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WELCOME TO THE WEIRD Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.
This week, TED fellow Jihna Lee unveiled a transparent 3D computer called SpaceTop, that allows you to reach inside to manipulate the content, BBC reports. Users type and control the content on the screen from behind it with cameras tracking hand movement and facial movement. Behold, the future.
(Video: Jinha Lee/Youtube)
Here’s a new idea. Forget your traditional alarm clock. This new dating app will allow you to wake up every day with a new person. The cleverly named App Night Stand lets you arrange a virtual one night stand with another person, it sets an alarm and wakes you both up at the same time, Buzzfeed reports. When you wake up, it shows a little picture of your two faces together in bed and then you have the choice of talking or just doing a runner. Charming.
(Images: App Night Stand)
The army research laboratory Boston Dynamics have built a very unnerving, dog-like robot that can fling cinder blocks across a room while marching, Gizmodo reports. At first it was just designed to walk across uneven terrain but now it has an extra arm to pick things up and throw them at you.
(Video: BostonDynamics/Youtube)
(Video: TeleSound/Vimeo)
Here’s another nifty way to annoy your friends and family. TeleSound is a cute little device that connects to your smartphone or tablet and plays the sounds of emojis when people send them to each other. Send kissy sounds to a lover, fart sounds to your friends and dog noises to freak out everyone’s cats. The possibilities are endless…
(Image: TeleSound)
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Pretty stunning work alright
A Very fitting tribute
It’s just a pity he didn’t get a very fitting sentence, 20 yrs, hopefully he never sees the light of day again, but with some smart boy representing him-god knows,
A fantastic idea.
My god, if it looks anything like that good in reality, it’ll be one of the greatest pieces of monumental art in the world. Actually brings tears to the eyes just looking at it, pure genius. Such a shame such an achievement has its origins in such tragedy.
I’m kind of torn on the idea of these memorials..
One one hand – the loss of life needs commemoration, I get that, and I agree with it, but on the other hand that sick twisted nutter Brevik will see this as a marker of his work, he doesn’t deserve anything that could massage his ego in any way..
But he’s mad. You can’t control the thoughts and emotions of a mad man. He will think and feel what he wants to, irrespective of logic or decency.
I do realise that, it’s just while it’s a memorial for those who died, it’s also a monument to the actions of said mad man..
I said I was torn; not that I disagreed with the principle.
It’s like the media coverage school shootings get – it makes it look like a great way for a nutjob to get their 15 minutes of fame, even though that is explicitly not the intention.
It’s a valid point you raised, thats why I replied instead of red thumbing. But personally id see it as a way for wider society to connect and empathise with the victims.
I guess you have to decide which is more important, worrying that Breivik will gain some sort of twisted pleasure from this memorial, or the potential for the 69 families affected to gain some sort of closure from it. I think latter outweighs the former every time
Agreed.. I wouldn’t think halting a memorial would ever be a good thing..
Love this idea. Putting the place where this atrocity happened just out of reach and disconnected from land. Very fitting.
Richard, a lot of the time the “speeding, carelessness, feeling invincible, overdesign of motor vehicles etc.” is by one party to the accident, and the others are innocents who were just in the wrong place at the right time. (Although now you’re probably going to have a go at them for bad timing and planning)
(Sorry, this was in reply to a thread, I clicked the wrong button)
What about the hundreds of thousands of perfectly healthy people needlessly killed in by cars every year because car manufacturers need to sell cars? ……… No fancy memorials to them. We live in an absurd world.
Last time I checked those were called ‘accidents’.
The people commenting here are actually getting even more thick. If that is possible.
Car ‘accident’ – the greatest euphemism known to man. Actually due to speeding, carelessness, feeling invincible, overdesign of motor vehicles etc. etc. …
Jean Paul Valley your comment reflects the success of the car lobby in spinning car death as a tragic but unavoidable consequence of using cars.
Keep digging Richard.
As someone who has lost a family member to a tragic car accident, I find your comment insulting.
But cars aren’t designed to kill people. Road deaths are just an unfortunate by product of human error. Lots of things we use everyday cause accidental deaths. If a person chokes on a rich tea should we blame mcvities?
Anyway, you can’t compare a car accident to someone gunning down 69 people. Just a ridiculous comment.
For crying out loud Richard…
There are some exceptionally gifted human beings out there, and this guy is one of them. Fair Play.
Never forget what the fascists are capable of.
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