Fashion designer and marketing provocateur Kenneth Cole has opened a new website that he says is aimed at raising social and political issues to foster discussion. Long known for socially conscious advertisements, Cole’s Where Do You Stand continues that tradition online. Or does it? Cole’s team has worked hard to give the website a slick, […]
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Talk To Me, Inanimate Objects!
At New York’s Museum of Modern Art, a new exhibit entitled “Talk to Me” focuses on the way humans interact with technology, either in communicating with each other or speaking with the objects themselves. If that sounds like a pretty broad subject, it is. Everyone will definitely find something intriguing among the 200 or so […]
Get Rich Quick With Highly Profitable Business Emailing Spam (Who Really Profits?)
After deleting the latest batch of junk mail full of random paragraphs lifted from fiction novels and purposely misspelled words to slip them past filters, did you ever start wondering who is really making enough money with spam to justify the effort? According to anti-virus software manufacturer F-Secure, a large percentage of the products advertised […]
Bad Inventions: Hand iPhone Case
There’s an old saying that goes “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Well, for this case, “hell” is holding a severed hand every time you try to make a phone call, and the “good intentions” are all the reasons this severed hand replica should comfort you instead of completely creeping you […]
Robot Pets Help Elderly Japanese Cope In Tsunami Aftermath
Last week we talked about a Singapore research team for making a robot that is supposed to “love” its user like a person does. Today, let’s look at PARO, a marvelous robot from Japan designed to look and act like a baby harp seal and give the user a simulation of interaction with a pet.