No messing around! The Map Paradise Project requires the participants to drive around the islands of Fiji, St. Lucia, Mauritius, Cape Verde, and the Seychelles in a specially equipped mapping car and record all the data for the Tom Tom maps of these islands.

5 teams will be selected, and each successful person can take with 4 friends for an all expenses paid holiday to the island.

Best working holiday….ever!
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It’s a hard act to follow the mighty Samsung Galaxy III, but this tiny and affordable, normal man’s phone is giving it its best anyways.

Slim and light at 11.98mm and under a kilo, the Pocket Smartphone is just that featuring Android 2.3 Gingerbread platform, Google Mobile Services, Samsung Apps and the TouchWiz interface.

Granted it’s not powered by the heftiest of processors, only an 832Mhz engine, but it does have Wi-Fi, 3G and HSDPA connectivity.

The zinger? It has a 2MP camera and a huge 32GB of onboard storage. That’s as much or more than the new Galaxy III monster.

R1 000 for a 32GB USB stick with a screen. Worth it!

Review coming soon.

You work at Mercedes Benz in the supercar department. You’ve got a perfectly respectable supercar on the market, albeit a bit of a show off. You look at your calendar and you realize, shit…it’s nearly a new year. We better put something new out.

So you slap on some new leather, add a few extra kilowatts and change the suspension to make it more comfortable, and then tell people to go touring in it.

The 2013 SLS AMG GT is still bloody cool though.

Heightened dynamics give it an enhanced max output, they’ve re-calibrated the DCT 7-speed transmission to make gear changes even faster and modified the engine mapping to make this chariots 0-100 time only 3.6 seconds. Top speed? Near on 320km/h

A new AMG adaptive performance suspension enhances the vehicles ‘sportiness’, it’s stiffer and more aggressive and they’ll sell you one in roadster or coupe styling.

And as the Le Mans weekend rolls around, this car is going to have it’s work cut out for it as it’s sharing the stadium with the quirky Deltawing and the feisty Juke R.

Since they helped invent the compact crossover segment in 2010, Nissan’s new Nismo feels quite at home extending the Japanese manufacturers range to include an enhanced tuned-up version of its 1.6-litre direct injection turbocharged petrol engine, inspired by the one installed in Nissan’s revolutionary DeltaWing Le Mans race car.

Throw in some stiffened suspension settings and new steering modifications for sportier direct handling and improved traction control, and you’ve got some potent potential.

What else has Nismo, the sports arm of Nissan done lately? How about inventing the world’s first all-electric racing car which made the first run in front of the public at last year’s Le Mans 24h event? Decent!

South African’s are going to love this.

Rutledge (the fat one) buys a 1997 Dodge Ram which breaks down on the way to the iceberg

Adam (the ugly one) buys a 1976 Ford F-250 which also breaks down on the way there

Tanner (the gay one) buys a 1983 Chevrolet C/K 10 Stepside, the only truck to make it to the iceberg. Or should I say the only other truck to make it there.

As a punishment, and in true Top Gear fashion, if anyone’s truck broke down, they would face the shame and torture of continuing the journey in an embarrassing mess of a truck. A truck that surely couldn’t make it all the way, that no true petrol head would be proud of, that no rugged man could show off to his mates.

What was the other truck? A Toyota Hilux, with the two other dolts whose trucks broke down in it.

Incidentally also the only other truck to make it to the iceberg.

Americans…you so silly

Here’s the episode

Instead Timmy did announce a bunch of new Apple related toys and upgrades that should give Apple Fanboys something to spend their money on while the iPhone 5 is put together.

The broad strokes:
A new mobile operating system, iOS 6
A new Macbook Air lineup
A new Macbook Pro model
And Mountain Lion OS x

Here’s what it all means.

The new iOS 6 will only be around later this year once developers have finished working on it to make it worth our while. But there is a lot to expect, depending on your perception.

Firstly this version of the OS will bring Siri, good and proper, to the iPad. Not that naf “dictation” thing it used to do, but proper Artificial Intelligent assistant Siri.

Siri will also be able to launch apps on your iDevice for you, just say the name and it’ll open. How lazy do you have to be? And the phone app on the iPhone has even received a bit of a bolster in the form of Siri taking things over for you.

If someone calls while you can’t speak, you can reply with an SMS. Siri will remind you later that you missed the call.

She’s also been updated with a “Do Not Disturb” feature that enters a mode which doesn’t receive calls or messages. It’ll then notify you when you wake up of who called. This feature can also be found in some other devices by activating the “silent” button and then the “ignore” status of your consciousness.

The Macbook Air revamp is quite a significant move on Apple’s part in the face of competitive brands dishing out Ultrabooks like they’re dehydrated food packs in Somalia.

The tiniest Apple notebooks all get the new 3rd generation Intel “Ivy Bridge” processors and up to 512GB of flash storage via a solid state hard drive (solid state is the way to go for immediate access to applications and programs). These enhancements make this device twice as fast as its predecessor.

The Apple MacBook Pro range is getting similar upgrades including a 60% speed boost in graphics processing thanks to the new Intel chips and Nvidia graphics technology.

And even better news, a whole new Macbook Pro model with Retina display technology (like in the iPad 3), a 15-inch screen and a body almost as thin as the Macbook Air.

The last big announcement was the new OS x Mountain Lion. The main change, it’ll now have a drop down menu with all your notifications like you saw on the iPad or iPhone in iOS 5.

So no iPhone 5? Not yet. Sometime this year is what most believe, but I’m not holding my breath.

If you’ve ever wanted to know what it would be like to meet a 70′s porno actress, or you just want to give someone the impression that you’ve bought them a box of pubes, this product is for you.

Not much to say really except that they’re exorbitantly expensive at $36. That’s like nearly R400.

Get them here.

It’s a tattoo that vibrates whenever you get a text message or a phone call on your cellphone. Well it’s a patent applied for by Nokia, anyways.

The technology will use magnetic waves to alert the…um…wearer that they’ve got action on their phone. Nokia is also proud to point out that the technology can be applied to an invisible tattoo, should the interested party have a job that requires them to have clear skin…like an accountant or a porn star, I mean actress.

The entire project took him 12 hours over 2 days at which point his cornea had burnt out of the back of his skull.

See the artist’s other work here.

Watch the video to see the painstaking process.