The first half of this video belongs over at our sister blog, Autopia. After the two-minute mark, though, things return to Gadget Lab: UK presenter Rory Reid climbs into a £1 million (about $1 gazillion) rally car and, while being hurled around the track by driver and European Rallycross champion Kenneth Hansen, tries to type a simple sentence on both an iPhone and an Asus EeePC:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Which do you think will win? The cramped keyboard of the Eee as it bounces around on Rory’s lap, or the iPhone which can be held securely with two hands as its predictive text-correction goes to work? As a further clue, here’s the text from the Eee after hurtling around the track:
THISn QUICC BDE4 FROCCDX HJUNOE OV4E3DR TTHJREV N V DOGTG
It looks like Rory might be pretty good at entering registration codes into Adobe products.
The iPhone?
The quick fox jumps over the lazy dog it so
It looks like Rory was getting excited. He missed out a word and then started to get cocky at the end. We expect that he was trying to say “it’s so easy.”
Also: Would it kill them to put some carpets in that car? £1 million and they can’t afford a carpet?
Video: iPhone vs netbook in extreme rally car typing challenge [Crave UK via ★]
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