I thought i'd seen it all...

Toyota have announced today that they will be producing a car able to go on water. This seems to be a similar idea to what Top Gear attempted, and somewhat succeeded to do, a few series back. Toyota have claimed that the new "Toyota Odyssey", due to begin production in 2011, will be fitted with full sonar, radio communication and radar along with the usual devices you'd find in a normal car. The Amphibicar, as its now being called, will be in both km/h and knots. At the click of a button, bouyancy aids will inflate around the vehicle and a propeller will emerge from the rear, it really is as simple as that.

A Toyota spokesman told Sky News "It's something that has been in the pipeline for a number of years, and now we've made it a reality. It's exactly like driving a normal car, the only difference is you can drive into the sea with it."

What a great idea, It had to come eventually, I reckon that within a few years once these have got around it's going to give P&O a run for their money. Mind you, at a cost of £54,000, I think we might have to wait for the recession to be over.

Oh not a yank, give up now.

So my iPod returned from Apple Care today, not that they do care...As I thought, they'd pointed their little maglite down the headphone jack to find that it was telling them it had water damage, and yeah apart from fiddle with the brightness control, that's all they actually did.

I phoned up the helpline, up for an argument, to be answered by some yank woman asking my name. How my name matters to the whole matter I don't know, would have expected them to ask for a reference or serial number, but not my name. As soon as I heard this woman I just thought "I'm not even going to bother". She told me that they'd charge me "£116" to fix it, to which i replied that I may as well buy a new one, and I ended the conversation there.

I could go up to the Apple shop at Bluewater and argue with them, but at the end of the day all they're going to say is that its got water damage cause the "sensor" says so, not that it's ever been anywhere near water. I'd much rather do without the argument and just buy a new one. So that's what i've done.

I like the iPod Touch, it's a really good device, the best on the market and fairly well priced. But after all this if I could i'd much rather go onto another device, if only it wasn't for DRM protected music. Bloody iTunes.

Admiration

Now being a geek and playing flight simulator i've often taken interested in planes and how they work. But this is something else.

When the pilot of this plane lined it up to take off at La Guardia airport in NY he'd never imagine that he'd shortly he facing a pilots worse fears, and he'd shortly be forced to make the hardest of landings ever. Hit the water with your tail too far down and you risk breaking the fuselage into pieces, hit the water with your nose too far down and you risk drowning everyone on board.

I'm sure this 57 year old former US air force pilot will be waking up today knowing that he's done his good deed of the year after saving 155 peoples lives. Well Done to him, this bloke deserves a medal!!