{"id":273,"date":"2008-08-27T03:24:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T03:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/technological-marvels-of-the-future\/"},"modified":"2008-08-27T03:24:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T03:24:52","slug":"technological-marvels-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/technological-marvels-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Technological Marvels of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.brando.com.hk\/prod_detail.php?prod_id=02782\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"media\/simoverlay.jpg\" alt=\"SIM overlay\" class=\"illustration\" \/><\/a>A while back, the tech-press mumbled a lot about a device that goes between your mobile [cell] and your <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subscriber_Identity_Module\">SIM<\/a> that effectively unlocks your phone. Yeah right. A device that unlocks any <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GSM\">GSM<\/a> phone, regardless of manufacturer ? Does it come with snake-oil dressing ?<\/p>\n<p>One evening as I was reading news of this miraculous device, I had consumed just enough red wine to lubricate my credit card so that it slid from my wallet and forced me to buy one. Remember kids: don&#8217;t drink and HTTP.<\/p>\n<p>I forgot about that particular purchase until today, when a little jiffy bag arrived in the post from Hong Kong. It took a while to find the tiny contents, but once I realised what it was, I tried using with an AT&amp;T SIM, in a T-Mobile locked phone. When I powered up the phone&#8230;it worked&#8230;perfectly. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no way you could possibly make a little device that unlocks all phones. But they have. I&#8217;m very excited. It means that teleport and time-travel will be with us in a matter of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Damned clever these Chinese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, the tech-press mumbled a lot about a device that goes between your mobile [cell] and your SIM that effectively unlocks your phone. Yeah right. A device that unlocks any GSM phone, regardless of manufacturer ? Does it come with snake-oil dressing ? One evening as I was reading news of this miraculous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}