Jan 16

Melting Watch: Hello, Dali!

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If modern art is more important to you than the ability to tell time, then have I got a timepiece for you. Inspired by Salvador Dali’s classic The Persistence of Memory, this surreal watch is sure to turn heads when you go to check the time.

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Despite its distorted looks, the Melting Watch does actually tell time accurately thanks to a precision quartz movement. It’s available for just $29.95(USD) from our friends over at Gadgets & Gear. Though for that price you don’t get a melted face or a pile of ants with it. I suppose that’s a good thing.

For some reason I’m thinking that this is what the T-1000′s watch looked like when he melted into a pile of molten metal in Terminator 2.

 

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Oct 11

Behind the scenes history of MeeGo reveals Nokia’s abandoned tablet and Verizon N9

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Behindthescenes history of Meego reveals

Finnish site Taskumuro has produced an incredibly detailed behind-the-scenes history of Nokia’s wonderful, yet doomed, MeeGo OS. Talking to current and ex-employees of the phone maker, it learned that a tablet (codenamed Senna) and CDMA Nokia N9 for Verizon were both in development before Stephen Elop killed the project dead around the time of the “burning platform” memo. The report also claims that the company’s decision to develop Maemo (later MeeGo) in tandem with Symbian led to a developer turf-war, that the Swipe UI was cooked up at the 80/20 Design Studio in New York and the team had planned an Apple-esque strategy of releasing a single phone every year. If you’d like to learn more (and about how the original article was translated from Finnish into English in under 10 hours), head on down to the source links.

[Thanks, Masa and Justus]

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