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This robot dog has an iPhone for a face

It’s a smart pet, and is controlled using an iPhone. The robot dog’s face appears on the iPhone screen, with it’s respective app running which you can control the dog using hand gestures and the iPhone’s front facing camera. According to MacRumors, the robot dog will have over 100 different expressions giving it a real pet-like experience. Not only will it be pet-like, but it’s pretty damn cute too.

Mar 30, 201221 notes

#iphone #robots #dog #pet #toy #app #technology #kids

All your Facebooks belong to Glitchr

Glitcher is a Facebook user that exploits the biggest social networking site in the world by using different script tricks and symbols called diacritics stacked upon each other to create chaos on his Facebook wall. It’s a bit of an art form if you ask me, and his skills display through his posts which really add some much needed flavor to Facebook which can be stagnate at times.

Mar 30, 20129 notes

#facebook #glitchr #ascii #hack #social networking #art

Megaupload founder says the military and govt had thousands of accounts

Not only did Kanye West like Megaupload, so did the U.S. Military and the U.S. Government. They loved it so much, that the founder of Megaupload is now talking about it trying to clear his name saying that they had well over 15,000 accounts on the site that was taken down in January on a huge copyright indictment from the federal government.

Mar 29, 201216 notes

#megaupload #copyright #file sharing #piracy #politics #music #internet

Video of a giant solar tornado big enough to engulf the Earth

The tornadoes here on Earth can exceed 150 mph and are treacherous, destroying everything in it’s path. Now just imagine a tornado that is 186,000 mph! That is what happened on the Sun, and researchers were able to capture it all on video.

Mar 29, 201215 notes

#sun #tornado #science #earth #weather #video

A mind blowing time lapse video of the stars and earth from space

This time lapse video is taken from the NASA Space Station using imagery compiled by NASA’s Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. It’s an amazing video, and well worth the watch for a view that is so rarely seen.

Mar 28, 201211 notes

#earth #galaxy #nasa #space #stars #time lapse #video #photography

The Galaxy Note, so easy even an elephant can use it

This video is too cute, and a great piece of viral marketing for Samsung and the new Galaxy Note. In the video, Peter the elephant plays with the mobile device, and even appears to be dancing when he hears the music that he plays with this trunk. At the end, Samsung makes sure to put “Bigger is Better”, which is touted by Samsung due to the large size of the device, which is in between the size of a mobile phone and a tablet.

Mar 28, 201211 notes

#samsung #galaxy note #elephants #video #mobile #viral video

This guy is making over $1k a day spamming Pinterest

I think I need to change professions, because this guy is making a buttload of money doing some shady, yet legal work. The Daily Dot interviewed one person, who using a network of spam bots has created a lucrative business from the new social pinning network.

Mar 28, 201214 notes

#internet #pins #pinterest #social networking #spam #finance

I wish that Tumblr had custom 404 error pages

I love Tumblr, how customizable it is and being able to do almost anything possible with it. It really makes it the best blogging platform around, and for that I am grateful. Not to mention all the wonderful people on Tumblr, which adds the social experience to it making it even better than one can imagine. There are a few things that I wish Tumblr had, with custom 404 error pages being one of them.

Mar 27, 201213 notes

#404 #error #page #tumblr #blogging #design #illustration

Connecting prisoners at San Quentin to the world via Social Media

San Quentin State Prison may be one of the most infamous prisons. It’s home to some of the most hardened criminals around and is notorious for having a culture of violence. It’s moniker: “The Arena.” With all the infamy that comes out of San Quentin, also comes life experience. A group at San Quentin is working on a new program to connect prisoners to people outside of the prison, to give insight into their life and minds, and are using social media to do so.

Mar 26, 20126 notes

#prison #quora #san quentin #social media #technology #twitter #internet

Lamborghini concept is a cross between the Batmobile and TRON

In this Lamborghini Ferruccio concept created by Mark Hostler, he incorporates a “stealth” design and applies it to the Lamborghini giving it a very futuristic and vicious look and feel with drastic lines and sharp corners. Although I won’t say I am a big fan of this look, the stealthy Lambo looks very fast.

