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IF YOU THOUGHT you might look stylish wearing Google Glass after it introduced its new frames, that may disappear quickly if you decide to play games on it in public.
Google’s developers have put together five mini-games that Glass users can play around with. All games are activated through the voice menu and are quite basic, using positioning, balance and motion to play.
The five games on offer include Tennis (basically playing Pong with your head), Clay Shooter (gets you you to shout “pull” anytime you want to shoot a target), Match (card-matching game), Balance (balance imaginary books on your head) and Shape Splitter (effectively Fruit Ninja with basic shapes).
If the games sound unexciting or strange, it’s because they were designed to show exactly what Glass is capable of. It’s a pretty niche market already since it’s a product that has yet to be released, but it’s hoping that such demos will inspire developers to create their own versions.
The likelihood of you playing these on the way home from work is pretty slim though, unless the idea of slicing air, or scaring people by shouting “bang” in a crowded area appeals to you.
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First went to London in the early 80′s working in bars , met so many Irish who hadn’t been home in years , men like these ….God rest them.
With the funds raised , it would be nice to bring them home to Cork and bury them in their hometown , together .
“They are believed to have been estranged for a number of years”. Being buried together might not be what they want!
I worked in London for 20years and there are a lot of old Irish over there who worked very hard in a time when Irish weren’t welcomed and have lost touch with home and have no family around , very sad .
RIP lads
An example of how disposable that generation of immigrants were for ireland. It really does seem we dumped people out like trash on the edge of english society.
Well austerity has managed to do the same to several generations in the last five years. This country likes to hurt it’s own
they have paid enough taxes and PRSI to cover burial cost
How did you work that out ? according to the article they went to London when they where about 18
Like many Irish people who have gone before me, I made North London my temporary home and saw some very sad cases of older generations falling through the gaps. Always lend support to London Irish Centre and other welfare organisations that provide support and comfort to people living in isolation. The once bustling Irish communities such as Kilburn, Cricklewood, Willesden etc are experiencing dwindling Irish populations that contribute to isolation of older people who might not be able to afford to move.
“Two Irish twins”? Two twins suggests four people, am I being pedantic? Don’t mean to be.
Pedantic and incorrect.
Pedantic?? More like D!ckhead
Joe, you’re not being pedantic. Pedantry is excessive or slavish attention to rules. You’re simply ignorant of the basic meaning of simple words.
“Two twins” simply means two people who are twins. It might be redundant, as the fact that they are twins tells us that there are two of them. But “twin” doesn’t mean “set of twins”, nor does “two” mean “four”.
the problem to me reading all these stories nowadays is that the effort should be put in before they die, I never heard too many complain about the size of their own funeral
When is the funeral. Ill go of I can get off work.
If I understand this correctly, the brothers emigrated in the mid-1950′s and since then their country of origin didn’t care about them – and they didn’t care about their country. In the intervening years they became estranged even from each other. This is sad, but why all the hullabaloo now, when they are dead?
Good point Rashers but a lot of time older Irish people feel that they cannot go back to Ireland for psychological reasons. They feel that Ireland has moved on, England being the country they lived most of their lives in and Irish people were not always accepted in this society either. Another thing is that Irish people sometimes feel that they didn’t make a success of their life over in England and couldn’t face going back home without a huge incinerate and having made a success of themselves. Not saying that this is the case here but it happens more often than not.
Unidentical I assume
Because the authorities do not want to pay for the funerals and that is a main reason for this?
have your say