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Tech/Sci
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Gaming Technology Moves Ahead With New ‘Haptic’ Game Controller
30 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Could this redefine console gaming? Valve, the company behind Half-Life, Portal and the Steam digital gaming service is totally re-inventing the game pad. Valve’s new controller, the Steam Controller, will be based around “super-precise haptic feedback,” and will allow keyboard and mouse gamers to move their gaming onto a television to get the ‘living room’ experience.
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Is This The New iPad 5? [VIDEO]
30 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Apple’s product leak problems aren’t going away. A chinese parts supplier has posted this video, allegedly comparing the body shapes of the fourth-gen iPad and the iPad Mini with the forthcoming fifth-gen iPad. Apple is set to unveil the new iPad in October. Still, one can’t help but feel Stevo would never have stood for this.
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Stephen Hawking Reckons We Could Copy Our Brains Onto A Hard Drive
27 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
71-year-old Professor Stephen Hawking was at the Cambridge Film Festival to chat about the biopic detailing his life. While speaking about the film, Hawking spoke about the possibility of preserving brains on hard drives. He was asked if he thought a person’s consciousness could live on after death. His response:
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Remember ‘Control-Alt-Delete?’ Bill Gates Says It Was A Mistake [VIDEO]
27 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Bill Gates has finally admited something we’ve known for a long time: control-alt-delete was a mistake. At a Harvard fundraising campaign, he was asked: “When I want to turn on my computer and software why do I have to have three fingers, Ctrl, Alt, Delete?[…] Who’s idea was that?”
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STOP EVERYTHING: They Just Found Water On Mars
27 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Just when you thought the Curiosity Rover was just digging up dirt up in vain up on the red planet, it’s gone and struck gold – well, water, actually. That’s right, believe it or not, there’s water on Mars.
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Impress Your Friends With These Awesome iOS7 Hidden Features
26 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 13 Comments
By now you either love or hate the iPhone’s new operating system. Whether you belong to group A or group B, we have some tips for you that are going to make your friends think you are a wizard, and at the end of the day you will be more at peace with your brand spanking new iOS7 operating system.
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Tech Report: This Awesome Local App Just Made The Cab Call Centre Extinct [VIDEO]
26 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments
What’s the problem with ordering a cab in South Africa? Everything. If by some miracle you manage to communicate clearly with the hellfire of ambient noise that is the taxi cab call centre, you can count yourself among the lucky and privileged few who don’t have their cab stolen by loitering students. Why? Because there’s no way to tell when your cab will arrive. But there is now, thanks to Zapacab.
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Watch This 7-Year-Old Kid Hear For The First Time [VIDEO]
26 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A deaf seven-year-old Guatemalan boy can now hear thanks to missionary, Erin Van Oordt, who brought him to America for a life changing cochlear implant operation. Advanced Bionics donated equipment totalling close to R400,000 so that the operation could be performed to allow this boy to hear. Look at his face as his life changes forever as […]
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Girl Publicly Humiliates Guy Who Broke Up Via SMS
26 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 13 Comments
Have you ever broken up with someone via SMS? Shame on you. If you have, you can count yourself lucky you didn’t do it 26-year-old Quin Woodward Pu, or this might’ve happened to you.
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Suffering From A Creative Blockage? Check Out These Rad Design Quotes [INFOGRAPHIC]
25 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Designers listen up – we have some inspiration for you. After a beautiful braai day yesterday, it is understandable that you might be suffering something of a creative mental block this fine Wednesday afternoon. Luckily we have your back. Check out these 15 quotes from some of the world’s greatest designers!
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They’ve Dug Up The Steve Jobs Time Capsule – Guess What’s Inside? [PHOTOS]
25 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In 1983, at an International Design Conference in Aspen, a young Steve Jobs (28 at the time) gave a tech talk and afterwards, added some historical gems to a time capsule planned to be unearthed in the year 2000. The time capsule was “lost” for 13 years because of the landscape changing before being unearthed by National Geographic Channel’s team from the TV Show, “Diggers”.
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They’re Using F-16s As Drones Now [VIDEO]
25 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Watch the first take off, fly around and landing of the airborne death-machine sans pilot. The plane carried out its take-off sequence, a series of simulated manoeuvres, supersonic flight, and landing procedures all controlled by two test pilots sitting safely on the ground in Florida.
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South Africa Is Building A Satellite
23 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africa is entering the space realm. The Denel Group is creating a high resolution, Earth observing satellite. The satellite will be called the EO-Sat1, and will be monitored by the South African National Space Agency.
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WATCH: The iPhone 5S Fingerprint Sensor In Action [VIDEO]
23 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you are one of the lucky few to have snatched up the iPhone 5S on Friday, you know by now that the finger print scanner is no gimmick. For the rest of you, check out this video of the finger print scanner in action, it even works in the app store!
