What’s wrong with a Frisbee? The newest accessory for your iPhone is a plastic and foam toy helicopter that can be piloted using the phone as a remote control. Cameras on the AR.Drone send video to the iPhone’s display.
This is just to let you know what you’ll be retrieving from your roof the next time the neighbor kid comes by and tells you he needs help getting his toy down.
What about the Ella Fitzgerald? Turns out there is such as thing as a stupid question, reports the Minnesota tourism office, which has taken down a few of its oddest questions from callers.
For example, one potential visitor wanted to know if he could tour the Edmund Fitzgerald, the ore freighter that sank in Lake Superior in 1975.
You can’t tour the Fitzgerald, but for a small fee Gordon Lightfoot will show you the model he made while crooning his ballad.
Hum along with hummus: Hundreds of Arabs and Jews in a small Israeli town joined together to set a new world record, making four tons of hummus, the tasty dip made of ground chickpeas, sesame paste and garlic.
Afterward, the Israelis, Arab and Jew alike, joined hands and sang the classic John Lennon lyrics, “All we are saying is give chickpeas a chance.”
— Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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