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Monday, 30 April 2012

Tech Flashback: What if Keanu Reeves in "Speed" (1994) had a Smartphone? Part 2

Posted on 05:41 by Unknown
Category: Techtoday
 
Ever heard of Google Maps?  Or at least Bing Maps?
 
 
7.  Wouldn't an iPad be handy just about now?
 
 
8.  Keanu probably thought his police-issue wireless headset was pretty cool then, but look at the size of that earpiece!  Too bad there wasn't any bluetooth then . . . or Dr. Dre Beats.
 
 
9.  Wow, huge phone.  How many apps does it have Mr. Bomber (or memory for that matter)?
 
 
10.  The movie would have been severely dull if Facebook or Twitter were around mostly because the whole city would've probably known in advance that an exploding bus was cutting through traffic.  "Wow, just saw a careening bus on the highway with a wounded driver and a skin-headed Neo."  "Just got hit by a bus going past 50 – I'm alive!" The highways would have been empty, much less the end of the subway where the final climax occurred.
 
11.  Keanu couldn't get the police handcuffs off Sandra Bullock in the last act of the film. One of the most useful thing about the Internet is finding solutions for everything. With a smartphone, he could've pulled up Lifehacker, downloaded a How-To or Survival Guide ebook, or even a friggin episode of MacGyver on YouTube to get her out of there!
 
 
12.  Finally, there's probably an app out there today that will keep a bus from going slower than 50 kph.
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