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Coca-Cola magazine as becomes an iPhone speaker
THE Coca Cola print ad is a FM Radio for your iPhone. Now you can rot your ears and your teeth at the same time:
Posted: 26th, September 2012 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment
Apple wipes Blackburn from the face of the Earth
THE new iPhone has eradicated Blackburn. What the Venkys and the Germans never accomplished, Apple has.
Prof Steve Furber, from the University of Manchester, tells the Lancashire Telegraph:
“Up until the latest management system update, Apple has always used Google maps. By Apple introducing their own mapping software they are able to introduce new never seen before features such as 3D mapping and the ability to fly over certain areas.”
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Posted: 26th, September 2012 | In: Technology | Comments (2)
The biggest photograph of the universe ever taken
THE Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has produced this photo of the universe. It took 500 hours to build. The eXtreme Deep Field, the picture is made up of 2,000 separate exposures over 10 years. “The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see.”
The problem is not seeing, it getting your head around what you can see.
And in other news: we’re leaving the solar system.
Posted: 26th, September 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
What happened when Leo Traynor met his Twitter Troll
LEO Traynor met a troll. He left twitter when he was tageted. He joined twitter in May 2007. In July 2009, he received a message:
“Dirty f*cking Jewish scumbag”
He blocked the messages. But more messages came. He was inundated. His Facebook account was hacked, his blog was spammed and his email address “flooded with foulmouthed and disgusting comments & images. Images of corpses and concentration camps and dismembered bodies.”
He ignored the abuse, thinking the idiot (s) would grow tired of it and leave him alone. Then Leo’s wife joined twitter and identified herself as “The long suffering wife of @LeoTraynor”.
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Posted: 25th, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (4)
The automatic sperm extractor offers hands free banking
TO China, to have sperm harvested in the automated sperm extractor. Ejaculating into a plastic cup in front of Judge Judy on the telly and the Argos catalogue gardening section is no longer a vital part of the miracle of life.
Just slide on a condom catcher, insert your penis into the cavity and turn the thing on – literally.
And do not worry. If the machine malfunctions and pulls your penis clean off, know that will live for longer. Science is never wrong.
Spotter: Oddity Central
Posted: 25th, September 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
London Underground Portraits – iphoneography
DURING the Olympics, the London Underground hummed. Then the Games ended and it it just stank. Photographer Richard Gray has been using the time on the Tube to create this series of iphoneography:
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Posted: 24th, September 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
The best Apple IO6 maps fails (brought to you from Berlin, capital of Antarctica)
LIKE you, we at Anorak get our maps hand-painted. But some of you like to consult Apple’s iPhone Maps App. Of course, if you do, you are very possibly now lost in looking for Melton Mowbray in Thailand, which as we all know, is called Siam:. This site has collated some of the best misdirections on Apple iOS6:
Posted: 23rd, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment
New iPhone 6 makes everything look like France
GOT your new apple iPhone 6 yet? No. Still got the iPhone 5, eh. Never mind. Not all of you got the note.
The ‘new’ iPhone 5 has great new features, such a large Apple logo, the ability to work in either hand and a button that renders it visible only to the true believers. Meanwhile, in France…
Salt Lake City
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Posted: 22nd, September 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
The world of phrenology in photos
WHAT is phrenology? It;s about what differentiates humans from animals. It’s the science of reading character through bumps on the head. The brain is made of mental organs. Baser instincts are located at the base of the brain. Moral virtues are near the top. The brain is locked in a strugger between low and high instincts:
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Posted: 18th, September 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
The keyboard made from a single piece of walnut
THE keyboard. They are not all the same. What most crave in a keyboard is: absorbency; a good spring action; all the letters in the right places; the knowledge that all the hair and scuzz in it is your own. But French company Orée caters for they who want more. They have created a keyboard created from a single piece of maple or walnut. As they say of the €125.00 object:
Orée was born from our observation that modern technology products look very much alike, are highly impersonal, made out of eco-unfriendly materials and are designed for rapid obsolescence. We set out to do something different: create lasting & personal high performance technology objects primarily made of wood, the most natural, durable and renewable material on earth. Orée is about reconciling tradition & novelty to create exceptional products through an exclusive combination of timeless woodworking techniques and cutting-edge technologies. All our products are eco-designed, crafted and hand-finished in France.
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Posted: 17th, September 2012 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment
Maryland police erect CCTV cameras to watch CTV cameras
TO Maryland, where CCTV cameras are being erected to watch CCTV cameras. CCTV camera vandals are thought to be operating in the area.
Prince George’s County Police Maj. Robert V. Liberati outlines the dream:
“It’s not worth going to jail over a $40 ticket or an arson or destruction of property charge.”
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Posted: 15th, September 2012 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comment
Brad does acid – Tweeter tweets his LSD trip
ON Storify, brad does acid.
Posted: 14th, September 2012 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comments (2)
1965: The River Thames amphibious scooter
1965: The River Thames amphibious scooter. Those helmet will never catch on….
Posted: 14th, September 2012 | In: Flashback, Technology | Comment
Everything you need to know about the iPhone 5 in a photo
THE Apple iPhone 5 is out! What do you need to know:
Posted: 13th, September 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
Bald Eagle gets printed 3D beak job – hair transplant can wait
WILL the reverse nose job catch on? The wing-nutting of pinned ears? Beauty the bald eagle has parked the hair transplant and gone first for the 3D printed, prosthetic beak, created for her by Birds of Prey Northwest.
