Need to tell someone something but can’t risk having the message saved or shown to anyone else? Then send it using Confide. It’s the latest in a string of apps that makes privacy and confidentiality its priority.
Confide lets users send encrypted messages that self-destruct after they’re read. It even has a swipe-to-read function that effectively prevents screenshots (which was an area that Snapchat had a lot of trouble with) and sends a notification to the sender once their message has been read. You can alert users that they have private messages waiting via email or SMS – though they’ll need to download the app to read them, of course.
You can download Confide for free from iTunes. The company has future plans for an Android version as well.
If you want to announce your love of Super Mario Bros. to your guests before they even enter your home, you need this doorbell. YouTube user Joe Tsai designed this Mario themed doorbell that chimes with the sound of coin collecting from the game.
When a guest presses the button, the counter ticks upward and it makes the familiar coin-collecting noise. Special sounds like play at certain intervals too. Every 10 coins, it makes the 1up sound, and every 100 coins you get a mushroom upgrade. Sweet.
If you want to build one yourself Joe has a tutorial to help you out. Make one and put it on your door now.
It’s the next best thing to a Mario voice saying, “It’s a me! Mario!”
Beer is one of the most popular adult beverages in the world. We might not all like our beer the same temperature, but few things make us happier than free beer. One Canadian beer company has set off with an interesting campaign that might make Canadians the most popular people on the block.
Molson Canadian took some automated beer refrigerators to various locations around Europe including London and Brussels. The bright red been fridges had the Canadian maple leaf on the front and a sign that read, “Canadians scan your passport to open fridge.” A special passport scanner inside verifies that it’s actually from Canada before opening the fridge door.
Molson recorded footage from the people trying to get the fridge open in different areas. In at least one place, a Canadian showed up, scanned his passport, and opened the fridge. The red box was stuffed to the gills with free Molson Canadian beer that was shared out creating an instant party.
The company recently brought the fridge to the Sochi Winter Olympics, offering up free beer to Canadian athletes.
Last weekend, game developer Don Nguyen removed his hit free mobile game Flappy Bird from Apple’s and Google’s app stores. He said he felt guilty that he created an addiction. Meanwhile, last week Coffee Stain Studios – developer of the tower defense hybrid Sanctum – released a video of an unfinished game that it made for fun. It’s called Goat Simulator, and it’s as stupid as it sounds. And now you can pre-order it. For $10 (USD).
Here is the first video that Coffee Stain Studios shared online. The developers revealed that they originally made the game for a game jam – an event where game developers convene to try and create games in a short span of time. In the case of Goat Simulator, Coffee Stain Studios said that they made it in just “a couple of weeks.”
The video quickly became popular and folksclamored for the game to be released. This being the Internet, the line between sarcasm and sincerity is hard to trace. So here we are.
Gamers are crazy. I see people complaining about the value of Humble Bundle’s offerings all the time, even though some bundles are essentially hundred dollar discounts. The aversion of mobile gamers to paying even just a couple of bucks for quality games drove us to the ridiculous in-app purchase hell we’re currently in. But now we’re willing to pay for what is essentially an intentionally buggy physics engine with a goat in it. Is the video funny? Sure. But would you pay $10 for it?
In fairness to Coffee Stain Studios, it promised that to polish the game and make it so players can create levels through Steam Workshop. More importantly, the developer is transparent about what it’s offering:
“Goat Simulator is a small, broken and stupid game. It was made in a couple of weeks so don’t expect a game in the size and scope of GTA with goats. In fact, you’re better off not expecting anything at all actually. To be completely honest, it would be best if you’d spend your $10 on a hula hoop, a pile of bricks, or maybe a real-life goat.”
To anyone who goes ahead and pre-orders the game, relish the moment that you enter your payment details. Shoot a video of that moment and upload it on YouTube. Be sure to name the video “Let’s Play Goat Simulator.”
Black Milk Clothing’s latest geeky collection features the Dark Knight and his enemies. You’ll see Bats, Joker, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn draped all over a variety of clothing. No Black Mask on Black Milk? I guess he’s not popular enough.
Undoubtedly the star of the collection is the Batman Cape Suit, a swimsuit that comes with a detachable cape.
But the other swimsuits are awesome too.
The collection also includes t-shirts…
jackets…
a catsuit…
…and of course leggings.
There’s a lot more in the collection including clothes with less conspicuous Batman designs. Rise and head to Black Milk Clothing to browse and order.
A while back we featured a robot vehicle that was made to be driven by a parrot. This one’s meant for fishes. Image recognition specialist Studio diip made Fish on Wheels to showcase its prowess in its field. The vehicle moves by following the movement of the fish inside the tank.
A webcam positioned above the tank feeds video to a Beagleboard, which analyzes the position of the fish by contrasting the animal’s body with the bottom of the tank. The instructions are then sent to the vehicle itself, which is powered by an Arduino.
This summer, watch as Nemo is awakened from cryogenic sleep in 2099 to search for the remains of Wall-E under the ocean and use it to beat the tyrannical ruler Lightning McQueen in Finding Nemo 2: Cars 2: Wall-E 2: Judgment Day.
Back in December when Amazon announced that it wanted to use drones to deliver packages to Prime users in only 30 minutes, many folks thought that sounded farfetched. Word has now surfaced from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that the government wants to trial its own delivery service in Dubai using drones.
The service would feature drone aircraft to deliver items to citizens such as driver’s licenses and other government documents. A prototype drone was unveiled this week and the UAE government plans to test the drone for six months.
The battery-powered quadrotor will carry packages in an upper cargo compartment. It also will have fingerprint scanners and retina scanners to ensure delivery to the correct person. The team behind the drones says they could cost as little as $1100(USD) each, and carry loads up to 3.3 pounds distances up to 1.86 miles.
Assuming a successful test in Dubai, the government wants to roll the drone aircraft out to the remainder of the country in the next year.
I have said it before; I am a big fan of the flick The Princess Bride. If you like the movie as much as me, and are into card games, you might like this one.
The game is called The Princess Bride: Prepare to Die! The concept is simple; you have a bunch of cards that look like the “Hello my name is” stickers you might see at a company meeting. You have another stack of cards with random bad deeds that start with “You” and end with “Prepare to die!”
The idea is you that a “judge” selects a name tag, then each other player must pick a funny “Prepare to die” card. Whoever the judging player picks as the funniest selection wins the round.
What you end up with is something like, “Hello, my name is Abraham Lincoln. You drank my milkshake, prepare to die!” I’m betting you just red that in a Spanish accent. The game is available for $29.99 from ThinkGeek.
The Arthur Suit of Armor is the cutest, most adorable egg cup ever. I think the name and image speak for itself, really. This little guy is a fun way to give kids their eggs every morning.
Arthur is essentially a suit of armor (that’s not really made from steel or iron, obviously) that encases your hard or soft-boiled egg in a sturdy egg cup. It comes with a helmet cover and a sword-slash-spoon on the side. Now this how you serve eggs in style.
The Arthur Egg Cup is available from Anima Causa for $13.99(USD).
If you are a fan of The LEGO Movie, the video game companion to the film is now available to purchase. Naturally, the game is called The LEGO Movie Videogame.
In the action adventure, gamers will play as some of the most popular characters from the movie voiced by the same big name actors that voiced the characters on screen.
The game is available for just about every console out there from the new PS4 and Xbox One to the Wii U, PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. Portable gamers can also get the game for the 3DS and PS Vita. The PS4 and Xbox One versions are $59.99(USD) with the versions for other consoles going for $49.99. The PC and portable versions are $29.99.
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