Folks often shy away from fancy cheese because it smells like feet. But what if the cheese was actually made from feet—or rather, the bacteria that makes your feet stink? A couple of bio-hacker artists decided to explore that possibility. And it sounds really gross.
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Apple’s OS X Mavericks free upgrade on Tuesday saw 5.5-percent of Mac owners update within 24 hours, new research suggests, significantly outpacing the rate of Mountain Lion adoption in 2012. A sampling of North American Mac users by ad network Chitika indicated upgrades of this week’s free OS release reached levels that the $19.99 Mountain […]
The recent dustup over the NSA maybe monitoring German chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone looks like peanuts compared to the latest Snowden-fueled revelation. It turns out, the agency has actually been spying on 35 world leaders—three five!—and encouraging other departments to shovel more contact information their way.
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Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology.
The number of health-tracking gadgets and apps is officially out of control. Fitbit just announced its Force activity-tracking watch. Apple integrated Nike+ and …
Back at WWDC, Apple invited the robotics company Anki on to the stage to show off its connected toy car game, Drive, in which physical toy cars sail around a track while you control them with your iOS device. It was seriously impressive
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“This is not a diagnostic tool.” That’s what Riddell, the country’s largest manufacturer of football helmets, kept emphasizing during a presentation of its newly developed InSite head-impact monitoring system. The fact it would throw this disclaimer out there isn’t surprising, really. After all, the …
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Silly headlines aside, Alone is a pretty interesting idea for a game. Currently in development for the Oculus Rift, it looks like it’s going to embody the sort of subtle, creeping horror we love best.
The setting is actually a lounge room. When you put the headset on, you’ll be transported to a couch where you’ll be sitting playing a fictional horror first-person shooter (FPS) video game called The Witching Hour, while a wild, windy night rages outside. Sounds like a lovely evening at home, snug inside, maybe even with a nice blanket tucked around your lap.
Except something’s not quite right. As the in-game story progresses, elements start to bleed out of the television and into your environment. The idea reminds us of the PS2’s Project Zero, where a frisson of terror was introduced by small changes in the environment on the game’s second night — a blood smear that wasn’t there befo… [Read more]
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Another day, another Android launcher alternative, but Cover claims to be doing more than making Google’s OS pretty like other skins promise. The new lockscreen uses location context to flag up the apps it believes users will be most likely to want – email while you’re at work, perhaps, but games and music while you’re […]
Will the year 2000 be filled with flying cars or polluted air? Push-button lunches or the start of World War III? These were just some of the predictions made by fourth grade kids in 1976, who had trouble deciding if the future was going to be filled with high-tech gadgets or nuclear war. Or maybe both.
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Prepare to have all your favorite memories from childhood invaded by none other than Grumpy Cat. She’s a huge sensation on the interwebs and people young and old recognize her as the cat from “that meme.”
Grumpy Cat is often the subject of artwork, and she’s the inspiration once again in artist Eric Proctor aka TsaoShi’s latest gallery on deviantArt.
Eric’s work puts Grumpy Cat at the center of iconic Disney movie moments, from the Little Mermaid on her rock with the water splashing all about or that scene from Lion King where Rafiki is raising little Simba. (On a side note, I can’t believe that I still remember the baboon’s name after all these years!)
You can check out the rest of the series in the gallery below.
Be sure to head on over to TsaoShin’s gallery to check out the amusing titles for each image.
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