…raptor specialist Jane Fink Cantwell, who dresses like Indiana Jones, refused to take “dead bald eagle” for an answer. She joined forces with mechanical engineer Nate Calvin of Kinetic Engineering Group, and together with other scientists, engineers, and even a dentist, they designed a nylon polymer beak that would perfectly replace Beauty’s lost upper mandible.
Calvin developed the new beak using a 3-D modeling program, then used a 3-D printer to fabricate it. After an arduous procedure to attach her prosthetic, Beauty was able to eat, drink, and preen herself on her own.
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Posted: 12th, September 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
German traffic lights let road crossers play pong
IN GERMANY, crossing those wide boulevards is no longer a marching exercise. Road crossers can now play pong against someone waiting on the other side of the street.
In Delhi they play Frogger. In Bangkok at rush hour, it’s Tetris. In Mexico City, it’s Grand Theft Auto. And so on…
Posted: 6th, September 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
Billionaires can live forever with the 2045 project
BILLIONAIRES have received an unusual letter. Dmitry Itskov offers the very rich immortality. Itskjov has written to the 1,266 riches people on the planet (according to Forbes). He will disembody their conscious minds and upload them to a hologram -an avatar. With your support, this will happen by 2045.
“Many of you who have accumulated great wealth by making success of your businesses are supporting science, the arts and charities. I urge you to take note of the vital importance of funding scientific development in the field of cybernetic immortality and the artificial body. Such research has the potential to free you, as well as the majority of all people on our planet, from disease, old age and even death.”
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Posted: 6th, September 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
1992: The Sun said the internet would never work
THE Sun, the declining tabloid that gets its news from the internet, wrote in 1992: “COMPUTER “WEB’ TO CHANGE BILLIONS OF LIVES (YEAH RIGHT).” The paper’s “Dot Comme” compared Tim Berners Lee’s invention – the world wide web – to Sir Clive Sinclair’s C5:
Spotter: Old_Holborn; more
Posted: 5th, September 2012 | In: Flashback, Technology | Comments (5)
Apple’s suing Samsung: Yes, =again
WE’VE only just had the news that Apple has won big by suing Samsung over certain patents on mobile phones. What seems to have been missed is that there’s another case coming through the system. Yes, Apple v Samsung again. But over a different set of patents:
Last week’s resounding victory over Samsung in a patent trial in California mostly centered on hardware developed by the South Korean electronics maker, while including some features related to Google’s Android mobile software.
Another Apple suit, which the company filed in February, contends that all eight of the patents it is asserting are being infringed by features related to Android. They include features found in Android versions of popular Google apps like YouTube, Google Maps and Gmail as well as Google’s Quick Search Box that lets users search multiple types of data at the same time.
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Posted: 31st, August 2012 | In: Money, Technology | Comments (2)
Fliz is pedal-free running bike
SITTING down to ride a bike is so London 2012. Tom Hambrok and Juri Spetter have peered into the future and invented Fliz – the running bike.
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Posted: 31st, August 2012 | In: Technology | Comments (5)
Apples VS Starship Enterprise (video)
APPLE VS Starship Enterprise:
Posted: 30th, August 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
In 1954 Dr Vladimir Demikhov created a two-headed dog (video)
HERE’S a cute Russian video about making two-headed dogs:
In 1954 Vladimir Demikhov shocked the world by unveiling a surgically created monstrosity: A two-headed dog. He created the creature in a lab on the outskirts of Moscow by grafting the head, shoulders, and front legs of a puppy onto the neck of a mature German shepherd.Demikhov paraded the dog before reporters from around the world. Journalists gasped as both heads simultaneously lapped at bowls of milk, and then cringed as the milk from the puppy’s head dribbled out the unconnected stump of its esophageal tube.
He was a pioneer:
Vladimir Demikhov, a veteran of the Red Army hospitals in World War 2, believed it was possible to transplant organs like the heart and lungs in human beings.
He was the father of heart bypass surgery.
Posted: 28th, August 2012 | In: Flashback, Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Bournemouth police seek Sainsbury’s iPad flasher
TO Bournemouth’s Castle Point shopping centre, where at the Sainsbury’s store the kids playing with a demonstration iPad happen upon a photo of a man’s penis.
The parents of nine-year-old twins Mollie and Millie, and eight-year-old Maisie Finn have reported the photo to police. They told Sainsbury’s, which offered them £150 in compensation.
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Posted: 27th, August 2012 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment
Nasa admits faking Neil Armstrong moon photo
THEY faked the moon landing. Nasa fudged the truth. Photos of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, are rare. He had the camera, you see. So, what we have are lots of shots of Buzz Aldrin (Moon Man No.2). And that famous portrait of Aldrin (see left) was doctored.
Nasa explain:
The simple answer is that when Neil took the original photograph, AS11-40-5903, the top of Buzz’s OPS [antenna] was at the top edge of the field-of-view and, therefore, that the original image necessarily does not include the antenna. When the image was prepared for release for publication soon after the mission, it was cropped at the bottom and sides, and a black area was added at the top to give the released version visual balance.
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Posted: 26th, August 2012 | In: Technology | Comments (2)
Ron Swanson reaches his Internet moment (video)
THE Ron Swanson moment:
Posted: 25th, August 2012 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment
