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Fancy Self-Winding Clockwork Phone: CELSIUS X VI II Micro-Mechanical Remontage Papillon Tourbillon Mobile Phone

by Jay Garrett on March 14, 2010

I’m not a huge fan of garish, overly expensive mobile phones – I just don’t see the point unless you’re a Z-List ‘celeb’ and lack the imagination as to what to spend your fee for embarrassing yourself on the latest reality TV show.

Thing is, I do love mechanical watches (RADO especially if anyone wants to add to my collection – would really appreciate a Spacewing or NCC 303) so this Celsius X-VI-II $300,000 mechanical cellphone caught my interest.

Apparently this phone will be officially outed at Baselworld Watch Show but Watchismo has busted loose some shots of this ‘butterfly-inspired’ mechanical mobile.

Naturally the swish mechanism is exposed so the less rich (or more tasteful) can marvel at your blowers intricate workmanship.

From what I gather this phone is ‘wound’ and therefore powered (I guess) from the ‘Remontage Papillon’ or butterfly rewinding mechanical system that’s hidden in the phone’s ‘wings’.

I’m hoping that this phone is actually as stated: “A dream that embraces a concept that is still impossible today but may one day come true: an entirely mechanical cellphone!”

If this phone is truly powered and recharged by an automatic watch-style mechanism then this is very impressive! If, on the other-hand, all the gears, etc (beautiful though they are) are just for the implanted watch, then sorry Celsius – it’s rather naff at €200,000

I’m guessing we’ll all know more after Baselworld 2010.

What do you think?

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Assassin’s Creed II Multiplayer – Download FREE For 48 Hours

by Jay Garrett on March 1, 2010

Yup – I’m downloading as I type.

Ubisoft has released the multiplayer edition of Assassin’s Creed II for iPhone, and it’s completely free to download for the first two days! Beautiful!

Don’t be expecting a friend frenzy version of the original Assassin’s Creed II iPhone game though.

This is a birds-eye view sneak fest and not the glossy 3D full console game featuring voice actors and all that.

You still have to rely on stealth and go around assassinating folk; but the great thing is that you’ll be playing against real-life opponents. You can play against up to three other players over Wi-Fi. Nice :)

Ignoring the graphics and the change of view the gameplay is pretty much the same as you’ve come to know and love. You can sneak around in crowds to avoid being seen before pouncing on opponents before they do the same to you.

All this sneaking and general assassininininin with 3 of your buddies doing exactly the same should give this mobile game some depth and longevity.

As I mentioned earlier, if you spring over to the app store within the next day and a half you get Assissin’s Creed II: Multiplayer for free :)

After that it’ll cost you £1.79.

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Helio Ocean 2 Released To Coincide With Britney, Virgin and Valentines

January 29, 2009 Click to read more →

If you’re a fan of Britney Spears you may have heard that her next tour is to be sponsored by Virgin Mobile and the Helio Ocean 2.
You will also be aware that her tour kicks off on March 3rd which is therefore the launch date of the Ocean 2.
You may not be aware that the [...]

X-Mini II – Revenge of The Sphere Speakers. They Will Surround You!

January 22, 2009 Click to read more →

Remember back in early Spring last year I brought word of a cute little portable speaker called the X-Mini?
It only gets better!!
The X-Mini II speaker spheres are here and at $29 have a little trick up their…..balls?
They can be daisy chained together for an infinitely expandable grouping of rock action (see below)……… this is surround [...]

Imagination Technologies Brought in For Sony PSP 2

November 27, 2008 Click to read more →

Imagination Technologies are being a little coy at the moment and will only own up to saying that it’s signed a licensing deal with a “major international consumer electronics company”.
EETimes.com, however, has spilled the beans by reporting that the company in question is, in fact, Sony, and that the deal concerns Imagination’s PowerVR architecture being used in the [...]

LG Prada II Phone Confirmed

September 26, 2008 Click to read more →

LG have now come out and said that there will be a follow up to their fashion fone link with Prada.
There has been the usual leaked pictures around the interweblogsphere and now the manufacturers have finally  admitted defeat and confirmed that the Prada II is in the pipeline.
I’m hoping that other rumours are also true; [...]