Quantum Levitation – Video
| October 25, 2011
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Anyone Can Break Into Your iPad 2 Passcode with a Smart Cover
| October 25, 2011
The person who unlocks your iPad 2 will not have complete access to your iPad, but will be able to gain entrance to whatever you locked your iPad 2 on. If your iPad 2 went to sleep in Mail, Safari, Messages, Contacts, or Maps, you can imagine the sorts of personal information that can be viewed on your iPad. If you left your iPad 2 on its Home screen, the person can view which applications you have on your device, control media from the multitasking bar, but not much else.
World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Announced
| October 24, 2011
Blizzard announced a new expansion pack to the World of Warcraft franchise at Blizzcon on Friday. Mists of Pandaria will incorporate many new changes, tweaks and features. A release date has not been announced.
Rumor: Next Xbox Won’t Appear Until E3 2013
| October 24, 2011
The rumor mill is cranking out ‘news’ about the next-generation Xbox, codenamed Xbox Next (catchy name, no? ) Unnamed sources put the release right before the Christmas buying season 2013. Until then, you will just have to be satisfied with the old Xbox and new software.
“Few in the games business expect Xbox Next to be in stores before the holiday side of 2013 – this Christmas and the next will likely see Microsoft marketing software for Xbox 360”.
General Motors’ Anti-Bicycling Advertising Campaign
| October 24, 2011
If you are a student looking to add tens of thousands of dollars of long term debt, care little about the environment, and want pay through the nose for insurance, gas, and parking…GM has got a perfect deal for you. Bonus: it’ll make you fat and unhealthy! All you have to do is give up that dorky bicycle that’s easy to use, practically free, gets you some exercise and is actually fun to ride.
In case you were wondering, GM has a fine-sounding corporate responsibility statement: “As a responsible corporate citizen, General Motors is dedicated to protecting human health, natural resources and the global environment.”
Making Everyday Objects Deadly: The Art of the Shiv
| October 24, 2011
A shiv is a weapon crafted from the limited resources of a prisoner’s closed world. Crudely constructed from such things as spoons, shoelaces and upholstery tacks, shivs lie somewhere between the graceful and the grotesque. They’re primitive, too — like outsider art, but produced deep on the inside.
The individual parts that make up a shiv tend to be everyday objects, innocent things furtively reconstituted as lethal weapons. Each design choice is essential, but what’s particularly notable is that shivs, at their core, are not so much evocations of minimalism as they are symbols of survivalism. A shiv is all about masked utility: it’s an innocuous object with improbably toxic intent (whether used to attack others or to protect oneself…)
