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Cellphones that blow, kiss and grab you to make conversations intimate
At a recent TedxTalks in Berlin, Fabian Hemmert, a design researcher, showed off some very interesting cellphone prototypes that bring a whole new meaning to the phrase “keeping in touch”. He showed off video demonstrations of three prototypes and boy they sure are strange. The first device demonstrated attaches to the user’s hand, and when they squeeze the phone, the squeeze will be transmitted to the other phone which then squeezes the recipient’s hand as well. The second one, meant to demonstrate kissing has a wet sponge which when activated, is pressed against the user’s face to give the moist feeling of a kiss. And lastly, the final prototype blows air to its user’s face or neck to simulate whispering or blowing. Though these prototypes seem too bizarre to be accepted in today’s world, it surely opens up the possibility of alternative ways to communicate in the future. Watch the video clip of the TedxTalks after the break:
The title says it all, and that was pretty quick. It was only yesterday when the iOS 5 was announced and the beta was made available to developers but yet wasting little to no time, hackers MuscleNerd and Co have managed to jailbreak iOS 5 on the iPod touch fourth generation. The exploit they used was the limera1n jailbreak which means that iOS 5 presented the hackers with little surprises when it came to closing the loop holes that would make the limera1n exploit work.
Naturally the iOS 5 is currently in beta which means there are probably still plenty of holes to be exploited and we can only assume that in the final release iOS 5 would-be hackers will have a harder time trying to jailbreak it. However this is good news for those on jailbroken devices who were worried that they might be in for a rather long wait when it comes to getting the jailbroken version if iOS 5 on their devices.
Anyone who has owned an iOS device knows that upon out of the box, the first thing they see is their device asking them to tether it to their computer in order to set up synch with iTunes. Not necessarily a bad thing but what if the person’s computer was not well equipped enough to run iTunes properly or what if they didn’t know what all these synching meant?
Tabbed browsing isn’t new. In fact there are browser apps already available for iOS that features tabbed browsing, but either way we are happy that Apple has decided to sit up and take notice of what users want in their browsers and finally implemented tabbed browsing in their native iOS browser app, Safari.