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SpaceX Test-Fires ‘Super’ Rocket Engines [VIDEO]
03 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Spaceflight start-up, SpaceX – those guys who want to put a person on Mars in the next decade or two – has been demonstrating the potency of its SuperDraco rockets at their test facility in Texas. Take a look at the fancily-named rockets in action after the jump.
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Human-Shaped Remote-Controlled Planes Fly Around NYC [VIDEO]
31 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’m not entirely sure I care that this is just some publicity stunt for a mediocre-to-bad “found footage” film about super heroes. This is awesome advertising. Click through to see how 20th Century Fox teamed up with Thinkmodo for their unusual viral promotion for the upcoming Chronicle.
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Check Out This Die Antwoord Parody, It’s Red Hot! [VIDEO]
26 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As the world anxiously awaits the release of Ten$ion, the next Die Antwoord album, check out this timely reminder, via a homage to the enfants terribles of Afrikaans hardcore, that gingers are people too.
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Google Changes Privacy Settings Across Board – Users Can’t Opt Out
25 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Whoops. Looks like somewhere between Eric Schmidt and Larry Page, Google forgot their ‘don’t be evil’ rule and turned into the creepy uncle of the internet. Well, the other creepy uncle of the internet. It now follows users’ activities across YouTube, Gmail, Google Plus and Google Search, among others. Everybody, clear your history.
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Anonymous Deny Reports Of Plans To Attack Facebook
24 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Members of “hacktivist” group Anonymous have denied that they’re planning an attack on Facebook, in spite of a video claiming to speak for the group that has declared that the social network will be brought down on January 28th. This would be the second fake Anonymous threat in some months.
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Time-Lapse Of ISS Passing Over Stormy Africa [VIDEO]
24 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Start your Tuesday the way your forefathers did, with an amazing time-lapse video of the International Space Station passing over a storm-struck African continent with the Milky Way popping in to say hello in the background. Also visible is Comet Lovejoy, two weeks after its near-fatal sunburn. Please, go look. You’ll feel better about being up.
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Radvertising: Megan Fox Island [VIDEO]
23 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Alright. Yes. Pairing your product with an attractive woman is not exactly an original advertising tactic, and if anything the world could do with a little less of that. But because this happens to be a Brazilian TV ad for a language school, and a funny one, we can put these concerns momentarily aside.
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Brad Pitt Can’t Stop Laughing – Hilarious ‘Moneyball’ Outtake [VIDEO]
16 Jan 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
If you haven’t seen Moneyball with Brad Pitt yet, please grow up. It’s a stunning flick and gives you 100% full-blown Brad Pitt, as he plays famous baseball GM, Billy Beane, alongside the brilliantly overweight Jonah Hill of Superbad fame (great in Cyrus with Marisa Tomei, by the way). Brad also continues his habit of […]
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Samsung’s New “Smart Window” [VIDEO]
16 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There have been plenty of tech announcements over the past few days, what with the Consumer Electronics Show going on in Las Vegas, each one claiming to be more exciting than the last – which gets tedious. So I mean it when I say that, Samsung’s new “Smart Window” is the most exciting thing to come out of CES 2012.
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Ricky Gervais Opening Monologue At 2012 Golden Globes [VIDEO]
16 Jan 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Every year the world waits in anticipation for Ricky Gervais’ sharp tongue as he takes to the stage of the annual Golden Globes awards. Traditionally Ricky rips apart the biggest names in Hollywood, to a point where nothing seems sacred. This year was no different. Follow the link to watch the video of Ricky’s monologue..
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iPad Survives 30km Drop From Space [VIDEO]
10 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments
It’s nice that companies are willing to go to insane lengths to try and make us buy their things. Take G-Form, who wrapped up an Apple tablet in their ‘Extreme Edge’ case, and launched it into space on a weather balloon before dropping it back to earth to prove how extreme their case really is.
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IBM Releases Predictions For Technology In 2017 [VIDEO]
20 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
IBM have released their annual predictions for the future of technology, via the IBM “5 in 5” project, which looks at five innovations which they figure will transform modern life within the next five years; these include mind-reading computers, human-generated electricity, and biometric scanning replacing passwords.
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Exclusive Interview With Daniel Craig – “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”
20 Dec 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 6 Comments
I found myself in London the weekend before last, attending my first “press junket.” It was for the remake of the Swedish film The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. Rooney Mara is the girl at the beginning of The Social Network, who breaks up with Mark Zuckerberg. She basically […]
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Rustenburg Girls High School Is Getting A Heated Pool [Video]
16 Dec 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 4 Comments
That’s just one of the facts I gleaned from the new Rustenburg Girls High School promotional video which has just hit the net – you might want to have a peep. Besides from the school’s excellent educational offering and facilities, I was more impressed with the head-girl, who completely owns the camera. Her delivery was […]
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There’s A Banksy Art-Stealing Competition Going On
14 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Melbourne-based Art Series Hotel chain is holding an art-stealing competition, starting this Thursday. For the next month, a signed print of Banksy’s “No Ball Games,” worth ZAR 125 500, will be hidden in different locations throughout the chain’s hotels. If people can find and steal it without getting caught, they get to keep it.
