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This Is How Basic Drones Are Capturing The Most Exciting Protest Images [VIDEO]
17 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The tumultuous streets of Kiev are attracting thousands of anti-government protesters, and drones are getting the best footage. Latest reports suggests that over 200,000 individuals are involved in the protest – a protest that a remote-controlled quadcopter was able to capture in stunning detail.
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First Coffee Machine Ever To Roast, Grind And Brew [VIDEO]
09 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sure, we have those coffee-makers that grind, brew and spit out coffee at the push of a button, but what if we really wanted to roast our beans too?
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This New iPhone Zoom-Lens Will Blow Your Mind [IMAGES]
06 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Smartphone cameras have come a long, long way since those crappy little one-megapixel cameras on the back of old Motorola clam-shells. And thank God for that. But if we’re honest, there are limitations to a any smartphone camera. But that’s where gadgets like this one fit in.
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New Space Station Cameras Let’s You Watch Your Neighbourhood Live [VIDEO]
05 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A few HD cameras were recently delivered to the International Space Station, and they’re all set to start streaming live images from space.
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Here’s How To Never Have Tangled Headphone Cable Again [VIDEO]
05 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The headphone-cable-tangle. Possibly one of the most common tech afflictions, and also one of the most mysterious. It plagues us all relentlessly. Even if you put a pair in your pocket, and remain completely still for an hour, the cheeky buggers still tangle themselves up in the most intricate and complex way imaginable.
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Here It Comes: Google Is Getting Serious About Robots
05 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
While Amazon was shooting its mouth off about drones that can deliver packages, Google was quietly acquiring several technology companies in a bid to create a new generation of robots.
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Microsoft Have Invented A ‘Smart Bra’ To Stop Women Overeating
04 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Maybe if Microsoft stopped making bras and started focusing on operating systems, they wouldn’t be losing so much ground to Apple. But they’ve made one now, so we might as well take a look at it.
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The Future Of 3D Printing In 3 Minutes [VIDEO]
03 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
All right, all right, so we’ve all heard about 3D printing. We’ve all heard the stories of how 3D printers can create pretty much anything with ease. But have you watched a video that summarises the implications and future applications of 3D printing? No? Here’s one that’s only three minutes long.
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Point This Gadget At Food And It Tells You What’s Inside
27 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
With so many potential toxins in our food, how are we supposed to know if what we are eating is safe for us? It’s a major problem, especially for people who suffer from food allergies. However, a revolutionary new piece of tech might solve this troublesome dilemma.
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Here Are The Most Recent Renderings Of Apple’s Spaceship Headquarters
12 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You see? This is what happens when you give your money to forward-thinking companies. Instead of cutting cost and building a massive grey block of an office building – Apple is constructing the one of the worlds most advanced office spaces, one that has will have a neautral carbon footprint after construction.
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Car Force One: The Most High Tech Cab In New York
12 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For a fee, New Yorkers can now enjoy the fully pimped out experience from within a cab – the Car Force One. We’re talking plasma screens, Xbox 360s, Cable TV and two mobile printers. According to Car Force One founder and CEO Ishai, the company’s priority is customer satisfaction. “My company is not about the car, it’s about the service. It’s for the clients.”
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Google Wants To Track You In The Real World – This Is How
11 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The whole point of online tech companies monitoring us is to try and get an idea of what we’re doing in real life. Thankfully, up until now they could only use our online footprints to try figure out what we were doing in reality. Now, though, Google is telling advertisers that they have a way of tracking us in real life, all the time.
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Anti-Prawn: The Invisible Bike Helmet Has Arrived And It’s Incredible [VIDEO]
11 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s true, the bike helmet does take some of the open-air appeal away from biking – but it may not have to be that way for much longer, as two women in Sweden have come up with an ingenious solution. It’s an inflatable bike helmet. When you don’t need it, it’s stowed away under you neck. When your precious head is hurtling towards the ground, it self-inflates, thus saving your life.
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Check This Out: The Rise Of Domestic Robots [INFOGRAPHIC]
11 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We all started dreaming about house-cleaning domestic robots ever since we saw those efficient little robots zipping around spaceships in the ‘Star Wars’ movies. While we might not have achieved quite that level of household domestic robot penetration just yet, we’re not far off.
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Google Comes Clean About Mystery Barges
08 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last week we published a story about the mysterious ‘Google Barges’ that had popped up in the harbours of Portland, Maine and San Francisco – and caused mass hysteria as people attempted to guess what they were for. Some suspected a secret water-borne data centre, or a marketing platform, but Google has dispelled any myths with a recent statement.
