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Quantum Levitation: The Coolest-Looking Science [VIDEO]
19 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
‘Quantum Levitation’ even sounds cool. The guys from the University of Tel-Aviv’s School of Physics Superconductivity Group recently demonstrated ‘quantum locking,’ at the Association of Science – Technology Centers Annual Conference by getting a supercooled magnet to levitate above a locked track. The science is clunky, the video looks very cool.
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Microsoft’s Fancy New Touch-Screen Projectors [VIDEO]
18 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
The nice thing about initiatives like Microsoft Research is that you get to have an early gander at the things that you’re going to be spending stupid amounts of money on next year. Like the OmniTouch, for instance, which projects “touchscreen” interfaces onto pretty much whatever surface you want – desk, paper, or the back of your hand.
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Hands-On Video For Siri On The iPhone 4S
12 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Apple’s Siri, the fancy voice-activated feature that was supposed to make people feel less disappointed about not getting a shiny new iPhone 5, was actually pretty cool when Phil Schiller showed it off on stage. But how well does it do in real life? See the hands-on after the jump.
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Adobe Made That Fictional CSI “Enhance” Tool A Reality
12 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You know that thing in sort-of-science-fictional shows or awful police procedurals where they have a blurry photo which they zoom into indefinitely and then use television magic to ‘enhance’ it and keep it from turning into the pixelated jpeg it should be? Adobe Photoshop can do that now.
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Quadriplegic Controls Robotic Hand With Brainwaves [VIDEO]
11 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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UCT Ikeys Rugby Captain Invites Gay Players To Join Club [VIDEO]
11 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
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.
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Iranian Actress Given 90 Lashes For Being In A Mildly Subversive Film
11 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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“Occupy Wall-Street” Spin-Off Protests Spreading Across USA
06 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The New York protest movement, “Occupy Wall Street,” currently enjoying a crowd of 15 000 supporters, has inspired folk in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and other cities around the United States to join in on the fun/outcry. Some level of police violence is being seen in all cases, with Seattle police forcibly removing all “occupation” settlements.
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First Lady Of Iceland Joins Debt Crisis Protestors [VIDEO]
04 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Dorrit Moussaieff – wife of Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Iceland’s president – made a dramatic gesture over the weekend by hopping a security fence to join in with a group of protesters hurling eggs and yoghurt at politicians, demanding that the government do more to help the lower-income bracket.
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AlphaDog: The Latest In Terrifying, Military-Grade Robotics [VIDEO]
03 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Boston Dynamics, a tech company working under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has released the latest in its BigDog project line – Alpha Dog, an SUV-sized, four-legged robot equipped to carry a little under 200kg in gear over a range of 32km, in harsh conditions. It’s a giant, terrifying, military robot dog. Take a look.
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Arrested Development To Return For Fourth Season And A Movie
03 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Pop-culture rumour news is dangerous to talk about, but Arrested Development was one of those shows that won a religious sort of fervour from its fans, with FOX playing the role of Judas or something. So when creator, Mitchell Hurwitz announced the show’s return over this weekend’s New Yorker Festival, the internet got its preach on.
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NASA Is Going to Harpoon An Asteroid [VIDEO]
30 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
NASA wants to put somebody on an asteroid by 2025 because they don’t know how else to get people’s attention. And to succeed in this entirely worthwhile endeavour, they’ve designed a mechanism by which to harpoon asteroids, so that vehicles can land on the thing despite the weakened gravity. Call me Ishmael.
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Catalonia’s Last Bullfight [PICS]
26 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On Sunday, 20 000 bullfighting fans packed Barcelona’s La Monumental bullring to watch the last corrida that Catalonia will hold; the event was headlined by Spain’s premier matador, José Tomás. The regional ban on bullfighting, which was approved at the end of last year, goes into effect in January.
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NYPD Increasingly Violent Towards “Occupy Wall Street” Protesters [VIDEO]
26 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
As the “Occupy Wall Street” protests enter their ninth day, an increasing number of videos and photos have begun surfacing, showing near-indiscriminate use of tasers, mace and kenneling by the NYPD on demonstrators, who are protesting a financial system that apparently favours the wealthy and powerful over ordinary citizens.
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Insane POV Footage Of Russian Free-Climbing Stalin’s Skyscaper In Moscow
23 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
It’s Friday, so come get your secondhand vertigo on and watch this Russian adrenaline junkie scale the 133 meter “Stalin’s skyscraper,” near Krasnye Vorota, without any sort of safety gear. The camera’s mounted on the climber’s head, so I guess he had a helmet, but I’m not sure that counts at 133 metres.
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Scientists Can Reconstruct The Pictures In Our Heads Now [VIDEO]
23 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s always nice when the world catches up with 80’s sci-fi films. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have succeeded in reconstructing people’s visual experiences using MRI and image libraries. Which means that if you click on the link you can see somebody’s brain try to replicate the Pink Panther film trailer.
