Durex is the #1 sexual well being brand worldwide, producing a wide range of products, including high quality condoms, intimate lubricants and personal massagers. Smartly enough, Durex has partnered up and started a campaign to create the first ever sex emoji. Yes we said it, sex emoji. Haha, we know that this is certainly going to be the most used emoji on Whatsapp that is for sure!
Seeing as though the youth of today have fallen into the generation of technology, it is now easier to use emoticons to express oneself than talking, especially about the birds and the bees!
More worrying is the rise in apathy towards engaging in safer sexual practices with over a third of people asked claiming not to care about safe sex. Research showed nearly half think that HIV will never affect them or their friends. In light of this, Durex has launched a worldwide campaign to call for an official safe sex emoji to be created by the company behind emojis (Unicode).
Such an emoji will enable young people to overcome embarrassment around the discussion of safe sex, encourage conversations and raise awareness of the importance of using condoms in protecting against sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV and AIDS. Durex is calling for people to use and share the hashtag #CondomEmojiin support of safe sex.
Alexia Theocharis, Durex Brand Manager concluded, “The influence of social media in our lives is astounding and as Durex we understand the significance and impact it has, hence we have come up with this emoji campaign. With this campaign we want to continue the emphasis on the importance of practising safe sex especially amongst young people.”
In order to make this campaign a reality, and to get an official safe sex emoji. Share your support by using the #CondomEmoji
‘Everyone has this idea of the future as this guy with Google Glass and five fitbits,’ creative technologist at Chaotic Moon Eric Schneider says, ‘but the goal is really wearable technology that you can’t even see.’
Enter Chaotic Moon’s new concept of biowearable tech tattoo circuits. These tats fully integrate into the wearers life and provide real-time medical information in the hopes of preventing long term serious illness. Think about someone walking around with a high blood pressure and they don’t even know it until it’s too late. This tech is like the Jewish mom of wearables.
The wearables would be placed on the wearers skin and gather and send all the information that a doctor would normally collect: fever, vitals, heart rate and inform the user via an app of any issues.
Yamaha have recently revealed their Motorbot (coolest name ever BTW) which is a driverless (unmodified) superbike capable of lapping tracks at upwards of 200 km/h.
Yamaha, in patting themselves on the back, say that the complex task of developing a robot that can control a fast bike at speed can be applied later to the creation of greater advanced rider safety and support systems – including self-riding motorbikes.
They are even claiming that the bike can take on (and beat) the best in the world. Enter video taunting Rossi to a race.
Bone induction headphones = not a new innovation. But also, not yet viable for sale. The folk at Studio Banana Things are hoping to change all that by turning to Kickstarter crowd funding for help.
The Batband headphones contain two transducers which sit just above the ear (and one round the back), rattling your inner ear bone and transmitting all sounds to your inner ear.
Paired through Bluetooth to your device, control is taken over by swiping and rubbing the side of the device. Incidentally, women in weaves have been performing this sort of action for years.
A few thoughts on this one:
– No more tender ear caused by hours on a plane
– Can’t they make the back strap translucent so we can spin it around and take to the streets Cyclops style
– Got to try these things first but isn’t it going to be frustrating and distracting walking around with sounds coming to you from within your head AND all the ambient sound around you coming in through your ears. Isn’t this the exact point of noise cancelling headphones we’ve loved for so many years?
– 01:06 for the world’s creepiest tech model
– Is this thing really for real?
Play time will last about 6 hours for music and 8 hours for long-distance relationship calls.
Get it: R2500 on Kickstarter and R4000 on sale once launched
From: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ostrich-pillow/batband
First off, let’s point out the absolute peak of a mountain that the Opel Adam is intended to climb. Named after the company’s owner, the Adam has been told that it’s their job to take on the mighty Mini Cooper and the less mighty but still cool Fiat 500.
Over and above this, the Adam seems to be spearheading Opel’s fighting return to the cool hatch market, evident in the recently announced return of the Opel Corsa Sport. And then there are OPCs and GTC and ABCs which will no doubt follow soon.
The good news is, Opel’s flagship Adam is as impressive as Jacob Zuma’s butt-covering skills. First off it looks awesome. There are only two side doors and not a great deal of space inside, but you could say the same for its competitors.
Here’s some demographic appropriate marketing:
Performance-wise you won’t be leaving much at the lights, but you’re not in a wagon either. Three variants and two engine options. A four cylinder 1.4-litre engine complimented by a five-speed gearbox will make sure you get to where you’re going rather quickly. The other variation may only be a 1.0 litre, but it’s rocking a turbo that allegedly makes it quicker than its big brother. I only had the 1.4-litre on test, so can’t confirm but can believe. I’ve always said it: small engines with a turbo are the future.
