Wall-E And Apple Combine Technology On Screen

The story is pretty simple. Human beings were force to abandon Earth some 700 years earlier. Left alone on the planet is Wall-E, a robot tasked with packing garbage into cubes and stacking to clean up the mess humans made of the planet. Along comes Eve, a part of the plan to check to sustainable non-human life as an indicator that the planet can support humans again. Wall-E falls in love with Eve and the two of them end up being taken back to the ship humans have used to escape the mess they made, the Axiom. The race has become fat and only able to digest information given to them from their hover chair screens. What unfolds well, I'll leave it to you to see the movie.

Wall-E is touching and funny and carries a strong, timely message. A lot of the movie is couched in technology " the technology humans use to drain their life away and the garbage left on the planet for the past 700 years, some of which still works.

Among the functioning gadgets Wall-E has collected? An iPod that still works after 700 years. Maybe a jab at early battery life problems?

It's not a secret that Apple and Pixar are friendly. In fact, on the Pixar blog the studio refers to Apple as their "sister company." So seeing an iPod " iPod video, apparently " in the movie isn't too much of a surprise.

But one of the cleverest Apple gags involves Wall-E himself. In order to keep the garbage collectors running, they are designed to be solar powered. That means when Wall-E is running out of juice, he's got to hop outside into the sunlight, open up his solar panels and take in some rays. Once he's full of juice and ready to go again, there's a sound Apple enthusiasts might be happy to hear. In fact, I laughed each time it happened.

The sound? You can hear it at home; you don't even need to see the movie. Stroll over to your Mac book and flip it on. That booting noise, that's the sound Wall-E makes when he's feeling recharged and ready to face a long day of garbage piling. If you're a Mac user, you probably feel pretty similar once your machine boots up.