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Tech/Sci
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SA Got It’s Very Own Elections Google Doodle
08 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Now this what you call putting SA on the map! Google’s daily doodle was dedicated to the national voting day yesterday. Check it out here… its pretty rad.
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Finally They’ve Made A Modern-Day Portable Vinyl Belt-Drive Turntable With Built-In Speakers
08 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Aaaaaaaaah Yeah! Retro is BACK with this vinyl-player. With a little modern technology mixed in to sweeten the experience….
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Look Up! This Is Why Social Media Is Ruining Our Lives [Video]
06 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Do you have a social media addiction? And is it ruining your life? This video will tell you if you’re in to deep……
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They’ve Made A 360 Camera – And It’s AWESOME [Video]
05 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Forget the hype of the Go-Pro – this new little gadget is going to rock your world. In a 360 degree view. Centr is a new UFO-like shaped device that you get to control with your smart phone – and it lets you capture everything in a 360 degree view. It’s like a Go-Pro, but […]
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Thanks to the humble mouse, you might never grow old - ever.
New Mice Experiment Might Reveal Key To Eternal Youth
05 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Thank you science! A new experiment using mice has shown us that there might be a way to keep us young….FOREVER. New Studies published in Science & Nature Medicine show us that when scientists took the blood out of young and spritely mice and injected it into the bloodstreams of old and creaky rats, the old rats […]
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How To Beat Anyone At Ching-Chong-Cha
05 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The age old “random”decider of all things: the Ching-Chong-Cha! The also affectionately called Rock-Paper-Scissors has been baffling scientists for years and just when they thought they had finally cracked the “complex” code of this game of chance, someone has come along and told them they were wrong, it actually works in a far more complex […]
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Whoah! Check Out This Rare ‘Goblin Shark’ They Caught [Image]
05 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Imagine something crossed between the Loch Ness Monster and a lantern fish with those giant cage-like teeth… got it? I promise you, what these fisherman pulled from the dark depths of the Gulf of Mexico is more beastly and freakish than the image in your head. Patience, I shall reveal the horror shortly. Like most […]
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Don’t Go Out Drinking Tonight Until You’ve Done This
30 Apr 2014 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Tomorrow is a public holiday, which means that you may well be treating tonight as a Friday. Which is to say, you might not be treating it very well. For goodness-sake, the new phone that you forked out for barely has the protective film off the screen, and already you’re flirting with the idea of smashing it on the bar floor. Don’t be that friend that other friends can “only contact through Facebook for now.”
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What’s The Best Phone For Business? [VIDEO]
30 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Microsoft is known to have made some of the best Windows phone operating systems and of course their office tools are still pretty badass. And now that Microsoft has completed their acquisition of Nokia, they have the potential to step in to the gaping gap in the market left in the universe of other purportedly […]
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MASSIVE Security Flaw: Either Upgrade From Windows XP Or Switch
29 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On the weekend yet another alert was issued by Microsoft over their browser , Internet Explorer. If you are one of those individuals who makes use of the interwebs using a version of the browser that falls between Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 11, then you are at risk. Quite annoyingly, over 25% of internet users fall into […]
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Chinese Company 3D Prints House
29 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Trust the Chinese to do something quicker, faster and more efficiently. Worker bees that they are. So what the industrious Orientals have managed to do this time, is literally build ten one-storey houses in a DAY by using 3D printing technology. The 3D printers in question are massive, being10 meters (33 feet) wide and 6.6 […]
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This Is How You Shoot A Pro-Grade Video On A Smart Phone [VIDEO]
29 Apr 2014 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Watch that video. Just watch it. Have you watched it? Good. Now we’ll explain how you shoot a video of that quality with a smart phone – exactly like those guys did.
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Andy Warhol Commodore Amiga Home Computer Art Found! [PICS + VIDEO]
25 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Wowaweewa! Would you just look at that! Golly! Gosh! Remember when Andy Warhol painted Debbie Harry on an Amiga at the Commodore Amiga product launch press conference in 1985? That wasn’t the only artwork he produced on a PC, but it was assumed that the images were lost, until now.
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1160 Murdered King’s Coffin Opened – This Is What They Found
25 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Archaeologists have opened the coffin of Swedish king Erik IX, who was murdered in 1160, to examine his DNA. While that in itself is pretty awesome, the stuff they found inside his casket was better.
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Obama Meets And Plays Soccer With Humanoid Robot [Video]
25 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The POTUS took a moment out of his tour of Japan to to hang out with with ASIMO, a robot at Japan’s Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation.
