I'm not trying to say the folks at the Hasso-Plattner Institute are crazy, but guys: the folks at the Hasso-Plattner Institute are crazy. Introducing the ...
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Because YouTube is just too damn fast
In a head-scratchingly bass-ackwards marketing decision, you can now send recorded videos to friends and family (and enemies, I guess - who are we to judge) via ...
Japanese Condiment Remover: Another Example of Amazing But Useless Technology
Have you ever spilled ketchup on a table and wished there was a way to pick it up in its current form and replace it intact somewhere else? Of course not, but ...
Singing Banner Ads Were Only The Beginning…
If Google has AdSense, let's just call this NonSense. A new advertising campaign for people-what-make-cars Alfo Romeo is (we desperately hope) not the future of ...
Egyptian Father Names Daughter ‘Facebook’… Yeah, For Real
Talk about gratitude. According to Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, a twentysomething father has named his newborn daughter 'Facebook' to pay homage to the role ...
Guys… We Just Broke Science
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v2xnl6LwJE[/youtube] And here is a visual riddle to help ferry you into the weekend - Escher's Waterfall, come to ...
The Phantom of the Floppera
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmoDLyiQYKw[/youtube] Many of us still long for a simpler time, when programs came on disks, and no one ever played ...
Jobs Forced on Medical Leave Again
Effective immediately, Big Steve has been made to take medical leave from Apple again, handing the reigns over to COO Tim Cook and sending the following memo to ...
iPhone 3GS Now Available for a Paltry Sum: $49
If you've always wanted an iPhone but have been too intimidated by its gargantuan price, now could be the time, as Apple has begun selling the 3GS for a mere ...
The Good, The Bad, and the Mobile
From the file labelled 'stuff you didn't expect to hear about today' comes this puzzler: LG has announced that it's teaming up with film score icon Ennio ...
First Kinect Sex Game Announced – And Yes, We Have a Video
Hands-free just got hands-on, as Microsoft's would-be Wii-killer, Kinect, is the first to get its own sex game. Though the game (which at time of writing, is ...
UK Safe Sex Ad Apes Your Favourite Childhood Videogames
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfol0ZsyzJk[/youtube] Wow, guys. Just wow. Apparently, teen pregnancy sees a boom in Britain around the holidays. Who ...
George Lucas Has a New Hobby: Necromancy
Star Wars creator George Lucas has been busy of late, pulling together the makings of his grandest special effect to date: resurrecting the dead. But it's ...
Twitter – Even Hotter Than Munchable Chili Oil!
A new survey conducted by Japanese ad agency Dentsu has revealed the 'hit recognized products' in Japan for 2010. And hoo boy, what a list it ...
Man Turns Himself Into Human Jukebox – No One Knows Why
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIHZZn4XIGo[/youtube] I can't remember the last time I swallowed a foreign object on purpose. I think I was, like, ...