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The Writers Guild strike languishes on: Heroes ends for the year next week. In a bid to end our suffering, the producers’ trade group has made a “groundbreaking” offer to the Writers Guild, grandiosely titled the “New Economic Partnership.” The deal’s a mind-blowing less-than $US250 flat fee for an hour-long show to be re-broadcast on the internet for up to a year. If you recall, internet distribution’s sort of the sticking point and writers asked for 2.5 percent of the “distributors’ gross revenue”. Let us count the ways writers get screwed by the producers’ Scrooge-y offer.
If you’re planning on buying or gifting an iPhone or an iPod Touch this Christmas, might we suggest the book How to Do Everything With Your iPhone to go along with? It’s got lots of tips, tricks, and will even teach you how to jailbreak and SIM unlock your iPhone. Oh, and did we mention that it’s written by Jason Chen and Adam Pash? Yeah, that’s the same Adam from Lifehacker, and the same Jason that you’ve grown to love here. ME!
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You think your bathroom is awesome? It’s not. Check out this Japanese bathroom that’s built into an aquarium, featuring a peeping tom of a turtle and a bunch of fish with no dignity. It’s a ladies’ room, so there are no dudes allowed, unfortunately. It cost $US270,000 to build, which is a lot for a bathroom but not that bad for a gigantic aquarium. And you thought running the faucet made it easier to go. [Pink Tentacle]
The announcement earlier this week that Tag Heuer was designing a luxury > mobile phone didn’t inspire shock as much as a raised eyebrow, but Biggs the watch fetishist over at Crunchgear dug through his old archives and found this rendering. Dated January 18, Dialaphone.uk found these renders of a possible Tag Heuer mobile phone watch that’s both classy and able to call people. Whether this is the actual Tag Heuer phone is uncertain and unlikely, but we’d actually really love a mobile phone watch that doesn’t look like something we’d wear in the third grade. [Dialaphone via Luxury Launches via Crunchgear]
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Our experience with Bluetooth headsets tells us that you first have to place it into discoverable mode before any other device can connect to it, but this video claims otherwise.
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UDC is one of a handful of companies pioneering OLED development and manufacturing techniques for the big boys such as Samsung, Sony, LG and of course, the US Department of Defense. No one’s written about how they make these displays, panels that’ll make up our next generation of super-slim HDTVs, until now. This week, Benny and I visited Universal Display Corporation’s headquarters in Princeton, NJ for an exclusive tour of the factory, where we witnessed just how they make ‘em.
According to DigiTimes sources, Nvidia is planning on rolling out GeForce 9 this February. They also noted that the first chip in the family will be the 65nm D9E –complete with support for DirectX 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1. As with all rumours, this should be taken with a grain of salt, so I wouldn’t put your holiday plans for the 8800GTs on the backburner just yet. [DigiTimes via RegHardware via Gearfuse]
Readers who enjoy the Amazon Kindle e-Book reader‘s concept for letting you consume literature in electronic form – but won’t purchase one until they see what’s inside – will love this post. RapidRepair’s taken apart the Kindle bit by bit, showing you exactly what’s inside. Unless you’re a hardware engineer, seeing the internals probably don’t add much to your enjoyment of anything, but it does saves yourself from having to void the warranty on your own. [RapidRepair via TheRawFeed]
It’s Friday for me, and that means one thing: sex. Or shower. I can’t remember what, but the always-fab Regina Lynn’s Wired Sex Drive column is out, and while commenting on David Levy’s new book Love + Sex With Robots she gives us 10 reasons why she would consider a robo-marriage. Some of them are quite interesting, beyond the obvious vibrating snap-on accessories. Now, would you marry a robot? And if yes, why?
In another note, I would marry Regina Lynn. Or Ginger Lynn. I could go either way. Although Addy won’t be happy about that. [Wired]
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Those man on the street iPhone commercials have inspired a lot of parodies, partially because they’re so easy to replicate. SNL did a couple of amusing ones of their own, but YouTube is full of amateur parodies that are just as funny as the ones the pros made. I went through them and picked five of my favourites of the bunch. That one above was made by a guy who was mugged and beat up in Brooklyn for his iPod Touch. When he got home that night, he made that parody video. Yeah, that’s the first thing I’d do after getting my arse kicked as well. Hit the jump for four more quality parodies.
