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Gadgets
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Charge Your Phone With A T-Shirt [VIDEO]
08 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We all have our days when we forget to charge our phones, or simply exploit its battery power to the limit, and then end up offline, as it were. This is soon to become a problem of the past though because a French telecom company, called Orange, has big plans to save us all from the low-battery blues.
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How About A Beer With Your iPhone?
07 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There is a lot you can do with an iPhone these days and there is a lot that Australians will do for a beer or two. Not too long ago those clever buggers even invented a pair of slip slops that could open a beer. Naturally, they have now merged their love of beer with their iPhones.
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Open Letter To BlackBerry Bosses: Senior RIM Exec Tells All, As Company Crumbles Around Him
04 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A fair portion of the smartphone market in this country belongs to BlackBerry, because unlike the rest of the world, we still pay rather exorbitant data fees to the carrier firms that run the market. And free messaging is like, so cool. Not internationally though, where BlackBerry maker, RIM, is in a serious make-or-break space.
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Designer Turns Building Into Giant 80’s Video-Game Screen
30 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A projection mapping by the Czech designer Pavel Novák turns the façade of a university building into a mash-up of 80’s video games – running the gamut from Pac-Man to Space Invaders. It’s called 8-bit Invader. The initial screening was for the 5th anniversary of Tomas Bata University’s department of visual arts in Zlín, Czech Republic.
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Google Has A Shiny New Mobile Payment Service
27 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google Wallet and Google Offers launched yesterday, both of which sound supremely cool – PayPal’s grumblings (and lawsuits) about commercial espionage notwithstanding. Google Wallet lets users swipe their phones in lieu of credit cards, even allowing subscription to a new prepaid Google debit card; Google Offers looks to work like a virtual loyalty card.
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Major Security Flaw Found In Android Phones
19 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google has been hit with a string of security flaws lately and the internet giant has now been exposed yet again with a “significant security hole” being found in its smartphone operating system, Google Android. As usual with these things, it can allow attackers to gain access to users’ personal information without their permission.
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Scrabble Adds ‘Grrl’ To Scrabble Dictionary
10 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And now I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. Around 3,000 words have been added this year in the “most comprehensive Scrabble wordlist ever produced,” which I would be more upset about if most of my Scrabble games didn’t end in tears and fire. Also included: ‘innit,’ ‘thang,’ ‘fansite,’ and ‘Facebook.’
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Hotel Linen: Towel Thieves’ Comeuppance
19 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Linen Technology Tracking from Miami, Florida, recently patented a radio-frequency identification chip that’s been designed to manage stock counts of inventory items that frequently get mislaid or stolen. Enter: hotel linen protection. You’re going to need to think twice about nicking that towel now.
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Flying Drone Peers Into Japan’s Damaged Reactors
11 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Engineers have used a flying drone to peer into the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Sunday. The drone has been used by the US military and reportedly weighs about 23kg and has the propensity to withstand winds of up to 20 knots.
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Gmail’s April Fools Joke Becomes Reality
04 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google introduced their revolutionary new addition to Gmail on Friday and its name is Gmail Motion. Of course most people knew it was a joke, but the brains over at the ICT MxR Labs, the FAAST team, decided to make it a reality.
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Robotic Clouds To Provide Shade During Qatar World Cup [VIDEO]
29 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Not even designers of world class video games have thought of this one yet. I bet the Qatari engineers are hunched up and sniggering through their beards into their cupped, fist-shaped hands right now. Their World Cup is only in 2022, but these guys clearly have the money to blow to make magic. Very Bruce Almighty of them.
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Google Launches ‘Umbono,’ Cape Town Based Startup Funder
22 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Google has set up the first of its startup-funding offices in Cape Town, under the ‘Umbuno’ flagship. “Umbono” is isiZulu for ‘vision’ or ‘idea’. Google also showed that it knows how to make a girl feel special, saying it chose Cape Town because the city is in “the process of positioning itself as a hub for innovation and technology”.
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Smart Wristwatches, Not Just In The Movies
21 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It was a matter of time before the wristwatch had its biggest redesign moment since the croc-like invasion of the big-faced bling disaster that took hold and made hipster fashion designers rich. Smart watches are on their way, but there’s one feature we’d include in ours, if we designed these things, which we don’t.
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Facebook Introduces Suicide Support System
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Due to the growing occurrence of ‘Facebook suicides’ a help system has been put in place, which allows users concerned about potentially suicidal friends to report the activity to Facebook, which will trigger a hotline response reaching out to the depressed party.
