Looks like a great machine, but the new Macbook Pro starts at US$1999 in the USA but is € 1799 here in Germany, which is $2,444. Imagine that loaded up with overpriced Adobe apps. Seems like a raw deal for Europeans again. Isn’t it America’s economy that’s on the rocks?
Troika, the folks behind the cloud sculpture at Heathrow, have created a virus on a USB stick, called the Newton Virus (for manual infection) that makes your desktop fall to pieces. It also uses the tilt sensors in the Macbooks for some gravity fun so you can shake the pieces around.
The piece isn’t design to be malicious. It harks back to the golden days when viruses were there to amuse rather than to destroy:
The virus will then hit at random, but only once. It will not replicate itself, mail itself to your friends or destroy any of your files, but instead provides you with moments of blissful surprise and magic.
See the video on Gizmodo.
I’m going to visit Troika this week to do a podcast for Core77. I’ll see if I can get infected.
(Via NOTCOT).
[tags]Troika, virus, macbook, play, playful[/tags]