Opel claim that the two engines have consumptions of 5.3 litres per 100km and 5.1 litres respectively, which is more or less on point with its competition in its class, and both engines have stop/start technology to keep your petrol card in your wallet just a bit longer.
To my point. Expensive cars are dinosaurs. (Some context: expensive means comparative cars in the same demographic and segment.)
So. Lets talk about Sam. Sam’s just got out of High School and her folks (execs, both of them) have agreed to buy her a new car. Options befitting her privileged birth and need for speed:
Golf GTi – R447 000
Audi A3 – R419 500
BMW 1-series – R326 500
All quick. All incredibly stylish and branded befittingly. All beautiful cars. But all also incredibly expensive, heavy on petrol and boasting two more doors on the sides than are necessary for Uni bound Sam or anyone living in a modern metropolis like Jozi or Cape Town. Two-door town cars with low emissions, tiny lengths and turbos are the way to go.
My advice to new car buyers in the past 2 years has been this:
There are no “shit” cars anymore. Everyone’s got their production quality up, their cars are reliable, their cars look good. You don’t need to buy German to be seen (I recognise Opel is German but you know what I mean).
Why don’t you opt for a brand whose marketing campaigns you won’t be footing the bill for, tick every extra box on the dealership form and drive out in a less powerful but more suited to the city customized, bespoke and gorgeous Opel Corsa or Hyundai i20 instead of signing up to be just another Audi driver?
That’s what you get when you do the same on an Opel Adam. And maybe…maybe you’ll be tickling the R300 000 mark. This is where the Adam comes into its own.
With a completely customizable interior, the Adam also comes in nine paint jobs and five customisation packs. Sitting inside you really could be fooled as to what car you’re sitting in. Leather seats, accessories galore and comfort. And these are the options. Things you don’t even need to select include Opel’s Smartphone communicating Intellilink system, Multi-function steering wheel and Bluetooth, Side Blind Zone Alert (which is incredibly helpful and safe once you get used to it. First few drives were a skriek), a full GPS system in BringGo and Advanced Park assist.
Getting these extras put into your new entry-level Audi or Beemer all of a sudden puts you in a new tax bracket. It sours the deal. It makes you feel like that brand you’re associating yourself with is perhaps costing you a bit much.
In “cheaper” brands like Opel and Hyundai, they’re nice enough to give these to you for free. No brainer to me.
PRICING:
ADAM 1.4 R189 900.00
ADAM JAM 1.0T ecoFLEX R209 900.00
ADAM GLAM 1.0T ecoFLEX R232 900.00
A week of randomness as @KojoBaffoe and I take a look at what Fujifilm thinks will make you feel like it’s the 80’s again and Kojo shares the work of Ali Graham, a man who has taken his Jay Z inspired Tumblr blog and made a book out of it. Check it at 99probs.tumblr.com
It’s taken him two years and a lot of staring “it’s impossible dude”-ers in the face, but finally, pro Motorcross racer turned stuntman turned most gnarly dude in the world Robbie Madison has done it: he’s ridden his motorbike on water. And if that wasn’t enough, he decided, while he was treading liquid to ride in and surf the world famous Teahuo’po wave in Tahiti.
Watch this:
Trsnaworld was there to watch the entire making and before and after and it’s really worth a read. Check it here
The must-own underwear of the past 100 years has arrived. They’re not edible, not trendy, and not made by European fashion label that supports child labour in a 3rd world country (although they cost about the same).
Instead, the Shreddies flatulence filtering underwear are the world’s most powerful tool against stinky farts. You literally could not make this stuff up.
The jocks perform their magic thanks to an odor filtering “Zorflex” carbon panel that’s been researched up the wazoo. The smell is sealed in and trapped, saved to be enjoyed later, at home, alone.
There is a downside. The wearer will have to adjust their normal farting position to get the most from the filtering fart-ment. Legs together, undies off the skin, no gaps in the waistband. The question is raised, won’t the fact that you all of a sudden adjust your stance to look like you’re holding in a wee be a dead giveaway or at least attract some side glances in your next status meeting?
It is if product designer and serial correct guesser of future iDevices Antonio De Rosa has anything to say about it.
The iPhone 7 isn’t far off, so it’s time for the internet to do what it does best: serve us unlimited free porn, troll our enemies and teach us things so we don’t have to think for ourselves. No wait. Build up our expectations and then let us down. That’s what I mean.
De Rosa has released the following teaser video on Youtube of what he thinks the changes in the new iPhone will be.
In summary:
Similar to the iPhone 6 – no surprise there
6.9mm
Has a digital crown (supporting Touch ID and gesture support) on the right – Samsung will no doubt sue for that
Integrates elements of the iWatch
5.5-inch Retina HD+ display
A9 chip with 64-bit capabilities.
Only time will tell how right or wrong he is. But in the meantime, lets perve.
