Bumming around a bit at the BlackBerry DevCon 2011 party, I took some time away to run off with Kevin's sweet "PlayBook on a chain" to do up a fun video. I ambushed pretty much anyone I could find and snagged them on video. I'll apologize off the bat to anyone who didn't notice what the PlayBook said and/or thought that the video would never see the light of day.
The app running on the PlayBook is Screamager by our own CrackBerry Fanboy Marco. Also note that the background track, Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People, is apparently Kevin's favorite song since he played it incessantly during our DevCon blogging sessions (and thus now I can't stand it). Enjoy!
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