Teen warns Obama about trademark
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – A teenager is claiming he coined the phrase “Change Rocks” long before Barack Obama used it for fundraising concerts. But lawyers for Stefan Doyno, a 19-year-old who sells rings and pendants with interchangeable, twist-off stones, aren’t asking the Democratic presidential candidate to cease and desist: They’re suggesting a moneymaking partnership.
“Mr. Doyno would be more than willing to grant Mr. Obama a license on quite favorable terms to use the Change Rocks trademark in connection with products other than jewelry,” says a letter from Doyno’s lawyers to the campaign. “Mr. Doyno is far more interested in exploring possible synergies … than he is in preventing Mr. Obama from using the mark in connection with his campaign.”
Doyno, an English major at the University of Buffalo, said Thursday that he started his business when he was a ninth-grader at Scarsdale High School in suburban New York.
His Internet site says, “You can go from girly to goth queen in seconds by switching out your `cotton candy pink’ stone for `black ice.'”
Doyno said he chose the Change Rocks trademark “because it has a double meaning — change is great and you can change the stones.”
Obama has used change as a key theme in his campaign and dubbed a Dec. 7 fundraising concert in Chicago “Change Rocks.”
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The new Laser TV from Mitsubishi provides the best colores yet
Those mad scientists at Mitsubishi have built the ultimate entertainment weapon—the laser TV! Lasers shooting out of a television screen isn’t as scary as it may sound. But it does have one big benefit-color.
Lasers can be tuned to the exact wavelength of light you like—down to the nanometer. So TV makers can produce the ideal shades of red, green, and blue to produce the best colors possibly. Mitsubishi claims this allows them to reproduce about 80 percent of all the colors humans can see—versus about 40 percent for other TVs.
Is all that true? I can’t say for sure, but I know that colors were stunning. And maybe I just had too many cocktails at the launch party, but I think I saw colors that I hadn’t seen before on a TV.
Speaking of the launch party, who knew you had to have barely dressed hot chicks help sell a product. Link
The only way I would get one of these is if the laser was attached to the head of a friggin’ shark. If you don’t get that quote, then I question your taste in movies.
The Indian version of Thriller
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