Apple iPhone Purchase Requires a Credit Card
May 12, 2008 Gadgets
My father-in-law was in the Galleria Mall the other day, and heard that someone there was rather upset in the Apple Store. Seems the store was not willing to accept the customers fat wad of cash to purchase an iPhone. I thought, no way is that true, what store would forego the real US American money in favor of the vagaries of credit? Well, it’s true. You can’t even use gift cards, which sucks (as is pointed at in the linked article) for teens who would ask for gift cards for Christmas/Birthdays/Graduation to help pay for it. You of course have a way to pay for the service contact, but I don’t know why that would mean you can’t use cash for the actual purchase of the device.
iPhone SDK Doesn’t Suck
Mar 6, 2008 Gadgets, Media, PC Games
Gizmodo has a roundup of their iPhone SDK coverage here, but the thing that jumped out at me (being a huge fan of Will Wright) is that the iPhone will have the full-blown version of Spore available for it. Other highlights include VOIP via WiFi and an AIM client, still no Flash though. iPod Touch users have to pay again, too.
Tags: aim, apple, games, gaming, gizmodo, iphone, mac, spore, will wright
PopSci’s Best of What’s New
Nov 16, 2007 Gadgets, Sci/Tech
The very cool Nanosolar Powersheet tops the list of Popular Science’s Best of What’s New. There’s a few obvious choices (iPhone) but other wise some amazing tech.
The company produces its PowerSheet solar cells with printing-press-style machines that set down a layer of solar-absorbing nano-ink onto metal sheets as thin as aluminum foil, so the panels can be made for about a tenth of what current panels cost and at a rate of several hundred feet per minute.
Apparently the new Wembly stadium has more toilets than any building in the world. I bet the ladies’ room will still have a line, though.
Tags: apple, Gadgets, iphone, popular science, solar
