“Sometimes you just need to talk on your iPhone right NOW, and even the tedious task of fetching the device from your pocket or purse is just too big of a delay to handle,” Mike Wehner reports for TUAW.
“If this sounds like you, then you’re going to want to pay very close attention to the following video, as it may change your life forever,” Wehner reports. “The inventive Japanese man in the clip exhibits unbridled ingenuity in creating an iPhone quick-draw system capable of getting your smartphone into your grasp within just fractions of a second.”
Wehner reports, “If the homemade masterpiece looks a bit familiar, it may be due to its similarities to rig used by Robert De Niro’s character in the film Taxi Driver.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We laughed out loud more times during this under 2-minute video than we have at SNL since they fired Norm… in 1998.
Quick, guy, whip that iPhone into action and quick Kickstarter on the horn!
[Attribution: Cult of Mac. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Arline M.” for the heads up.]
Sometimes I despair for humanity.
lol was that his girlfriend in the corner?
I think his sense of humor is brilliant.
Absolutely.
Was I the only one who saw QuickDraw in the headline and thought of the Mac Classic graphics engine?
I thought it was for famous western cartoon figure, QuickDraw Mgraw.
No. Me too.
Very funny. If this guy wants to take it to the next level he should mix his video with Gangnam Style music.
もしもし!
Don’t know why, but I was waiting for the guy to answer the phone, “TIMMY!”
I think I can hear this guy’s marbles rolling down the street. Definitely not playing with a full deck but it looks like he’s having fun, bless him.
If you do not laugh whilst watching this video, then you can safely come to the conclusion that you do have a full deck either! Looking for your marbles thereafter could be the fix that you need.
I must be missing a full deck as well! I meant to say “that you DO not have a full…”
Never said I didn’t have a laugh…whatever floats your boat I say and good luck to him.
I think I have found most of my marbles now… My comment was in addition to yours Bob A not against you! But then as you can see, having a full deck sometimes eludes us all sometimes!!
Yeah – pretty sure I started losing mine some time ago. Now, what was I going to do next? Damned if I can remember….
Another trip down Memory Lane for me today. In the 80s I was working for an outfit that developed and sold private telephone systems, and we were able to crack the Japanese market only because our system was fast enough (!) to detect the extremely rapid keypresses of receptionists or other operators transferring incoming calls. Believe me, those users had quick reflexes and could dial a number in milliseconds. Even the homegrown NEC PBX couldn’t handle those speed-typists.
I watched this 3 times, very funny and cleverly done!
I forgot the name of the movie but it was about a guy who wanted to assassinate someone and he invented a system very similar to this but to draw a gun instead of a cell phone.
A device like that will get you shot and killed in this country. It, and you, are DOA.
LOL, only in Japan!
If that device got you killed in this country, you be getting killed by an idiot ten times dumber than Harry Reid.