The customization process has started with the iPhone.  The 16GB iPhone now has been completely upgraded with black replacement parts, new Apple logo and will only cost you $849.

If you want to send in your current iPhone to have it geared out you can, but test runs have shown it takes about a week.

PS - They’re also dropping the Black iPod Nano ($99/$329 new) and the Black iPod Touch ($129/$529 new) just for shits and giggles.

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Art + technology =Hotness!

Dunny mentioned Pandora earlier, and I’m pretty sure that everyone has their favorite music streaming site. One of my new obsessions though is Muxtape. In an ode to the days when you would make your own mixtape and share it with those that mattered (making a girl a mixtape was the ultimate symbol that you cared).  Well Muxtape is bringing this idea back in a digital way. Basically it works like this:

1. Create an account

2. Upload songs to your account that you want to make a mixtape with

3. Your mixtape is accessible to other members of the community, as are their mixtapes for you

So not only do you get to put a little of who you are into your muxtape for others to listen to, you also get to find out what other’s are listening to along the way.  I’ll post a link to my first muxtape soon.

WTF?

Check out the new HPI G-Dog Robot straight from the minds of Japan.

It all started on April 3rd, 1973 as Martin Cooper made the first cell phone call to his rival, just to rub it in a little.  The Motorola DynaTAC (Dynamic Total Area Coverage) was 9 inches tall and 2 1/2 pounds and after just 35 minutes of use needed 10 hours of recharging to get the batteries going again.

Remember when Zach from Saved By The Bell pulled out his Dad’s cell?  Brick Top.

image via Wired

There are a few things in life that I’m deathly afraid of and not afraid to admit here.  Besides burning to death, getting eaten alive goes down as #2 in my book, so I’ve got to give this guy props for Cajones.

Of course this is a Great White and of course this picture was taken in Australia.  But what it doesn’t show are the devices they’re testing Down Under, Shark Shields.  Meant to keep the Great Whites away from surfers, the Shark Shields send out electric shocks out 8 yards away from the device.

image via DailyMail

With technology the way it is today, you’ve got to wonder if Liverpool Co-Owner Tom Hicks is making the right decision communicating over e-mails with fans. Now I’m not sure how credible this might be, but haven’t we learned our lessons from Myspace and ExGirlfriend.com yet?

With so much tension running within the club (public bru-hahas with Rafa Benitez and the rumor of Klinsmann taking over) and surrounding the club (potential buyout by DIC), Hicks has made a very public stance of what he wants and envisions for one of the most loyal fan based teams in the world.

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