Griffin Technology

At Griffin we’re encouraged to celebrate Halloween to the best of our ability. We’ve seen a pink bunny, a wicked witch and ice cream sandwich (to name a few) stroll through our doors on October 31st.

This year we could try to create our most original costumes ever, but how can we compete with this?

Pete Cashmore at Mashable writes:

The costumes took 3 weeks to build, with each weighing 85lbs and requiring a car battery to be worn between the wearer’s legs. An iPhone 3GS is attached to a 42″ LCD screen (not touch screen, alas), turning the wearer into a human-sized iPhone. Co-creator John Savio writes:

This all started two years ago Reko Rivera and Bobby Hartman created a wearable large iPhone costume with a real 37″ lcd tv. An iPod was attached with a looping video of a real iphones screen in normal use. This time with the help of John Savio and John Matthews the team created yet another amazing rendition of the new iPhone 3GS…The team has about $2000 into the two costumes and has no regrets!

[via the Macrumors Forums]

Speaking of costumes, our Griffin Flickr costume contest is wrapping up this Friday.

We’ve got a $300 shopping spree for the best costume, plus a few extra treats for our 2nd and 3rd place runner ups. Good luck!

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tagged: halloween, halloween costumes, iPhone

Ben Zimmer of the New York Times recently wrote a great article on the history of FAIL. That’s FAIL the interjection not the verb.

Zimmer wrote:

In July 2003, a contributor to Urbandictionary.com noted that fail could be used as an interjection “when one disapproves of something,” giving the example: “You actually bought that? FAIL.” This punchy stand-alone fail most likely originated as a shortened form of “You fail” or, more fully, “You fail it,” the taunting “game over” message in the late-’90s Japanese video game Blazing Star, notorious for its fractured English.

Read the rest of the article here.

What has also made FAIL so popular online is the hilarious Fail Blog, a site where users submit images and videos of everyday examples of failure (like the one in this post).

FAIL has even touched us at Griffin. We were so inspired by the phenomenon that we created FAIL Maker, a free iPhone app to help you share those special moments of defeat.

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tagged: Fail Blog, Fail Maker, iPhone, iPhone apps, New York Times

There’s an interesting post today on Silicon Alley Insider about the rise in iPhone use for business. A recent study by Goldman Sachs found that 50% of the respondents said they use their iPhones for “both personal and business use.”

How about you? Are you using your smartphone for both business and personal use? Let’s find out….

This is where I shamelessly plug our cases for BlackBerry and iPhone.

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tagged: BlackBerry cases, iPhone, iPhone cases, Poll, Silicon Alley Insider, survey

Twitter has been exciting this afternoon as people were tweeting up a storm about Apple’s much anticipated iPhone 3.0 OS update. I must admit, I was guilty of jumping into the conversation too.

As my iPhone was updating, I created a fun survey to gauge your favorite new feature. Please take a moment to vote.

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tagged: 3.0 OS, apple, iPhone