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How to piddle away your time in a club

Emma Cossey — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:00:49 +0000

It’s a running joke that toilet queues are usually three times longer for woman than they are for men. This might all be about to change though if plans go ahead to install “the world’s first ‘hands-free’ video game for urinals” in clubs.

Yup, it’s a game men can control with their willies. Or rather, their pee.

A video screen sits above the urinal, attached to the wall at exactly the point where you’re traditionally meant to fix your gaze (if you want to avoid contravening all kinds of urinal-based etiquette, that is).

Inside the urinal you’ll find the “controls” in the form of stickers offering you “start” “left” and “right” options. Then, you simply wave your human joystick around, aiming for the relevant badges, and play till you run out of juice.

Once you’re all done and dusted (and hands are washed) you can use your mobile phone to post your high score to a live leader board.

Women have a longer wait (typical), but something to ease the boredom of queuing will apparently be on its way shortly.

Check out the video below to see how it works.

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Video Funsies: When Siri met Furby

Emma Cossey — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:30:12 +0000

We’ve all been waiting for this, haven’t we? Maybe we didn’t know it, but now it’s happened it seems like the universe was created for this very moment: iPhone’s Siri has been introduced to the granddaddy of interactive toys, Furby.

Now, we’re intrigued by Siri and we have mildly irritating memories of Furby.

But who’s better? FIGHT!

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Five things we love this week

Emma Cossey — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:45:28 +0000

The internet has been really rather wonderful this week. Here are five things we’ve spotted that you’ll love.

Marvel Super-hoodies

As a general rule, I’m not the biggest fan of hoodies. But I’ll make an exception for these Marvel Superhero hoodies. The two Spider-man designs and the Captain America version are $49.99 from ThinkGeek.

Alternion
Alternion is a busy geek’s saviour. It brings together multiple email accounts, 220+ social networks and your Twitter and Facebook feeds in one web-based app. I particularly love the fact that they’re so quick to turn around any features you’ve requested. Plus you can only check your emails 50 times a day, which means in theory that you’ll spend less time hitting F5 on your email. Sign up for a beta invitation here.

T-Mobile Angry Birds
We like Angry Birds (especially Angry Birds soft toy patterns) . And we like clever videos that combine technology with real life situations. So we really love this video from T-Mobile (y’know, the guys who came up with the Royal Wedding dance spoof and those flash mob videos?) of the real-life Angry Birds.

Quirky

Quirky is an online community that ‘makes inventing accessible’. People submit invention suggestions, and the community can then discuss and vote on whether the suggestion will make it to market. Two products are then chosen each month to reach production. You can have a peek in the shop to see what sort of things have gained the Quirky mark of approval.

Winterwell Festival

You know that thing where you find out about something really brilliant, but you’re just a smidgen too late to take advantage of this new information? That’s how I feel about the Winterwell Festival.

Taking place this weekend, the Gloucestershire festival is all about Tipis (much more glamorous than a soggy tent), unsigned-but-talented artists, a comedy tent and, best of all, a BOARD GAMES THEME! If I was able to make it, I’d totally rock up in this freaky Operation costume.

Discovered anything you think the dorks will love this week? Let us know in the comments, or send us a Tweet.

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Dork Adore gets a theme tune! (With a little help from Jay Z)

Emma Cossey — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:20:12 +0000

You know what Dork Adore needs now we’re up for a Cosmo Blog award (vote for us!)? A theme tune.

This will do nicely.

The spoof of Jay Z and Alicia Keys’ hit song Empire State of Mind (renamed Entrepreneur State of Mind) comes from the Pantless Knights team and features a bearded gangsta spittin’ lyrics about Twitter and Steve Jobs. It’s a cheeky look at the reinvented dork and their new ‘cool’ status.

Reckon you’re a New Dork?

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Frackulous: X-Factor apps, social diary apps and QR code apps, oh my!

Susi — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:00:32 +0000

Last week, Frackulous checked out apps to help you organise a night out, apps to help Simon Cowell retain his Mr Nasty title, apps that will allow you to magically control your laptop from the other side of the room, then rounded everything off with some top class QR Code news. How on earth did they fit it all in? Watch on to find out!

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Frackulous: The best new iPhone, Android and BlackBerry apps.

Susi — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:48:58 +0000

Each week, we’ll be bringing you a whole week’s worth of app goodness, courtesy of the folks at Frackulous. Whether you’re an Android lover, iPhone officianado or BlackBerry super-user, there’s something for everyone.

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Baby sloths: Friday video treat

Emma Cossey — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:30:14 +0000

It’s Friday, and therefore time for a bit of light entertainment. What’s more entertaining than a really cute animal video, eh?

Check out the video below from Vice UK which features the residents of the world’s only sloth orphanage, including some babies.

Slow Loris who?

Sloth image from Flickr user Ken_Mayer

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At the premiere of The Expendables

Emma Cossey — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:06:41 +0000

Movies don’t come much more star-packed than the upcoming action movie The Expendables. With a cast including Sylvester Stallone (who also directs) Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis, it’s likely to be a huge box office hit.

Particularly for those of us who remember the stars before various questionable cosmetic surgery procedures…

The film tells the story of a group of mercenaries hired to infiltrate a South American country and overthrow its ruthless dictator. However, the men soon realise things are not quite as they seem.

Last night saw the UK premiere of the movie, and many of the stars were interviewed on the red carpet.

Want to know what they had to say on the movie and filming process? Check out the video below.

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Musical Mario: Super Mario and a violin…

Emma Cossey — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:00:54 +0000

What do you get when you pair a classically trained violinist with one of the most popular platform games of all time?

This video (you’ll need the sound on)

The video is one of many alternative versions for the classic 90s Italian plumbing game. It’s also been recreated on such odd instruments as an accordion, a selection of wine bottles with a remote controlled car and a beatboxing flute!

What do you think, quirky tributes or ruining a classic?

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South Park Facebook episode: All the funny bits

Katie — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:00:24 +0000

The Facebook episode of South Park was truly a wonder to behold. If you missed it (or if you want to re-live the magic), here’s a handy compilation of all the Facebook gags.

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