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Saw this picture on a post @gizmodo and loved it. Thanks guys!

With a recent onslaught of cell phones on the market and a sensation overload from the advertising, it obvious that the times are changing. The newest competitor on the playing field is Google with their Android phones. These phones use a new OS that Google created to be put on a slew of various manufacture's devices.

Android was originally release on T-Mobile with the G1 and didn't catch on very quickly. However, when Google release it's second phone, the myTouch, again with T-Mo, they gained a little more momentum with their cameo-ridden marketing. To even further their progress, they released the HTC Hero on the Sprint network. Starting in November, Verizon launched their newest camaign called Droid with a brilliant marketing campaign called "Droid Does." See the video below for a better example:



Being a die-hard Sprint user, I am left with the desicion now between the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment. For those of you wanting to know the short end of my thought process, the HTC wins and is the phone of choice in the Android lineup. I will post another entry in the near future explaining my decision in more detail.

This video hit close to home. As a hobby, I love playing piano. Recently, I have segued that passion and skill into an instrument that fits both my artistic side and the nerdy side: the Synthesizer. Well, Calvin Harris from the UK took his passion to the next level. Using conductive paint, he was able to have 15 girls act as human keys to his synth. Check it out:

I know this was posted a while ago, but I can't seem to get enough of products that Apple has to offer, let alone how people are going to spoof on them. I have to give props to the ultimate in satire: The Onion. Thank you for your continued decication to keeping reality in check.

According to a new lawsuit filed in Beverly Hills, Cali., Apple is getting sued for an alleged conspiracy with the Italian mafia. Gregory McKenna is convinced that both his ebay purchased iPod shuffle and his store-bought iPod mini equipped with a receiver allowing the mafia to send him death threats through his music. He claims the words "I'm going to kill him" sung by members of the mafia played in unison with a song on his iPods.

"The recording of death threats and other evidence, prove that APPLE INC. conspired with the Mafia and other Defendants to manufacture, distribute, and sell illegally bugged iPods and other electronic equipment to Plaintiff to perpetuate the stalking, extortion, and torture."

The 124 page complaint filed last Wednesday gets even stranger. While listening to the song, "Still Tippin" by Mike Jones, McKenna claims the word "herpes" were inserted to "to humiliate, degrade, and cause emotional stress."

"Tippin' on four fours, wrapped in four vogues, HERPES. Tippin' on four fours, wrapped in four vogues. Tippin' on four fours, wrapped in four vogues, AHH."

Thank you Apple. All of us iPod owners are at risk of randomly hearing Sinatra singing, "It's my kind of town, YOU'RE GONNA DIE." I can only imagine that the Apple lawyers are going to take this one lightly. I'd like to see any judge consider his case.

Source: Apple Insider
Picture from @Engadget

For those of you that don't know me, there are a few things that I am passionate about as much as technology and one of them is cars. An English inventor named Giles Cardoso invented a project called the Parajet, which I can only imagine would give the rider a trill equivalent to bungee jumping but with the added risk of free-falling 2500 meters while traveling 75kph without a safety net.

Well, Parajet has been trumped again with "The world's first usable road-legal flying car," called surprisingly, the SkyCar. Parajet is currently taking pre-orders for their estimated £50,000 ($81,700) vehicle with a £10,000 ($16,338 U.S.) deposit. The company is hoping to have the vehicle in test flights September 2009 with a anticipated release date in early 2010. As if saving time on our commute to work wasn't enough, the SkyCar is also going to run on BioFuels helping our eco-friendly neighbors. For more info, check out their website: http://www.parajetautomotive.com/



Thanks @Autobloggreen for the info: Source

What some would have thought would never happen is finally coming to a reality. Virgina Tech has just announced a dirt buggy that can be driven by a blind person. The vehicle is equipped with an array of lasers that help the driver "see" the road and responds to verbal commands of the driver.



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