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Tech/Sci
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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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Knockoff Popstars – Made In Japan
04 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you take a little stroll down to your local market, you can pick up anything from a pair of Mikes (fake Nikes) to a pair of Maddibas (fake Adidas) to the best real fake Rolex you’ve ever seen. It’s now only a matter of time before you can pick up a new secretary, wife or girlfriend as well.
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Philippino Mayor Punches Out Sheriff [VIDEO]
04 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A female mayor from Davao City in the Philippines has punched a court sheriff, in front of numerous TV cameras, because the sheriff insisted on demolishing 200 shacks despite her request for a two-hour delay. She’s since been told by her husband to take leave for five days while the Department of Interior and Local Government investigates.
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Waterfront iStore Bans Customer
04 Jul 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 6 Comments
Our original article about the Waterfront iStore (entitled “iStore Does Not Need Your Business” has been read over 10,000 times. This is mainly due to the fact that the article ranks number 1 in Google if you search for “cape town iStore.” the beauty of this situation is that the comments section of the article […]
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RICA Your Number Under A False Name For R20
04 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Come on, you all know what we’re referring to in that headline. It’s just a little bribe and you’re done. In there. RICA sorted. It’s actually hardly surprising, but it deflates the high we all experienced with the relatively hassle-free event that was reported in a lot of the mainstream media.
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Thought For The Weekend – Britons Love Radio – When Last Did YOU Listen To Radio At Home?
01 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Isn’t that surprising? A study of British recreational culture has been published, and it transpires that British people love nothing more than to listen to the wireless. Much more so than they enjoy reading, surfing the net, or even watching television. That kind of thing is almost unfavorable in South Africa. Because the general quality […]
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Amazing, Lifelike Dental Practice: Japanese Robot Opens Wide [VIDEO]
01 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The girl pictured is actually a robot named Showa Hanako 2. She was originally developed as a tool for dentists looking to practice new procedures, but is now able to recognise voice commands, turn her head and open her mouth real wide! Before your mind ends up in the gutter, see the video as to why she’s designed like that.
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Chinese Government Road Inspection Officials’ Photoshop Fail
30 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Chinese often find ingenious ways of rectifying problems, but they’ve gone too far this time. A badly doctored image of government officials inspecting a new road in Huili, a modest county in a rural corner of south-west China, has produced some exquisite viral images indicating the public’s displeasure with being lied to.
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8 bit Invader (maping) from Darkfejzr on Vimeo.
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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Taxi Industry To Launch Low-Cost Airline, No Spice
29 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) is seriously considering expanding the taxi industry to cover further modes of transport, including buses, trains and aeroplanes. There is no word on what the airline, due to take to the skies in November, would be called, but there is the very obvious question of: “Where would the gatjie sit?”
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Nedbank – ‘Make Nothing Happen’
29 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 3 Comments
A strange number has appeared on the screen of my phone, twice a day, every day this week. I left it – as I do most phone calls – because I was/am usually doing something at the time. And even if I’m doing nothing, that does qualify as doing something these days. My voicemail message […]
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Did Shakespeare Smoke Weed?
29 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Personally, I took Shakespeare as more of an opium den kind of a guy, but I’ve been wrong before and I’ll be the first to admit that. Anyway, a South African anthropologist from Wits University has set in motion a request to open the graves of William Shakespeare and his family to determine, among other things, what killed them.
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TSA Pat-Down: 95-Year-Old Woman Told To Remove Adult Diaper At Airport
28 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here, at 2oceansvibe, we are quite familiar with some of the unusual pat-downs that the American Transportation Security Association (TSA) has conducted, but this one is surely the most controversial yet. They actually said they had identified something “wet and firm” and that they needed to remove the diaper to complete their checks.
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ICC Proposes Banning ‘Runners’ In Cricket
28 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The elimination of runners for injured players, the use of two new balls from each end in one-dayers, and new regulation around when the batting and bowling Powerplays can be taken, are among the key recommendations the ICC Chief Executives’ Committee has made after its meeting in Hong Kong.
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Volkswagen Has A Car With Hands-Free Driving Now
27 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
VW are proposing a new technology that will allow drivers to take their hands off the wheel at speeds up to around 130km/h, and let the car’s system temporarily take over. Look, it isn’t exactly Knight Rider, but it’s good that VW’s looking after people who want to multitask while cruising down highways.
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Is This An Actual UFO Over London? [VIDEO]
27 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
A video has surfaced of a shiny disc-like object flying over London. And, as you can imagine, the first explanations around it obviously involve aliens, because, you know, that makes total sense. See if you can figure out what this UFO is – the way it keeps popping up for a clear camera shot makes me suspicious.
