You’re sitting at your computer, mapping out your latest plan to take over the world, as your brand new iPhone 4S sits next to you, its accelerometer quietly measuring your every keystroke, figuring out what you’re writing… and sending it back to SHIELD.

Sound like science fiction? Something out of James Bond, Chuck, or Person of Interest? Not according to Georgia Tech.

“Using a smartphone accelerometer—the internal device that detects when and how the phone is tilted—to sense keyboard vibrations and decipher complete sentences with up to 80 percent accuracy. The procedure is not easy[…]but is definitely possible with the latest generations of smartphones.”

Needless to say, you could just think of all the espionage and privacy issues this raises. Personally, I’m just waiting to see which lazy screen-writer skips character development and wedges this into a spy flick first…

Source: Georgia Tech

Chad brought us a look at the rumored back-in-black iPhone 3G a while ago, and now Engadget claims to have some confirmation!

So we’ve got it on authority that the second-gen iPhone is already well into testing, and numerous units are floating around in super secret pockets. A trusted source got a chance to check one out.

According to Engadget’s source, the iPhone 3G is roughly the same size and shape, has GPS for realz, the glossy black backing we see in the pic, chromed up volume buttons, no removable battery (‘natch), flush(!) headphone jack, same screens size and resolution (what? where’s my Nano-res 200dpi 640×480?!)

July is rumored, but who outside the jobspod knows for sure?