Meet the sausage meat iPhone stylus!

OK, it's winter, you're cold, don't want to take off your gloves... but still want to use your iPhone...

South Korea has the answer!
CJ Corporation's sausages have similar electrostatic properties to human fingers - allowing them to be used as a stylus with the iPhone's capacitive touch screen.

brilliant!

source: gearfuse

World’s first jailbroken iPhone 3G

iphonedev reports "iPhone 3G running our own software. I think you’ll agree that this was worth the wait" - certainly is! well done!

below is a video of their progress:

World's 1st Jailbroken 3G Phone from iphonedev on Vimeo.

3G iPhone costs $174.33 in materials to make.

Tearing Down the iPhone 3G, analysts at iSuppli found that the company knows how to strike bargains with suppliers. Apple is making a healthy margin on each iPhone sold. That's the conclusion of researchers at market research firm iSuppli, who took apart the new device to learn who made what inside, and how much Apple spent on the parts.
The total cost of materials used inside the latest iPhone is $174.33, If the analysis is correct, Apple (AAPL) is spending about $53 less on materials than it did with the first iPhone, which iSuppli says costs $227 to make.
Read more at BusinessWeek:

What's the 3rd DIRTIEST thing on EARTH ?

Following closely behind the mouse and keyboard at an internet cafe, Number #3 goes to : the iPhone on display at your local Apple shop!

An estimated 1500 people were lined up at the Omotesando Sofbank flagship store on this past weekend.

Local blogger Danny Choo joined the action (aka Tokyo-Trooper), check him out on CNN

Note: Broken iPhone from here