Two iPhones, one in Brazil and then another in Australia, have reportedly self-combusted in recent weeks.
The Australian incident happened on November 25 during a Regional Express flight from Lismore to Sydney. According to the airline’s official statement, one of the passengers’ phones “started emitting a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow”.
The case on Brazil involved a phone that was plugged in overnight and started shooting sparks.
We all knew it would happen eventually, but I certainly didn’t expected it to happen so soon: Siri has been used for home automation.
It’s a rather complicated process, and it was only used to turn on a fan, but it’s still pretty neat and I’m sure there’s more to come.
The programmer, Christoper Deutsch, gives a detailed account of the process on this blog.
Stuff.tv has a neat demo of the iPhone’s voice-controlled personal assistant, Siri.
The general consensus seemed to be a that people were disappointed the iPhone 5 turned out to be the iPhone 4S, but that hasn’t stopped Apple from selling one million of them in 24 hours.
Apple says that this is the fastest selling first day for any Apple product, ever, beating the previous record holder, the iPhone 4, which sold 600,000 units on its first day.
Maybe Siri, the iPhone’s new voice-recognition assistant, will prove to be a killer app after all and may find some usage in home control…or a precursor to Skynet.
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