The Clap-Off Bra from Randy Sarafan on Vimeo.
This is special. I mean, I would talk a little bit more about the basic premise of the thing, but it does pretty much exactly what it says on the tin: you clap, bra comes off. It’s not quite the snip-snap process of seduction I’d hoped for as a tiny-man child, but it’s close.
Nokia is in a bad place right now. Ten years ago they led the cellular telephone market. In a time when the division of origin between hardware and software one one device was not concievable, Nokia led the pack with hardy engineering and familiar, easy to use operating systems. They’ve since suffered a catastrophic drop in sales and creativity. They’ve finally lost all points of market leadership that they used to hold. And their new CEO, Stephen Elop, has just given the whole company a literary ass-kicking. Check out his fire and brimstone company memo after the jump.
Ha. But no, seriously, they’re talking about this – the dudes and ladies who run Twitter are being courted by a couple of companies, Facebook and Google among them, who want to shell out the $10bn that the company is apparently worth. Predictably, a bunch of people are whining about this being the end of Twitter, etc.
So, you currently live the holiday here in South Africa. But what happens if you’d like to go and live it in France like Seth does for a month once a year? Well, now you can! With the FREE iTunes Google Translate app. Basically this is what Google refers to as “a small glimpse at the future of search.”
I’m not sure what is more awesome – the fact that someone made this watch or the fact that you can actually buy it. Ek soek een. If you don’t know what is special about a 4:20 watch, it basically means you have to click through to the rest of this piece.
So according to the ever pessimistic Russians, we’re all gonna die in the year 2036. See, this 900-foot-long asteroid, epically named ‘99942 Apophis’, is apparently headed towards our measly little planet. NASA doesn’t agree, but don’t you worry, even if things go pear, they’ve got a plan.
Huh. Well, alright. UK church officials have given the holy thumbs up to ‘Confession: A Roman Catholic App,’ which walks users through sacrament, having them admit their wrongdoings – and keep track of their sins. Please keep your comments until the end of the lecture, though, because this baby costs $1.99
John W. Philips, a 54 year old man from what can only be America, has been arrested and convicted of having sex with a 13 year old girl, whom he met and “married” in an online game.
Well this is pretty awesome. Researchers at OkCupid waded through 776 million matches of questions and answers between would-be-couples, and matched those against relationships success rates – and come up with some bizarre, awesome data. Apparently beer drinkers put out more.
A valiant effort was made late last Wednesday by two daring would-be Mexican immigrants. The two, suited up in full wetsuits, made an assault on Imperial Beach, just a few kilometres south of San Diego with the aid of dive scooters. Until a US Customs and Border Protection helicopter crew spotted them.
Feeling bad about buying, say, “Ass” products for example, and the related ethical practices involved in their manufacture? Well, you no longer need to worry my friends, because as usual, there is now an app available to clear up any confusion you may have had prior to deciding on your now, ethical purchase.
Ha. Some kid called Jack Weppler broke up with his girlfriend, so she put a truckload of embarassing Lolcat-style photos of him online – and tweaked it so that they’d all show up if somebody tried to Google him. So hey, that’s something new to worry about.
Nasa has discovered a new habitable planetary system. Needless to say, calling the new system part of the Kepler-11 is mildly ironic considering what is being sent to orbit the pitches and dressing rooms of the approaching Cricket World Cup. But we won’t go there and that’s not what this is about either, it’s much more important.
Local video producer, Jaco Wolmarans was lucky enough to engage in a spot of aerial photography and videography recently. He was acting, quite literally, as the wing man (keeping an eye on the horizon for oncoming air traffic) for a colleague of his who was shooting the planes. In between playing lookout he shot this clip.
With the Radlantic continuing its game of lake-lake as far as Windguru will forecast (7 days ahead, actually), rumours of your plastic water bottle causing cancer are bound to peak. No doubt reaching for a sun exposed bottle of warm water will be met with upturned noses and precautionary words. So, hit them with the truth.
I mean, yes, making dominos that trip each other without touching is probably a useless application of technology, but I figure this puts us one step closer to that weird hologram game from Star Wars, and I am for it.
World Wide Worx, the research company with their fingers on the pulse of SA’s cell phone data usage habits has ascertained, with careful research and tireless data sifting that, yes, Twitter is the next big thing. They estimate that at least 1 million South Africans are “using the service”.
If you still haven’t registered that long planned imtheshit.com address, I’m sorry. You’re shit out of luck. All available internet addresses are down to five blocks of 16 million each. These are expected to run out by September. Billions worldwide still haven’t registered internet addresses. We live on the southern tip of Africa. You do the math.
Yes, you read that correctly. The founder of Facebook’s founder is letting everyone who’ll listen know that he is Mark Zuckerberg’s dad. I didn’t believe it at first either, as I’m sure money or status isn’t a big issue in the Zuckerberg household. Anyway, it’s more the manner in which the claiming happened that is important here guys. This is rather awesome.
I’m not sure if this beats prosthetic tentacles, but it’s close. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are building snake-like robots that can reach delicate organs that don’t generally respond well to getting cut open. Because the prospect of surgery wasn’t frightening enough before.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you read that right, oral sex will kill you. According to scientists, who are yet to get past first base, people who have had more than five oral-sex partners in their lifetime are 250% more likely to have throat cancer than the orally celibate.
Speak2Tweet was launched over the weekend, a joint venture by Twitter and Google that allows anybody to post to Twitter using just a phone connection, in the hopes of getting more word out about the situation in Egypt as it unfolds. Google bought the company that engineered the technology last week because hey, it’s Google.
Birds have often attained legendary status amongst their two legged admirers and achieved such feats as drug smuggling and speeds greater than broadband. Now New Caledonian Crows have stepped it up a notch and proven their tool knowledge is possibly a way to beat the I-only-like-shiny-things stereotype they have always been stuck with.
So some of you may have tried out the Kinect for the Xbox 360. It’s pretty damn awesome, if you don’t mind flailing around like a lunatic in front of the TV. But sometimes the Kinect can go horribly wrong, especially when your kids get in the way…
The iPad Finally Comes To South Africa – Officially! – Finally the first OFFICIAL Apple sanctioned iPads are available in South Africa. Digicape, 2oceansvibe and SA’s favourite official Apple Mac product provider made the announcement on their website at midnight, last night. iPads will start at R4,399 and, by all accounts, you better move fast […]
Is your toddler impulsive, easily frustrated, restless and unable to think about his/her long-term future? If they are, you’re unfortunately the proud parent of a future alcoholic, drug addicted, criminal with no future prospects whatsoever. No, really, that’s a scientific fact.
Nic Dawes, editor of local investigative news publication, the Mail & Guardian, has said that the paper’s website, MG.co.za, is the victim of sustained organised hacking attempts.
Oh, good! Somebody with a PHD decided to speak out against ‘the twitters,’ on the ground that social networking websites are making us “less human” by isolating people from reality. Presumably also responsible are trading card games, Playstation, and books.
A dyslexic individual hacked into Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook profile and posted his philanthropic thoughts on how the site should distribute wealth. Facebook quickly deleted the page and has not commented on the matter. Give up all their money for social good? Not going to happen.
Unless you are pretty keen on bestiality that is. The United States of Shame is the internet’s latest creation of aggregated data, and serves up the statistical shameful speciality of each state. For exampple, North Dakota has, statistically-speaking, the highest rate of ugly people in America. Shame.