It’s the kinda tombstone with Bluetooth and solar panels and stores your logs; friends and family can come over and access your virtual life from it and keep each other updated with anecdotes about you by uploading their stories to the tombstone. Sounds a bit spooky right now, but since RFID Tags for this are already popular, the next best thing has to be updates from the gave, and the world beyond!
Ever wonder how Microsoft’s Kinext works so well, even at night? Well, now you know. Pretty trippy looking, isn’t it?
Coffee lovers looking for a bit of sea air flavor in their espresso or Frappuccino might want to sample the first Starbucks at sea, which steamed into a Florida port on Thursday on board the world’s largest cruise liner.
Seattle-based Starbucks Corp, the world famous coffee chain, already has a nautical link — its founders took the name from Starbuck, the first mate on the Pequod whaler from Nantucket that hunted the white whale, Moby Dick, in Herman Melville’s famous novel.
Raise your hand if you made a mistake this weekend. Maybe sent a scathing Facebook message to an ex who broke your heart? Told everyone — via Twitter — how much you hate your boss? Uploaded something scandalous to YouTube? Well, it’s too bad we waited until Sunday afternoon to tell you about the Social Media Sobriety Test, now isn’t it?
This week, web security company Webroot released a new Firefox() plugin called “The Social Media Sobriety Test” with the tagline, “Nothing good happens online after 1 a.m.”
Swastika as a symbol of luck was widely used long before WWII. It was Nazis who made it a taboo. I’ve made a collection of pictures illustrating pre-WWII uses of Swastika. You may be surprised where and how widely it was used. Let the pictures speak for themselves.
