A friend of mine got an iPhone

Yeah, it came like lightning in clear sky. Not that I'm jealous or something. No, I'm not! Especially when I saw the size of that thing! I mean seriously, this can NOT be called an "iPhone". Sure it's thin, surely it has a nice color touch screen and surely he's taking the eye of the whole crowd! I mean come on, it's not that big deal! He's had it for 4 days, and the touch screen already turned in one smudgy, dirty, covered with fat, piece of ugly art. Of course I cannot ignore that fact that hes incompetent, but I'm pretty sure that if I had one of these, the LCD would turn into the same thing, 20 days after I acquire it (20 because most of the times it'll remain in my pocket, unlike the other school mates who always play their silly games or listen to crappy music on their cell phones, which I'm forced to listen to). Still, I was talking about the size, it covers his hole ear and is 2/5 of his head size. That's unacceptable. They talk of simplicity and comfort. I don't see any comfort in that, do you? It's all about this stupid touch screen, that's the big deal, everything else is the same old technology used on every other newer digital phone! Well let me tell you, that touchscreen technology is now on my granny's computer! So it's NOT something that's discovered just now. It's all about controlling the LCD and giving it the ability to use powerful software, which Apple clearly have mastered, for that I give them my applause. Everything other than that, is already old. So it's not that hell of an invention. I'm sure they can do something better than that. Everything else is nothing... air... Share your thoughts with me.
P.S. Here's a video of a dude, who made a touch screen control system with a PIC18F452 microcontroller, to prove that even you can make yourself a touchscreen application.

Happiest Week I Ever Had

This week was, as the title states, the best week I ever had since turning 16. Here are the key things that made it so:

1. I finished my first board which is from tomorrow going to get manufactured. It's a board designed for a device I made 2 months ago... It's a safe protection system and simply sends a signal when any "destructive" force is applied to a safe. I use a microphone to detect such interferences and calculate the frequency using a pic12f629 microcontroller and a lm324 op. amplifier. I ran a lot of tests on this thing, but my mentor encouraged me to try it out on real safes and so I decided to make the board.
2. I finished the outline of my new "Notebook" Pic Based Computer (PBC). It now has a keyboard connected to it, rs232 protocol interface(mainly for testing) and 2 32k*8 rams. And now I can continue with my work on the calculator. By the way, I got the pictures I so promised for both the calculator and the Notebook as you can see here on the left(the first one is the calculator, the second one is the PC).
3. I found a dusty old computer. It didn't work but there are parts in it that seemingly remained unharmed. The processor (IBM 6x86 MX 166 PR), the hard drive, 2 Ram sticks and a Trio64V2/DX video card. After I got consulted at Aaron's Homepage, I decided to keep the ram sticks, the hard drive and the card for spare, while the processor - just as a lucky charm! I'm so excited, what about you?