ASMRRequests, a popular YouTube channel for ASMR (hit the link if you’re unaware of what ASMR is) videos, has finally released the highly anticipated second episode of Departure. The latest episode, named Frontiers, is now available, and you can watch it down below. The creator of the series, Ally, also had some exciting announcements. The…
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Hear the Voice That Made the First Telephone Call! Smithsonian Recovers Audio from Bell’s Recording.
File this under SUPER COOL! Smithsonian Scientists have restored a recording of Alexander Graham Bell’s voice from a nearly 130 year old cardboard and wax disc. Without Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone our site wouldn’t exist and neither would the fancy gadget you carry around in your pocket. The first telephone call was…
Spoiled kids don’t get iPhone for Christmas, disown parents on Twitter
An interesting thing happened on Christmas Day this year: thousand upon thousands of hopeful children didn’t get an iPhone under the tree. While some were still happy to get anything at all, others gathered the shattered remains of their dreams, and cast the biting shards out to Twitter, saying things like “No Iphone. I hate…
Siri: The iPhone Movie pits man against machine
Although Siri isn’t technically that much better than what had been previously available, it certainly has made a better case for everyday voice recognition on smartphones. Of course, the “talking to your computer” scenario has a distinctly Space Odyssey feel to it, which is helped in no small part by some of the more… quirky…
Ninjas return to battle over Nexus unboxing
When the Nexus name first appeared, it called together the disparate ninja clans to perform The Great Unboxing, unified as an unstoppable kung fu force. It didn’t take long for the tentative alliance to devolve into bickering, and finally brazen treachery for the launch of the Samsung Nexus S. Today, the furious Red Ninja takes…
BlackBerry: the phone even muggers won’t steal
A mugger preying on students near Columbia University has apparently been on the hunt for iPhones, but don’t worry BlackBerry owners – he’ll just toss your phone back at you in disgust. An unnamed suspsect apparently bumped into two students, both of whom had BlackBerry smartphones, and left empty-handed. A smattering of similar reports illustrate…
Drunk RIM employees ground flight to Beijing, fined $71,000
In a flight from Toronto to Beijing, China, RIM’s George Campbell and Paul Alexander Wilson got so drunk and unruly, that they had to be physically restrained and the flight had to land in Vancouver. Each one was fined over $35,000, and won’t be able to fly Air Canada for a year while they’re on…
Qualcomm S4 processor is buggy – it can be powered by a unicycling praying mantis
Last week, Qualcomm talked about their new S4 Snapdragon processor, which bundled in LTE, NFC, and multi-core clock speeds between 1.5 and 2.5 GHz. Most notably, the S4 processor is on a 28 nm chip, which is more or less unheard of in the space, and translates to 25% – 40% energy savings from the…
Apple spoof ad details strategy for getting lost iPhone 5 back
As you might have heard, Apple lost an iPhone 5 prototype recently, and went on a search with the aid of San Francisco police to find it. How do Apple investigators feel about the whole thing? Well, probably not too happy, and they’re likely revolutionizing the art of pain to get it back. Or at…
Danes on a boat use flamethrower as smartphone camera flash
Docked in Copenhagen, Denmark is a boat called the Illutron. A collective of artists share a workshop there, doing all sorts of crazy crap, not limited to dangerous-looking interactive sound exhibits, teaching a factory robot how to draw, and now they’ve synced up a flame thrower to an Xperia Play so that instead of using…