“Mind over matter” is a concept I didn’t truly understood until last week at MLove Confestival. Yes, confestival; equal parts conference and festival. Admittedly, a hippy notion that will cause the cynical amongst you to scoff and roll your eyes, but like a missionary on your doorstep, those looks don’t faze me, because I’m of the [...]
In what is an inspired move, Terra, the Mexican internet provider, has set up a system where users can exchange dog poo for free WiFi. It’s a nice and straightforward system. People can drop poo into special bins; where they are then weighed and a certain amount of free WiFi is made available. Every bag [...]
I’m an antisocial traveler. There. I said it. I know you may find that a bit hard to believe. That Ms. “doesn’t-shut-up-for-a-second-and-is-constantly-tweeting-facebooking-linking” could possibly be anti “social” in any context… but put me anywhere near an airport, and I become the social anti-christ. The grinch who stole social. The monosyllabic mumbler. It’s like I can’t [...]
Anyone who has the misfortune of sharing a physical realm with me knows how much I love to talk. In fact, I rarely shut up. As a teenager, I was banned by my parents from orating at the dinner table because apparently I “monopolized the conversation” and let my dinner get cold, and I’m not [...]
We’ve all probably seen our fair share of unboxing videos. I once did an unboxing video of sex toys, which got some reactions (especially when I sniffed one and said that it didn’t have that weird rubbery scent, which was good.) This might be my favorite, though. FStoppers got their hands on the new Nikon [...]
There’s been a tremendous amount of buzz around Pinterest of late. Seemingly springing from nowhere, this pint sized startup seems to have affixed itself to our collective social conscious and stuck itself right in the center of every social media conversation. As if it had always been there. I admit; I was annoyed at this [...]
Rumours are frothing up fast & furious that infamous adult-star (and ex-member of this very site) Raven Alexis faked her brain cancer. She went from claiming she’d be dead by Christmas (from Stage 4 liver cancer that spread to her brain), and accepting support, gifts, etc… to being “miraculously cured” via some alkaline-heavy mineral water, [...]
The FBI has issued a Request for Information (PDF) with the aim of building an application that can monitor all the major social networks and news sites. No doubt they’re already doing similar stuff, but this will be a be-all and end-all solution to scraping huge amounts of information, in real-time, and combining it into [...]
Usually these “concept” videos leave me rolling my eyes, with way too much “design” and not enough realistic function… but this one had me wishing I could cryogenically freeze myself until the tech is real. It’s the exact path I hope that touch screens and display screens go, seamlessly integrating themselves with our lives. I’ve [...]
