Sylvania Light Bulb Commercial
I am considering moving to some remote south east Asian nation, just so I can see commercials like this…
Jul 24, 2008
Available Friday: iPhone 3G
Steve Jobs, aka the David Koresh of the gadget world is being good to us non-prophetical types. This Friday at 8:00 a.m. the iPhone 3G will be hitting shelves in both Apple stores and AT&T stores. For half the price and twice the speed of its predecessor, the 3G is sure to fly off the shelves. I think I even seen a few followers of Apple setting tents up in front of the Apple store already, so you might want to hurry if you must have one on the first day. Just don’t drink any punch while you’re there!
Jul 9, 2008
Hologram Text Messages
Communication is getting easier and easier every day, yet I always some how felt that something was missing. Now after seeing Inha Luke Yoo’s entry in Google’s “Mobile Tricks” contest, I know what the void in communication is! I want to be able to communicate via hologram, just like Princess Leia did using R2DR in Star Wars. Check out the video of Yoo’s concept. I love the idea, but it would still be missing the android to deliver the message to Obi-Wan for me. Dammit, I am never satisfied.
Granted this is not a new idea, I already mentioned Star Wars showed the idea back in 1977 and the Jetsons also showed this type of technology previously. Sure those are a movie and cartoon, but the above video is nothing more than a computer created conceptual model. I wonder how long it will be until this technology actual becomes a reality?
Jul 1, 2008
Will It Blend?
Have you ever wondered if you could make a smoothie out of your iPhone or Wii controller? Allow your host, Tom Dickinson and Blendtec to answer all of your questions (and save you the cost of those fancy gadgets). This is a great series of videos, reminiscent of something Bill Nye would have done, that use YouTube to advertise their quality blenders.
See some of my favorite videos after the jump.
Jul 1, 2008
NYC Students Get Dumber
Following in the footsteps of Ebonics, Spanglish and Brooklynese (Yo. Howyudoin’?), text messaging has resulted in another nail in the virtual coffin of the English language. It appears that kids are so hooked on their texted abbreviations, that they are using them when writing essays in school. When I first heard about this report from Newsday, I was ROTFL, until I found out they weren’t kidding. OMG, LOL…how can people be so dumb to write these foolish shorthands instead of the real words? If you type out laugh out loud instead of LOL it counts as three words, instead of one, in that 500 word essay. Stupid kids!
Read the Newsday article after the jump.
Jun 17, 2008
Axiotron Modbook
With the popularity surge that Apple has been enjoying and their cult status amongst tech geeks, it is no wonder that everyone and their brother is out there creating all kinds of hacks and mods (take a stroll through our past Apple posts). Most of them are strictly aesthetic or just silly, but not the Axiotron Modbook. You should seriously check out their website and see what this awesome product is all about.
The Axiotron Modbook™ is a revolutionary slate-style tablet Mac that enables users to draw and write directly on the screen.
I am not sure how Axiotron gets away with selling these things without the stern foot of Steve Jobs crushing them like bugs, so I’d hurry and get one now, before Axiotron gets some cement shoes.
Jun 11, 2008
