Regular desk VoIP phone with YouTube? WTF! I could not belive it, but I have seen it myself – GrandStream GXV3175 phone featuring touch display and YouTube as one of the “apps” on it.

I could understand clock or weather widgets on the screen. Maybe even a currency converter, but who would watch the videos on desk phone? The answer was much simpler than I though – nobody, because it did not work with any video it offered and I tried. It just does not work, all my attempts ended up with “Sorry, this video contains content from other sites” message. Come on.

And that is not the only issue with the phone from what I heard from my colleague who bought it as a gift to his parents. Apart from crappy touchscreen technology and weird UI I experienced while trying YouTube, he told me the main problem is it can not receive calls, it just does not ring :) Oops.

 

The funniest comment I found after new iPad announcement yesterday is in the article iPad Innovation: Diminishing Returns, Or Exceeding Expectations? The author says the innovations are not really the innovations in terms of a breakthrough as Apple claimed during the keynote many times. And he adds: “Apple is going to have to introduce the flying car, a Watson in human form that can do my taxes, or an edible tablet before we’ll feel emotionally moved enough to pay attention.” I’m definitely in favor of edible tablet. I suggest vanilla and blueberry flavor to start with.

Hmmm … flask, business card, wrench, coctail swords, skull … alright, but why there are two phones? Anyway take your own quiz at Webifyme.org

As every year Wired’s 2010 vaporware list has just arrived. Besides “King of Vaporware”, “The Sultan of Suck” or “the Chief Executive Officer of Fail” Duke Nukem Forever we have an orchestra of failure. Btw … 64bit Flash Player received my vote. Check out trends summaries to look for next year candidates.

• 10 Transportation Trends That Rocked 2010
• Top Scientific Breakthroughs of 2010
• The 10 Most Significant Gadgets of 2010

RIM vs. Motorola, Motorola vs. Apple, Apple vs. Nokia, Nokia vs. Sharp, Sharp vs. RIM. Everyone vs. Everyone. Check out who’s suing who. The situation starts to be quite absurd now and I’m wondering when the snow ball gathers enough momentum to destroy current ridiculous software patents. Based on actions within last 365 days, we’ll reach it sooner than later.

Scientists found the evidence of a parasitic fungus that took over the brain of an ant and killed it to spread the spores and continue its own lifecycle. Fortunately it lived 48 million years ago. But hey … you never know. Why was it terminated by the evolution? And is it really gone? And does they eat brains?