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SIM Card Spy Recovers Deleted Messages
Warning: Never lose your cellphone. Brickhouse Security is touting a USB device called the SIM Card Spy, which, aside from allowing a quick dump of messages and call information from a SIM, can also recover deleted text messages. It uses…

Warning: Never lose your cellphone. Brickhouse Security is touting a USB device called the SIM Card Spy, which, aside from allowing a quick dump of messages and call information from a SIM, can also recover deleted text messages.

It uses to be that the worst consequences of a lost phone was embarrassment. The finder would check for raunchy or obscene messages and simply forward them to “Mom Mobile”. Now, though, even your deleted texts are fair game with this $150 dongle.

Have you ever wished you can spy on your wife, husband, teens, or an employer?

Like any electronic storage medium, a SIM card doesn’t delete data but just the reference to that data. The actual file remains on the card until it is overwritten by new data. The SIM Card Spy is simply a recovery device, similar to those used for PC disc rescue. Our advice? Follow the drug dealers’ example and buy a pre-pay burner, a cheap, disposable phone with which to conduct your illicit affairs.

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Photo: Chance Gardener/Flickr An Italian designer has designed a automobile prototype featuring a windshield that removes water and dirt without the need of a wiper. Leonardo Fioravanti’s idea is to take the modern windshield’s features (mainly, laminated safety glass made…

Photo: Chance Gardener/Flickr

An Italian designer has designed a vehicle prototype featuring a windshield that removes water and dirt without the need of a wiper. Leonardo Fioravanti’s idea is to take the modern windshield’s features (mainly, laminated safety glass made out of two sheets of glass with a plastic layer in between), and add nanotech properties to it and then activating the system through an electric currency.

In the prototype, four sheets of nanotech-enabled sheets are grouped together, alternately filtering the sun and repelling water (the function of the exposed sheet of glass), moving the dirt to the sides of the windshield (through a magical-sounding nano-dust film), which is then activated by a third protective conduit layer, and is finally powered by a conduct of electricity in a fourth layer that makes the whole thing work.

If you thought this concept was destined to become vaporware, you haven’t told the guy who’s already put it in on a Hidra concept vehicle sedan and told everyone and their mother that it will be within mass production in about 5 years.

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Hong Kong based WinWin Industry has recently unveiled a product that combines a digital picture frame, webcam, and an alarm clock with temperature and calendar functions in a single, semi-portable device. It also features 8MB of memory, a built-in rechargeable battery, a 1.44-inch screen and a 300K pixel camera resolution.

Ok, so it won’t blow you away on the specs, but it could be a handy device, especially when you consider that the pocket sized photo viewer can be removed from the base for easy transport. No pricing or release date information has been announced. [WinWin via Coolest Gadgets]

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Night Before Christmas Mobile Light Comes Out 299 Days Early [Fright Light]

I’m not sure whether this Night Before Christmas mobile night light will work for Tim Burton fans who are scared of the dark. Switch the $21.99 light on and tiny silhouettes of Jack Skellington and his chums will glide silently across your bedroom ceiling all night long. The light, which looks like a crystal ball, runs on two AA batteries and is an officially-licensed product from Japan. [ThinkGeek]

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RFID Reader to Locate Passive Tags To Within Six Inches
Photo: midnightcomm/Flickr Sunnyvale startup Wirama announced that they’ve finished the most precise RFID reader available yet, with the capability to locate passive RFID tags to within 6 inches (through the EPC Class 1 Gen 2 standard). Up to now, only…

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New, Faster CompactFlash Card Will Break Compatibility
CFast is a new, CompactFlash based card format which will use a SATA interface to deliver much faster data transfer. The cards, which will come to market in the next two years, offer theoretical speeds of up to 375MB/sec, much…

CFast is a new, CompactFlash based card format which will use a SATA interface to deliver much faster data transfer.

The cards, which will come to market in the next two years, offer theoretical speeds of up to 375MB/sec, much better than the 45MB/sec in current CompactFlash cards. These will be most useful in still cameras and Hi-Def video cameras, where a major bottleneck exists in dumping the image data from the camera to the card.

There’s a catch, though. Despite being related to CompactFlash, CFast is neither backward nor forward compatible. The old cards won’t work in the new slots, and vice versa, so it looks like you’ll have to dump all your old cards into the bottom drawer, next to the Zip disks and floppies. Me? Ever since breaking the pins inside a Canon whilst swapping cards at a drunken party, I’ve stuck with SD.

CompactFlash revamp aimed at cameras [CNET]

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Chocolate Master Chief Penis Helmet [Gadgets]

It’s a chocolate helmet. Shaped like Master Chief. For your penis. Yes, that Master Chief. Or as the site calls him, “The One Eyed Spartan.” As if dressing up junior as a viking or Indiana Jones wasn’t silly enough. Reserve yours today for $7.95! [Chocolate Party Hats via The Raw Feed]

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Samsung Glydes in With New Name for U940
The U940 is dead. Long live the GLYDE! Samsung’s change of name for its forthcoming smartphone doesn’t make it any better, of course—only a hands-on thrashing will tell us if it’s up to snuff—but it certainly demonstrates that human-readable branding…

The U940 is dead. Long live the GLYDE! Samsung’s change of name for its forthcoming smartphone doesn’t make it any better, of course—only a hands-on thrashing will tell us if it’s up to snuff—but it certainly demonstrates that human-readable branding is a hot trend in technology. Even if the branding you choose might be more appropriate for a scented lubricant than for a gadget.

The phone will appear at the end of March, courtesy of Verizon. Specs follow below.

Samsung Glyde [Thanks, Rob!]

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• CDMA Dual Band (800/1900MHz)

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Human trials are about to start on a new device that goes inside a woman’s body for up to four days, holding fresh IVF embryos in place like an artificial fallopian tube. Developed by Swiss company Anecova, the 5mm-long “silicon womb” is pierced with hundreds of 40-micron holes, the superior to expose the embryos to the natural environment of the uterus, rather than having to be developed artificially in an incubator. Scientists hope this will improve the chances of successful pregnancy from in-vitro fertilization. [Anecova and New Scientist]

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