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Silicon Valley Is All Over The Marijuana Boom
24 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The launch of the e-ciagrette industry coupled with the legalisation of marijuana in multiple US states has catalyzed an explosion of innovation, and the people on point are in Silicon Valley. See that gallery? This is where marijuana vaporisers are at. Small, compact, and very efficient. But vaporisers aren’t exactly new, so what’s the attraction? […]
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Tech Report: This Is How You Twar Before The Election [VIDEO]
24 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
General elections are coming up, and people are going to be picking fights with you on social media, left, right, centre, and fundamentalist. This is how you wage a Twar, and win it.
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This Website Knows Everything About You [VIDEO]
24 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Before we begin, you should know that this whole thing is a marketing campaign for a video game. But that doesn’t mean that the data isn’t real, or that this isn’t scary as hell. The video above is a guy exploring a new website that mines the web for data that you didn’t know was publicly available. It will make you skrik.
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Peppr Is An App That Let’s You Pick Up Prostitutes
23 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Germany. The land of Eisbeins, beer festivals and legal prostitution. In fact, the lucrative sex industry in Germany is calculated to be worth over $1 Billion per year. And now, a new app created in Germany and for the German market, Peppr, is being marketed as being very much akin to how your average ‘dating’ […]
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Google Actively Encourages Failure In This Department [VIDEO]
22 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’ve ever worked in a serious research and development department, you’ll know that projects are very, very carefully vetted before you or anyone else is given permission to go ahead. That’s because most R&D department budgets are small. So what happens when you work at a company that has almost unlimited piles of cash?
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The Science Of Happiness [INFOGRAPHIC]
22 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
According to this infographic, 40% of our happiness is controlled by our thoughts, actions and behaviour, 50% is genetically determined, and 10% is determined by our circumstances. Bummer if you’re naturally unhappy! Cheer up.
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Latest Loch Ness Monster Sighting On Apple Maps [PIC + VIDEO]
22 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A group of Loch Ness Monster enthusiasts say they’ve sighted the legendary Scottish beast via satellite images on Apple Maps, which is the same app that has a large portion of the internet dedicated to recording the many hilarious instances of its failure.
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Here’s A Group Of Robots Learning To Play Guitar [VIDEO]
17 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A DJ that goes by Squarepusher collaborated with a Japanese robot band called Z-Machines to create an EP called ‘Music For Robots.’ Check out the behind-the-scenes video that shows how these robots learned how to shred on the guitar.
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Your Favourite Honda Asimo Robot Is Now More Human Than Ever [VIDEO]
17 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For a robot, Asimo is a real cutie. We wouldn’t mind adopting Honda’s humanoid robot which was first introduced to the world almost 14 years ago. Take a look at Asimo’s latest improvements.
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Here Is A Working Example Of Apple’s CarPlay Integration
17 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Since its March debut at the Geneva International Motor Show, Apple’s CarPlay has been the talk of the town. On Wednesday the public got their first chance to experience Apple’s highly anticipated in-car system.
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This Is Why Beards Are Suddenly Trending
17 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s not hard to notice beards are trending. With stars like Brad Pitt and George Clooney strutting masculine and bushy beards on the red carpet, it’s clear to see beards are in vogue. But scientists believe we have hit “peak beard” levels.
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It’s So Easy To Win This 20 Megapixel Nokia Lumia 1520 [COMPETITION]
16 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 45 Comments
You might not know about the Nokia Lumia 1520. It’s fairly amazing, to say the least. Why? Because it comes with a 1080p Full HD screen with a 20MP PureView camera with optical image stabilisation, oversampling technology and zooming capabilities. And you can win one right here.
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Tidy&Co. Is Where You’ll Be Buying Your Mother’s Day Gift If You Actually Love Her
16 Apr 2014 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Tidy & Co. is a new online gift emporium, and as their name implies, these people are is here to help you find the perfect gift. You know what’s coming up? Mother’s Day. That’s right. It’s the one day of the year to commemorate the woman who brought you into this world. You need to treat that situation with the respect it deserves. Stop panicking. Your solution is standing by.
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Have You Seen What They’re Doing With The Grain Silos At The V&A Waterfront?
15 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For a long time the grain silos at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town have been standing abandoned, home only to rats, pigeons and seagulls. But no longer. A R500 million redevelopment project will transform the disheveled building into a modern art museum.
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Nipple: The App That Keeps Track Of Your Sex Life
15 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you have been struggling to keep tabs on your sex life, and more importantly want to share your escapades with the whole wide world, Nipple is just for you.
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