Damn… I think I need to go have a cold shower. Mind you, the price tag’ll have the same effect…

What, I hear ye mutter, am I blathering about? Well, I’ll tell ye. But first, some background details.
Years ago, I worked in a warehouse fer electronic components. Among other things, we weren’t allowed to carry electrical items with us in case of static problems. This included non-mechanical watches. My next job wasn’t much help in the time department either. In a dairy, you were allowed the clothes they told you to wear and that was it. However, we could keep a phone in our pocket if it wasn’t flaunted too much.
With that in mind, it’s hardly any surprise that I don’t possess a wristwatch, is it? Not that I don’t like the idea, but I like an unencumbered wrist these days.
Then I saw this sweet bit of kit and knew I was right.

Wow… I could feel and hear the nerdgasms from over here…
This, my friends is the Celsius X VI II Remontage Papillon, a brand-spanking new mobile phone and watch combo that is so new it hasn’t been released for sale yet. It’s being premièred at the Baselworld watch fair next week. According to all the sources I could find anyway; the Baselworld site is very flash-heavy and was grinding too slowly fer me to stay with it.
Fancy another pic? Thought so.

{sigh….}
Anyway, not only does it look sexier than Christina Hendricks in a cocktail dress*, it’s also a top-notch bit of engineering too, as the article on Cool Hunting tells us.
Cheers also to Watchismo fer ruining my dreams by telling me the fiscal ruin I would face in owning one (roughly $275,000 a pop).

*I’m lying. Nothing could be that sexy.

For some damn promotional reason, Sprint has this Now page.

It is full of some strange, and supposedly fun, widgets.  Some of them are interesting, though I shudder to think that this is how some people’s widget(gadget) screen looks on their computers.

found via Dvice.com

Why is it so hard to type things?  When you typed something in DOS, bam it happened.  If you got an error, you typed wrong.  Computers didn’t have problems because the only world they know is on and off, 1s & 0s.  It was bad enough the poor silicon based babies had to try and interpret your mouse movements and clicks into 1s & 0s, now you want to touch their screens and wave your hands around like a bad step dancing crew?

Seriously, do you feel that?  There’s an itching sensation on your nose, WAIT don’t scratch it or you’ll erase your project you’ve been working on for months!  Quick do two toe touches and a pirouette to escape out so you can scratch your nose.

Similarly, when my cellphone rings, I push a button to answer it.  I want to answer my phone calls, I don’t want to high-five my phone or tickle it, I just want to answer the phone.

Found via Milk&Cookies

The Trouble with Bluetooth, a decent & short article over at Dvice.com listing the reasons why Bluetooth technology hasn’t found a way to stick.  I use Bluetooth quite often to sync my calendar on my phone with the mac.   Yet, when I think of Bluetooth, I think of headsets.  Personally, I believe the Bluetooth headsets are the new beepers.  Back in the day, everyone wanted a pager, it was more of a fashion statement than a communication device.  The pager, beeper, whatever you want to call it, was all about status.  People felt like they were some sort of big shot when they wore a pager.  (I just used the phrase big shot?  Wow, I gotta lay off the Leave it to Beaver reruns.)  In actuality, people with pagers just looked like douche bags.

Which brings me back to Bluetooth headsets, they are useful, being wireless and all.  However, I don’t think you need to wear it when you are not talking, do you?  Seriously, do you turn up your car stereo when you see a “hot chick” or squeal your tires?  Yeah, that is impressive, you should get a personalized license plate that says PUZEEWGN.  “Hi.  What’s up?  Nice to meet you.  This?  Oh, it’s just my Bluetooth.  Yeah, I gotta Bluetooth earpiece.  So, you wanna do it now, or what?”

I am sorry, but people don’t think, “Wow, that guy has a Bluetooth, I want pleasure him.”  They actually think, “Bluetooth?  He must be over-compensating for a really small penis.”

I thought I might use Photoshop to make another one of my horrible graphics for this post.  Then, I searched Bluetooth & douche for fun.  I found this post on CrunchGear and this list of 10 Items You Think Make You Cool, But Don’t.

So, I sees these here videos and I am like WHA?  Seriously, I sounded like an anime character, but fatter.  Then, I was wondering why my cell phone never cooks for me.  This is probably a hoax.

Via this page where you can watch others, some of better quality.   It’s curious how all the videos are so, how do I say?  Global?  Almost too global, as if someone intentionally made it look like the video was in an Asian setting, with the bowls and the wall hanging.  The camera work is similar also.

This video doesn’t seem to have the same result.

Plus I found this on Reddit:

Description of why it’s fake, copied from: http://forums.gametrailers.com/showthread.php?t=423337

Popcorn pops because the water in it turns to steam and a kernel is about 14% water. So, if we assume a kernel of popcorn weighs 1 gram, it has 0.13 grams of water. Heat that water from 30�C to 100�C would take:

(0.14g)*(100�C-3 to turn the water to steam requires he latent heat of vaporization, which is 2259J/g.

2259J*0.14g= 316J for a total of 316J 41J = 357J.

Wattage = Joules/seconds. If it took about 5 seconds to turn the water in the popcorn kernel to steam, then the wattage required was:

357J/5sec = 71W assuming all power from the cell phone transmitter went into the kernel.

Cell phones typically have 0.75W-1W transmitters in them. With a 1W transmitter, it would take,

334J/1W = 334secs, if all power is transfered to the kernel.

Conclusion: since the corn is popping in 5 seconds… completely fake.

edit – as pointed out, corn kernels weigh about 0.25g and there are 4 phones which could be up to 2W each. Therefore, the energy hitting the corn could be 16 times greater. But the other assumption (that all the power is focussed into the water content of just 1 kernel) is most likely wrong by a factor of 100 or more.

So as you can see, I wasted a good deal of time on this instead of doing anything productive.  I do it for you, it’s all for you.

Uh…Let me get this straight, the Texas Roadhouse started in Indiana?  That seems rather curious to me, and though their story is ‘legendary,’  all I get to satisfy my curiosity is ‘…’ and a list of popular menu items?

I love how crummy my phone’s camera is. It makes everything look like it has been toon-shaded. It was originally advertised as a 1.3 mega-pixel camera, however, when the phone came to VZW it had a VGA camera instead.

I took a ride out by the lake instead of working on the forum. Pardon the dust as I work on upgrades. I hope to be done with the forum tomorrow and start on the blog Wednesday.