While popular rhetoric insists that low-end mobile subscribers in SA are getting a raw deal, that belief has been debunked by a “secret” report.
In a dark corner of the internet we found a website that will shine a light into the lives of single men who think real women are a drag. Or, you know, hard to talk to. The ‘Invisible Girlfriend’ website will help you project the illusion of having a girlfriend. The process is as simple as selecting your fake mate from a library, and personalising her according to your specific needs and circumstances.
Don’t you just hate it when people use their cellphones to make calls? You’re not alone. A new study by Mobility 24 shows that voice calls are in decline, especially amongst the youngsters.
With so many potential toxins in our food, how are we supposed to know if what we are eating is safe for us? It’s a major problem, especially for people who suffer from food allergies. However, a revolutionary new piece of tech might solve this troublesome dilemma.
For many of us, Smartphones have become an extra limb. It is an extended part of who we are, so it only makes sense to use it at all times. Or does it? Sure, sitting in traffic is boring, but that’s not an excuse to reach for your phone – no matter how tempting that blinking light is.
Once we’ve filled our phones with apps, we tend to not bother searching for new, innovative ones. Which is why Mashable asked 15 successful young entrepreneurs about their most useful, yet underrated apps.
Making Capetonians proud: Cape Town-based businessman and media personality, Richard Hardiman, has made it into the global final of Entrepreneur X Factor 2013! Hardiman has had his entrepreneurial fingers in a number of successful pies like digital platforms, online radio (right here at 2oceansvibe nogals) as well as manufacturing. But it’s his latest venture that pits him against 20 businessmen from 15 countries.
A metallic-red Mac Pro has just sold for almost ten million bucks in a recent auction, making it the most expensive computer ever sold.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex has long held a place in our imagination as the king of the prehistoric jungle, but a new fossil finding in Utah may challenge this long-held belief.
In what is no doubt some sort of elaborate marketing ploy for the new Hobbit movie, Google is allowing us to fly through Middle Earth using Google Earth technology.
In its early days, the Vespa was a cheap and efficient way of zipping around bombed-out Rome. Now, it stands atop a multi-billion dollar scooter industry, chosen by the world’s elite because of it’s style and sex appeal. But how did all that happen?
In principle, Blackjet sounds pretty cool. You pay a membership fee and the app allows you to book a seat on a private jet. Add celebrity investors like Jay Z, Will Smith, and Ashton Kutcher to the mix and the whole idea seems pretty solid. Apparently not.
We can all agree that Cape Town is the best place to live. Except for one big problem: parking. Whether you’re in Woodstock, Green Point, the CBD or on the other side of the Boerewors Curtain, parking never comes easy in our beautiful city. That’s why we need the Streetline app, Parker.
Those of you who are at work or have children around, please be wary as this post contains some very dirty and pornographic material. It’s Ferrari’s 458 Italia ‘Niki Lauda Edition”.
Christmas is bearing down upon you. Heck, it’s bearing down on all of us. Specifically, the prospect of enduring the annual Christmas road trip is particularly daunting. Lucky for us, these apps will make the prospect of boiled eggs and toasted sarmies in tin foil slightly less awful.
Sorry ugly people, you’re not invited to this online party. LoveRoom is an online dating site that lets singles rent rooms from other singles. But only if they’re deemed “attractive enough” by the online community.
Here’s yet another reason not to become a politician. While some people use Bitcoins to buy things like socks and sushi online, Kawabatake Sanjuro invented a website called the Assissination Market, where you place a bid to have a government official killed in exchanged for Bitcoins.
We love Instagram because it allows us to explore our inner artist and to find and follow people who share interesting photos. As usual, however, there are those couple of people who take it one (or a hundred) steps too far.
If working late behind your computer is getting you down, Colorado-based company TDA_Boulder has the solution to your problem. The company has invented the ‘Happy Hour Virus,’ which is a screensaver that fakes a computer glitch, allowing you to leave work early.
We all feel a little bit uneasy about our private emails being stashed and archived in someones inbox forever. Surely when we invented digital mail, we could have thought ahead and prevented it? Anyway, we didn’t – but now someone has created a service that will help with this.
We’ve all had those flying dreams. You know, the ones where you can fly around endlessly – until you touch the ground and then can’t fly anymore. If you knew you were dreaming, that is, if you were “lucid dreaming”, you would be able to pick yourself up and fly again.
As the excitement surrounding Uber’s car service spreads like wildfire across South Africa, some punters have found themselves waiting longer than they had hoped, for a car. It looks like that is about to stop!
There is hot competition out there for the first company who can successfully replace the physical wallet with a completely digital version. Google and Apple are the main contenders, but a small start-up may be inching ahead, with this amazing new piece of tech.
Well that’s it – the final nail in the coffin. Thanks to Justin Bieber’s new ‘selfie app’, the selfie has become a fully fledged art form. Let us join each other in putting brown paper bags over our heads, and wait for it to be over.
Watch the videos and find out how the co-founder and CEO of Vice Media transformed what started out as a small, free magazine into a company that is worth $1,6 billion. Read that number again. Now press play.
They surveyed teens in 30 countries. After extensive research, they were able to show that the number of teenagers claiming to be active on Facebook had dropped to 56% in the third quarter of 2013, from 76% in the first. And for sites like Facebook, a drop of 20% means millions, billions even. So, where are they going instead?
Yachts have been historically and permanently stuck in the luxury-goods market, fixed there by manufacturers who insisted on building 60-metre monsters that cost more than the entire third-world debt. Thankfully though, an Italian firm has seen the light.
Musk talked about a period in 2008 when he had a “major meltdown.” (Does this remind anyone else of Tony Stark’s existential crisis in Iron Man 3?) On the verge of financial ruin, he faced the impossible choice between his two beloved companies: Tesla Motos and Space X. And how does one choose between the future of electronic cars made and adventures of space exploration?
Reports abound that the new Call Of Duty game, ‘Ghosts’ could mark the beginning of the end for the massive franchise. COD has broken countless records, raked in tons of cash, and changed gaming forever – but its new installment is failing to impress.
With production increasing everyday, the debate around e-cigarettes is hotting up. On the one hand, they can save lives. On the other, there are those who (correctly) point out that we need to be doing more research before we hail the e-cigarette as the second coming in health science.