Has anyone seen Martin Scorsese’s The Departed? If not, do it soon because it’s a great film but where are we going with this? Well, in one scene Matt Damon’s character Colin Sullivan, a hot shot detective and inside man for the Irish mafia, has to text his mob boss to warn him while in a room full of fellow cops. He does this by texting blindly with the phone in his pocket, a feat that when we saw it, even though it was achieved through the magic of cinema, impressed us no end.
So imagine how impressed we are with 17 year old Kiwi, Elliot Nichols’ latest feat - breaking the world record for texting while blind folded. After a couple of failed attempts Elliot managed a 160 character message in 45 seconds, a whole 38 seconds quicker than the previous record which was held by an Italian.
Looks like he was using a pretty dated handset too, imagine how fast he’d be with an iPhone! Actually, maybe not.
(Via SMS Text News)
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