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Tech/Sci
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Advanced Crow Tool Use – Researchers Surprised
01 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Birds have often attained legendary status amongst their two legged admirers and achieved such feats as drug smuggling and speeds greater than broadband. Now New Caledonian Crows have stepped it up a notch and proven their tool knowledge is possibly a way to beat the I-only-like-shiny-things stereotype they have always been stuck with.
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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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Friday Morning Spice
28 Jan 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
The iPad Finally Comes To South Africa – Officially! – Finally the first OFFICIAL Apple sanctioned iPads are available in South Africa. Digicape, 2oceansvibe and SA’s favourite official Apple Mac product provider made the announcement on their website at midnight, last night. iPads will start at R4,399 and, by all accounts, you better move fast […]
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Is Your Child A Criminal In The Making?
26 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Is your toddler impulsive, easily frustrated, restless and unable to think about his/her long-term future? If they are, you’re unfortunately the proud parent of a future alcoholic, drug addicted, criminal with no future prospects whatsoever. No, really, that’s a scientific fact.
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Breaking News: Mail & Guardian Under Hacker Attack
26 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Nic Dawes, editor of local investigative news publication, the Mail & Guardian, has said that the paper’s website, MG.co.za, is the victim of sustained organised hacking attempts.
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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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Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Profile Hacked
26 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A dyslexic individual hacked into Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook profile and posted his philanthropic thoughts on how the site should distribute wealth. Facebook quickly deleted the page and has not commented on the matter. Give up all their money for social good? Not going to happen.
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It Sucks To Live In Washington
25 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Unless you are pretty keen on bestiality that is. The United States of Shame is the internet’s latest creation of aggregated data, and serves up the statistical shameful speciality of each state. For exampple, North Dakota has, statistically-speaking, the highest rate of ugly people in America. Shame.
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Rockstar Announce LA Noire Release Date [VIDEO]
25 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
LA Noire is Grand Theft Auto in 1940s Los Angeles. Awesome. Well, Rockstar have announced a release date for my fellow nerds and I and provided a new trailer to accompany it. The countdown to the latest sandboxing, abuse-hurling, road-raging and gun-slinging title is on and we have the trailer for you right after the jump. On dad.
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Dr 90210 Is In Joburg
24 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Keep your shirt on. No really, keep it on. Apparently people start undressing in the presence of TV’s nip and tuck butcher hoping he’ll dish out some advice. Thankfully this didn’t happen at the Houghton Golf Estate Saturday night where he spoke to some plastic fans. The well-mannered crowd did hang onto his lips though. Their own aching for a refill.
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We Live In The Future: Bus Shelters Are Equipped With Video Games Now
21 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I mean, obviously not all of them. And I’d be surprised if any of them were here. But still, there exist about 20 bus shelters in San Francisco with touch screens installed by Yahoo! The most surprising thing about that sentence is that Yahoo! is still doing things.
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Push Notifications From Real Life [VIDEO]
21 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Okay, now a revelation: I have a degree in Information Science. So there, now you know. Here I leap out of the nerd closet and admit that I have a thing for cool tech projects and nothing I have ever seen is as cool as this. Just take a moment of your life to watch this video from Make Magazine and you’ll be amazed.
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The End Of The Wallet As We Know It
20 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The American coffee giant Starbucks announced this week that customers with iPhone and Blackberry smartphones can now download an application to purchase their daily fix. The app will display a bar code that the barista can scan and voila, off you go. How much longer until cards are rendered obsolete?
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US, China State Visit Gets Lost In Translation
20 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The US, China state visit was always going to be a tricky affair. They speak different languages and good translators are so hard to find these days. Nevertheless, they met. Things were off to a good enough start but got testy when Obama straight up told the Chinese head of state they should do something about their human rights record. Whether he heard ‘human’ rights we’ll never know.
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WIN A Netbook With MWEB And 2oceansvibe Radio (1 of 4)
20 Jan 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
It’s weird to think that if you do the right thing between now and tomorrow, you might be playing with your brand new Netbook before the weekend – courtesy of MWEB and 2oceansvibe Radio! But it’s all up to you! The big question is, can you follow simple instructions? Ready? Here we go! How to […]
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Johannesburg Traffic Lights Stripped For Unlimited Phone Calls
20 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is sort of cool and sort of awful. Jozi thieves have stripped about 400 ‘high-tech traffic lights’ of their sim cards, modems and GPS systems, using the sim cards to make unlimited free phone calls. It will cost about R8,8 million to replace these fancy, legitimately robot-like traffic lights. Regular GPS-free traffic lights are unaffected.
