Look what we have here? The sure keeps bringing us more and more surprises — unlike most devices that lack the Bluetooth HID profile, here it is paired up with our wireless keyboard and mouse (Apple’s Wireless Keyboard and , specifically) without any driver hacks. Streak Smart, who made this discovery, had the same experience as us with its keyboard and an unknown mouse — typing was as smooth as cutting butter with a hot knife, but the mouse couldn’t do much due to the lack of pointer and scrolling support. If you insist, the forthcoming is confirmed to both devices natively, but it shouldn’t be long before we see a mouse hack for the green bot. Read more…

To say our tip box has been inundated with reports of issues today would be something of an understatement. So far, those on staff seem to be running cool (with the exception of some slow down on our gold build downloads), but obviously you’re a larger sample size with so far widely disparate reports. So tell us, is iOS 4 causing you grief? If so, how? (Note: if you’re having multiple problems, pick what you’d consider most troublesome. Read more…

A brilliant homage to today’s gadgets and yesterday’s penchant for Sepia tones, graphic designer Alex Varanese has reimagined four modern-day gadgets and created a series of print ads for his ALT/1977 collection: Pocket Hi-Fi, LapTron 64, MobileVoxx, and Microcade 3000. Read more…

Driving in could get a little more annoying in the coming days. The Legislature of the state that brought you Brody Jenner and Spencer Pratt is now considering a bill which would allow the beginning of research into electronic license plates for vehicles. The new-fangled plates would look just like regular ones when a vehicle was in motion, but would flash awesome and other messages when stopped for more than four seconds. Read more…

It may not be a big deal — Android’s done it for years — but some will no doubt be interested to learn that Apple can monitor your GPS. In the latest revision of its privacy policy, presumably updated for , it revealed the company can anonymously track the “real-time geographic location” of devices and is free to share that data with “partners and licensees” as well. In a nutshell, that means Cupertino could potentially sell location data, but don’t get in a tiff just yet — the company says it will do so anonymously and for location-based services only. Read more…

Well, what do we have here? Oh, just an insane fridge concept that we can really get behind. Read more…

Listen Microsoft, we know you’ve been wanting to stay absolutely mum on ’s price since its official E3 unveiling, even as . Included is the Kinect sensor itself, power supply cable, manual, and WiFi extension cable (huh?), and it shows up in our virtual shopping cart just fine. So, now that your own official online store is giving that price tag on a pre-order page, don’t ya think this guy deserves something akin to a legitimate press release for its MSRP?

[Thanks, Steven W.]

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We know — you need another about as bad as you need another mortgage, but why leave any one room lacking, right? has cranked out a rather unorthodox looking device this fine evening, certified to play nice with iPhone and iPod and deliver soothing jazz to whatever ears are fortunate enough to get close. The Octiv Mini (M102; $59.95) is yet another iPod / iPhone alarm clock, though this one ships with the Alarm Rock app in order to customize one’s wake-up tunes from their bedside. Read more…

Even if you’re the Federal Communications Commission, freeing up of wireless spectrum , but things become easier when you have top men on the job. The FCC’s may have just proven its worth, by shifting up to 90MHz from mobile satellite services to cellular broadband. To placate those who might be opposed to the measure, the FCC says it “remains firmly committed” to rural, emergency and government satellites, plus points out precedents like the in March. Read more…