Tag: GATES

With those rotating, germ-infested metal bars, plain old turnstiles are so yesterday. When it comes to keeping wanderers out of subway stations, amusement park rides, and office buildings, water jets are apparently the way of the future. Thanks to a new invention that uses a jet stream to create a barrier at a turnstile, the Wicked Witch of the West will never again enter your space without ...

In a recent Vogue interview, Melinda Gates confided that she's battled some iPhone envy in her day: "Every now and then I look at my friends and say 'Ooh, I wouldn't mind having that iPhone'." It's just too bad for her that Apple is forbidden fruit in the Gates household. "There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household. But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/microsoft/Microsoft_s_new_ads_Seinfeld_and_Gates_out_Hodgman_lookali'; According to a report from the New York Times, the next phase of Microsoft's latest ad campaign is set to begin -- sans Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. Apparently, the new ads do away with the unusual (and somewhat ill-received) banter and "real life" experiences of the two celebrities, and trade ...

As promised, Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld made their television pair-up debut last night, in an advertisement for something or other. We were sad to see Seinfeld sans-bee suit, and Gates is lacking in Costanza-isms, but we might just be looking at a beautiful friendship here. Video is after the break. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] ...