With the number of Magic the Gathering-related apps available for the iPhone, fans of the trading card game are pretty spoiled these days. Thanks to all the apps, you don’t have to create decks using a pen and paper or lug around a bunch of counters to your next game anymore. But seriously, this has got to be the most creative (not to mention the most expensive) MtG-related use for an iPhone we’ve ever seen. To hell with bringing your actual cards with you. That’s so analog. (more…)
HTC has sent out an invite for an event that’s going down on April 12th in London, 1:30PM local time. Other than an invitation to join them to “see what’s next,” it really doesn’t give any details. The image of a rippling silvery liquid in the background gives a clue to a few possibilities though.
This video of a dancing Android mascot was caught in China, where Sony Ericsson used it to promote the Xperia Arc. Yeah, it really isn’t that big of a deal if you think about the grand scheme of things, but it’s just one of those clips – among many available on YouTube – that you just have to see if only once, because… well, it’s pretty entertaining if not downright weird. Best dance performance by a mobile phone mascot we’ve ever seen, hand’s down. Last time we saw the Android mascot in live action was when he was being stitched up with human thumbs (presumably somewhere in Asia as well), which initially showed us that Android gets around. But this video? It shows that ‘Droid sure knows how to party.
Tech presentations. No one does it better than Steve Jobs, who pleasantly showed up onstage today to deliver the iPad 2 presentation. If you missed the live stream this morning, you can still catch the keynote over at Apple’s website now. Quality’s a bit bad and the stream speed isn’t that great since a lot of people are probably going to watch it today. Hopefully, they release the HD version soon. Of course, you could just read about it since everyone in tech land is going to be going over this, but again, no one does it better than Jobs. Great to see him looking lively on stage today. Check it out here.
We get that it’s exciting when you’re a part of a company that’s about to launch a new product. What we don’t get is how these employees failed so badly on a PR stunt that the police had to break up a party and haul them away. Anyway, here’s basically what happened: as part of an internal PR stunt, Bryan Chester ran through Dell’s Round Rock campus offices dressed in black, wearing a mask, metallic objects in hand, and telling people to “go to the lobby,” where, according to a source, some sort of promotional event for the new Dell Streak tablet was about to take place (it looks like it had something to do with the tablet being able to interface with Harley Davidson bikes, which might explain the black biker getup Chester was wearing, but doesn’t explain the decision to go about it that way). Unfortunately, only Chester and his supervisor Daniel Rawson was in on it. To cut a long story short, Round Rock police ended up arresting the two for causing the disturbance. Check out the news clip after the break, or read the whole story here.
