Thursday, June 25, 2009 - Page 2

Bongo Shirt Gives Air Drums More Meaning

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At the moment, I’m addicted to playing the drums for Pearl Jam’s Ten on Rock Band. Addicted. Even when I’m stuck working, I’m banging out a sort of quasi-rhythm on my desk, my steering wheel or anything else that lands beneath my hands. With this shirt, I’d actually get some proper drum sounds.


Software

First Apple-Approved Porn IPhone App

Listen up, porn purveyors of the world: This is the first iPhone application to contain bare boobs. The $US1.99 app for iPhone and iPod touch only showed girls in lingerie and bikinis until now, according to its developer:


35,000-year-old Flute Is First Instrument Ever

This flute is the first musical instrument in the history of humankind—one of the first examples of technology—which has surprised everyone demonstrating that music already existed 35,000 years ago. Stone Age Rock Band, here we go.


Geek Out

Ray Bradbury: “To Hell With The Internet!”

Good old Ray Bradbury (author of Fahrenheit 451, among other sci-fi classics) let loose with a little bit of the crazy when speaking of Yahoo! and the Internet as a whole. He classified the Internet as “meaningless” and “distracting.”


Phil Spector Requests iPod To Pass The Time While In Jail

Famed Beatles producer and founding member of the Horrible Mugshot Hall of Fame Phil Spector is beginning to serve his 19-year prison sentence for murder, and made a specific request to help him pass the time: An iPod.


Gadgets

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

…Steve Jobs’ Liver on eBay…A 1TB Xbox…More iPod Touch 3 Case Sightings…Space Shuttle In Pounds and Inches…


Software

HTC CEO Says “Sense” Android Interface Coming To Existing Phones

HTC’s been known to slap a polished finish on an existing smartphone OS, first with WinMo’s TouchFlo and now Android’s Sense. But fret not, HTC G1 and/or Magic/MyTouch owners: HTC’s CEO hinted that Sense is coming to existing Android phones.


Mobile

Optus Offering Up To 50% Off Upgrade Fees To Current iPhone 3G Customers

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Optus have sent around an email to current iPhone 3G customers offering up to 50% off the upgrade fee when you sign up for the new 3GS handset for 24 months.


Software

IPhone Remote App Now Supports Apple TV Controlling With Gestures

The iPhone 3.0 version of the Remote app now supports Apple TV controls with gesturing, which should give you a lot more flexibility than the standard little Apple Remote you already have.


Gadgets

What Is This?

No, that’s no moon.