Spinning Streak iPhone App

Just been sent a link to this great little free iPhone game/app called Spinning Streak. It’s described as ‘a game of skill and balance’, where your purpose is to ‘become the most famous Spinning Streak act on the planet’.

The object of the game is to keep the coins spinning on the poles by flicking the screen. The longer you can keep them going, the more points you get. Like a lot of iPhone apps, it’s a pretty simple premise, but also amazingly addictive. As you improve, you move up through the ranks, performing at various locations, until you manage to reach the ultimate goal of spinning your coins in Las Vegas.

Spinning Streak is a great little free and fun app which runs on all flavours of iPhone.

Just follow this link for the free download!

New iPhone

My guess would be, at this very moment, at least one Apple employee is becoming an ex-Apple employee, after this seeingly genuine prototype of the brand new iPhone was lost in a bar in Redwood City… And then handed in, not to Apple, but tech site Gizmondo… (The rest of Apple employees I suspect are cowering in corners as Steve Jobs hurls furniture around the office in a blind rage.)

After some close examination, including taking it apart, the phone (which was camouflaged in a case to look like an normal iPhone 3GS) appears to be the real deal.

New features include a front-facing video chat camera, Improved regular back-camera with flash (unfortunately, not the flash we all want on the iPhone, but still nice), a switch to Micro-SIM, improved display, and a bunch of changes to the layout and buttons.

Lots more photos and video over at Gizmondo.

Scott's Walkman Trail

BBC have a great article where they took away a 13yr old boy’s iPod, and gave him a classic Sony Walkman instead.

Born in 1996 (the year i graduated… i feel so old…) this was pretty much the first time young Scott Campbell had needed to deal with old analogue technology, particularly the staple of my youth, the humble home audio tape, producing my favourite remark from the article:

“It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape.”

kids today…

Clicky to the full article

Apple introduces the MacBook Wheel, a revolutionary new laptop that replaces the keyboard with a giant scroll wheel! Keyboards are sooo 2008!

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

(I love theonion.com)

Dave Veloz built this wonderful steampunk mod of a Mac Mini as a wedding present for his soon to be wife. It really is a stunning piece of work! Lot’s more pics over at steampunkworkshop.com

This is pretty awesome. Bit on the pricey side (as all new Apple stuff is), but that’ll come down over time. I can see a point in 12 to 18 months when this is the standard Macbook. As a piece of design innovation though, it’s uber-cool!

Tech Specs: 

• Height: 0.16-0.76 inch (0.4-1.94 cm)
• Width: 12.8 inches (32.5 cm)
• Depth: 8.94 inches (22.7 cm)
• Weight: 3.0 pounds (1.36 kg)
• 13.3″ Screen.
• 1.6Ghz or 1.8Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
• 2Gb Memory.
• 80Gb 4200-rpm PATA hard drive or 64Gb solid-state drive.
• Oversize trackpad with multi-touch technology.
• 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR built in.
• No optical drive, but if you want to use one you can wirelessly use or “borrow” the optical drive of a Mac or PC in the vicinity (or plug one in obviously).

One photo can’t really do it justice.  Hop over to apple.com/macbookair for the full details.