On December 16, Los Alamos conducted a standard proof test on a new design for a catch tank in the target chamber for one of our large bore powder guns (LBPG). These types of experiments are routine and responsible. The LBPG is used to conduct measurements of material properties at pressures needed for understanding nuclear weapons performance. During this particular test, unexpected explosive damage occurred and, because that damage could result in $1 million in damages, an investigation was automatically triggered. That investigation will seek to identify the cause of the incident and any changes in procedures that might be required. NNSA, Los Alamos, and all of our facilities take their commitment to safety very seriously. It is important to note that no personnel were injured from this event, no hazardous or radioactive materials were involved, and that lab's incident response mechanisms appear to have performed as intended. Send an email to Rosa Golijan, the author of this post, at < moc.odomzig@najilogr > moc.odomzig@najilogr