The Ultimate Water Training – Pool Sprint Concept

We’ve all unfortunately seen that big group of old people, “working out” in the pool, and tried with all desperation not to vomit all over the place. Seriously, who has ever heard the term Water Training and not had to immediately picture Jessica Rabbit bending down to pick up a penny in order to get the image of old saggy skin and turkey necks out of their heads?

Well now, Finnish designer Pyry Tamminen is working on changing the image of water training all together. He’s created a concept called Pool Sprint that is basically submersible rubber track which allows a runner some traction when wearing special water shoes. It looks like fun

I really hope this concept takes off. Working out in water could be pretty fun once you get rid of those neon colored foam tubes. Why should Astronauts and Science Fair winners be the only ones to work out under water? Imagine, one day we may get to go the gym and work out like this

Pyry Tamminen has made a few working concept models but is looking for investors. You can contact him here.

(via DesignBoom)

The Power of the Internet! Support Net Neutrality

ONE: Hit play and learn a bit about Net Neutrality from Will Wheaton, Mythbuster’s Adam Savage and a bunch of other people making more money via the internet than me.

TWO: Go to SaveTheInternet and do your civic duty.

(via Phampants)

Toy Story – The Wire Mashup

If you haven’t watched HBO’s The Wire, you’re really missing out. Ryan Hoffman and Dan Angelucci have created a nice little mash up of Toy Story footage and The Wire dialogue. The lips don’t match up, but it’s entertaining none the less. Watch as Woody becomes the Chief Asshole of the series and Buzz teaches the little green men to conglomerate.

(via: I Watch Stuff)

Apple suspends Pre-Orders for iPhone 4

Earlier this month, Steve Jobs announced the release date of the iPhone 4 as June 24th of this year and the internet went into a frenzy. Two days ago, AT&T began the rollout of pre-orders for the devise and ended up with packed stores, long lines, exposure of credit card information and a lot of unsatisfied customers. Well after that fiasco, AT&T has pulled the plug on pre-orders for the iPhone 4 and the 8 GB iPhone3GS according to a memo obtained by Boy Genius Report:

Pre-orders for iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS 8GB are Temporarily Suspended

Effective close of business on June 15, 2010, the ability to place pre-orders (new activations, upgrades and exchanges) has been temporarily suspended.  There is a special team that will be manually working all pre-orders from June 15th that were held in a pending status.  Under no circumstances should new pre-orders be attempted in the system.

This suspension impacts Phoenix, Premier, OPUS (COR), and System X (DMDR).

Please stay tuned to future bulletin communications for any updates.

So for all you fan-boys and girls who want to be the first to have the newest iPhone in your circle of friends but didn’t make it to the store on the 15th, it will not be happening. It’s smarter to wait for the first gen bugs to pop up and be fixed before purchasing a $300+ device anyway.

Who Wants a Free Trial to Microsoft Office 2010?

Now we here at Idylum tend to support open source software, but in this crazed Corporate run world we live in, OpenOffice doesn’t always cut it. A few days ago, Microsoft released their newest version of their Office package. You can pick up their Home & Student version for $150.00 here. For those of you (in the U.S.) who aren’t going to drop 150 bones on what is essentially Microsoft’s version of EA’s Madden Franchise, you can get a 60 day, free trial key from Microsoft here. After the 60 day trial is up, Microsoft will nag at you to pay for a purchased registration key and shut down the software. That is unless you use a nifty little bit of software that can extend your trial by 30 days.

Try it out, let us know what you think of the update in the comments.