Gary Powell looses new 4G iphone, offered free trip to Munich

Apple engineer Gary Powell was out at a German beer hall in Redwood City, Califonia, when he drunkenly left the newest prototype of the 4G iphone at Gourmet Haus Staudt. The phone was disguised as the iphone 3GS and picked up by a stanger, then sold to a tech blog called Gizmodo for $5,000. You can believe that Apple is very upset with Gary Powell right now, and he must be feeling very unresponsible right now. After word about this misplacement was heard around the world, a German airline called Lufthansa, offer Gary Powell a complementary business class trip to Munich. Lufthansa's airline director of marketing wrote an open letter stating, "We all know how frustrating it can be to loose personal belongings....at Lufthansa we also note with great interest your passion for German beer and culture." The letter was posted on the airlines twitter page and they also tweeted to the followers, "If you can help us get in touch with Gary Powell, we would like to fly him to Munich." Many people can understand a marketing gimmick, and this is one of the top picks for me.

The new way to text

There is a new application called "Voice Text Pro" which is made for the apple iphone and the ipod touch. This new application lets you have hands free voice activating text messaging. On the "Voice this" website, I read that because so many states have the no texting or using the phone while driving, you can now text without pressing a button. You are able to create, edit, and delete saved messages. There is a video on this website which tells you how to use the application and actually shows you how it works.

This application is the only one out there as of now for the apple iphone and or ipod touch. The idea for this application came from "people should be able to talk to computers, and that computers should understand what we're saying." On CNN the article says "Mobile voice-recognition technology now allows people to send text messages to friends by talking instead of typing; be able to scan throught transcriptions of voice mail instead of having to listen to them all; tell the phones what theya re looking for on the web; and soon to post twitter from your phone verbally."

Right now, there is also a phone called the Google Nexus One which comes with two microphones, one for the voice of the person and the other for the noise that may interfere with the persons voice. With this new second microphone it makes it easier for the phone to determine what noise is human and what isn't. I feel that every single year, let alone every month there is something changing technologically. What will be next???