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Hipsters Plan To Ditch The Internet
23 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The hipsters are over the internet, and it’s about to go viral. Check out these cryptic messages about the internet from these bands and novelists.
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These Are the Best New Apps For iOS7
20 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
iOS7 is here! It’s bright, it’s colourful, it’s new, it’s fresh and it’s simple. It’s exactly what we needed to kick off spring. Want to know what the best new apps for the revamped operating system are? We have them for you here
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NASA Wants to Pay You R175,050 To Lie In Bed
20 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Do you want to lie in bed for 70 days and not have a worry in the world? NASA has the job for you. They are looking for candidates to help them further their research into space and all they need you to do is lie in bed. You can do anything you want, as long as you continue to lie down.
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Google Wallet For iPhone – Pay Your Friends Just With An Email Address
20 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google wants to make your life easier. As of yesterday Google launched their Google Wallet app for iPhone. The app allows you to send money to friends and store credit cards, debit cards, loyalty program cards and coupon-style offers. This is definitely a solution the next time you go out for dinner with your friends
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This Is Why Internet Fame Is A Dangerous Thing [VIDEO]
20 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The path to fame in the age of the internet can be dizzyingly short. Obi Nwosu planned to get there by jumping over a car. Instead he got hit by said car, and got famous anyway.
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Google’s New Project: To Make You Live Longer
19 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google has always prided itself on trying for the extraordinary. Having succesfully mapped a massive chunk of the world above sea level with driven vehicles, they’ve turned their attention to the oceans. When they aren’t photographing the Great Barrier Reef or translating the web into 64 different languages, they’re trying to make you immortal. Meet project Calico.
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Tech Report: The Paleo Diet App Rundown [VIDEO]
19 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Are you paleo? Do you hate bread with a deep and burning passion? Do you run barefoot, or workout in shoes that have their own toes? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you’ll almost certainly enjoy this helpful rundown of apps for eating paleo.
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GTA V Creators Hoped To Make $1 Billion In 6 Months – Made $800 Million In 1 Day
19 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
When the team at Rockstar released their latest iteration of the Grand Theft Auto game series, their financial projections indicated that they hoped to make around $1 billion from the game in six months. Well, they may be adjusting that projection, after first-day sales generated over $800 million.
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A Severed Finger Won’t Work On The New iPhone 5S Fingerprint Scanner
19 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
As a CIA/Mossad/FBI/NSA/MSS/MI5/GRU agent, you’ll be happy to know that no one will be able to access your iPhone5S by killing you, or severing your finger from your body. Which means that your turturers will have to be even more creative and brutal in getting you to unlock your phone. Oh well.
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Do You Keep Forgetting Your Dreams? This Dream Tracker App Is For You [VIDEO]
19 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Do you struggle to remember your dreams? Of course you do, nearly everyone does. That’s not to say that you can’t remember them at all. If you were to say, write down or dictate exactly what you recall of your dreams within the first five minutes of waking up, you’d be able to capture at least a part of them. And over time, you might be able to comb that data for patterns. Shadow is an app that will help you to do that.
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People Have Already Started Queueing For The New iPhone – 4 Days Early [PIC]
18 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
The iPhone 5S goes on sale at 08h00 on Friday, and die hard Apple devotees/entrepreneurs are already lining up! Gad Haradi, 17, is camped outside the flagship store in London and hopes some desperate person will pay up to £1,000 for his prime spot. He said, “There are crazy people who are willing to do that.”
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Free Public WiFi Launches In Green Point
18 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Free unlimited public WiFi is now available at St Andrew’s Square on the border of De Waterkant and Green Point. If you’re wondering where that is, it’s the small park next to the Church on the corner of Somerset and Chiappini. We have the Green Point City Improvement District (GPCID) and the City of Cape Town to […]
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WATCH: Time-Lapse Video Shows Costa Concordia Pulled Upright [VIDEO]
18 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The salvage operation of the wrecked cruise liner, Costa Concordia was initially set to take between 10 and 12 hours. By the early hours of this morning, the operation had stretched to 19 hours before the vessel was finally righted by South African salvage master, Nick Sloane and his crew. Check out the terrific time lapse of the operation, after the jump
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To All Time Travel Hopefuls: Do You Want The Good News Or The Bad News?
17 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There’s good news and there’s bad news. The good news is, yes, time travel IS possible. Click through for the bad news..
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They’re Building A Skyscraper That Can Go Invisible [VIDEO]
17 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Korea is going to be the home to the world’s first invisible skyscraper! GDS Architects are going to build what they are calling ‘the anti-skyscraper’ — a 450 meter tower that will create an optical illusion to make it look like it’s disappearing into thin air.
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PUMA Releases Radical Running App For iOS
17 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Whether you are a seasoned runner, or a rookie trying to get in shape we have the iPhone app for you. PUMA has launched a sweet tool called PUMATRAC and it will act as your running buddy.
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