Formula One race cars are intended for many things – being awesome, making loud noises, giving Germans something to do. Driving on snow is not one of them. In spite of that, Andy Gülden equipped one with snow tires and drove it around the snow-covered race tracks of the famously challenging Nürburgring in Germany. Madness.
Another alternative to Apple’s iCloud popped up this week, with Google has announcing that it will be combining the Android Market, Google Music and the Google eBookstore into a new cloud-based service called Google Play, allowing users to access all of their media across all of their Android devices.
Oh, good, more things from the future to terrify me. Boston Dynamics, a Pentagon contractor, has broken the speed record for legged robots, with a new four-legged creation – the Cheetah, which can run at 29 kilometres an hour, far outpacing the 20 km/h record set by MIT in 1989.
We all know how annoying it is when you get a snippet of a song stuck in your head and it plays in a loop. Try as you might, you just can’t get rid of it and you have no idea how to identify it, until slowly, it begins to drive you mad. Don’t sweat. […]
It’s less than a week to go until the iPad 3 is unveiled, so everybody and their grandma is throwing out thoughts about what the new toy can do. Concrete stats are emerging though – Apple employees have been browsing the web with their personal iPad 3’s, turning up details about the new tablet on website server logs.
Well this is all kinds of wow. Mercedes have developed a new hyrdogen fuel cell technology for their latest vehicle ranges which they claim has zero emissions, and is thus “invisible to the environment”. See what happens when they take that concept to the next level. Eat your heart out, 007!
Everyone has, at one time or another, wished desperately for a real life mute button. Whether it’s a nagging partner or an annoying boss, sometimes life would just be easier if you could simply hit a button and make it all go away. Now, thanks to some clever Japanese researchers, you can!
Tricycles are pretty lame, and Tokyo Drift was a terrible movie, so it makes sense that bringing the two concepts together produces something unbelievably awesome. Click through to watch a montage of grown men drifting through the streets of New Zealand on customized trikes.
Tim Burton has finally rebooted his classic 1984 stop motion short “Frankenweenie” into a full length animated feature. If you’re a Burton fan, then come October, this will be a must see. We’ve got the first trailer, after the jump!
Google’s new privacy policy – the one allowing the company to combine data from all of its sites into a single profile – officially takes effect today. The new policy collapses 70 separate policy documents from various Google services into a single unit – which also happens to make it easier for Google to know things about you.
The music video for “DoYaThing” — the new collaboration between the Gorillaz, Andre 3000 and LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy – dropped yesterday, as part of Converse’s ongoing “3 Artists, 1 Song” campaign. The promo track was released along with the limited edition Chuck Taylor All Star Gorillaz Collection, which is on sale now.
For those of you who don’t know yet, The Avengers movie is fast-approaching and it’s set blow all other superhero movies out of the water. Featuring stars like Robert Downey Jr, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L Jackson and Chris Evans, portraying heroes Iron Man, The Hulk, Black Widow, Nick Fury and Captain America, respectively. Dangit!
You can do a lot worse on the internet these days than watching the odd TED talk online. Here’s a particularly worthy one, in my opinion, as Kevin Alloca from Youtube discusses the dynamics of how and why videos go viral.
Are you still struggling to get your head around the cloud vibe? Or rather, are you struggling to explain it to your technophobe friends? Send them this video and continue living your life. In the cloud. Follow link for video.
It’s common knowledge that job recruiters are increasingly scanning through your online presence, before considering you for a job. Seth shows us how to prevent any online embarrassments, with a few nifty apps that erase evidence of last night’s shenanigans.
So it was the Oscars last night, where we got to watch Billy Crystal act smug about being considered relavent by somebody. Also Christopher Plummer finally won something. Also there was this – the Cirque du Soleil’s incredible, film-themed performance – which works out well, thematically. Take a look.
Growing up, Sam Khumalo and his friends used to skate in and around Johannesburg, exploring the hard concrete world of the city. He became an explorer. Every corner, every curb became his playground. And the search for the next spot never stopped. For this pro-skater, who now runs and owns a skate shop with a […]
“Let there be no doubt. Aside from the Aborigines in Australia, the African black is the most underdeveloped, barbaric species of the human race.” These are some of the statements you’ll hear in this video, starring old-apartheid leader Franz Jooste. It was filmed at a scouts camp – run by Jooste – where Afrikaner boys as young as 13 are being subjected to his indoctrination.
There is a civil war raging in Syria that seems to have slipped the attention of the masses. This raw and unforgiving short film is the way for you to get up to date with the savage conflict tearing up a Syrian city.
Earlier today we told you about the violence that broke out during President Jacob Zuma’s ANC centenary address in Cape Town yesterday. An SABC cameraman even had a chair thrown in his face! See video footage of this incident, along with a full photo gallery of all the action, after the jump.
News broadcasts, albeit informative, are often boring affairs lacking the flair that many viewers hope for, that is at least until Cassetteboy gets hold of a copy. Their latest ‘remix’ features the BBC’s George Alagiah reporting on issues that would make any political pundit cringe.
No journalist has ever gained access to Foxconn, the secretive company that builds all the beautiful iPads and iPhone and Macbooks that Apple gets us to consume like sweeties. ABC’s show Nightline managed to gain access to this factory which employs 250 000 people and is the size of a city (they also make products […]
The new season of HBO’s Eastbound & Down with Kenny Powers (Danny McBride) kicked off this past Sunday in the US of A. It will no doubt start appearing on US iTunes (get your account here) or your nearest media drive, in the next few weeks. Make sure to check out the season three trailer if […]
Microsoft has launched a fascinating attack on Google Apps. In this instalment, Microsoft uses the American television series, Moonlighting, which aired during the mid 1980’s, to give us the spoof: Googlighting. Microsoft asks: “What happens when the world’s largest ad sales business tries to sell productivity software on the side?” It’s Microsoft Office versus Google Apps.
Do you remember when Jeb Corliss was jumping off Table Mountain in his wingsuit in January, and one of his jumps didn’t go as well as he’d planned? Well, he’s just released the footage showing the accident from his point of view, filmed from his GoPro cameras, as well as various angles from the other cameramen that were filming at the time.
An intelligent billboard set up in London has facial recognition tech built in that lets it scan passersby for gender – if a woman stops to take a look, it plays a 40-second video clip. Dudes only get a link to the advertiser’s website. It’s like they’re trying to send a message or something.
Do you wonder if you won one of the 10 X R500 Sunglass Hut Vouchers? Or one of the 5 X cases of Boschendal bubbly? Or one of the 5 X cases of De Grendel rosé? Or, better yet, maybe it was YOU who won the iPad 2, from Digicape? Winners were picked by a […]
Indulging in a tirade of cursing, before starting a fight outside the Tower of Terror ride at the Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, a 53-year old man was pepper-sprayed into submission before being taken into custody by park security.
It all started on Twitter, right after the Grammys. Presumably it was a bunch of young kids, born too late to really understand who Paul McCartney is and was. Tweets left and right started asking: Who the fuck is Paul McCartney? Funny or Die took it upon themselves to explain to the world exactly who the man is. Video after the jump.
This is one of the better videos you will see in this lifetime. Very often these videos are quite iffy, with some viewers questioning if the footage did in fact show what it promised. In this case the guy (the husband of the President of Finland) was so busted, that he even pulled a ‘Picasso’ […]