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Nice FAILscreen, latenights!

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Some time ago, mashable did a top ten list of FAIL screens (although the list is buried somewhere in the site’s depths, and its search button won’t reveal it. Way to go, Bing. In comparison, try ours here, just at the bottom of the right column. Go ahead.) And to add another one to the instant classic failwhale

This can't be. Ironic. Something

and Bit.ly’s pufferfish

Isn't it ironic?

Google’s chrome shows this

Must have been some of the perpetrated 25% in additional web traffic yesterdays.

Nobody safe no more.

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Just recently found out about the upcoming little gadget that will be included in the Prestige edition of Black Ops. How exactly would you try to top nicht vision goggles?

Now, son, you'll need those goggles to see. Seriously.

The answer is – with a little motorized drone buggy that has a live audio/video feed to your remote control.

This is of course so that the Black Ops dude here doesn’t have to get up.

Although we’re still waiting for the flying version that uses your iDevice as a remote and has an API for others to build apps on top of that.

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On the shoulders of giants

Prestige Black Ops packaging on codblackopsblog

while kotaku got a nice shot of the current goggles for ya.

What-if episode, but without science fiction

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You remember when Apple overtook MS in terms of market value, a few weeks ago? While I was dumb struck reading something like that at the time, it kept me wondering what could be the possible outcomes if a development like this continues. So here’s our little list, futureproof and all -

  1. Nothing really happens. Too often one fails to set the variables right, and the utmost part of speculation remains just that. But it might just give you an opportunity to be funny.
  2. The IT world as a whole continues to shift, and up to a third of all things digital could be done on smartphones and all sort of handsets, where we would be seeing Android (160 000 new activations A DAY? Still can’t believe it) and Apple as market leaders.
  3. Microsoft discontinues Windows. That would make Mac OS n the dominant “you’ll have to pay for that, my son”-OS out there. Every other manufacturer would need to adapt by either making Mac OS its native system like this

or, go ahead and try to delevop its own operating system, which is quite hard and costly. So why not take a long established standard, that costs nothing, while you may even claim money for it? Case in point, a little CD from South Africa? That would also mean the end of dual booting…like this.

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On the shoulders of giants

Cupcake by Adam Powell on the Android Developer’s Blog.

Mac OS on a tiny VAIO by daharder via boingboing.

Fused logo by dedoimedo.com.

Solo che non vi sarà mai un ritorno

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Avendo notato solo di recente la nuova collaborazione di DC Shoes e i francesi di 6 Pak, e sapendo pure che sono rarissime ‘ste scarpe, il sottoscritto cercò di ordinarne una coppia ed è finito a Los Angeles, presso Revolve Clothing. Insomma, la ragione che sono talmente difficili da ottenere è chiara se date una occhiata allo screenshot di un certo classico del cinema americano.

per l’originale. Ora, per la seconda parte della trilogia, in una delle prime scene, Marty McFly si mette le scarpe del futuro:

Autolacci! Fantastico!

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Sulle spalle di giganti

Back to the Future, ovviamente, di Robert Zemeckis e Universal Pictures. Check its imdb page.

Look up to the sky…you might see SKYNET all over your head.

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A few years ago, somebody wrote about his slightly eerie feelings when he heard about a japanese robotics and cybernetics company giving itself the name Cyberdyne Inc.
...this could have been an image, but now, all there is is a broken link. Somehow sad, somehow adagio....this could have been a really nice and fitting and utterly clever pic, but now, all there is, is a broken link to nowhere. Sad thing, and somehow adagio.
At that time, at first I had to smile to myself, second it was “yeay, just another well thought-of popcultural reference in a company name”, but after thinking about it, the strange feelings started to creep in. Here’s why.
The real-world Cyberdyne Inc. is the business extension of one Prof. Yoshiyuki Sankai and his research and development work at the University of Tsukuba. Its headquarters reside in Ibaraki and it is specialized in R&D and manufacturing a robotic suit that is designed to assist humans increasing their strength. So, it really is in line with Cyberdyne Systems. Now, with their head of development being inspired by Isaac Asimov’s “I, robot” and cyberpunk anime, it was just a small step to actually make it happen and seize this name for his newly founded company. But, and that’s the eerie part of the story mentioned before, for each individual that either was at the movies in 1984 to watch the original “Terminator”, or watched it on videotape a few years later on, the first part of this movie’s mythology has become real. If you watched this movie, you probably never were able to shake off the bleak and utterly pessimistic point of view of the film’s story and environments. That’s what made the movie one of the best of all times, but it’s also what’ll probably make you wanna wear sun protection factor 2 million in the near future in a few years from now.
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On the shoulders of giants:
Corporate site of Cyberdyne Inc. – http://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/index.html, where we got our first picture from.
And for the real life Cyberdyne Systems – http://www.skynetdivision.net/ – we’re one step into the future.
The Terminator was once property of Carolco flicks, which has long been defunct, and has then been picked up by some well-meaning, but utterly trashy company nobody cares about.