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Tech/Sci
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Chrome Turns Your Favourite Website Into A 3D Maze Game [VIDEO]
25 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google Japan have created one of the craziest online Chrome experiences yet. This experiment allows you to turn your favourite websites into 3D mazes that you can play in. The Chrome World Maze is similar to the maze games you used to play and dominate at the arcade as a young whipper-snapper, except now you’re using your iPhone as a […]
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South African Scientist Granted R12 Billion To Build A Digital Human Brain
25 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A South African neuroscientist plans to build the world’s first digital brain in the hopes of trying to discover new information on mental disorders. Professor Henry Markram said: What we are developing is a new foundation, a new instrument – a telescope – that will allow one to look deep into the brain, offering a […]
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This Folding Car Will End Your Parking Problem [VIDEO]
25 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Finding parking is often a nightmare, and chances are when you do manage to find a space it’s a tight squeeze. Of course, parking related issues wouldn’t crop up if our car’s folded up. Which is exactly what the MIT-designed Hiriko Fold electric car does. Director of the MIT Media Lab, Kent Larson says the […]
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Are You Struggling With Sluggish Internet In SA Today? This Is Why
22 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Internet services for South Africans may have been a lot slower today. The sluggish speed was due to a Seacom outage. The company speculates that the cable was cut in the Mediterranean Sea. The company issued this statemnet on their website. Seacom has identified restoration solutions and providers and is in the process of re-configuring […]
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What It’s Like To Wear A Smart Watch [VIDEO]
22 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Pebble is part of a burgeoning industry of wearable tech like Google Glass. The device enables you to connect your smartphone to your wrist, making reading messages, e-mails and other smart phone functions a hands-free experience. The Pebble is currently only available to the 68,929 “backers” who pledged anywhere between $1 to $10,000 to see this […]
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Manufacturers Plan To Make Smart Phone Screens Out Of Near Indestructible Sapphire
22 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The next set of smartphones and tablets to hit the market may have screens manufactured from a human-made version of sapphire. The manufactured substance is already used in military vehicles and is close to unbreakable. According to a report published in the MIT Technology Review, the smartphone screen wouldn’t break when it was dropped, and […]
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Detailed Image Of Ancient Universe Unveiled
22 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The European Space Agency (ESA) revealed on Thursday that our Universe is 80 to 100 million years older than previously thought, via a detailed map of the most ancient light in the cosmos. ESA’s Planck satellite took a 50-million pixel, all sky snapshot of the radiation left over from the Big Bang. Director general of […]
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Google Glass Hype Is Dwindling – Fears Of Big Brother Are Growing
20 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google Glass is a potentially revolutionary technology that could fundamentally shift the way that humans interact with their environment, and dramatically improve productivity. But the product also requires the user, and anyone who comes into contact with the user, to be prepared to have the boundaries of their privacy stripped away. Google Glass will in […]
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Apple Lands Augmented Reality Patent
20 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Okay, Apple signed another patent – but this time it’s a goodie. Yesterday Apple was awarded the patent for an augmented reality system, giving users the ability to tag objects on screen in live video relayed by the phone camera, which would bring up information about those real-world items in a heads-up display. In english […]
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Excellent Design Concept Imagines The Future Of Cape Town’s Unfinished Bridge [VIDEO]
20 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 9 Comments
Students at CPUT have imagined what could be made of Cape Town’s infamous unfinished bridge above Port and Alfred Streets. Uploaded by YouTube user Oliver Hall, the lengthy blurb for the video reads: With careful planning in regards to the needs of the users, the possibilities of the site, and the requirements of the larger […]
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SA’s Most Powerful Telescope Will Actively Search For Aliens
20 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
According to project director Bernie Fanaroff, the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope will be looking for signs of life on other planets. Awesome! The SKA project will play host to the most powerful radio astronomy telescope in world once the project is completed. But construction is only set to begin in 2017, so don’t hold your breath […]
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Ad Agency Charges R9 200 For A Tweet
20 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Anyone who handles the marketing budget for a brand knows that creative in advertising costs a pretty penny. And with good reason – ideas are the very stuff of novelty. Ideas are what gets your brand remembered. A London-based creative agency has taken a novel approach to how they interact with their clients. They do […]
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Samsung Is Also Having A Run At Making A Smart Watch [GALLERY]
20 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Lee Young Hee, Executive Vice President of Samsung’s mobile business confirmed during an interview in South Korea that Samsung will indeed be making a smart watch. According to Hee this is not in respsonse to rumours that Apple is working on a watch. We’ve been preparing the watch product for so long. We are working very […]
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Privacy May Not Be A Legal Right For Much Longer
19 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In a recent study, researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University detailed how Facebook erodes users’ privacy. Researchers found that during the first four years, users steadily limited what personal data was visible to strangers within their school network. Yet through changes Facebook introduced to its platform in 2009 and 2010, the social network actually succeeded in reversing […]
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Is Your Work Set Up Killing You? [VIDEO]
19 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you have, like me, sufffered from migraines at work, then you need to read this. After two weeks of suffering I went to the doctor, obviously fearing a tumour. It took all of 10 seconds for him to ask how I sit at work, and diagnose that my poor posture was causing neck stress, […]
