Apple has delayed the white iPhone 4, probably targeting Christmas:
More waits. [via ijustrealized]
Wow they really did it:
Google Shuts Down Chinese Search, Redirects To Hong Kong
Google has shut down it’s Chinese search site at Google.cn and is now redirecting visitors to Google.com.hk. This is in response to the widely reported cyber attack on Google in December, Google confirms.
Users are being redirected for Google web, news and image search to the Hong Kong site, which sits outside of the Chinese firewall. Users are also being presented with simplified Chinese in addition to traditional Chinese and English results.
Google’s music search and maps products will remain live, says the company. And Google will retain research and development and sales teams in China. (Source: TechCrunch)
Wasn’t expecting them to be serious about it.
Beau Lotto’s color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what you can’t normally see: how your brain works. This fun, first-hand look at your own versatile sense of sight reveals how evolution tints your perception of what’s really out there.
Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see
[via justrealized]
What an awesome clock:
The Corpus Clock has been invented and designed by Dr John Taylor for Corpus Christi College Cambridge for the exterior of the college’s new library building.
It will be unveiled on 19 September by Prof Stephen Hawking, cosmologist and author of the global bestseller, A Brief History of Time.
The £1 million timepiece, known as The Corpus Clock, has been commissioned and designed to honour the John Harrison, who was famously the pioneer of Longitude and inventor of the esoteric clock mechanism known as a grasshopper escapement.
The clock has been designed by the inventor and horologist Dr John Taylor and makes ingenious use of the grasshopper escapement, moving it from the inside of the clock to the outside and refashioning it as a Chronophage, or time-eater, which literally devours time.
The Corpus Clock & Chronophage – Hi-Res
Upon listening to a special ringtone by Japanese (but of course) researcher who specializes in cognitive sciences, the lady increased her breasts size by not 1, not 2 but 3 centimeters. Rei is now a proud owner of a 82.5 cm chest all thanks to the unusual ringtone.
ディスカバリーチャンネル 苫米地英人
Discovery channel reports the breast enhancement techniques. Now the researcher intends to create special sounds that would encourage hair growth and stimulate love at first sight.
According to Reuters, 3G iPhones would be out in Singapore on August 22.
SingTel to launch 3G iPhone in August-source
SINGAPORE, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, Southeast Asia’s largest telecoms firm, will launch Apple Inc’s third-generation iPhone in Singapore before the end of August, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
“SingTel should be launching the 3G iPhone in Singapore before the end of the month,” said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The company plans to launch it in 20 more countries on Aug. 22. It has set a target of selling 10 million iPhones this year.
Source: Reuters
Want to get one?
Seems like someone is clearly mistaken:
<omega> i like star trek because it’s actually pretty realistic. the technology is fiction, but it follows real physics
<Kuiper> In Star Trek, whenever there are torpedoes or phaser fire hitting a ship, you can hear the explosions even though they’re in space. How is that “real physics?”
<omega> in space, explosions are actually louder
<omega> because there is no air to get in the way
<omega> dumbass (Source)
Imagine a film trying to be realistic and offer absolutely no sound effect in space. Probably made a pretty boring film that could’ve belong to the silent film era.