When former Gizmondo executive Stefan Eriksson wrecked his million-dollar Ferrari on the Pacific Coast Highway last month, it simply seemed like a fitting metaphor for the death of his hapless handheld – the destruction of one expensive piece of machinery to mark the end of another.
—Gizmondo Bizarro (Game Revolution)
If all the news reports are accurate, the Gizmondo game system seems to let you race a Mercedes SLR, crash a Ferrari, manage the careers of special agents as they rise from eldertransport rent-a-cops to homeland security agents, and elude the authorities via a luxury yacht.
Similar:
A surprising detail in bank records helped a historian bust a longstanding myth about Iris...
Microsoft is once again asking Chrome users to try Bing through unblockable pop-ups
Interesting use of A.I. in a radiology journal
NASA Communicates with Ailing Voyager 1 Spacecraft
Looks like somebody’s webmaster accidentally preloaded a headline that would be easy to ed...
Princess of Wales photo furore underlines sensitivity around image doctoring