September 9, 2009 @ 2:27 am
I’ve been having a pretty amazing streak of luck lately with just about everything. Tonight is another fine example of my good fortune as I somehow managed to get an entirely new keyboard from Apple free of charge despite having water-damaged my previous one. A $150+ repair was more or less gifted to me and for that I am incredibly grateful.
November 20, 2008 @ 8:44 pm
Every single Nokia phone that I’ve ever owned has stood up very well under normal stress conditions. In fact, if I think back on it, Nokia has proven to be one of the most reliable cellphone makers that I’ve come to experience (right next to them would be Samsung). The Nokia devices that I’ve owned have all been dropped plenty of times and thrown in such ways that would make most electronics fail. But not Nokia phones. Why? Because it turns out that their stress testing facilities are top-notch hi-tech labs that prod, poke, wet, drop, dust, and scratch their phones until they literally stop working.
Gizmodo has an excellent set of photos of a Nokia damage test lab and the pictures are all pretty nifty. What’s cool is that this damage test lab is all done by machines and computers. From little droplets of water to the dropping of phones, almost every test is monitored by precise computers. This ensures that Nokia products are not only the most durable of all electronics, but also that they can stand up to the dumbest of consumers as well.
Below is the dropping machine. An entire machine made just to drop cellphones. Whoever invented this thing must be laughing all the way to the bank.
Here’s a video showing some of the tests that they do. [via]
January 19, 2008 @ 12:42 am
If you haven’t already, go watch Corey Delaney’s wild antics so that you can understand how ridiculous this Sunglasses T-shirt from Busted Tees is.
Wear this stupid face on your chest for $14.99.
January 16, 2008 @ 9:02 pm
This post was originally just going to be part of a Leftovers entry, but Flo just sent me the news video interview of the kid on Australian TV and I couldn’t resist holding this for any longer.
Corey Delaney, a 16 year-old teenager from Melbourne, Victoria, is the main culprit behind the “best party ever“. The party attracted over 500 young people who ended up throwing bottles and “other missiles” at the police when they showed up to investigate a noise disturbance.
The young and rowdy crowd was too much for the local police to handle and the officers had to back away. Damage from the kids is estimated at $20,000. Now, Corey Delaney is refusing to go home and face his parents, who understandably, may want to kill him.
Check out the interview below, complete with retarded sunglasses and bare-chest (and fantastically gay nipple ring).
UPDATE: Corey really doesn’t want to take his sunglasses off. Really. Watch the video below.
