Apple's Next Big Thing and Prisoners Escape Disguised as Sheep

There will be no unifying theme to this edition of the Odd News Awards unless you have a really strange way of looking at things.  Today with our first award we honor an article about what looks like Apple's next big thing after the iPad.  The iPad is a cool concept and future generations of iPads will develop into the quality product that most of us expect from Apple.  It appears that an even cooler product is on the horizon.  Right now several articles that I have read are calling Apple's future product "iSpecs".  iSpecs are reported to be glasses that will allow iPhone, iTouch and Nano users to plug in and watch movies hands free.  We gave this article an award because if this future Apple product catches on,  things are going to get kind of weird for a while.  This is not going to be like when blue tooth headsets first came out and you got into a conversation that made no sense because you hadn't realized that the person that you thought you were having a conversation with was really having a conversation with someone else on the phone.  There are going to be some really strange, funny, and maybe even dangerous things that happen when people first begin using and trying to adapt to iSpecs.  


iSpecs: Apple eyes up 3D future with projection glasses that will play films on the move
from MailOnline
"Apple could soon be venturing into the world of 3D, after they filed a patent application for electronic spectacles that would show films on the move. The head-mounted gadget would have a slot for an Apple iPhone or iPod. A special 'smart' lens in the device, nicknamed iSpecs by gadget fans, would project the images from the screen so they could be viewed comfortably." Read More


I suppose the 3D iSpecs article and this next Odd News Awardee have to focus your attention on the imperfect way we humans behave.  We will have to wait to see what peculiar things happen as a result of the iSpecs hitting the market but this next article is already strange.  I could imagine this sort of thing happening in an old Looney Toons cartoon - that one with the sheep dog and the coyote.  I suspect these two Argentine criminals must have been watching the cartoon.  In the cartoon the coyote dresses up as a sheep so that he can steal sheep.  The sheep dog always catches and pummels the coyote.  The guys in this next article either have not seen the cartoon all the way to the end or they just got an idea from that old saying: "a wolf in sheep's clothing". Who knows? What is odd about this next article is that this crazy scheme of escaping prison dressed as sheep seems to be working for these two escaped convicts.  Here is the article already:


Ewe will Never Get Us Back to Prison
by Virginia Wheeler for The Sun
"Two escaped convicts have dodged a huge manhunt - by disguising themselves as SHEEP. The pair dressed in full sheepskin fleeces, complete with heads, to lie low among farm flocks. Robbers Maximiliano Pereyra, 25, and Ariel Diaz, 28, stole the sheep hides from a ranch after breaking out of an Argentinian maximum security prison a week ago. And they have managed to evade the 300 cops on their trail - despite locals seeing them running through fields at night." Read More

It-may-be-just-crazy-enough-to-work by Golly.  Can you imagine the uninformed sheep herder (Shepard?) that one night thinks he hears somebody talking among his flock (the two criminals) and then goes to try to figure out where the conversation is coming from only to see two of his sheep stand on their hind legs and start running across the field?  That Shepard will be telling that story to his grandchildren or maybe it will be the beginning of some future Monster Quest show - Big Foot, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Dancing Talking Sheep-men of Argentina. That escape will definitely make it into a scene in some future comedy movie. Could be in a remake of Raising Arizona or some future rendition of Brother Where Art Thou.