For most of us who live in either California or a four-seasoned land, winter is coming up and you know what that means, time to ski or snowboard.

Well, here’s a great way to re-charge your iPhone, Blackberry, or any other gadgets for the matter while you “slope” downhill.

At $1350, this solar ski jacket ain’t cheap but it will definitely help you stay in touch without fear of losing battery power while you are on the mountains all day long.

The best part is that you can take off the collar anytime, so you can use it to charge your gadgets even when you are back at home. The Ermenegildo Zegna solar-powered ski jacket retails for $1,350. If you are looking to go green and shout out that message to the world, this solar powered ski jacket is worth a pick and yes, it doesn’t even look that bad.

via bornrich, Product Page(It looks like their site is down, it must be on a shared server)

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Here’s a cool DIY on how to make an iPhone dock with binder clips!

Here it is boiled down into just 61 words: Clamp a medium sized clip to the iPod end of your cable, connector side out. Remove the wire handles and tuck the cable along the fat edge. Take a bigger clip and clamp that onto the smaller one, so that the cable runs between the gap. Remove the handles. Add iPod. Try not to knock it over and break the connector.

via wired, make

Well it seems at least Barack Obama or his campaign managers are smart on the latest technology, they created an iPhone app for getting involved in this politics race.

Knock yourself out if you are for Barack Obama.  Now, where’s McCain’s iPhone app?  His probably too old to even know what an iPhone is.  Oh well, I’d really like to see a President who’s updated on technology.

Features:
Landing Page of Obama ‘08 app

* Application Landing Page
* Call Friends
* Events: Local Event Detail
* Issues
* Media: Photos and Video

* Call Friends: A great volunteering tool that lets you make a difference any time you want by talking to people you already know. Your contacts are prioritized by key battleground states, and you can make calls and organize results all in one place.
* Call Stats: See nationwide Obama ‘08 Call Friends totals and find out how your call totals compare to leading callers.
* Get Involved: Do more. Find and contact your local Obama for America HQ.
* Receive Updates: Receive the latest news and announcements via text messages or email.
* News: Browse complete coverage of national and local campaign news.
* Local Events: Find local events, share by email and get maps and directions.
* Media: Browse videos and photos from the campaign
* Issues: Get clear facts about Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s plan for essential issues facing Americans.

via lifehacker

Here’s a guy who managed to come up with an iPhone stand out of paper clips.  He’s even providing printable sketch sheet for those of you who want to make one.

It looks pretty simple, brilliant idea.  They could sell these with different colors of paint or somethin’

Get the template here. Print it out with your favorite PDF reader. Be sure not to stretch the document. If you have a ruler, do a reality check to make sure the document didn’t get resized when printed.  When the paper clip is straightened out, it should be the same length as the grey line in the template.  A pair of pliers will make your job a lot easier.

via lifehacker, DIY Page

Here’s a cool set of iPhone coasters you will enjoy.

via technabob, source

Oh boy, here’s some leaked photos of the Blackberry Storm.  I do like it because it’s looks just like my Blackberry 8830 except everything is touchscreen.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Blackberry Storm outperforms iPhones as far as keyboards are concerned. (as they always have, Blackberry still leads iPhones in sales)

via gizmodo, techeblog

Remember we told you about the Verizon Blackberry Storm leak couple weeks ago?

Well, it looks like Verizon employees will be doing some online courses for the Storm so that means it should be available soon after their training is over on November 2nd, 2008.

Nice, huh?

via engadget

Here’s a cool iPhone dev app called PhoneGap that allows you to develop iPhone Apps with Javascript and HTML for webmasters who know nothing about C.

PhoneGap is a free open source development tool and framework that allows web developers to take advantage of the powerful features in the iPhone SDK from HTML and JavaScript. We’re trying to make iPhone app development easy and open. For many applications a web application is the way to but in Safari you don’t get access to the native iPhone APIs, and the that’s the problem we’re trying to solve.
It is written in Objective-C and allows developers to embed their web app (HTML, JavaScript, CSS) in Webkit within a native iPhone app. We’re big advocates of the Open Web and want JavaScript developers to be able to get access iPhone features such as a spring board icon, background processing, push, geo location, camera, local sqlLite and accelerometers without the burden of learning Objective-C and Cocoa.

Here’s an example of how you could access iPhone data using Javascript:

Geo Location
//request location - this triggers a subsequent method call to gotLocation(lat,lon)
getLocation();

//GAP will invoke this function once it has the location
function gotLocation(lat,lon){
$(’lat’).innerHTML = “latitude: ” + lat;
$(’lon’).innerHTML = “longitude: ” + lon;
}

Accelerometer
//You have instant access to the accellerometer data via the accelX, accelY, and accelZ variables
function updateAccel(){
$(’accel’).innerHTML = “accel: ” + accelX + ” ” + accelY + ” ” + accelZ;
setTimeout(updateAccel,100);
}

via hackszine

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For the weirdest reasons, Apple decides to start selling their iPhones online about 1 day after T-Mobile G1 phone came out.

We figure Steve Jobs is jealous of the new G-phone or he’s feeling desperate for the newest foe.

Steve, do you need some time to recuperate?

via gizmodo, Apple