The Geek Church

These days, the boundary between smartphone and tablet is growing thin. Look at Samsung’s Note that showed up as a big Super Bowl commercial.

What you see in the video above is sort of a teaser trailer for LG’s new tablet. It has a 5-inch screen with a 4:3 ratio. I have to admit that some of the larger cellular phones are only about 4 inches on a diagonal, but is 5 inches too big? That would probably fit in a pocket, and might give a little more real estate than the usual smartphone screen.

I’m not certain what the release date of the Vu is, but some recent data has appeared after LG’s Vu leak. It includes a 1.5GHz Qualcomm APQ8060 SoC, 1GB of RAM, 8GB ROM, NFC, and an 8 Megapixel camera. It will be Android Gingerbread (version 2.3), but I’m surprised that it is not Honeycomb.

I suppose that we will see how this phone affects the market. Considering we live in an age crowded with Android smartphones and tablets, I wonder if this will be noticed.

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I’m not certain if the market is flooded with iPhone 4/4S, but after they became necessary when the iPhone 4, there must be thousands of possibilities.

This particular one is an interesting case that shows an alternate timeline where the iPhone came out in the eighties. Perhaps they plucked it from that alternate timeline that shows up on the TV show Fringe.

This is just the tip of the iceberg with the iPhone 4/4S. This image was from a service called Schreer Delights. You can see more of what they have to offer here, They have several iPhone cases at their website (a Blogspot creation) for about $44.95.

Please, take some time to visit the site here. These are by far the coolest iPhone case that I have seen, and that includes ones that I have seen at CES last January. Not only do they have this retro Apple case, but a retro iPod case, not to mention Gameboy, and other very cool designs.

Not only do they have cases, but a lot of interesting speakers as well. Did I mention the pendants? Yes, this Schreer Delights is a Geek Church gift shop.

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I don’t know if this is a sign of our sick society, but I think we need daredevils. There is something about people who throw caution to the wind that I believe genuinely inspires us and might be worth the risk of possible loss of life.

All right, this is getting a little too philosophical, but when I heard about this stunt, I was impressed. So far, the record for a skydive is 103,000 from Air Force pilot Joe Kittinger back in 1960. An Austrian extreme athlete named Felix Baumgartner could change that by jumping 120,000 feet above ground.

In case you are curious, that height is at the edge of space. Baumgartner plans to ride up the distance via custom-built pressurized capsule tethered to a 600-foot-wide balloon. He will wear a specialized pressure suit, and then jump from there.

After 35 minutes, Baumgartner will break the sound barrier. After that, it’s five more minutes of falling before pulling his parachute chord one mile before hitting the ground.

Baumgartner will attempt this record-breaking highdive in August. I really hope that nothing goes wrong and he lands on the ground safely.

Hot Wheels, those classic cars that we pushed around on hardwood floors, have now become remote controlled. The iNitro Kit is designed to work with an iPhone, and it becomes the remote control unit.

The iNitro uses an infrared signal, and the user needs to use the included Dongle to plug onto their iPhone. As you might have guessed, there is an app for controlling the car.

The application has several ways to control the car. One of them is the traditional dual stick interface that you see on most RC cars. There is also an accelerometer function in case you want to tilt and shift controls. There is even a “Slide” function that allows the user to drag one’s finger across the interface to control the car in pre-determined patterns.

Yes, this sounds like something that I definitely want to take for a spin. You can see from my Source how there was apparent test run, but I don’t see any word on price or availability.

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