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Have you got dynamic digits? Are your fingers faster than the proverbial speeding bullet? Then get your sweet ass down to Los Angeles, baby, because they’re about to pit the quickest texters against each other in a fight for a $10,000 prize and place in the speed-messaging final in NYC on April 21st.
Before you get too cocky, you’ll have to turn that T9 off and refrain from using any ridiculous abbreviations or shorthand. So far 150 have signed up and organisers LG are expecting more to turn up on the day.
To all those competing: gd lck!
R u rdy 4 wrlds fastest txt msg? [Reuters]
Children these days get all the cool stuff. When I was a boy, I was lucky if I’d have a small piece of corned beef to entertain myself with during the cold winter nights; almost six million lucky chiddles in Mexico are currently receiving all their education using enormous touch-sensitive flatscreen displays called Enciclomedia.
Designing a robot with the same locomotive system as a single-cell amoeba is all well and good, but I’m a little concerned about the future of Virginia Tech’s invention. Yes, it means that uneven or difficult terrain could be crossed without concern over wheels or tracks getting caught, but don’t you often find that developments like these end up being vaunted for, ahem, internal human usage?
