New iPhone to be announced! *gasp*

Gasps! New iPhone! But what will be so new about it? Besides the $200 price drop (because AT&T will subsidize it) it’s a whole lot faster. It will use a 3G wireless radio, which will boost download speeds, and also thicken the body of it (unless it is to be thinner, as also rumored). A little thickness won’t be wasted however, because this allows more space for more hardware, like the new, improved camera. It will (finally) be able to take videos! Hopefully, direct YouTube uploading could come of this. It has also be rumored that it will have a secondary, front-facing video camera for video calling. Although this isn’t likely, it’d still be pretty cool. It could be capable of doing these things thanks to the super-fast speed the 3G wireless feature offers it. It will also run newer, updated firmware with new features such as a store to buy more applications and video games for the iPhone. But what if you get lost in all of these new features? Don’t worry, you’ll never be lost with its new and fully-functional GPS!

But what will it look like? Many sources report it will be comprised of a glossy, plastic finish instead of the aluminum finish on the previous iPhone. (See picture above) The above picture is what it may look like, and is not expected to be the new iPhone.

Vroom? Almost.

What do you get when you pay $80,000 for an all-electric sports car? A quiet car. Because the Fisker-Karma runs on lithium batteries, this car is silent (except when running on it’s “backup” engine). So when this car is released in 2009, it will have customizable motor sounds! Speakers mounted inside and out of the car will blast several pre-loaded sounds, like a Ferrari or even a “Formula One race car crossed with a jet plane.” All the sounds are very real. If I had one of these things, I’d probably make it sound like a jet plane and make it play the ice-cream truck song every time I honked my horn. Ha, stupid kiddies, try to catch me.

Car of the Week

 

Okay, you caught me, this isn’t really a car. It’s god in a sexy metal enclosure.

The Lamborghini Reventón is god a mid-engine sports car that debuted in Germany of 2007. With a V12 engine this car accerlerates from 0 to 60 in 3.4 seconds, thanks to 650 horses working around-the-clock. The intrument panel isn’t much of a traditional panel, in fact it copmrises of three different LCD screens. This beast also boasts a G-Force meter so you can tell your friends how many G’s they experienced during that last (failed) seatbelt check. Only 21 cars have been produced, the 21st was transported to the museum only hours after production. Of the twenty remaining, 11 were shipped to the US, 7 will reamin in Europe (with only one sent to the UK) and 2 will be sent to Dubai (guess what the Prinec of Dubai is getting for his birthday?).
Cost: $1.4 million, with $300,000 (the cost of the Lamborghini Murciélago, or 1.5 Lamborghini Gallardos) down payment.
Reventón is a Spanish word, and guess what this bull-fighting term means?

“One who is used to making things explode”

Is it me, or is anyone else getting the idea that this is geared toward millionaire playboys?

Comic of the Week

Admit it, you’ve forwarded a chain email before. Come on, you can tell me.
Really?…How dare you!
Anyways, Snopes.com was set up by the CIA (way back when, in the *gasp* 90’s) to debunk urban legends.
It’s really a great site to look up the next chain letter you receive.
So, here’s the comic:

I could knock out 25 five-year-olds in a row, you?

Honestly, I thought this was pretty stupid, until I clicked the link.

Come on…aren’t you curious to find out how many five-year-olds you can take on?

Rules:

• You are in an enclosed area roughly the size of a basketball court
• There are no weapons or foreign objects
• Everyone is wearing a cup (so no kicks to the groin)
• The children are merciless and will show no fear
• If a child is knocked unconscious, he is “out.” The same goes for you.

Can you beat 25? Find out and then click the “read more” link below.

Take the Test

Pandora.com – find music you like, and music you never knew you liked

Yay! Pandora! Derived from the Greek myth – that a woman named Pandora carried with her a box containing all the evils of mankind – comes a box at Pandora.com which contains all the music made by mankind. Basically, you enter a song or band you like, and Pandora fetches and plays music that sounds similar to that artist. Yes, iTunes does that too, but they aren’t always as accurate, and they only carry more popular music. Pandora is very specific.

I searched for “Five Minutes to Midnight” by Boys Like Girls (this is just an example) and it created my own personal station serving music that sounds just like that song.

Apparently they try not to play the exact song, because in order to serve up free music (legally, achem…SeeqPod) their lawyers won’t let everyone listen to a specific song on demand. These are just security measures so someone/something trying to record the song won’t get a freebie…basically. You can rate the song good or bad and move on to the next song on your station. As you rate more songs, your station starts aquiring the exact taste you’re looking for.

The bad part: you can only skip so many songs per hour when track surfing, (again, legal issues) which makes it hard to attune a station to your tastes quickly, but you can make another station and skip tracks over there, until you hit the limit.

Awesome Tip: Make a station for each of the basic genres you like, then have one dedicated party-music station. Since there are no commercials and Pandora.com is free, you can have your own supply of never-ending party music.

Rinspeed sQuba can drive underwater/itself; Gibbs Aquada jealous.

If you haven’t heard of a Lotus Elise, leave now. Great! You’re still here, you liar know-it-all well-informed reader! The Lotus Elise serves as the base of the Rinspeed sQuba, a car that can travel underwater (and on the road, too). It has a laser-guided navigation system in front, allowing it to drive itself (provided you don’t need to turn) in both land and water modes. It’s similar to the surface-only Gibbs Aquada, except has several extra motors/propellers, along with the absence of a roof. That’s right – you will get soaked if you use this car for it’s intended purpose. How do you breathe? An in-car air supply, complete with sQuba scuba goggles.

Read on for a video of a rich bloke hi-jacking the self-driving car, and getting soaked. Feel free to laugh.

Cheating takes an old-school turn

Guess what? Mrs. Teacher is catching on to those cellular phone gadgets, and knows they shouldn’t be out during a test. It’s not that cheating via text (or in some cases, calling a friend in the same class) is plain stupid, it just isn’t classy. That’s why today, I’ll teach you to ace your next quiz, without studying. I haven’t done this, mainly because I’m too lazy. It takes a special type of lazy to put energy into being lazy.

Simon Cowell can escape from Idol-Wannabes at 250mph

Have you heard of a car called the Bugatti Veyron? The Bugatti is the fastest street-legal car, and has the most powerful acceleration system in today’s market. You have probably heard of a V8 engine, however, Simon Cowell prefers the W16 (that’s right, not V8, W16) engine of his new car to that of the V12 engine on his Rolls Royce. The Bugatti can accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 2.46 seconds. Sadly, the car cannot travel at it’s 250mph top speed for long, because it devours an entire tank of gas in under twelve minutes. To ensure drivers can make the most of those twelve minutes, the car automatically lowers itself via hydraulics to a ground clearance of 2.5 inches in “Top Speed” mode. To slow the car down, the rear spoiler can turn itself downward at a 55° angle in 0.4 seconds, acting as an air-brake (like those on airplanes). This contributes to the ten-second 250mph to standstill brake time. If he needs a car like this, let it serve as proof that American Idol fans really are crazy.

SeeqPod – Free Copyright Violations for your iPod

Can’t quite seem to fill your iPod with 40,000 songs you thought you needed? No fear, SeeqPod is here! With enough songs to fill your iPod (and then some) you can easily listen to and download music. So quit wasting space with songs you don’t like to justify your spendings, and download free music!

Awesome Tip: go to the mobile version and you can find your song, and Right Click + “Save Target As…” to download it!