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This Is Why UFO Sightings Are On The Rise [VIDEO]
04 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Our collective fascination with the extra-terrestrial is never-ending. We always seem to be able to come up with new ways of tricking ourselves into believing that there are indeed aliens floating around earth. Whether it’s crop-circles, weird lights in the sky or strange things in the water – we are constantly reminded that more often than not, we’re just spooking ourselves. This time, it’s the American drones that are to blame.
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This Sales & Marketing Executive Position Will Change Your Life
16 Oct 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Shumani Mills Communications is regarded as one of the Western Cape’s most reputable and industry-leading service providers. This is your opportunity to be a part of something very exciting – connecting you to a new world of possibilities.
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This Parody Of Every Tech Ad Ever Made Is Genius [VIDEO]
29 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Remember how bad the acting was in the last Samsung ad? College Humor has taken the liberty of summing up all the reasons why every tech ad you’ve ever seen is the same. There are a lot of bright lights, like a lot, and repetition, did we mention the bright lights? And check out all of these young people, they have really interesting and creative jobs.
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Tech Report: This New Dating App Is Basically A Game Of Hot Or Not [VIDEO]
01 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Online dating is incredibly annoying, if only for one reason: we’re usually compelled to read reams and reams of personal information about a person when, if we’re completely honest with ourselves, the first impression is the only thing that matters. Introducing Tinder, the geolocated dating app that gets straight to the superficial point.
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The Cash Reserves Of The World’s Biggest Tech Companies Are Enormous [INFOGRAPHIC]
20 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
What if we told you that the cash reserves of the world’s five largest tech companies hovered in the region of $333 billion. And that’s not what they’re worth, mind you. That’s just what they have lying around, for the sake of spending. The number’s so large, it’s genuinely difficult to comprehend. Which is why it’s helpful to visualise all that cash lying in a pile.
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Step Aside Silicon Valley – Ghana Plans To Build Africa’s IT Hub
05 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Ghana’s President, John Mahama has launched the Hope Project. The project aims to build an IT university near the capital of Accra within three years, at an estimated cost of R91 billion, including a residential area, a hospital and social and sports amenities. The university will be built on empty land and house Africa’s tallest building at […]
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How To Use Vine, Twitter’s New Video Sharing Service [VIDEO]
29 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s the hot new video app from twitter that allows you to share six second videos. Of course porn immediately got shared, followed quickly by advertisers publishing videos. But how the hell do you use it?
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A Computer Worm May Be Causing Iranian Nuclear Facilities to Blast AC/DC’s ‘Thunderstruck’ At Night
24 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s the dead of the night, you’re the last person in the high-tech computer lab frantically working on that bit of code that will bring about world peace, resurrect unicorns and cure all terminal illnesses with single click when suddenly every computer around you blasts the same tune, AAAAhaaaAAAAhaaaAA…Thunder! No, this is not the opening of an epic short story, it’s just another night at Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization.
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Treasure Trove Of Steve Jobs Videos Released Online, For Free
01 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Throughout his life, Steve Jobs imparted many inspiring words of wisdom, many of which were caught on video during his onstage appearances at Apple events and during interviews. Yesterday a host of these were made available, for free, on iTunes. Click through for the details.
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ETV News Quotes 2oceansvibe As Source
15 Mar 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
It should be mentioned that 2oceansvibe is not only regularly quoted as source in News24 and more recently Mail & Guardian, but now also mainstream TV News. We are very flattered at our mention in yesterday’s ETV News (SABC apparently also ran the story with reference to 2ov) regarding the police brutality video. Not that […]
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Siri To Power Mercedes-Benz Car Systems
28 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hey, future. Mercedes-Benz unveiled plans yesterday to use Siri – the virtual assistant exclusive to the iPhone 4S – to power its new A-class electronics system, called “Drive Kit Plus,” which will allow drivers to access their iPhone apps using voice commands. In case you ever feel like updating your Twitter status while driving something sexy.
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Google’s New ‘Emergency Alerts’ Feature
26 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Google has been saving up a tonne of creepy private information about you lately, which is unfortunate, but the company’s philanthropic arm just launched a new crisis response project to win back our hearts and personal data: emergency alerts on Google Maps.
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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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Chinese Hackers Used Fake Gmail Site To Steal Activist Data
02 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google announced on Tuesday that they’d been they target of a phishing scam originating in Jinan, China, aimed at the accounts of Chinese activists and senior officials in the U.S. Victims were sent fake emails with links to a fake Gmail site, which harvested the usernames and passwords of anyone trying to log in.
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Tumblr Follows The Life Of An Unknowing Macbook Thief
01 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
So Joshua Kaufman had his MacBook stolen in March. Which sucks – he reported the crime to the police, but they couldn’t help, due to lack of resources. Except Kaufman has the Hidden app on his MacBook, which lets him remotely stalk and photograph the thief – and put them online. Thanks, Internet.
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