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Rockstar Games Release L.A. Noire Debut Trailer [VIDEO]
12 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Rockstar Games have released a debut trailer for their latest open-worlder: L.A. Noire. The game is set to be released in American Spring 2011 and will offer a different experience for those who enjoy blundering about a virtual map shouting obscentities, while waxing lyrical with a friend about bashing an elderly bystander’s head in with the back of a stolen car.
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Tivoli Radios Add 2ov Radio As Main Preset SA Station
12 Nov 2010 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Tivoli, the world’s most popular radios, have added 2oceansvibe Radio to their listing on their ‘Networks’ Internet Radios. With over 60,000 worldwide stations available (both analogue and digital), we are pleased to be the station that all their units sold in SA are preset to! Get yours at the i-fi store in the Cape Quarter Lifestyle Village. Info +2oceansvibe discount) after the jump!
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We Live In The Future: Log On To Facebook With Your Face
12 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Researchers at the University of Manchester’s mobile biometry project have put together a demo application that allows people to use voice and face recognition to log in to Facebook, Twitter and Gmail accounts, which is going to be hell for people with a forgettable face.
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New “Google-Killer” Search Engine Adds Human Element, Bias
11 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Every time I hear about a new search engine that has come to market, I think the same thing: what’s the point? A new search engine aims to change that, claiming that it brings back far more relevant results by adding a human bias to the search algorithm.
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Your Sperm Hate Phone Calls
10 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Phone calls are, by their very nature intrusive, and downright offensive for the majority of the occasions that you’re determined to suffer them. But we won’t go in to that in too much detail right now. All you need to know is that your sperm are on our side, and they hate you for all that calling you’ve been getting up to.
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iPhone App Allows You To Track And Share Your Movember Progress
09 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
If you’ve jumped on the Movember train but are lacking the technology to track and share your progress, this is the app for you.
The Movember Mophone App allows you to track your progress and share it online, even making a stop-motion animation of your growth in the process. -
Wine-Tasting Robot Thinks Humans Taste Like Bacon; The End Is Nigh.
08 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Researchers at NEC System Technologies have designed robots with the ability to identify dozens of different wines, cheeses and appetizers, because that’s something we need robots for. Except they think people taste like bacon.
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Five Reasons Why Myspace Is About To Fail (For Real This Time)
05 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
In the wake of the news that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has declared that “Myspace is a problem” and has given the beleaguered social networking site months to sort itself out, we take a look at the reasons why the original posterchild of Web 2.0 is dying.
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Manufactured Livers A Reality; Students Everywhere Rejoice
01 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The thing about the future that excites me the most, besides the talking monkeys and the sexy robots, is the cure for the hangover. Some mornings I wake up and I just want to pry out my liver with a spoon and get myself a new one – and thanks to the researchers at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, that dream is a possibility.
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New Jersey Hobo Migration Patterns Are Being Tracked
29 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well, sort of. New Jersey has a pretty huge homeless population. I assume this is what that show, Jersey Shore, is about. And that noble institution, the New Jersey Homeless Management Information System, has introduced a finger-printing system so they can keep track of when homeless folk are using the government-funded soup-kitchens and spas. It’s weird.
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Robot Vans Get From Italy To China On Autopilot
29 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
God, I love living in the future. Don’t you? Four driverless, electric vans arrived in Shanghai yesterday after a 13,000km ‘test drive’ from Italy. They had no maps, and they stopped to pick up a hitchhiker on the way.
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New Japanese Robot Creeps Everybody Out
28 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure out that the lady on the left is a robot. It’s the futuristic version of accidentally chatting up a mannequin, except like a million times more unsettling. Because mannequins don’t have powerful robot arms that can crush a man.
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I Lost My iPad – Oh Dear God
27 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
I went to bed the other night and suddenly realised that I hadn’t seen my iPad for a couple of days. It wasn’t in the Safe House, so I got out of bed, went to the garage and searched my car and my Vespa – nothing! It gradually dawned on me that I might not have seen my iPad since the Tuesday of that same week – on a flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town (a Kulula flight, no less). Oh my good Lord, what had I done?
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Suicidal Robots
22 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Last week’s Antimov competition challenged amateur engineers to build robots that broke one of the Three Laws or Robotics – which you’d know if you’d read I, Robot (nerd) or saw that movie where Will Smith had the robot arm. No, the robot arm was not called Eva Mendez.
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Rupert Mellor Interviews Roy Gandy – Founder And Owner Of Rega Turntables – Live on 2ov Radio – Friday Morning
22 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As you may have noticed, the classic turntable and vinyl records are back! Any search on the net for Rega turntables will return rave reviews and place it in the highest order for home turntables. 2oceansvibe Radio is luckily enough to have the Rega P3 turntable in the studio (courtesy of i-fi.co.za – located in the Cape Quarter Lifestyle Village) and even more amazing is the interview we have managed to secure with founder and owner, Roy Gandy. The interview will be conducted by SA Rock legend, Rupert Mellor (McCully Workshop). Oh, and YES, we will be playing some vinyl on air! Follow link for times and instructions how to tune in!
