Remains of the Day: Beer me

30.12.2010
iPhones send beers and fists flying, CNN is still thinking about 'Antennagate', and magazines are struggling on the iPad. If I'm not mistaken, these are your remainders for Wednesday, December 29.

(YouTube)

A tech-savvy YouTuber posted a video depicting a mini-fridge full of beer, an air cannon, and the iPhone that merges the two into a rapid-fire beer can dispensing machine. Via a Web app, the owner can check beer temperature, choose a specific beverage, aim the fridge using its built-in Webcam, and fire when ready. Not everyone at is 100 percent convinced that this is real, but we've concluded that were it faked, they likely would have gone with better beer.

(CNN)

In its roundup of what it called the biggest 'fails' of 2010, CNN awarded Apple a full 20 percent of the ignominious honors. iPhone 4 'Antennagate' and iTunes Ping made up two of the ten 'fails' on the list. I won't argue that Ping deserves more love, but it's hard to agree with Antennagate, since Apple's sold . Apple hasn't responded to CNN's dis--and likely won't--but I like to imagine Apple would pinpoint CNN's biggest fail for 2010 as "a once-prestigious news organization resorting to using 'fail' as a noun."

(Gizmodo)