Teardown of Apple’s lightning-to-HDMI adapter, which turns out to be a tiny computer with 256MB of RAM / Boing Boing
Everything's a computer these days, obviously, but this one is surprisingly elaborate given the apparent simplicity of what it does. Lisa Braun on Twitter: "Here is my little thread about Lightning video adapters – also known as Haywire – which are actually computers that feature Apple Secure Boot and run Darwin kernel."
Now you know why they're so unreliable! "Haywire" indeed!
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The video embedded below shows the Hisense Q5, a new tablet that’s reportedly coming out in China this week. It has a reflective LCD display, similar to e-ink (in that it looks and feels much more paper-like than a typical screen) but with much faster refresh rate than you’d get from a Kindle. But it […]
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This dongle allegedly converts “household” — i.e. 110v AC power — to 3.5mm. It’s misdescribed and is for photographic use (if it were intended to be jammed in the mains, the prongs would have holes) but it makes me think a splendid purpose would be for the gadget mafia to use to issue death threats […]
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At Reddit, mtietje posted this remarkable photo of their lockdown project: an iPad stand made using an old Macintosh SE/30. The display size is perfect for the 9.7″ iPad, and now that iPadOS can use mice they work much better as “normal” computers. Se/30 shells turn up on eBay now and again. One’s there now […]
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Most of us may adore wine, but when confronted with the realities of being a true lover of the grape, we’re practically godless heathens. We pop the cork, fill up a glass and…glug, glug. But as any true wine expert or sommelier will tell you, you really have to properly decant a wine to experience […]
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Fitness apps offer some great routines and points of action for those with the motivation to stick to a program and do it right. However, we know that not every one of those users is feeling that motivation. In fact, many of them will actually sabotage the benefits of their own training by not doing […]
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For those looking to launch a career as a web developer, there are a lot of decisions to make. Which programming languages do you use? Do you have the background you need? How do you turn your skills into an actual profitable business? With the average software developer raking in more than $100,000 a year, […]
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