T-800 bust does more than look nasty
Posted May 18, 2012 
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Do you remember the first time you watched Terminator at the cinema (or in the comfort of your own home, for those who were not yet born when the first movie was released)? The T-800 certainly sent chills down the spines of many, and we were left wondering whether our future will end up in a nuclear apocalypse, and robots who are self-aware (or even from the future) will come to cause havoc upon humanity. Well, the T-800 is definitely a thing of beauty in terms of design, and its signature glowing red eyes have pierced through many a soul in the past. Statues and busts of the T-800 are old hat by now, but this particular T-800 bust from Animatronics Works Japan is different – as it has plenty of detail, and the teeth on it were even created thanks to images of Arnold Schwarzenegger himself, before he was the Governator. The eyes will actually glow and wait for ti – move, too! At least it won’t be able to kill you, and neither can it talk you to death, but the asking price of around $11,000 is just too much for many.
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I have met a fair number of Persians who are not too happy with the current government in power whom they claim is corrupted to the core alongside rigged elections, but very little can be done about the situation back home in order to improve. It seems that the Iranian government has decided to take Google to court for not naming the body of water which separates Iran and the other Arab Gulf states neighboring it on Google’s online map service. While Iranians (or Persians, if you will) has named the waterway the Persian Gulf, other Arab countries tend to call it the Arabian Gulf instead. According to Iran, Google will face “serious damages” should they not call it the Persian Gulf. Perhaps an international referendum needs to be taken in order to settle on the name of the hotly disputed name once and for all, but seriously, what can Iran do to Google? 
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There is a new ‘Y U Play?’ survey from MocoSpace that shows the number 1 reason for Americans spending time on their mobile phones would be to “kill time”, while another third play for entertainment’s sake. Out of the sample crowd of over 10,000 gamers, 10% of them played games to compete, while lagging a wee bit behind at 9% is the motive of meeting new people. Hmmm, I wonder, isn’t heading down to the local watering hole a better way of meeting new folks? It is interesting that those who said “I’m always on the go” holds three percentage points – the same number of respondents who play games on mobile phones to flirt. Having said that, perhaps the invisible digital wall makes it easier to make friends and flirt, and there is no need to fork out more money for parking and all the wine-and-dine thing until one meets up face to face with the person behind the avatar, right? As for you, why do you indulge in mobile phone games?
The FCC does seem to have been kept pretty busy in the past few days, with devices making their way there in order to gain approval so that those very same gizmos can hit the market as soon as possible. Well, the Acer Iconia Tab A700 is no different, having arrived at the FCC, and this can only mean one thing – the tablet’s arrival to store shelves, virtual or otherwise, is imminent. The Acer Iconia Tab A700 is in the tablet game with a shout thanks to its NVIDIA Tegra 3 chipset, where the Wi-Fi only model picking up FCC approval in the process. Apart from the 10.1″ display that is compatible with 1080p video formats, the Acer Iconia Tab A700 will also run on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich right out of the box – definitely a plus point in this day and age, as you need not wait for an operating system update indefinitely right after purchasing one.
With Greece on the brink of quitting the Eurozone, the world’s economy does not seem to be any rosier despite recent austerity measures that were taken. Unless you are Apple with a crazy stock capitalization, chances are your bottomline is also being badly affected, and even behemoths like HP is said to be working on a workforce reduction by 25,000 to 30,000 people, at least according to folks who are familiar with HP’s inner wheelings and dealings. These cuts were tipped to be part of the recent decision by top management to merge a couple of its business units, hence making redundant the number of employees by approximately 8%. This is part of the continuing effort by HP to reduce their expenses as they contemplate bread and butter issues such as declining revenue and profits. When contacted, a HP spokesperson naturally declined to share any comments, so we will just have to wait and see whether this speculation pans out or not.
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