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World Record For Naked Santas Set In San Francisco [VIDEO]
13 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Santacon is a thing that happens in San Francisco every year; people dress up as Santa Claus and get very drunk. Public nudity is also legal in SF. So it makes sense for this year’s Santacon to have been an attempt at setting a Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of naked Santas ever.
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Flying Robots Build Six Metre Tower [VIDEO]
06 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hello, future. A group of autonomous flying robots – “quadcopters”- have been used in an installation by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology to construct a six metre tall tower out of 1 500 foam bricks. The robots are completely autonomous, with a networked computer vision system directing the placement of the bricks.
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Mexico City’s Record-Breaking Zombie Walk
29 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Nearly 10 000 people dressed up in zombie gore and wandered through Mexico City this weekend, in a bid to set the new world record for zombie walks, which is a thing. Once verified by Guinness, the walk will blaze past the previous record of 4 093 zombies, set in New Jersey last year.
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London Woman’s Racial Outburst On Tram Goes Viral [VIDEO]
29 Nov 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 4 Comments
Please enjoy this video taken on a London tram, showing a charming young English woman ranting and raving about ethnic minorities sharing the train with her and how they are ruining Britain – all while her son sits on her lap. Having spent three years living in London, this video comes as no surprise. These […]
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The First Beer In Space [VIDEO]
28 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
A couple of “Natty Light” enthusiasts approached the brewer, Natural Ice with the idea to make the mediocre frat-house beer slightly more remarkable by making it the first to be sent into space. Their spacecraft’ was a styrofoam cooler, a GPS tracking device, and an HD camera, launched into space with a weather balloon last week.
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The Jack Daniel’s Festive Season TV Commercial
23 Nov 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
This beaut of an ad hit TV screens across the country on Monday this week. We know how many of you are living your life in the future, with US iTunes accounts and Apple TVs and iPads etc. so you might have missed it. Check it out – classic Jack Daniel’s!
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Radvertising: Old Spice Is Still Doing Nicely [VIDEO]
22 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
I feel a little bad for Widen + Kennedy, Old Spice’s advertising agency; everything they’ve done since introducing Isaiah Mustafa as the Old Spice Guy has been subject to comparison, not always fairly. Which is a pity, because they’re killing it here with their new “Smell Better Than Yourself” campaign. Check out the video, after the jump.
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The Occupy Wall Street Protestors Are Being Violently Swept Out By NYPD [LIVE STREAM]
15 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
At 2am this morning the NYPD started violently clearing out Zuccoti Park, where the peaceful Occupy Wall Street protestors have been camped out. The cops are using pepper spray, they are using LRAD sound weapons, and they are actively preventing any official media from reporting on their violation of OWS members’ constitutional rights. Shit’s gotten real.
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Nokia’s New Flexible Phone [VIDEO]
11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Nokia has released a concept video for their new HumanForm phone – which isn’t so much human-shaped as it is oblong. What’s interesting about it is that the casing is meant to be flexible, and the entire surface is meant to run off of touch recognition, which is fairly rad.
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Conan O’Brien Presides Over Late Night Television’s First Gay Marriage
07 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Conan O’Brien returned to New York last week for the first time since his falling out with the NBC – not only to rub his recent success in his former employers’ collective faces, but also to preside over the first same-sex marriage performed on late-night television. Because I guess that’s worth making a big deal over.
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Surfer Almost Swallowed By Whale [VIDEO]
04 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Hoo. Santa Cruz surfer Barbara Roettger got way up close and personal with a pod of humpback whales when she unwittingly found herself in the middle of a lunge feeding session; two massive whales popped up right next to the surfer and her kayak friends, seemingly out of nowhere. It’s pretty rad.
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Jordy Smith Surfs With Sharks
03 Nov 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Jordy Smith (who recently signed with Buchulife) and Dusty Payne in Round 1 of the Rip Curl Pro Search in San Francisco get scared out of the water by a big shark. I think his name was Bruce. Follow the link to check it out. Video contains bonus footage of Jordy dancing and singing “Staying […]
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Biker Pauses Mid-Rally To Save A Drowning Calf [VIDEO]
25 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is pretty badass – footage of a Gauteng biker assessing a motorcycle rally course for the Amageza Challenge and taking a short detour midway through to save a calf drowning in a nearby canal. In the event that you’ve grown tired of Gaddafi footage, and would like to watch something awesome instead.
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Wikileaks Temporarily Plugged Due To Lack Of Funds
24 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It turns out publishing classified diplomatic files online isn’t all that lucrative! Whistle blowing site, WikiLeaks has announced that they’re pausing their publishing process to concentrate on raising funds. Julian Assange claims that the financial “blockade” mounted by Visa, MasterCard and other companies, has forced Wikileaks to “temporarily suspend its publishing operations and aggressively fundraise.”
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Microsoft Holodesk – Interactive 3D Display [VIDEO]
24 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Microsoft has been on a fancy-user-interface-technology kick this week, between the fancy touch-screen projectors and electronic fabric announcements – but the Holodesk sort of wins at the moment, at least for those of us who think 3D environments you can manipulate with your hands are cool.
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