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Mystery Vault Found In New Zealand Gains Serious Attention
19 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Early this week, a Reddit user posted pictures of a vault discovered by their friend in the house into which they had just moved. The mysterious vault was found in the basement of the New Zealand, and was sealed with concrete. The home was a known drug den prior to it changing hands. Since the […]
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Digicape Overhauls Their Roeland Street Store [PICS]
19 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africa’s largest independent Apple retailer (and our favourite place to buy Apple stuff) officially reopened on 13 March. Digicape’s Roeland Street store was re-opened after undergoing extensive redesign and construction. It looks very, very pretty inside now. Work in progress… THIS is customer service Kwaai Not only has Digicape upgraded their store, they’ve also […]
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New York’s Answer To The Pay Phone [GALLERY + VIDEO]
19 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg recently called on creatives to devise a better plan for communication in New York to replace the mangy, disease ridden pay phones currently in operation. The goal of the project was to completely redesign the and rethink the pay phone as a platform for communication, as well as […]
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WATCH: 15-Camera Array Shows The GroPro At Its Best [VIDEO]
18 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We would like to thank Marc Donahue of Permagrin Films for building the 15 GoPro camera array. You frigging nailed it. The array makes it possible to shoot slow-mo shots at a 180 degree angle – on a GoPro. Although this video is super cool, Donahue has said that the technique is not yet perfect […]
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The Most Important Things To Know About The Samsung Galaxy S4 [VIDEO + GALLERY]
15 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Samsung Galaxy S4 was unveiled yesterday at Radio City Hall, New York City after intense media hype. Here’s everything you need to know about Samsung’s new flagship phone, in a nutshell. Aesthetically, the S4 looks like a larger version of the S3 which means that it’s big. Very big. Too big? That’s up to the […]
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Scientist Are Dead Certain That They Have Found The God Particle
15 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well, as certain as scientists can be. Guys in white coats at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Large Hadron Collider are now certain that they have found the Higgs Boson particle. The “God Particle” is thoerised to give elementary objects mass to the universe. Meaning that the Higgs Boson explains the existence of everything, […]
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Veronica Mars Fans Raise $3,2 Million On Kickstarter To Get Movie Made
15 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Kickstarter has been flooded by “Veronica Mars” fans attempting to bring their dream of a movie closer to reality by pleding money to raise funds. Currently the pot is sitting at $3,2 million (R30,5 million), which is a hell of a lot more than the goal of $2 million for this project. Yesterday, fans smashed […]
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If We’re Not Writing Actual Letters, Should Our Emails Have Such Elaborate Signoffs?
15 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
What is your signoff? Let’s be honest, we’ve all wasted too much time thinking about how to sign off at the end of an email. There’s a check list of questions that every one of us runs through: What do I write at the end of a business/professional email? Do I need to change my […]
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Crazy iPhone Accessories To Keep Your Smartphone Interesting [GALLERY]
15 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Welcome to Friday. Your phone isn’t just something you use to make phone calls. You store images, troll enemies on social networks, and evaporate time under the table during meetings with a little light Instagram editing, to name a few functions. Time wastage is an important function of your smartphone, but time wasting apps generally […]
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“I Watched A Large Meteorite Burn Up Between Me And Australia” – Commander Hadfield Answers Excellent Questions From Space
14 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Canadian Astronaut, Commander Chris Hadfield has risen to Twitter fame over the course of the last few months by tweeting beautiful pictures of earth from the point of view of the International Space Station, currently orbiting around the planet at a sedate pace of 27 600km per hour. Consider this one, for example. The Isle […]
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Radvertising: French Toilet Paper Ad Is Solid Gold [VIDEO]
14 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
“Emma…” Do you know one of those condescending twerps who smirks whenever you read a book, print a page, write something one a note pad – their tablet in hand? Are you one of those condescending twerps? Do you use an iPad when you run out of toilet paper? Obviously not. This rad TV ad […]
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Google Reader Is Being Shut Down – Here Are The Best Alternatives
14 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Look, it isn’t good news. But you have to make the best of a bad situation. On Wednesday night, Google announced it would be shutting down its Reader product as of 1 July 2013. With the loss of Google Reader, a serious problem emerges. What will users use as an alternative reader? Step 1 – Find a new RSS […]
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How The Internet Built A $100 000 Race Car
14 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Rally Fighter is the first production race car to be designed and built through internet crowdsourcing. The muscly car turned heads as it drove through downtown Austin, flaunting a new, bright orange paint job and steer horns mounted to the grill. John B Rogers, the President of Local Motors – the car company that […]
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The Future Of Medicine – Health Sensors Printed On To Your Skin As Tattoo Microchips [VIDEO]
14 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
An electronic sensor that attches like a “second skin” and monitors your health has been developed by MC10. The “second skin” is worn like a temporary tattoo. MC10 has developed a micro chip that can be printed directly onto the skin, bonding the health sensor to your body with spray-on bandage mterial. As the chip […]
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Illustrator Condenses SXSW Keynote Addresses Into Awesome Hand Drawn Infographics [GALLERY]
14 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I know a couple of people, including myself, that would have paid good money to get some notes like this during our varsity careers. Patrick Ashamalla, founder and principal of interactive firm, A Brand New Way, is not just a successful business man, he can also illustrate some of the most amusing keynote notes (say that […]
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