“Ouch!” News from Clickondetroit, a young boy got burned by his PSP in his pocket when the battery of the console overheated and made a hole in his pant’s pocket. The young boy has been sent to the hospital with just a minor injury and he’s now back to school. The police is still investigating the cause of the accident. In coincidence, the game that was in the player was “Burnout”. Okay, that’s really burn.
According to the study done by Strategy Analytics, there’s an increment of 10% from the Billion phones sold in 2006, 1.0 billion in 2006 to 1.12 billion in 2007. The growth is expected to continue up to 1.24 billion phones for 2008.
“Nokia of Finland strengthened its position as the world’s best selling phone maker while South Korea’s Samsung moved up to second place and American maker Motorola dropped back to third, according to the Strategy Analytics study.”
Actor Heath Ledger from the movie “Brokeback Mountain” was found dead in his apartment on Tuesday. According to the police, it is a possibly of a drug overdose. The 28 year-old Australian-born Ledger was found face down and naked at the foot of the bed by a house keeper at his apartment in the SoHo neighborhood, said Paul Browne the police spokesmen. More of Heath Ledger pictures after the jump.
Yummy… You like fried chicken? What about fried cell phones? Xeni Jardin is going to show you how a fried cell phone looks like and taste like in the BBTV. Fried Palm Treo or fried Motorola? They are frying the Treo with bubblegum and they eat. She said technology is yummy. She really ate it? I don’t think so, that’s poisonous. Check it out after the jump.
Wow! That’s incredible! Robbie Maddison has set the world record for the motorcycle distance jump. That is a 322-foot distance jump, about the length of a football field.
Alcides Moreno, a window washer fell from 47 stories roughly 500 feet outside the Solow Residences in New York City on December 7th. He broke his arms, legs, back, and ribs and he has undergone 14 operations and required 24 pints of blood. But after coma for weeks, Moreno is awake, talking and is likely to walk again. The Doctor said that the highest fall they’ve seen someone survive in New York City was when a person under the influence of drugs survived a 19-story plunge. There’s only 50% of people survive a fall from three stories. Full story at NYDailyNews.
Dave Winer, an Apple customer brought his Macbook for repair at the Emeryville Apple store. The problem was the hard drive and it has been replaced with a new one. Dave asked for the old hard drive but they refuse to give him back. The old drive is very important Dave as it contains his bank account information, login details, passwords and source code.
Hey guys, this is the tennis court located atop the Burj Al Arab in Dubai, the world’s highest tennis court. When the court is not in used, it work as a helicopter landing pad. Check out the video after the jump.
You have heard people saying “work to death”. Well, that’s possible, so don’t just simply use those words. There’s a Toyota Motor Corp employee died of overwork after logging more than 106 hours of overtime in a month, a judge ruled Friday, reversing a ministry’s earlier decision not to pay compensation to his widow. So don’t force yourself to work overtime if you can’t, I’m sure you do not want to be like him. Read the full story at Reuters.
Hello, jumping off this? 233m (764ft) high Macau Tower. I’m talking about the world’s highest bungee jump from the Macau Tower. I only dare to jump on top of the building but not jumping off :) Wow! That’s freezing when you look down from that 764 ft. If you are going for extreme sports like this one, please double check the safety tools, make sure that there are fixed properly. Check it out after the jump.
