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Durex launches launches campaign to create the first ever safe sex Emoji #EmojiCondom

December 3, 2015 By In Technology

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 #CondomEmoji in 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

It’ll be fun 😉

 

 

 

Unnoticeable wearable tech tattoos are circuitry that will report on your health in real time. This IS the future.

November 25, 2015 By In Technology

‘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.

Batband bone induction headphones. Hear everything without covering your ears.

September 25, 2015 By In Technology

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

 

 

 

The Art of Life BLOG – Fujifilm Polaroid camera and 99probs.tumblr

August 17, 2015 By In Technology

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

Shreddies create fart filtering underpants

August 3, 2015 By In Technology

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?

Get it: R350 – R600
From: www.myshreddies.com

 

 

Is this what the new iPhone 7 will look like?

July 30, 2015 By In Technology

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.

Check out Antonio’s portfolio here

NEW EP OF THE ART OF LIFE: Will the next war be fought over water?

July 24, 2015 By In Technology

The latest episode of The Art of Life with @KojoBaffoe is out.

This week we’re talking water and taking a look at the trend of solving the world’s water shortage by grabbing it from the air around us.

Svalt ‘D’ cools down overheating Macbooks. Wait, shouldn’t the Macbook do that?

July 22, 2015 By In Technology

In order to make the latest batch of Apple Macbook laptops as thin as they are, the monkeys at Mac have had to leave out some pretty important elements (like heat distribution fans) that enable the over-priced lap warmers to work properly.

Pick your jaw up off the floor fan-boys, this isn’t the first time Apple has made a change to one of their devices that hasn’t been thought through properly, inconveniences the very people that make their products so popular and screws the customer worse than a lifetime holder of an Ashley Madison account.

What this latest omission means is that the new range of Macbook laptops are prone to getting pretty hot.

Enter a breed of parasite, more resilient than a cockroach made of rubber: the Apple peripheral producer.

Svalt have created the ‘D’, a performance cooling vertical dock that fits onto Macbooks of any size and keeps them the right temp.

Anchored down by a two pound aluminium base, a fan flows fresh air over the laptops processor unit making heavy lifting like video editing or gaming a more efficient task.

Actually, when you put it like that, it becomes a whole lot clearer that THIS IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUILT INTO THE LAPTOP

WHEN IT WAS MADE!!!!

 

RehabStudio hack a pair of sneakers allowing them to change color. Intro Shift Sneakers

July 8, 2015 By In Technology

Either fashion just got a solid wallop upside the head, or douche-baggery has been taken to a whole new level of Starbucks coffee.

London based creative technology agency RehabStudio have tasked themselves with imagining what the clothes of the future will look like and do.

They’ve decided that they will have unexpected properties with tech integral to the garment. To prove their point, they’ve hacked into a pair of sneakers and added phase change fibers and shape memory meta materials that enable interchangeability between layouts, locking chosen patterns to the sneakers.

Conductive filaments woven into the shoes membrane, pass electrical signals through to LEDs that act as ductile screens which displays the ‘shift’ designs.

The whole project is open source with an app featuring a “pack” store where users can download and share design layout.

From: http://www.shiftsneaker.com/

 

 

Martin Jetpack makes personal flight a possibility

July 2, 2015 By In Motoring, Technology

Although it’s taken them 34 years to get it off the ground (get it?), FINALLY the Martin Jetpack personal flyer or whatever you wanna call it is a reality.

Hailing from New Zealand (no shit!), the creators have built their jetpack out of carbon fibre and aluminum alloys making it light weight enough to fly in tight spaces and remain easily maneuverable. More maneuverable than a helicopter anyway. Good thing this since one of their main target markets is the emergency responder market and government agencies. Imagine getting chased down the M1 North by a Metro cop on one of these. Bril.

(WARNING: the vid is a bit long in the tooth)

The vehicle itself is powered by a 200 hp V4 petrol engine that drives two fans for up to 30 minutes of flight time. Top speed is 74 km/h and you’ll be able to go as high as 1km in the air.

Take off and landing happens straight up and down and pilot qualifications are said to be easily attainable. The way I see it, this is just another means of Bashar al-Assad to skip out of South African airspace unarrested.

Control is reported to be a breeze thanks to the ‘fly by wire’ system which is straightfoward to operate and comes with its own ballistic parachute system. I should bloody hope so when you consider the price of the bloody thing.

Get it: R2 million plus
From: www.martinjetpack.com