Revolutionary ideas don’t come along very often.  They’re the rare diamonds in the rough that push innovation forward.  Avego is either one of those diamonds or a way to get carjacked.  We’ll let you decide.

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Not content with virtually dominating the known universe as far as phones go, Apple has released “iPhone Your Life” which is a series of web pages dedicated to showing you just how damn cool the iPhone can be in all facets of your life.  We figured word of mouth would do that but when you’ve got billions to spend.. why not?

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If you’ve got someone on your Christmas gift list that is nearly impossible to buy for, Meninos might have just the thing: iPhone icon drink coasters!  Yep, don’t let those cold drinks ruin your table.. turn your table into an iPhone!

The set is $60 and can be ordered here.

via: iClarified

Orb 2.0 just went live in the App Store.  The $10 app lets TV fans watch live TV from a tuner connected to a Windows PC, as well as stream music, videos, and photos from their libraries. Orb also allows you to monitor a webcam.  There’s no date for the Mac and Linux versions, but Orb says they’re on the way.

via: Engadget

Price: $9.99

Aurora Feint, the extremely popular iPhone game that has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, will be releasing the next installment soon.  Aurora Feint: Arena will include asynchronous massively-multiplayer gaming, leader board rankings, messaging and player walls. The Arena will be the second of three proposed games based on the world of Aurora Feint, according to the developers.  (World of Warcraft for the iPhone, anyone?)

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Electronic Arts (EA) has distributed some copies of it’s upcoming iPhone SimCity version.  SimCity is a wildly popular city building simulation.

The objective, as the name of the game suggests, is to build and design a city, without specific goals to achieve (except in the scenarios, see below). The player can mark land as being zoned as commercial, industrial, or residential, add buildings, change the tax rate, build a power grid, build transportation systems and many other actions, in order to enhance the city.

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The previously unhackable PSP 3000 model has finally been cracked by third-party accessory company Datel. Its self-proclaimed “Raw Science Engineering Division” has cracked open a PSP-3000 and decrypted the circuit board that was preventing earlier generation Pandora batteries from working. The UK-based company performed SEM imaging to better understand the workings of the new PSP 3000 at the silicon level. The resulting Datel Lite Blue Tool is a new battery peripheral that will allow users to enter Service Mode on their PSP 3000 consoles and then downgrade them to earlier custom firmware versions. The device will go on sale at the end of November for the price of $29.99.

via: PSPWorld

The Social Gaming Network, a company best known for its Facebook Platform apps, has launched a new iPhone app that uses the handset as a gaming controller similar to the Wii.

Called “iFun,” the app is a spinoff on the Social Gaming Network’s existing sports apps: iGolf, iBowl, iBaseball, and the like. But instead of playing on your iPhone, you use your iPhone or iPod Touch much like the “Wiimote” device for Nintendo’s Wii console. It connects via WiFi or cellular network to your PC. You can then play against friends–remotely, and in real time.

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Finally the iPhone has a first person shooter!  We’re dancing over here, and hope you’re excited too.  And… get this:  (you ready?)  It’s FREE!

Cube is a singleplayer and multiplayer first person shooter that provides satisfying and fast oldskool gameplay. This opensource game is built on an entirely new and very unconventional engine. Cube is a landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine, which combines very high precision dynamic occlusion culling with a form of geometric mipmapping on the whole world for dynamic LOD for configurable fps & graphic detail. Most of the engine design is targeted at reaching feature richness through simplicity of structure and brute force, rather than finely tuned complexity.

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MacWorld is reporting that it’s confirmed with Telia that the Swedish carrier’s developing an MMS-enabling app for the iPhone. MacWorld says the app will hit the market in the next two months. Whether or not Apple will allow the app to be distributed and used worldwide is yet to be seen.

via: Engadget