You already knew that your BlackBerry can do email, instant messaging, phone calls, and about a hundred other things pretty darn well, right? Did you know it could also save you from a serious gunshot wound? Perhaps even save your life? On Saturday, February 6th, Anthony J. Holtvogt (24) and his girlfriend were getting ready…
iPhone Fanboy’s Descent into Foursquare Madness Captured in Comic
One of my old favourite gaming webcomics, PvP Online, has been doing a few strips about mobile check-in apps like Foursquare and Gowalla. Brent, the resident Apple fanboy and general snob, claims mayorship of the nearby coffee shop, only to be ousted by teenage coworker and BlackBerry-user, Francis. I’ve been following these kinds of apps…
The cigarette lighter cellphone, seriously
That continent to our far-east, or near-west, sure does a good job of creating novel gadgets that no one else in their right minds could possibly imagine. Take China’s latest creation, the cigarette lighter cellphone, for example. Someone may have come up with the idea of putting a cigarette lighter into a cellphone while smoking…
Geek Must-Have: Android Figurines to Make Debut Later This Month
Chalk this one up as unusual if you must, but I have to categorize it as ‘geeky cool’ without a doubt. Artist Andrew Bell has teamed up with the good folks of Google and Dyzplastic to produce some pretty darn cool looking Android figurines. The first edition features 12 figurines, and are lovingly ‘blind boxed’…
Patrick Stewart Rocks iPhone, Skips Twitter
Star Trek fans will instantly recognize the stern-but-fair steely gaze of Patrick Stewart, better known as Captain Picard. As a part of a new PBS program called digital_nation, Stewart explains that he can’t distill parts of his life down to 140 characters, but still embraces the mobile lifestyle with the iPhone and mobile e-mail. As…
Fashion Statement: Steve Jobs: Black turtle neck is out, black hooded sweatshirt is in [Hoodies rule!]
I, and everyone around my age who loves to dress casually, has and wears hooded sweatshirts, commonly refereed to as hoodies, on a fairly regular basis. The UK media portrays people who wear such garments as young vagabonds, hoodlums who are going to destroy decent society, but look at the video below and tell me…
Fascism? There’s an App For That: iMussolini
iTunes Italy’s number two app is causing a lot of controversy after its release last week. Disclaimed to be a strictly historical (and in no form a political or ideological tool), iMussolini has racked up over 1,000 downloads per day. The iPhone app gathers up audio, video, and text of the infamous fascist dictator, for…
Android Controls Robot, Human Enslavement Imminent
You know when Google’s mobile operating system is capable of controlling the movements of a $3000 Japanese robot, it’s only a matter of time before even bigger robots fall under Android’s devious sway – throw in a dash of self-awareness, and you’ve got a dystopian future where an amalgamate mothermind of Android phones independently controls…
Friday Fun: BlackBerry Cufflinks for that Special Night Out
Now this is a fashionable accessory that no self-respecting BlackBerry user can be without. If you’ve got a spare $50 kicking around and want to have a couple of BlackBerry 8800’s hangin’ out around your wrists, look no farther than the ‘PDA Smartphone Cufflinks’ from Cufflinks.com. These beauties are 3/4″ by 1/2″ and are nickel…
Nexus One Unboxed by Freakin’ Ninjas
Most unboxings around these parts involve the stuttered fumbling of tech bloggers making banal comments on wires, headphones, and chargers. With any luck, they’ll make a lame attempt at humour while the device is booting up, but even those tend to fail miserably. But you know who does a real unboxing? Do you know who…