School spirit is seemingly alive and well at Tim Cook’s alma mater of Auburn University, courtesy of a, err, T-shirt Gatling gun.
The video appeared on YouTube, via Wall Street Journal Apple reporter Daisuke Wakabayashi, and shows free t-shirts being fired into the crowd at a recent Auburn Tigers game.
Two things leap out from the video. The first one: we hope no-one was hurt by what looks to be a military barrage of clothing. Secondly: was the above video shot using the new dazzling 240fps slo-mo feature of the iPhone 6?
Tim Cook graduated from Auburn University with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering in 1982, before going on to earn his M.B.A. from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in the late ’80s.
In 2011 he gave a commencement speech at the institution, in which he thanked Steve Jobs for his success, and described how joining Apple turned out to be the “best decision of my life.”
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
One response to “Tim Cook’s alma mater fires up T-shirt Gatling gun”
Could not finish watching the video because my iPhone6 Plus keeps on stalling.