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Texting While Driving: The Most Melodramatic PSA Ever?

Geoffrey Golden — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:17:36 +0000

This bloody, gruesome PSA about texting while driving is as ridiculously violent as a Tarantino film. In the video, a young girl is chatting with her friends and text messaging on her phone, instead of watching the road. What results is :20 seconds of gory, slow motion car crashes, followed by 3:30 minutes of hysterical crying and a little girl asking why her parents aren’t waking up.

I understand that the filmmakers were striving for “realism,” but too much melodrama makes the video feel like an awkward exaggeration. I think you’ve got to decide between the teenager constantly crying, the newly orphaned little girl and the lifeless baby. Put in all three, and you might as well add a school bus crashing into a zoo, killing all the children and several sneezing panda cubs.

Forget The Razr: This Cell Phone Is An Actual Razor

Asterios Kokkinos — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:33:09 +0000

Japan has once again provided the solution to a problem we didn’t know we had.

The Chinese-made, Japanese-sold “Shave Mobile Razor Phone” has a built in electric shaver, which is powered by USB. This story, which originated at CNet Japan, unfortunatley doesn’t tell you where or how to buy the darn thing. But, after translating their website with Google Translate, I am happy to report that the translated first line of the article is:

Beautiful body, and shaving at the bottom built-in!

Will I ever get tired of poorly translated Japanese? I don’t think so. Check out the translated page yourself by clicking here.

Source: CNet Japan

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Google Android’s Super Sucky Tech Support

Geoffrey Golden — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:29:14 +0000

Google Android is the most buzzed about tech today, but not all the buzz is good. Reports say that customer service for the smart phone is abysmal. Slow response to consumer problems may be because the search engine giant doesn’t have adequate tech support in-house for dealing with hardware issues. Until this point, Google was never in the hardware business.

Google insists that the complaints about their service are coming from only a small number of customers. Still, reports of consumers having to email their technical support questions to Google, and getting a response 2 days later, does not speak well of Google’s support strategy. Hopefully, T-Mobile can pick up the slack while Google gets its groove back.

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