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iQ Quarterly Magazine

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Young takes a bite out of Apple

Erstwhile sixties protester, folk singer, grunge king, self-confessed Reaganite, and film auteur, Neil Young, is obviously bored. Again. So he’s gone in for a little fruit pulping and taken a pop at Apple, reports Fortune.

Drawing parallels between Apple’s iPod and a “Fisher-Price toy” at the Brainstorm Tech Conference in California recently, Young slammed the “dumbing down” of music sound quality in the age of the MP3 player.

Singling out the Cupertino company specifically, he suggested that high convenience had been placed ahead of high fidelity, and said that Apple had “... taken a detour down the convenience highway.”

“Quality has taken a complete backseat – if it even gets in the car at all”, he whined. Go on my son, you tell ‘em!

 young
Power dressing’s in the bag

Power dressing – in green to be exact – is back. Or it will be if US mechanical engineering student Joe Hynek and his ‘Power Purse’ have their way.

Laminated with photovoltaic solar panels, the black rectangular ‘clutch’ style handbag (Hynek’s entry in a recent Iowa State University design competition), channels solar energy to a pair of batteries and a USB port concealed in its own lining – allowing the carrier to charge her gadgets on the move.

Chargeable while out and about or even from a sunny windowsill, it is claimed that the bag is scratch and puncture resilient, and can charge a mobile phone battery with two hours of full sunlight. Once primed, one battery will apparently last up to a month.

Priced at around £150 the bag should be available online by the end of the year. Meanwhile, Hynek is working on similar designs for hats, jackets, and other accessories.

 Powerpurse
Facebook not playing the game, say Scrabble

US Scrabble manufacturer Hasbro is suing the makers of Scrabulous – the Facebook-based version of the popular word game – for alleged copyright and trademark infringements.

Attracting around 500,000 users daily, Scrabulous had become one of the social networking site’s most popular applications but, despite Facebook’s seeming reluctance to be drawn into the dispute, the game had been suspended “for some users” as WSSWF went to press.

We’re sure the action has nothing to do with the launch of Hasbro’s own official Facebook Scrabble game in July. But we’ve come up with a novel and – we think – fair way to settle things. A quick game using only the letters from Scrabulous creators’ Rajant and Jayant Agarwalla’s names... it’d be an absolute doozy.

 Scrabble
MS to launch melon liqueur rival?

Microsoft, we’re told, has embarked on a project to create an eventual replacement for Windows. Likely to be Internet centric, it’s widely predicted that the new model will represent a big shift in Microsoft strategy.

We’re not sure about the codename mind. Perhaps they meant to name Project Midori after “the beautiful green colour liqueur with refreshing and fruity taste of melon”, but it seems unlikely. 

Acknowledgements to The Register.
 
 Midori


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