Time for a little off-beat fun. Ever want to throw down your mobile device, take a break, sip some whiskey and get involved in a rousing game of chess? I know I don’t. But if I did, chances are I’d pick up the Jack Daniel’s Lynchburg Chess Set for $197.50. The description: Highly-detailed, sculpted and…
Texas man grabs for cellphone, drives $1M Bugatti Veyron into salt marsh
There aren’t too many things super-exotic sports cars, like the $1+ million Bugatti Veyron, hate more than being sentenced to a life of grocery-getting and night-on-the-towning. Salt water is high on that short-list. Being driven by a cellphone-distracted driver also makes that list. Combine those two super car pet-peeves, and you’ve got the makings of…
B.C. Residents Applaud New Cell Tower
Usually the construction of new a new cell tower meets opposition from surrounding communities… At least, that has been the case in my area, and in other parts of Canada. However, the good folks of Cranbrook B.C. are welcoming the build of a new $1,000,000 TELUS (NYSE: TU) cell tower. I’m hoping this is a…
Dentyne Chewing Gum: Tapping into the growing number of people discontent with social networks
Few advertisements have the power to stop me in my tracks, make me think, and then smile. Dentyne, a manufacture of chewing gum, are running two advertisements in the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit that remind people that communicating with people digitally can never, and will never, reach the fidelity of “face time”. Since…
Why don’t operators start charging for mobile data like the do for broadband at home?
Many of you are surfing IntoMobile, downloading illegal torrents, and watching a YouTube video of a cat playing the keyboard, all at the same time thanks to broadband. I personally don’t know anyone who uses dialup, and I doubt you do as well. Have you ever stopped and thought to yourself why the business model…
Follow-up: what’s the laggiest handset you’ve used?
A few weeks back, I wrote a post, asking which the laggiest handset you have used is – this was following a try-out of the Palm Pre, and my own suggestion that the Nokia N96 I used a good while back didn’t seem to be too fast at the time either! Well, it generated some…
Working iPhone Costumes Among The Best This Year
What would it take to put together 2 ‘working’ iPhone costumes? Apparently $2,000, a couple of 42″ plasma TV’s, a couple of iPhones, and a lot of work. Nothing else needed to be said here. Check out the video below. I hope everyone had a very happy (and safe) Halloween this year! [Via: MobileSyrup]
What is the ‘laggiest’ handset you have used?
Just the other day, I was in the local O2 shop, playing with the Palm Pre – having heard so much about it, but no opportunity to get hands-on, I was keen to see what the device could do. Initially, I was really pleased to see an excellent implementation of both the capacitance screen sensitivity,…
B.C. Government Ban on Cellphone Use While Driving to Commence January 1st, 2010
The government of British Columbia has made it all official. New legislation is going into effect January 1st, 2010 that bans drivers from sending or reading text or email messages… Plus, making or taking phone calls will be prohibited, unless a hands-free device with one-touch dialing is used. Thumbs B.C. I think you’ve got this…
giffgaff update: more details now known
Remember giffgaff? This is the new MVNO, that seeking differentiation by involving the subs (they call them members) in decisions – well they’ve already started that process now, and in addition we know some more facts – giffgaff is launching in beta this year, and they think there is some stuff we should know: Key…