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Chaos Computers Tech Paradise Competition – Unleash Your Inner Gamer
04 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Look, we dig the odd spot of gaming here at 2oceansvibe. If you swing by the 2oceansvibe Media Headquarters in Waterkant Street and head upstairs, just past Richard Hardiman’s desk but in front of the boardroom, you may or may not find a little lounge set up there, tastefully furnished, with the odd plasma screen, […]
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Beijing Is Tracking All Mobile Phone User’s Movements
04 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
They can do that now. By ‘they’ I mean ‘those with money and de facto power,’ obviously, not specifically the heads of the PRC – but I mean government scrutiny of human movement is being implemented on a huge, huge scale. It’s called the Information Platform of Real-time Citizen Movement – which sounds like a good and reasonable platform.
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Google Earth A Revolutionary Tool – The Photos That Sparked Protests in Bahrain
03 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In the age of information, nothing can be kept in the dark anymore. These are the so called controversial Google Earth photos that initially set off Bahraini protests of inequality back in 2006. And when you see them, you’ll know why.
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Mind-Controlled Cars: There Is No Way That This Doesn’t End Badly
03 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
German research facility BrainDriver has put together a kit that lets people make rudimentary driving commands with their brains – you know, without using their hands. I have serious concerns about how this system deals with those brief suicidal thoughts that tend to pop up when knee-deep in traffic on the 9/5 commute.
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There Is No Time Like 420 Time
10 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
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.
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App To Measure A Brand’s Ethics
07 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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When The Xbox Kinect Goes Wrong [VIDEO]
28 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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…
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Twitter A ‘Form Of Modern Madness,’ Because Of Course It Is.
26 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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GPS Technologies Are Making Us Slaves To Small People In Machines
19 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Deep inside a homing pigeon’s head is a detector cell that picks up the earth’s magnetic field and sends it straight to its destination. No hardware, no software – just a natural sense of position for thousands of kilometres. I know people who get lost in malls where they have lit up maps on eye level. Are pigeons smarter than us? I’m beginning to think so.
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iPhone 4 Users Sleeping Since New Year’s Day
03 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A software glitch in the iPhone 4 has rendered its alarm useless since New Year’s Day. The latest reports indicate the glitch has not yet been fixed amid fears many iPhone fanatics are teetering on the edge of a coma. If you know someone with an iPhone 4, give them a call. They need you right now.
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Jayzus This 3G
09 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
If Vodafone based the design of their 3G modem on a device that takes up three USB ports unnecessarily they succeeded. On a grand scale. Is this 1998? Are we in the Stone Age? Behold, the great plastic death is reaping its harvest. This is the technological equivalent of the fat guy who takes up one and a half seats in economy class.
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The Mypressi TWIST: Good, Mobile Coffee That You Deserve
24 Nov 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
You know those times when you’re cruising on your Vespa, hitting the road with particular destination in mind? Perhaps you’re poodling up a mountain – perhaps not. It’s a bright, sunny late afternoon, some might even call it dusk. Light is thrown across the city scape below, and a slightly chilly wind is up. You think to yourself, “I could use some coffee right now”. Well you wouldn’t be able to get any, right? Wrong. So wrong.
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We Live In The Future: Log On To Facebook With Your Face
12 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Researchers at the University of Manchester’s mobile biometry project have put together a demo application that allows people to use voice and face recognition to log in to Facebook, Twitter and Gmail accounts, which is going to be hell for people with a forgettable face.
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WIKILEAKS GOES UNDERGROUND
03 Sep 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In case you haven’t heard, everyone hates Julian Assange. And more to the point, everyone hates WikiLeaks in general. And by “everyone”, I of course mean people with secrets to keep. Namely governments and multinational corporations. Now that’s absolutely no reflection on the merit of WikiLeak’s work, and the job that they fulfill of making […]
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IT’S FRIDAY, WHY NOT QUIT IN STYLE?
27 Aug 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Are you underpaid, undervalued, and sidelined at work? Are you feeling brave? Then QUIT! QUIT I TELL YOU! Everyone else is striking, why not one-up those public-sector amateurs? But if you’re going to do it, you absolutely have to do it in style, like (yes, we know it’s fake), or this. But writing, photography, and […]
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iPAD: GREAT FOR THE SUMO’S FULL-FIGURE-FINGERS
26 Aug 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sumos…Big hands = big slaps Anyone who knows a thing or two about the intricacies and nuances of life as a Sumo Wrestler (pfft, who doesn’t?) will understand that the Sumo is a creature bred for power, weight, and a surprising degree of flexibility. But they’re definitely not bred for texting, or email, or any […]
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