Attention Time Travelers: Your iPhone may not work in 1990
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, History, Slow News Day, iPhone, video
I knew there was a reason I didn’t throw out my Motorola MicroTAC 9800X!
Faithful Macenstein reader Colin writes:
I was bored and trying to find something to watch on Hulu when I saw this:
I thought you’d get a kick out of it, apparently going back in time 17 years totally screws with the iPhone.
Wow Colin. You know, I’ve been bored before, but I guess I’ve never achieved the “Let’s see if there’s any old Journeyman episodes on Hulu” level of boredom before. Of course if any of us went back in time 17 years the first thing we’d do is try to find a way to buy as much Apple stock as we could… unfortunately we would die of Facebook and Twitter withdrawal long before we could figure out how to invest without the internet.
Mosspuppet’s thoughts on the tablet
As so often happens with humorous videos, this 5 minute iSlate review by the Walt Mossberg puppet is about 3 minutes too long, but still probably not too far off from what we’ll read in Walt’s column tomorrow.
[via 9 to 5]
Apple’s iPhone makes an audio cameo in Minority Report 5 years before it’s released
You know that little sound your iPhone makes when you plug it in to charge? If you’re like me, odds are you never really thought much about it. Frankly I just assumed it was some low level sound wired into the guts of the iPhone. But as faithful Macenstein reader Greg discovered, that sound has been around for some time, and has in fact had a brush with none other than the King of Hollywood Royalty, Tom Cruise.
Untitled from Dr Macenstein on Vimeo.
So I was watching Minority Report on my MBP, and I thought i heard my iPhone being plugged in… in my head phones! I scrubbed back to hear that when the retinal scanner confirms a positive ID it makes the sound when you plug in an iPhone. Funny. Did apple steal this sound? Was it a stock Sound effect from a library? Probably. Just thought I’d share.
What’s interesting about this to me is the realization of the amount of time and thought that must have gone into settling on that particular iPhone “chirp”. Yes, it appears the sound is probably from some standard Hollywood sound effects library, which means it was someone’s job at Apple to sift through 1000’s of sound effects on hundreds of discs, select a number of compelling clips that sounded like what you might imagine a futuristic “connection” sound should sound like, and then odds are, given how high profile the iPhone is, there was a meeting (or more than likely, a series of meetings) where these clips were played to the Apple elite, discussed, tried out, then rediscussed, ultimately resulting in what you hear today.
If only as much thought went into Minority Report.
(here’s a youtube version for the vimeo-impaired).
This is why virgins shouldn’t write sex apps
And just how the hell am I supposed to do that?
Purely for research purposes I decided to check out “A Sexy Party Game for Lovers 1.5“, one of the 40,000 “sex game-themed” apps on the iTunes store. And I hate to admit it, but apparently I am doing EVERYTHING wrong.
Hopefully the next tip says “Make up some excuse for your creepy behavior, like claim you have asthma, and try to get them back into the room.”
Getting turned on yet? This one actually should be easy, as I assume at this point their “secret fantasy” is that you’ll STOP massaging their hands.
Is this even physically possible? Whisper about one thing while singing about another..? Hold on, let me count my mouths… One… Um.
This guy also has an unhealthy fascination with people’s shoulders. Although not quite enough of an obsession to have learned to spell the word correctly… (Warning the following is NSFW. Not because it says anything dirty, but God help you if someone sees you reading this…) Read more
Contest
Advertisement
Macenstein Must-Haves
iPhone Feature Request
