Best of the Rest: Bill Nye on the iPhone, Retro Twitter (Circa 1935)
There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
- Bill Nye, one of the coolest nerds of the '90s, explains the chemistry behind the iPhone 3GS's fingerprint-proof screen. [Gizmodo]
- If you like your bathwater to the perfect temperature and hate fiddling with the shower controls, check out bathomatic, an iPhone app that gives you full control of your luxury tub. [Unplggd]
- Did you know corporate logos have nicknames? For example, GE's logo is called the 'meatball.' [kottke.org]
- Sure, Twitter's super hot right now with the technorati, but it's hardly the first status update system. Witness the Notificator (a robotic messenger system where you could notify friends of your whereabouts) debuted in London in 1935. [CJR]







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Subscribe to commentsNo more fun, only languageJun 27th 2009 9:50AM
Here is an interesting iPhone app - http://www.dirtymouthapp.com/. The site has a collection of dirty and nice phrases in five different languages and the databank in getting enriched everyday. Currently, it has phrases in English, Italian, French, Russian and Hebrew language. The application also features meaning of the phrases, textually pronunciations of phrases, repeat phrases and pronounce phrases.