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Today’s Most Insane Headline: “Seven Inches Is Enough, RIM Tells Jobs”
21 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
If you’re trying to tell me that the journo that wrote this piece was NOT aware of what he was doing, then you’re a goddamn fool. Either that, or HE is the goddamn fool for not realising. It’s not often that you can construct a headline as perfectly as that. Our local journos obsession with the worked ‘finger’ gets us going to a certain degree – but nothing like this. Urban dictionary definition of “rimjob” after the jump.
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The New 2oceansvibe Didn’t Take One Phone Call To Develop
15 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There seems to be a lot of people still addicted to phone calls of late – desperately wanting to cover detail which has/could’ve been discussed and confirmed in email. So here we are – stuck between people who have progressed, and others who have replaced the phone cord with what seems to be an invisible umbilical cord. Which brings us to the new 2oceansvibe website – listen to this..
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The “Damn It, My Mom’s on Facebook” Filter
13 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Luckily this is a scenario that I’ve never had to deal with, as my mom refuses to go on Facebook. Unfortunately, for most of you, this is not the reality. It’s for those of you who have to deal with this problem on a daily basis that I give to you: The Damn It, My Mom’s On Facebook Filter.
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Die Antwoord’s Interwebs Site Hacked
13 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Either Yolandi and Ninja are writing a Die Antwoord-esque love letter to a friend named Dirk, or their website has been hacked. Lines of text stating, “Dirk F*cks Whores” cover the screen, and the source points to a hacker named “poesgesig”. Really? You hacked Die Antwoord’s website and you couldn’t post the eff word in it’s entirety?
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UK Phone Company Announces Redundancies Using Super-Fun Traffic Light System
12 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There are many different traffic light systems employed today. There is, of course, the very successful and highly regarded precursor to all of the traffic light systems, the traffic light. Then there’s Everything Everywhere’s take on the traffic light.
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Governments To Come Clean About Aliens?
12 Oct 2010 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
An airport closed down in China last week due to ‘UFO sighting’ and the week before it was announced that the UN had appointed an alien ambassador. The UN said the report was rubbish, which is weird, coming from The Times (UK). Now we find reports from earlier on in the year about upcoming alien disclosure announcements to be made by Obama?
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ASA Tells Cell C To Stop Lying. Cell C Says No.
08 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 20 Comments
Cell C’s highly publicised poor coverage can finally be explained. It appears that there is a toxic, root-and-branch misunderstanding of the fundamentals of cellular telephone technology within the company.
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Google Street View – Finding Penguins And Corpses
08 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Great Tripod on a Prius has made it’s way to Brazil, not long after wizzing by 2ov’s HQ in the Cape Quarter, I’ll have you know. But, as inevitable as portraits of maniacal bergies on the Cape Town records of Google Street view, corpses have begun popping up at an alarming rate as the Street View car chugs through Brazil, and specifically, Rio de Janeiro.
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How To Get Unfriended And Alienate People
07 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
You know when you click on someone’s profile on Facebook to leave a weird little comment on their wall only to find out that you have been unfriended, ya it’s an awesome feeling. But there is generally a reason. A new study gives the 5 reasons you might have been unfriended.
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Google Maps + Twitter + Sex = IJustMadeLove.com
07 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
If Twitter is a cocktail party, an informal place to chat with new people and get to know them better, then IJustMadeLove.com is the waiter in the alley behind the party, hooking up with the redhead he just met at the bar.
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Ballmer: Now With Added Fail
06 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Corporate deception, along with the recent catastrophic failure of the Kin, his massive bonus penalties for sizeable losses in the mobile market and in particular, this Youtube video, make watching Steve Ballmer fail in the web browser market, traditionally one of Microsoft’s strongest fronts, all the more delicious.
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Death By GPS
06 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Technology has claimed its second victim in as many weeks. Not long after the Segway Company owner plummeted to his not-so poetic death (he was attached to a Segway at the time), a Spanish man has perished after plunging his Peugeot into a reservoir, at the instruction of his GPS. Maybe he had the Yoda voice activated?
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ION USB LP Turntable – Crackle Your Way To Nostalgia
01 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I’ve been accused of choosing form over substance in my time. Vacillating between the timeless elegance of a 1960s Porsche Speedster over a 2009 Audi being the most recent example. While it didn’t, the timeless very nearly usurped the practical. (Implicit in this is that I couldn’t get both, which is a topic for another day.)
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Dilbert’s Scott Adams Agrees: Wireless Voice Calls Are Obsolete
01 Oct 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
One of the worlds front-runners when it comes to social observation, Dilbert’s Scott Adams, has joined the groundswell tsunami of support for a change in how we communicate in the era. In particular, voice calls vs emails and SMS. Here at 2oceansvibe, we have written REAMS on it (here, here, here, here, here, here and […]
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“Super WiFi Unleashed In USA”
30 Sep 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
ITWeb has reported that the FCC of America will be freeing up the vacant airways, or “white spaces” between between television channels, making them available for long distance, low frequency, ultra fast “Super WiFi”. So does this mean EVERYTHING web related gets an upgrade? If so, what could we expect? A few predictions:
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