There are times when my outrage is so great that I lose the ability to adequately express it. Such has been the case this week after news broke that British advertising company BBH labs had the mind-bogglingly offensive idea to use homeless people as WiFi hotspots last weekend during the SXSW festival in Austin, TX. […]
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Army Staff Sergeant Joel Usher Wants You To Pretend-Hunt For Veterans
What happens when an active duty Army Staff Sergeant creates a smartphone app built on the idea of killing homeless people? Late last week, Vice’s Jamie Lee Curtis Taete wrote about a horrid new Android app called HoboHunt. Basically, it’s a simple photo sharing app with the sickening hook of sending pictures of homeless people […]
Ad Spoof Exposes Fashion Magazines’ Not-So-Secret Secret
Last month, Techcitement’s Daniela Weiss-Bronstein wrote a detailed article about the problem of excessive use of Photoshop in fashion advertising. Because people buy the unrealistic image of unhealthily thin women, this problem isn’t going away any time soon. So, what do we do now? Well, if you’re filmmaker and commercial director Jesse Rosten, you make […]
In Trip To Bizzaro World, File Sharer Sues Record Label
In a bizarre twist, file sharing service Megaupload files suit against record label Universal, claiming censorship. Megaupload recently put together a music video promoting their service, featuring a number of prominent music artists including Kayne West, P Diddy, Snoop Dog, Chris Brown, Macy Gray, The Game, and Mary J Blige. As word spread and the […]
CTIA 2011: HTC Sensation XL (Video)
[yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbI1uKqcqrA’] The headlines from CTIA 2011 may be a bit subdued after Samsung and Google postponed their big announcement, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t anything awesome to look at from the show. I managed to get a hands-on with the HTC Sensation XL, which may be the first cell phone to come with […]
Darth Vader Enters Stage Left — Cue the A: Drives!
Just when you thought 3.5 floppies were utterly useless, in comes Polish Super Genius Paweł (SileNT on his website), who programmed two old floppy drives to play The Imperial March from Star Wars. [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE’] Paweł tells us how it works: It’s nothing new and it’s very simple. The sound comes from a magnetic head […]
Olde Tyme Techcitement: Teaching Old People How To Dial The Phone
Time for Olde Tyme Techcitement, where we take a look back at technology relics. It’s basically your grampa talking about the good old days, but sooner and totally more reasonable than dumb boring stories about how all this used to be farmland. This time around we have some techcitement that really is old. You know […]
Techcitement Review: Google TV Comes To Europe And To My House
During a trip to the Chicago area last weekend, I found time to stop in a Tiger Direct outlet store and browse around. It turns out this particular location sold more televisions than anything else (much to the chagrin of the salesman I spoke with, who said they wanted to carry a better representation of […]
Olde Tyme Techcitement: It’s A Telephone That Looks Like A Football!
It was a telephone that looked like a football! Back in the days when telephones all looked alike and were made to blend in rather than stand out, here was creativity, here was design!
Olde Tyme Techcitement: A CD In Every Mailbox!
Time for Olde Tyme Techcitement, where we take a look back at technology relics. It’s basically your grampa talking about the good old days, but sooner and totally more reasonable than dumb boring stories about how all this used to be farmland. Remember the days of the early internet when you could pretty much count […]