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snl + apple parody commercials

Yesterday, Saturday Night Live did a not-so-funny parody of Apple’s iPhone announcement during their Weekend Update segment. But that made me think about a couple of times in the past when SNL was a little more on the mark with their Apple parodies…
McIntosh Junior: The Power To Crush the Other Kids

McIntosh Post-It Notes

New iPod…

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January 14th, 2007 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: just plain fun

honda asimo does a face plant

Some guy with a cell phone camera recorded this incident at a recent press conference showing off Honda’s Asimo humanoid robot. If you fast-forward the video clip to about 0:59 seconds, you can witness the pratfall:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6947118853654187245
Watch in horror as the brave little robot attempts to climb the stairs and instead does his best…

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December 11th, 2006 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: just plain fun robots

playstation 3 menu system direct video feed

IGN has posted this video showing a direct feed of the Sony Playstation 3’s “dashboard” user interface. At this point, it looks strikingly similar to the PSP’s interface:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1826796847481689092
No real surprises here… The ability to pull up system menus while playing a game is really the only “new” thing for Sony, and this has already been…

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August 20th, 2006 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: video games