Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Why you should think before you act - Lightsaber mishap

Hey guys, i apologise for the lack of presence lately, as this will be the final hurdle for me to cross in my high school days. Big, no wait, HUGE exam coming up next month so blogging isn't really my priority at the moment.
Anyway, the amount of unnecessary applications for both the iPhone and the Nseries phone, the N95 in particular have been blooming like mad the past few months. Each developer fanboy wants to develop something just for fun as if to say "haha! can the iPhone do this?" and vice versa.
Look, for the N95 we have applications like nGun, nWhip, WaterBox, LightSaber which do nothing more than make a few cool sounds by detecting movements with the accelerometer. The iPhone fairs no better, with applications like I Am Rich (basically it's just a wallpaper of a Ruby) going on the Apple app store selling for USD999.99. Call me crazy but i can't imagine how Apple would allow something as rediculous as this to be on their app store, c'mon! Who is going to pay that much just to have a red dot on his iPhone?!!?
Coming back to our topic, you lot should really be careful how you play around with these fun but useless applications, particularly the ones which utilise the accelerometer of either phone.
I have heard several stories of N95 users who end up throwing their beloved N95s on hard concrete after a few drinks in the bar because they were flinging the lightsaber around like crazy...but i've never actually seen it.
Well, here's a video of something similar happening while a couple decided to have some fun with the lightsaber.
You perverts, that's not what i meant!


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