Monday, October 19, 2009

6 Unusual Grenade-Inspired Gadgets



As I was thinking on the title for this post what came to my mind was 6 Ways to get stupidly killed while having fun. Though some of these gadgets would probably not get out of one's house.
So here they come...

1. Computer Mouse



I would say that this would definitely not be the Best mouse to take to college. It would be funny but you know how people are in the USA… In brazil maybe someone would try to buy it thinking that it is actually a grenade so that wouldn’t be a good idea also. Well, wait for the next one…

2. USB Drive



Do you have your USB drive?
Sure!
Woooww are you crazy man I thought I was your friend! I have a family!
Chill it’s only my new grenade pen drive!

I hope you don’t have this conversation with a cop… it’s ending might not be so good.

3. Joystick



I still don’t see how this one works… Hmm now I get it it’s a grenade, no. If someone could please enlighten me I would be very grateful.

4. Lamp



Wow... This is just sick…
No further comments…

5. MP3 Player



World War II
- Throw a grenade!!
- I’ll get one from you…
…. Why didn’t it blow up?
- That was my mp3 you *******

(No I won’t mention the case where a person wants to hear music in the subway.. that would not be a good idea at all)

6. Coin Bank



I need money!
- I’m going to play a prank with my little brother… (This only works if you paint the coin bank so it’s similar to a real grenade.)
Fire in the hole!
- AAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa
-hauhauahuahuhau… now I got my money and some laughter out of it.

Well if I were you I would think twice before buying any of these gadgets, though the mouse seems really tempting…. I don't even know actually if it is legal to have any of these!!

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Spotify's CEO thinks big



Well first of all what is Spotify? Well don't feel ignorant if you don't know, after all it is a new product and I didn’t know about it either. Spotify is a freemium and a premium music download service. The question that comes to people’s minds is how can a legal company be a freemium music download service. Well this is possible for two reasons, the first one is due to the sponsors who are present in the freemium software, and the second and most important is that they pay for the songs rights. The money made by the premium server, (which logically has a lot more applications and downloads available) and the money made through sponsors allow them to pay for these rights.
The main idea behind Spotfy, which was reveal by the CEO is that in a short time they will achieve a number over a trillion users the music industries will gain a lot of money. This is in many ways, the first is that directly some of the Spotify's clients will be paying to download songs and this money will go to the artists. The indirect way is that people will go to concerts, and even be motivated to buy the CD of an artist which they enjoyed a song or two so that they can get to know the other songs better.
As quoted from the original speech; "If we can go to trillions, just think about the easy math," he told the crowd. "What about 1% of those converting in to paid subscription, or becomes a paid download, or decides to buy a concert ticket? That's how we grow the music industry to a $40bn or $50bn industry, by getting it to work on people's favorite devices.
My point of view was always the same as Spotify's CEO, by allowing people to download music people will be instigated to seek for CDs, and also attend events which will generate the songs author benefit.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Have some fun while enjoying your IB life!

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila"

"Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google."

"There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't."


"A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light"

"The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes it to go at 9.81 m/s2."



Halo Prank

Well every week and the same old technology update... This time it is different I just will not make a new post and there we go!
Thank you for reading!

















Just kidding ^^
Well as this is not a common post it will be about an event that happened to celebrate the release of the new XBOX 360 game HALO3.
This was not a normal event as you may know MIT students are known for their pranks (called Hacks by the MIT students) on their campus and other college campuses. Well this time the John P. Harvard statue in Harvard Yard won a Spartan helmet (with "Master Chief in Training" written on the back) and an assault rifle. Very creative, after all they are doing MIT for a reason.
Well sometime you may think that being in a party with these students may seem very frustrating although when it comes to pranks and teaching they really are the best.



To check some other of the MIT "hacks" go to the following address: http://hacks.mit.edu/