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Vodaphone is a huge mobile communications company, and it’s also the
primary sponsor of the McLaren Mercedes F1 team. The video after the
jump shows just what their millions of dollars in sponsorship money can
buy: a viral video staring Lewis Hamilton. Vodaphone makes the
Blackberry Storm mobile smart phone, and the video kicks off with some
office nerds who have hacked the Storm to control an R/C F1 car. They
use the phone’s built-in accelerometer so that turning the phone like a
steering wheel controls the car’s direction. The accelerator and the
brake, meanwhile, are controlled via buttons on the phone’s touch
screen.
After publishing a video of their office grand prix on
the web, the team of programmers is invited to the garage of McLaren
Mercedes where team engineers have adapted the system to control Lewis
Hamilton’s actual F1 car. Hilarity ensues when Hamilton himself takes
the car out on the track, sans driver, and does a lap behind the wheel
of the Blackberry Storm. It’s… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
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