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Now There’s A Company Specializing In Finding Your Embarrassing Facebook Photos
27 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Social Intelligence, a company approved a week ago by the Federal Trade Commission, is one that uses deep-search tools to do background checks on other companies’ potential employees. These guys could find your MySpace account, they’re that thorough. And if your deep-search profile doesn’t look good, you don’t get hired.
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Joost To Travel To The States For Treatment
27 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Former Springbok captain and scrumhalf, Joost van der Westhuizen, has suffered a setback after the initial treatment prescribed by his doctor, to combat the debilitating nerve disease he was diagnosed with, failed to improve his condition.
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Woman Dies Of Heart Attack At Own Funeral
24 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s bizarre enough when a person is declared dead for whatever reason, but then somehow miraculously wakes up from this death to surprise everyone. Obviously, it isn’t the kind of thing that happens very often. Now, a Russian woman has had a heart attack at her own funeral upon waking up and seeing the mourners that were attending it.
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Airline Pilot Mistakenly Rants To Other Crews: Calls Flight Attendants Gays, Grannies & Grandes
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The pilot probably already knows this, but now we know too. He will have to go and warm his own chicken or beef whenever he flies now. He was having a go at flight attendants, and referred to them as a “continuous stream of gays and grannies and grandes,” according to a transcript of the March 25 flight over Texas.
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The Future Is Awesome: Electronic Memory Expansion Is Coming Along Nicely
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Researchers at the University of California have put together tiny robot brains that replicate the long term memory function in rats; using this, they could switch long-term memory on and off with a button. Which means ‘electronic memory’ and the possibility of knowing stuff without having to learn stuff is suddenly a real thing.
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This May Change Photography Forever
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Imagine never having to focus on what you’re photographing. You could just snap away knowing you could refocus the shots later. A new light-field camera will be launched this year by a company called Lytro, which will allow you to do just that. And it will mark a massive step forward in the evolution of photography as we know it.
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Subscriptions Open For The Daily Maverick’s Tablet-Only Newspaper, iMaverick
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The Daily Maverick has broken new ground in the publishing sphere by developing Africa’s first daily tablet-only newspaper, iMaverick. While the official launch of the newspaper is August 15, applications for subscription to the bundled newspaper/iPad2 offering have opened. Included in the cost of the monthly subscription is a daily edition of the newspaper, and […]
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Gautrain’s Hidden Millions, Another Shock For The Taxpayer
22 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This week we have seen two interesting reasons why the information bill, in its current form, needed amending. We learned of South African sniper weapons in Libya, and we have now learned of the many millions Gauteng tax payers will likely fork out for the lack of passengers using the Gautrain.
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FBI’s Search For Hacking Group Takes Out Random, Unrelated Websites
22 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The cyber-war on cyber-terror now has innocent bystanders, apparently. In a hunt for LulzSec, the hacking group claiming responsibility for the compromise of huge amounts of Sony user accounts and for briefly taking the CIA website offline, the FBI raided DigitalOne’s data – finding nothing, but causing a bunch of unrelated websites to go offline.
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Nonhle Tendencies: Social Media Doesn’t Work That Way
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
So Nonhle Thema – from Vuzu reality show Nonhle Goes to Hollywood, and the former face of the Dark and Lovely brand – seems to be having a bit of a freak-out on Twitter. She’s eager to tell everybody that she is “young and RICH……….LOL…..DEAL WITH IT PLEASE…” Over and over again.
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Mahut Versus Isner: The Greatest Web Event Of All Time Was An Obscure Tennis Match
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And today is the rematch, three days short of one year since the now-famous encounter smashed tennis and online viewership records. Last year, on June 24, John Isner and Nicolas Mahut played a First Round match at Wimbledon. That match lasted 11 hours and five minutes with a total of 183 games. The final score of the fifth and deciding set was Isner 70, Mahut 68. And that’s not even the extraordinary part.
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Shrek Virus Invades Pretty People Dating Website – Yes, It’s Actually Called A Shrek Virus
20 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A dating website that grants only beautiful people acceptance, has had to apologise to 30 000 ugly people for being mistakenly allowed onto the website database. This is what managing director, Greg Hodge had to say when I caught up with him, on his high horse…
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‘Obedient Wives Club’ Launches New Branch [VIDEO]
20 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new club that opened in Jakarta, Indonesia, this weekend, is encouraging women to be totally obedient to their husbands and focus on keeping them sexually satisfied. Predictably, the new branch of the 800-member strong organisation has generated a chorus of disapproval from activists and academics alike.
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Ridiculously Intoxicated Amy Winehouse Embarrasses Herself In Front Of 20 000 Fans [VIDEO]
20 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
It’s not clear exactly what Amy was on when she performed in Belgrade on Saturday night, but whatever it was, it was a lot. During her 90 minute performance, Winehouse managed to mumble mostly and may have even hallucinated a few times too. The next few legs of her European tour have obviously been cancelled.
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