Mar 26, 201242 notes

#lamborghini #ferruccio #concept #cars #design #batmobile #tron

Facebook claims the word "book" as their trademark in new Terms of Service

I don’t know how much more ridiculous this can be. Facebook in their updated Terms of Service now lays claim to one of the most common words in the English language - “Book”. Yes, you read that correctly. If you use Facebook, you are agreeing to their Terms of Service when you sign up and each time you login.

Mar 26, 201226 notes

#facebook #trademark #book #face #internet #wall #legal

Impossibility in it's purest form

The Penrose triangle is an impossible object, which an optical illusion that has a two-dimensional figure which is interpreted as a projection of a three-dimensional object, although it is not geometrically possible for such an object to exist; whew. Martzi Hegedus took this illusion as inspiration, and created a typeface based around it called Frustro that it out of this world.

Mar 23, 201211 notes

#typography #font face #design #art #illustration #impossible object

Social Networking dominates time spent online in Latin America

comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, released its annual report on key digital trends in Latin America. With the report, it shows that the online population of Latin America has gone up 16% from last year, up to 129.3 million visitors online.

Mar 23, 20124 notes

#social networking #latin america #facebook #orkut #twitter #google

If there's a chance you will be racially profiled, you'll want this app

The Emergency Alert & Personal Protection app (eAPP) is an app that is being developed based on a new demand. The app is being created due to new laws across the country and has a simple but important concept, which can be applied to various situations. The concept is to be able to open the app on your mobile device and with one swipe, notify contacts that you are being arrested or in some emergency situation where you won’t be able to communicate.

Mar 22, 201217 notes

#app #racial #profiling #police #mobile #emergency #sb 1070 #politics

Microsoft gets it's own pimped out ride

There’s only one place that I know that really knows how to “pimp” your ride, and that’s West Coast Customs. WCC gained a higher level of fame after their TV series on MTV Pimp My Ride aired in the 2000’s featuring guest host/rapper Xzibit; where WCC was notorious for doing over the top and outlandish custom car modifications. So when Microsoft wanted to do something to show off all the possibilities of their flagship products, they chose none other than WCC.

Mar 22, 201213 notes

#microsoft #windows #wcc #pimp #cars #technology #kinect #bing

Watch as this camera sees around corners using scattered light

If you can’t see an object around a corner with your own eyes, how do you expect a camera to be able to see and photograph an image of a hidden object? Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have figured out just how to do this.

Mar 21, 201211 notes

#camera #photography #science #technology #video #time of flight

Surprise: Newspaper readership is in a severe decline

In an annual report from the State of the Media, it shows that audience growth in media consumption has gone up in every sector except print. Newspapers are actually down -4%. Obviously the winner here is the digital space, with online growth up 17.2%. Television is still hanging in there, with actual positive growth in 2011.

Mar 21, 20128 notes

#print #media #internet #television #mobile #newspaper

Buy your own Star Wars TIE fighter on Craigslist

Ok, so maybe you can’t buy a real Star Wars TIE fighter on Craiglist, but you can get the next best thing. Someone in Olympia, Washington is selling a 1/3 scale replica of a TIE fighter. It’s 8x8x8 feet and built out of wood. If you have $150 and are near Olympia, it’s all yours.

Mar 21, 20123 notes

#star wars #tie fighter #replica #craigslist

The birthplace of Silicon Valley (rare photos)

Long before companies like Google, Apple and Twitter, there was one company that started a technology revolution in Silicon Valley, California. The company created by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, which you might know as Hewlett-Packard (HP) started in a place that you may never have thought of.

Mar 20, 20125 notes

#silicon valley #technology #hp #rare #photography

No effin way, this is awesome - Pirate Bay's hovering server drones

Pirate Bay is going to put new meaning into the word innovation. As most may know, and if you don’t, Pirate Bay is website that enables it’s users to share media via BitTorrent. Often times, the media is copyrighted and illegally being shared. Pirate Bay is constantly under attack for it, in every sense of the word. So they are thinking of new ways to defend it’s sharing platform that are, let’s say out of this world.

Mar 20, 201228 notes

#pirate bay #server #drones #technology #innovation #copyright #internet

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