Want to charge-up the mundane task of charging your iPhone. Here are 3 weird and creepy iPhone chargers. Creepy Umbilical Cord Charger The Grow Cable is an iPhone charger shaped like an umbilical cord. And just to add to the creepiness, it pulses and throbs while charging. Check-out the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=d2tpSCVVujc I feel like I … [Read more...] about Top 3 Weird iPhone Chargers
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Font Fail. When Fonts go Bad
A bad font can not only make your message hard to read, it can make it down right confusing. This font fail is somewhere between really bad and kind or disgusting. I'm sure they mean "Gumballs Included" but who knows! Cumballs! YIKES! Imagine how a bad font choice on your website can hurt you message. The lure of “cutesy” fonts on a website falls in the same category as … [Read more...] about Font Fail. When Fonts go Bad
Fundawear Goes Where no Tech has Gone Before – Your Underwear
Everyone knows the famous Star Trek line, “to boldly go where no one has gone before.” Now the Internet is penetrating the final frontier of privacy - your underpants - literally. Fundawear is technology that “beams” your touch to someone's private places using a Smartphone App and Internet connection. Oh yeah, you also need specially made female lingerie and/or male … [Read more...] about Fundawear Goes Where no Tech has Gone Before – Your Underwear
Happy 20th Birthday World Wide Web
The World Wide Web turns 20 and it's come a long way, baby! To commemorate CERN has restored world's first website. Here it is: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html Yep, the Web has definitely come a long way. CERN developed the HTTP protocol and browsers standards that form the foundation of the Web, which are still used today. These standards have … [Read more...] about Happy 20th Birthday World Wide Web
CISPA – Goodbye to Your 4th Amendment Rights if Passed
Disguised as an Internet security bill, CISPA short-circuits the 4th amendment by allowing the government access to your private online data without a warrant. No due process, you know that thing our Founding Fathers wrote into the core DNA of America! The controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) recently passed the U.S. House and is on the way to … [Read more...] about CISPA – Goodbye to Your 4th Amendment Rights if Passed
A Perspective on Vintage Social Networking
Think you waste a lot of time on social networking. Maybe not. Thanks to this infograph on vintage social networking, it shows all the things we no longer need thanks to the wonders of social media. … [Read more...] about A Perspective on Vintage Social Networking
Big Bang Ratings
The geeks shall inherit prime-time TV. Emmy-nominated sitcom The Big Bang Theory hits 20 million viewers rivaling ratings juggernaut Idol. That's no bazinga. Even more impressive is that the nerd-centric show is in it's sixth season and it's ratings are still on the rise. Most TV shows of this age are watching their ratings decay and "jumping the shark" to keep … [Read more...] about Big Bang Ratings
Going Viral for Kicks
A YouTube video goes viral scoring a Norwegian kicker an NFL tryout. The moral of the story - if you have a talent, practice, film it, then post it on YouTube. You could get discovered. The video features 27-year-old Havard Rugland from Norway performing awesome tricks and kicks, which includes nailing 60-yard field goals and a precision kick hitting a football that is in … [Read more...] about Going Viral for Kicks
Uses For Google
I admit, Google is my spell check. I also use it to find pictures. I hear many people use Google for ego surfing. (You know you Google yourself.) The following graph is not scientific, but it shows that Google may be more of a utility than a search engine. What do you use Google for? … [Read more...] about Uses For Google
Great Gene Roddenberry Quote About Star Trek
“Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do … [Read more...] about Great Gene Roddenberry Quote About Star Trek
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