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Now There’s Vaguely Terrifying Face-Stealing Technology [VIDEO]
21 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Watch developer Arturo Castro shows off his fancy new FaceTracker API, which allows users to harvest photographs of other folks’ faces, and project them onto their own. Here we see Castro variously becoming Vladimir Lenin, Chairman Mao, and Steve Jobs. Because, why not?
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Women’s “Sex Strike” Ends Fighting In Philippine Villages
19 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Awesome. Women on the Philippine island of Mindanao, growing tired of the continuing separatist warfare interfering in their everyday goings-on, decided to take matters into their own hands. And by hands, I mean pants. They organized a “sex strike”, which brought a quick end to fighting between the two villages.
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Russian Oligarch Sucker-Punched By Rival Billionaire On Talk Show
19 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Independent and Evening Standard owner, Alexander Lebedev showed up in an interview on Russian TV with fellow super-rich-Russian, Sergei Polonsky last night. Apparently Polonsky came off threatening, because midway through the interview, Lebedev’s KGB training kicked in, at which point he proceeded to beat the Russian oligarch.
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The Muppets Have Another Ridiculous Parody Trailer [VIDEO]
16 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’m not clear on where the time and money required to make these things is coming from. Following last month’s OK Go-themed video, a new The Muppets trailer has been released, this time playing off David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which makes sense given how much common ground the two franchises share.
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NASA Unveils Launch Vehicle To Take Astronauts To Mars
16 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Because what every good recession needs is a plan to go to space. NASA today announced their new launch vehicle, the Space Launch System (SLS), which should be able to take astronauts past the moon to near-Earth asteroids, and eventually to Mars some time in the 2030s.
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Watch The Wildfire Spread In Texas [VIDEO]
07 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
To demonstrate the lethal speed at which the Texan wildfires are spreading, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department have released footage of the wildfire consuming the 6 000 acre Bastrop State Park – 84% of which has been burnt down as of today, in spite of firefighters’ efforts to save a number of historic Civilian Conservation Corps cabins.
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The Award-Winning Invisible Cycling Helmet [VIDEO]
06 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Swedish designers have made a cycling helmet that isn’t totally obnoxious, which is pretty great. It won an award. Understand that no matter how nice this helmet is, it still isn’t okay to wear this guy indoors, because that’s rude. Still, it just won the Index:Award, the largest monetary prize for design in the world.
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How To Market Bulletproof Glass Like A Boss [VIDEO]
02 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The president and CEO of Texas Armoring Corporation wanted to put potential customers’ minds at ease about the efficiacy of his company’s bullet-resistant glass. So, like any other sane person, he got one of his employees to shoot at him with an AK-47 while he stood behind the glass.
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Foo Fighters Made A Fake Gay Porn Video To Promote Upcoming Tour [VIDEO]
30 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Foo Fighters don’t actually have to promote anything to get people to shell out cash for their upcoming North America tour, but because they had a fat wad of cash to spend on advertising and some guy in marketing wouldn’t stop saying the word ‘viral,’ they’ve put this video together for you. Take a look.
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Ard Matthews Makes Amends To SA From Undisclosed Bedroom [VIDEO]
26 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
2oceansvibe reported earlier this week that Ard Matthews had apologised profusely to the nation, via Twitter and subsequent interviews, for his performance of Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, citing nerves. Matthews has posted a video of himself singing the whole national anthem without mistakes online. Click through for the video.
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New Video: OK Go Do ‘The Muppet Show Theme’ [VIDEO]
25 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
OK Go did a rendition of the theme song from The Muppet Show in their Green Album. Now they’ve made a video; it’s sort of like all of their other music videos, except it features Muppets. I don’t like suggesting that something going viral is a foregone conclusion, but this thing going viral is a foregone conclusion.
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Chinese Propaganda Video Accidentally Reveals Cyber Attack Against US.
25 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Screenshots from a Chinese military propaganda video uploaded to YouTube last month reveal a cyberwarfare app designed to make attacks look like they’re coming from any IP address. In the video, the Chinese government can be seen sending attacks from an IP address belonging to the University of Alabama.
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Stuntman Ascends Germany’s Highest Mountain Via Cable Car Cable [VIDEO]
24 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
46-year-old Swiss stuntman Freddy Nock is a bigger bad-ass than you are. And he proved it by tight-rope walking. He scaled Germany’s highest mountain — the Zugspitze, which stands 2962 metres above sea level — by walking along its kilometer-long cable car cable. Without a balancing pole.
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Time-Lapse Of The 9/11 Memorial Construction [VIDEO]
23 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The National September 11 Memorial is due to open in two weeks, on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks of 2001. The memorial has been under construction for the past seven years; click through for a time-lapse condensation of the construction process. Go on, make your day a little more poignant.
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