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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

 

 

 

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

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/

 

 

Pizza Huts new “Blockbuster Box” delivery box turns into a movie projector

June 17, 2015 By In Technology

There are few better combinations than movies and pizza. Well there’s movies and beer. And sport and beer. And partying and beer. And braaing and beer. Well anyway.

That first combo is still pretty cool, and Pizza Hut’s new delivery box that turns into a movie projector using your smartphone is going to ensure that it only gets cooler.

It works as so…and only available in China. :(

 

The Art of Life with @KojoBaffoe returns! This week #TIDAL vs THE WORLD

June 5, 2015 By In Technology

The vlog started a couple of years back with Kojo Baffoe has returned to Youtube, with a NEW VIDEO EVERY FRIDAY!
Please hit the subscribe button while you’re there!

In this ep we tackle the ever-competitive music streaming industry and discuss why Tidal has an offering that may catch on in South Africa (mainly because they’re actually offering it in South Africa).

ODiN, the world’s first projection mouse

June 3, 2015 By In Technology

A Kickstarter project called ODiN is one of the latest examples of us getting ever so closer to futuristic tech being a reality. ODiN is a mouse, well technically it’s a block that projects a holographic image that tracks your fingers, but mouse is easier to say.

ODiN is programmed almost like a phone’s touchscreen. It can detect two fingers and uses them for gesture support. For example, you can pinch your fingers to zoom in or move them together to scroll. It projects two areas at the top for right and left clicking, as well as a middle button that can be coded to do whatever you want.

ODiN works with a normal USB chord, and while it can’t exactly emulate any gaming mouses, it does have an advantage in that it’s considerably smaller than any mouse. Coming in at 5cm tall and 4cm wide, it will take up much less space than a regular 12cm long mouse.

Check the mouse in action:

ODiN has reached it’s goal, but you can still order one off the Kickstarter campaign site. They sell for about R615, and they come in black, grey and green.

 

Musio the AI robot proves that you really can buy friendship #Musio

June 2, 2015 By In Technology

Musio is like Furby; except a whole lot smarter. It’s a robot with Artificial Intelligence that they say is designed to grow with you.

The A.I. that powers Musio is capable of remembering details of conversations it’s had before, bring them up in other conversations, and it can even act as a controller if you have a smart home. It’s similar to Siri in that it can look up the answers to questions for you, but the difference is that it can insert it’s own comments in to start a conversation. It can also send voice-dictated emails.

 

The robot will do it’s best to learn about you. It will ask you what your favourite sports team is, and try bring them up in future conversations. On top of that, if more than one person uses Musio, it will save details about the different people and talk about them to the other person. Potential for leaking of family secrets then? This should be fun.

 

There are three tiers of Musio. The R3 700 Smart version and the R7 400 Genius version have the same connectivity features except the Genius version has nearly double the processing speed and battery. They both run Android 5.0 and have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth options. There’s also a R1 300 smart version that doesn’t have all that, but you can still talk to it.

They’re currently looking for backing on IGG.

Get it: R3 700 – R7 400
From: IndieGogo

How Musio works practically