- Ice, Ice Baby can finally get its due as a classic, at least in ringtone form. Acclaimed jazz composer David Baker said he wants members of his orchestra and the audience at the first performance of his “Concertino for Cellular Phones and Orchestra” next month in Chicago to unleash the audio barrage from their cell phones at certain points of the concert. Baker plans to use either a red or green light to signal when to turn on or off the phones as well as encourage people to randomly vary the volume of ring tones during the concert.
“There’s just no way to replicate 1,000 cell phones going off at once,” Baker said.
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A female Walrus named Pico, an 11-year-old, uses her mock mobile phone during a sea animal show at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium-amusement park complex in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo. It gives a whole new meaning to the tween market wireless carriers are trying to attract.
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Personal, pocket savior? The South African chapter of the non-denominational International Bible Society reported Java-based cell-phone users could download the whole Bible in either English or Afrikaans via text messaging. The download-which is a reported 1.2 megabytes and would cost $5.43-targets South African youth. Bible options include the King James version or a more up-to-date translated version, with plans to launch a Zulu and Xhosa language versions in the near future.
The idea of a mobile savior for youth is not new. Movie director Kevin Smith offers a scaled-down version of his Buddy Christ figurine, including a bobble-head version and glow-in-the-dark version, made popular in the cult-classic Dogma.
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