Well hey there, science. A recent breakthrough at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre has allowed a 30-year-old man who hasn’t been able to move arms, hands or legs in the past seven years to take control of a robotic hand, marking an unprecedented achievement in neuro-robotics.
It Gets Better is a viral video campaign begun in the States in response to a horrific string of teenage suicides last year. Watch this video of Nick Fenton-Wells, the captain of the Ikey Tigers at the University of Cape Town, urging gay players not to be afraid to get involved in sports at UCT.
In another grand display of state the obvious, a brainy police spokesperson pointed out that a collection of loaded assault rifles found on the set of World War Z, were a “disaster waiting to happen”. A SWAT team recently raided the set, which was located in a warehouse in Budapest.
Wow! Check it out! Alan Winde, MEC, has officially endorsed the Name Your Hood project and its objective of intending to impart a sense of community cohesion and belonging. Because you know what builds a community? A common identity. And by naming the myriad un-named and vastly distinct neighborhoods in Cape Town, we can do […]
The European Union has banned children under eight from blowing up balloons unsupervised. Not only that, but it has chosen to ban traditional toys like party whistles, magnetic fishing games and other harmless toys that children have enjoyed for decades because regulators say they’re an unacceptable safety risk. Cuddly toys like teddie bears have also not escaped regulation.
The SABC has long ago stopped being anything but a joke, due to mismanagement, scaly news editors, and failure to provide anything decent for us to watch. The latest scandal involving the nation’s broadcaster involves its spending R20 million on luxury vehicles for its “news team” in September.
More specifically, Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr was sentenced to 90 lashes for starring in “My Tehran For Sale,” a movie about how Iran mistreats its actresses. The actress was arrested for being in the film – which was never officially distributed in Iran – in July, and her sentence was handed down this weekend.
Cape Town Tourism chiefs are grinning from ear to ear this week as they smugly proclaimed that just after filling Greenpoint stadium last Wednesday night, UK alt rock sensation Coldplay applied to the City authorities to record a new music video in and around the Mother City, as well as in the Klein Karoo.
The city of Seattle is home to a prolific self-appointed, and self-styled, crime-fighter. In the manner of Batman (or teen superhero, Kickass), the man who calls himself Phoenix Jones wears a black and yellow mask and a muscle bodysuit, and actually has a side-kick called “Ghost”. Unfortunately, Phoenix was arrested on Sunday for assaulting several people with pepper spray.
There is a shareholder advisory campaign calling for the removal of Rupert Murdoch, his two sons, James and Lachlan, and 10 other directors from the board of directors at the next NewsCorp shareholder meeting on 21 October. The radical shakeup would see 13 of the company’s 15 directors removed after the shocking events that took place at NewsCorp.
A young fashion designer from Germany has produced the first man-made synthetic fibre entirely without chemicals. And she did it with a staple you can find in your fridge — milk! The fabric is called QMilch, and is made from high concentrations of the milk protein, casein. The best part is that it looks and feels like silk but doesn’t smell.
Leisure Suit Larry Is Coming Back – The latest classic adventure game to receive a high-def update is none other than lovable loser, barfly and strike-out artist Leisure Suit Larry. The beloved 1987 adventure game Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, about one eventful night in the life of a balding doofus […]
Just quietly get a load of this video of mountain biker, Evan van der Spuy of Team Jeep South Africa, getting taken out. It’s COMPLETELY off the charts! The guy’s lucky he was wearing a helmet. Click ‘Continue Reading’ below to see the video.
A French prankster, with the help of a flash mob, has created a fake Tour de France finish line. The target? Unsuspecting cyclists! They are suddenly greeted by a film crew and an enthusiastic mob which covers them with praise, trophies and bottled water.
As part of its promotional campaign for the new Chrome operating system, Google has quietly opened up its first retail store in London, called the “Chrome Zone”. The store is Google’s first venture in realspace retail, using the location to sell its Chromebook computer line.
Millions of BlackBerry users from all over Europe, Asia and Africa have been without online services such as email and BlackBerry Messenger for the last few hours. A spokesperson for RIM has not yet passed comment, but we do know a major fault at the RIM data centre in Slough is responsible.
Late in 2010 Sony announced that they were scrapping the planned fourth installment in Sam Raimi’s series of Spider-Man films (with Toby Maguire and that annoying red-head) and instead were going to reboot the entire series from scratch.
Being hard of hearing is most likely difficult enough as it is. So, you can imagine the anger of some BBC viewers when errors in the live captions started talking about “pigs nibbling on willies”, instead of wellies, and spoke of “a moment’s violence”, instead of silence, at the Queen Mother’s funeral.
Dr Rowan Williams, otherwise known as the Archbishop of Canterbury, delivered what some of his aides are calling the “sermon of his career” when he addressed more than 15 000 Anglicans during his controversial visit to Zimbabwe yesterday. He told them that Mugabe’s tyrannical rule was no better than the colonial rule it had replaced.
A pregnant American performance artist is planning to have her baby in an art gallery in front of an audience as part of a piece examining childbirth. She will also live in the gallery until the baby arrives. Her “artwork” is called “The Birth of Baby X”.
Seth gets you to Cresta from the Gautrain/Sandton City without using William Nicol and Republic. This MINI Route saves you time and skips traffic going through Craighall Park. It’s the little things, like knowing the best routes on the road, that allow you to lead a stress-free life. And by doing so, you get ever […]
Well this can only end well. The US Air Force’s unmanned combat drones in the “Predator” and “Reaper” class have been infected with computer viruses that they can’t get rid of, in case you weren’t sufficiently terrified of the world when you woke up this morning.
Readers of Rolling Stone magazine have voted Starship’s “We Built This City” the worst song of the 1980s by a huge margin. The online poll asked readers of the mag to rank the most noxious music of the decade that brought us leg warmers and Sony Walkmans, among other things.
If the thought of waiting until the 2015 Rugby World Cup to visit Japan is less appealing right now, consider going there sooner, and for free, courtesy of the country’s tourism agency. The Japan Tourism Agency has announced it will fund airfares for 10 000 foreign travelers in an attempt to help the country’s plummeting tourism levels recover in the face of nuclear disaster.
Ian Neale holds the world record for growing the heaviest swede, weighing in at 38kg. Last week, the 68-year-old from Newport in South Wales, received a special video message from Snoop Dogg. The rapper wanted specific cultivation advice in return for some VIP passes for one of his gigs. The record-breaking vegetable grower accepted Snoop’s invitation.
Paul McCartney Gets Married For The Third Time – Sir Paul McCartney is waking up to his third wife today after celebrating his marriage to American heiress Nancy Shevell late into the night. The 69-year-old former Beatle said he felt “absolutely wonderful” after Sunday’s wedding at The Old Marylebone Town Hall in central London. Family and […]
The companies jointly announced in a statement released a few hours ago that they have scraped the widely anticipated October 11 San Diego launch of the Nexus Prime, Samsung’s Android-based smartphone running the new Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Does it have something to do with Steve Jobs’ passing on Wednesday?
Let me be clear: this is not a unicycle. This is a bicycle missing a front wheel. And my man here is riding this thing like there’s no tomorrow. On behalf of all here at 2oceansVibe, I’d like to welcome him to our Boss Hall of Fame.
It looks like the tides that swept up the Occupy Wall Street protest campaign – ongoing after three weeks – have broken national boundaries; ‘Operation Ubuntu’ has been set up to launch a simultaneous protests on the 15th of October in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Grahamstown, as part of the global Occupy Revolution campaign.
Here in South Africa, we suffer some of the worst excesses of violent crime. But don’t think for a minute that other countries are spared the onslaught of criminal masterminds.