EDSA takes on a distinctly different personality when late evening comes. When the traffic enforcers are gone, and when no policemen are in sight, the whole length of the metropolis’ main thoroughfare becomes a most dangerous place.

Somehow, motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses, and their drivers lose their inhibition and become daredevils, inebriated perhaps by the knowledge that whatever traffic rules they would flaunt, they would never be apprehended.

Until they become road kill statistics.

Still wondering why most of the metropolis’ worst and deadliest traffic accidents occur in those unholy hours, just in time for the following morning’s early news broadcasts?

Nokia’s Unwired Power

Nokia, the world’s biggest manufacturer of mobile phones, has developed a cell phone capable of recharging its battery without the need for a charger or getting connected to a power grid. Nope, the Nokia wonder phone does not rely on those cranked (and cranky) mini-generators.

The handset collects radio waves from the air, and transforms the gathered electromagnetic energy to create electric current, which is used to recharge the phone’s battery.

With almost all parts of the globe saturated with radio waves, which are mostly wasted and absorbed into the environment, or cause cancer (some scientists say), Nokia’s technology can be used to tap into a virtually unlimited source of electric power. The cell phone vendor hopes to develop the technology further to enhance its power-generating capability.

A Million in Three Days

When Apple launched the iPhone 3G last year, it sold more than a million units in the first three days.
The company reached the same milestone with the recent release of the iPhone 3G S, this time, doing it even though the smart phone was released initially in fewer countries.

This has led some, if not most, industry analysts to say that although the iPhone might not be the best smartphone there is, it definitely is the coolest and most sought after by consumers.

Take another bow, Mr. Jobs.

PSP Phone

Sony, the struggling consumer electronics giant, has remained eerily quiet over media reports that it intends to make a PlayStation Portable mobile phone.

Japanese business newspaper Nikkei said Sony, which suffered its first annual loss in 14 years, plans to crossbreed the PSP with a Sony Ericsson mobile phone.

Soon, consumers can play their favorite video games while taking or making a phone call on their mobile phone. Quite interesting, especially if the other party is truly boring.

That’s all for the meantime, folks. Join me again next time as we keep on watching IT.