Table Connect: LOA Studio reveals their viral secret success story

Here is the presentation of the revelation by LOA, recorded at TEDxVienna 2011:

At the much anticipated first “live demonstration” of the Table Connect for iPhone project at today’s TEDxVienna event, design studio LOA revealed that it was all an elaborate viral marketing stunt – a combination of skillful visual effects and a meticulously planned roll-out strategy.
The Table Connect for iPhone team created massive interest in a video that showed them connecting an iPhone in a giant table surface screen that resembled an iPhone. Suddenly, all the contents of the iPhone surface were displayed on the giant screen, and the guys started performing the exact same gestures we are used to from an iPhone, with no noticeable lag whatsoever.
This is the original Table Connect for iPhone video – what the buzz was all about:

 Within hours after the video release, big tech news and blogs covered the story. From the very beginning, there were countless discussions between commenters and the media alike whether it was fake or not.

The Sun, Gizmodo, Engadget, Forbes, CNet and countless other publications posted the video and within a day, the video skyrocketed to no. 1 on the YouTube charts.

Countless media enquiries from TV channels and international media for interviews followed, but the team wanted to stay hidden until the revelation of the secret.

Boot an ISO from Hard disk using GRUB 2

Get started with a step by step process...!!!!

NOTE: this will work on only linux

Let us start………

Step 1 : Checking GRUB version

grub-install -v

GRUB 2 should display a version number of 1.96 or later. Legacy GRUB is version 0.97.

If you are using Legacy GRUB, update your GRUB by referring the following link

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2

So… now you are upgraded to GRUB 2……. let us proceed…..

Step 2 : Get into GRUB command mode

1. Reboot your distribution

2. Hold down SHIFT to display the menu during boot ( ESC in GRUB legacy)

3. Press ‘c’ to get grub command line

Step 3 : Prepare ISO to boot

loopback loop (hd0,1)/iso/ubuntu10.4.iso

hd0,1 is the partition where the ISO file is located

/iso/ubuntu10.4.iso is the location of the filename

Change these two parameters that suites your environment

linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=ubuntu10.4.iso

This command loads the vmlinuz file from ISO,

In Ubuntu vmlinz is stored inside casper , This will change in different distributions, for example in Red Hat/CentOS server vmlinuz is located inside isolinux

Filename=ubuntu10.4.iso use the appropriate file name instead of ubuntu10.4.iso.

initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz

This command loads the initrd.lz from ISO, again the location of initrd.lz will change in various distribution, but both vmlinuz and initrd.lz will be in the same locaiton, for example in Red Hat/CentOS server initrd.lz is also located inside isolinux

boot

Boot the system….

Now the system will be booted with ISO you specified…..