For our second installment of BattleFight, hardware faces off with open-source technology and humanoid horse-beasts: the Terminator spot-welded to a Segway versus a dozen or so centaurs with the cognitional knowledge of Wikipedia.

When debating this BattleFight please reflect on Victor Turner’s concept of liminality as well as the problems of natural/artificial dualism encountered by cyborgs.
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In our first volume of BattleFight, Darth Vader and the iPhone 3G confronted “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named” along with Twitter.
There were some epic arguments made - the vast majority in favor of Vader/iPhone. Kudos to all for contributing; we’re all very proud of you.

The Results: After running a series of simulations and tests in our fictitious BattleFight lab, some mulled [...]

Today on Idea Peepshow we’re introducing a new feature that we* like to call BattleFight. BattleFight is a fictitious battle debate inspired by childhood “who would win in a fight” discussions as well as visual content such as this, this, and this. BattleFight combines the curious with the youthful mindset in a way that will [...]

For the first BattleFight debate, two behemoths of darkness go head-to-head accompanied by their favorite communication technologies:Â
Lord Voldemort and Twitter VS. Darth Vader and the iPhone 3G.

Darth Vader/iPhone
Strengths: 

Crazy lightsaber skills
Telekinetic choke hold
Exceptional pilot
Widescreen video and the ability to shop for music with just one tap

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Weaknesses:

GPS locator - opponent can track location and progress
Limited phone service
iPhone [...]