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Top 10 Pervasive Tech Myths That Are Only Wasting Your Time Here are those Apple iPhone ads, just seen on 60 minutes just now. They all confirm the iPhone’s June 29th release date, they all show lots of gorgeous video of the iPhone in use. This video is called “Never Been an iPod”, talking about all the new things you can do on the iPhone, like coverflow, widescreen movies, and of course, make calls.
The other two videos are great. One is a better quality version of the “Calamari” video, showing movie playback and Google maps search and call functionality. The other is called “How To”, and it shows a lot of iPhone use, and how simple it is to work.
AU: Obviously this isn’t our date – we’re next year. But the ads and the general interest mean we’re posting this. Now go cry into your pillow… or watch the ads. They’re pretty cool – do a good job of overcoming how jaded I’m feeling about the non-stop speculation. -SB
I’ve seen this happen over the years, and it isn’t pretty if it’s your own screen. But one of our readers shows us a little DIY for fixing this damage in the video above. Almost TOO easy, if you ask me… though I guess fitting a magnet to a drill isn’t the simplest of hacks.
Is this fix old news, or is this one clever SOB? -Seamus Byrne
Thanks Mike.
Silly putty is pretty old school, but offering it up in an IV bag all red and blood like? That’s officially cool. Now when you fake a sneeze with putty, your folks rush you off to the doctors office. They have an ‘alien’ version, green, but that’s just cheating.
Did silly putty always have the potential to “stain wall paper, painted, wood or rubber surfaces, carpets fabrics and other absorbent materials”? Or is it just that in this day and age you have to warn of EVERY little thing that can happen lest you get sued. -Seamus Byrne
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This photo from Copenhagen airport reflects many scenes I’ve seen locally and abroad in recent times. Where once there were public phones, now there are empty shells. Here at home, Telstra has a duty to provide payphones, and amongst their many fights with regulation they want to force other companies to share the burden of maintaining such phones (will everyone get a share of the ad revenue on the back?)
I think we should get booths specifically for people on phones to use. (1) It will give people somewhere a bit quieter to talk up a storm and (2) it might remind people that they should try and be a little discreet when talking up said storm. I know I’ve heard of this stuff OS – anyone know where these mobile phone booths are found?
And hey, if you’ve spotted any really good / crazy empty phone spots in your area, why not take a snap and send it in? -Seamus Byrne
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Bill Gates mentioned Roundtable – what is it? Some archival insights into the ‘Roundtable’ 360 degree video conferencing system.
Rumour: New MacBook Pros this week? Just a rumour, but with WWDC coming up next week, it’s a good time to hold out on any purchases anyway.
PS3 game upscaling – any good? 480i, maybe; 480p? Maybe you should skip it…
Aliens fan makes own M-41A Pulse Rifle. Better to nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
AYet another flash memory format: miCard! USB and MMC compatible, 2TB max capacity – doesn’t sound too shabby.
Place your bets in our first ever Battlemodo Bracket before it’s too late. The reviews begin tonight and will run every other day until we are either done or lose all of our Sansa-loving readership. We will be grading primarily on sound, but form and ease of use will both play a factor.
Are we testing every iPod dock in existence? No…we do have lives, be they limited. Are we testing every iPod dock we could get our hands on that didn’t look to completely suck? You betcha. – Mark Wilson
The MultiMedia Card Association (who?) has approved a new “global memory card standard” developed by a Taiwanese research institute—dubbed the miCard (Multiple Interface Card)—which will work with both USB and MMC slots.
Skepticism over new formats aside, the specs seem fairly impressive: initial transfer rate and storage will be around 480Mbit/sec and 8GB, respectively, with both improving over time. The expected maximum capacity? 2048GB. I can definitely get behind two terabytes in my pocket. (I’m also happy to see you.)
Twelve companies are already backing the new format:
Built at Legoland in California with over 465,000 bricks, this 94.3-foot pirate ship mast is the new tallest LEGO tower in the world, besting the Danes’ meager 93.43-foot tower constructed last year by almost a foot. And I mean, pirate ship = awesome.
It just needs some ninjas crawling all over it killing pirates, since that’s what ninjas do. – Matt Buchanan
World’s tallest Lego tower built from 465,000 bricks [Daily Mail via Neatorama]
The image is too low quality to tell whether or not it was Photoshopped, but let’s all assume it’s real and get into a huge PC vs. Mac fight. Because I haven’t seen one of those in at least 3 days.
And besides, we can always end things peacefully by laughing at Linux users. Because that group gets REALLY worked up. – Mark Wilson
Aliens fans will recognize this gun. In the original movie, the M41-A fired 45 caliber bullets, 12 gauge shot gun rounds and mini grenades. Apparently the prop wasn’t just the product of sci-fi movie magic, but of real, current (80s) technologies. That’s why one totally enlightened loony guy spent 18 months and $1,000 building an M41 of his own.
The parts are difficult to find. Remaining true to the original prop construction, and remaining within the guidlines of the US law, I decided to go with as many real gun parts as possible.
Good call. And even though he promised to have deactivated the gun, we’re sure there is a small patch of forest in Canada where it seems a bus-sized asteroid attacked with fury.
I’m generally a pacifist, but should robots or aliens ever decide to enslave Man I’ll be glad to have this link bookmarked. – Mark Wilson
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