MARILYN CORNWELL: phone

Friday, August 1, 2025

oMarilyn's Photos - Aug 1 2025 - Face-down phone

There's a face-down phone theory. "The mere presence of our smartphones is like the sound of our names or a crying baby - something that automatically exerts a gravitational pull on our attention. Resisting that pull takes a cognitive toll."

There is also the "brain drain" theory - that the constant need to inhibit attention towards a smartphone, even when not actively using it, drains cognitive resources, impacting performance on other tasks.

What about Maslow's hierarchy of smartphone needs? One theory applies Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to smartphone use, suggesting that individuals may progress through stages of smartphone needs, from basic functionality to more advanced features and uses.

And finally, there's Baudrillard's theory of hyperreality: this is where the distinction between reality and simulation blurs.

What if you owned the Falcon Supernova Iphone 6 Pink Diamond phone worth $48.5 million US? You would keep it face down to see the huge Pink Diamond on the back.

However, if you owned the Goldstriker Iphone 3Gs Supreme, valued at $3.2 million U.S. you would keep it face up as the diamonds - 130 of them - form a bezel around the face of the phone. Turn it over and the 112 grams of 18-carat rose gold show off the Apple logo with 53 diamonds.

There are more strange and expensive smart phones HERE. Will there be a time when there isn't a phone in the smartphone. When it isn't called a phone? Brain-computer interfaces are already with us...

This is an interpretation of the August Restaurant sign a nice start to the month.

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Friday, January 24, 2020

Jan 24 2020 - Whoops Phone Hacked

I learned the details from the CBC yesterday of how Jeff Bezos who is the richest man in the world ($110 billion plus) had his phone hacked by one of the most notorious men in the world - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Somehow even with their tremendous political differences, they sat together at a dinner where they exchanged messages on WhatsApp. It is likely that large amounts of data were stolen in 2018.

Here we are in 2020 finding out about it.

The UN report points to Pegasus malware, which was bought by Saudi Arabia from the cyber arms dealer NSO Group who developed it. It also could have been software Galileo, another Hacking Team product.

How do you think the investigation went? I checked in the joke file to find out:

Hey officer, how did the hackers escape?
No idea, they just ransomware

Our pictures come from the Mailchimp archives today as I await the hard disk replacement on my computer.