Fosfor wish you a Merry Christmas! As you all know, thinks have been slow here for a while and I just wanted to give you a life sign since I have received quite a lot of email concerning the slow period and if everything is ok - thank you very much. I will be back for real on the 12th of January, for real. Until then make sure you have a really nice holiday!

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Here is a bunch of really creative and unsual staircase designs. You can find 20 of them in the gallery below and one of the coolest ones is features above - a glass staircase with independent glass panel balustrade and wall mounted handrail.

Unusual and Creative Staircase Designs [toxel.com]

Apple released the new 2.2 version of the iPhone/iPod touch OS and it didn’t take long until the jailbreaked versions was out there. If you want to see what comes with the 2.2 update, read along below.

Jailbreak 2.2 iPhone and iPod Touch [installerapps.com]

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Gizmodo has listed 10 different reviews of the hot, brand new Blackberry storm and the opinions vary. Some love it, some think it’s a miserable failure. I would probably not give up my iPhone for this one, but it looks kind of impressing anyway. The phone will be available tomorrow.

10 Takes on the Blackberry Storm [Gizmodo]

Mizuko Ito, researcher at the University of California and author of a study focusing on young people and their social behaviour in an online environment has found at that it can be an effective way of picking up and learning social behaviour:

“But we found that spending time online is essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens in the digital age,” said Mizuko Ito.

Teenagers learn important social, technical skills online: study [physorg.com]

If you are planning to unlock your new iPhone 3G using the Proxy SIM solution, you should really read this article before ordering the SIM. It’s a pretty advanced solution that involves cutting your old SIM card in half…

Unlocking the iPhone 3G With Proxy SIMs [theappleblog.com]

Even though the iPhone game Trism only sells for $5 it made a total profit of $250,000 for the developer Steve Demeter during the first two months. Pretty insane actually but the scene is getting crowded since there are over 1500 games available in Apple’s app store.

Developer strikes it rich with iPhone game [cnn.com]

Here’s an interesting article featuring some technological predictions from 40 years ago. Some of them were right on target and some of them were completely wrong, but it’s an interesting read anyway.

5 tech predictions from 1968 that were dead-on [dvice.com]

I’m not sure which version is featured on the photo above, but it’s a MacBook for sure. Pretty cool photo or what do you think?

via [digg]

Even though I don’t want one of these at home I really dig the innovative design. It doubles up beautifully both as a sofa and as a bench.

Double Up [likecool.com]