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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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The Woolly Mammoth Will Walk The Earth Again
18 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A bunch of Japanese scientists (how surprising) believe they have the technology to clone a woolly mammoth. Yes, you heard that right, they want to bring an extinct animal back to life, and are hoping to achieve this within the next six years. End of days here we come.
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Meet The Justin Bieber Of iPhone Apps
17 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
While the rest of his classmates were off investing their time in real pursuits, like playing the latest video games and surfing the internet for free porn, Robert Nay was developing the single most popular free app for the Apple iPhone.
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US Strategy To Plug Leaks Is Leaked
11 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re big into conspiracy theories about how the United Stated government spends its time covering up the dastardly deeds that it commits, perhaps it’s time for a rethink. It appears that the US government can’t even keep secret their plan to stop their secrets from getting leaked.
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Men Sniff Tears For Science
10 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A laboratory in Israel is spending its research grant on the very creepy task of harvesting the tears of sad women. According to Shani Gelstein, scientist and tear collector, men found pictures of women less sexually attractive just after smelling the tears of women.
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Man Photographs Own Killer Moments Before His Murder
05 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Philippino politician may have been among the first people in the world to die in 2011, but that’s not even the most remarkable part of the story. Reynaldo Dagsa of Calacoon City had been woken by his family just in time to celebrate the New Year with them on the street, where fireworks were on display. Moments later, his life ended.
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Russell Brand Tweets Hideous Visage Of Katy Perry
03 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 10 Comments
Katy Perry is widely regarded as one of the world’s most beautiful women. Russell Brand has shattered that perception. There really is something to be said for the argument that social media should not breach the boundaries of a man and wife’s marriage bed. Click the link to see what I’m talking about.
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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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Strong Rand Makes US iTunes A Bit Of A No-Brainer
03 Jan 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
I’m not sure if you caught the live financial indicators on the right-hand side of the page, but the Rand is absolutely KILLING it against the US Dollar. At the current rate, I’m renting movies from the US iTunes store at R26 a shot – and some of them haven’t even hit the circuit here in SA. Let me show you how.
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Step Up Your Twitter Etiquette, Dawg [VIDEO]
31 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Better put this one on your New Year’s resolution list: Don’t follow Ricky Romance, make sure he’s not following you and if you see them recommend you follow him – delete your twitter account. Watch him hand out twitter tips and a death threat to Chris Brown after some particularly nasty exchanges in 140 characters or less.
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The iPad2 Catches Up With Basic Computer Technology – Incorporates A USB Port
30 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
One of the great mysteries of Apple’s design engineers is their fetish for omitting critical data sharing infrastructure from their beautiful mind babies creations. The iPad is equiped with a wonderfully tactile touch screen, brilliant clarity, and the same aesthetic simplicity that Apple has made it’s own, the iPad lacks a USB port.
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5,000 Downloads Of 2oceansvibe Radio App
29 Dec 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Well the proof certainly is in the pudding, as reports show over 5,000 downloads of the 2oceansvibe app, in just over a month. It works out to about 65 downloads a day, which confirms that we’re on the right track.
So we just want to thank you for that and we promise to keep growing and delivering more of the content, chat and music that you really want to listen to!
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What’s This Google?
24 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Google’s logo mutations are mostly spot on. For Easter they gooi some bunnies. When there’s pumpkins and draculas you know it’s Halloween. Bobsleds, Winter Olympics. It’s not always pretty but most times it makes sense so what in the name of everything holy, clear and sacred do our friends over at Google mean by this one?
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Cape Quarter Website Hack Part II
23 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
We reported earlier that the Cape Quarter Lifestyle Village website had been subject to a hack by a member of the XtremeRoot.net educational hacking site, who went by the name of Legacy123. Legacy123’s hack has since been hacked, by someone using the cypher K141, and they’re not friendly.
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