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Peak startup: HidrateMe is a “smart” water bottle that tells you how much water you’ve had and also glows when it is time for you to drink more water. No longer shall you be forced to constantly pass out from dehydration due to the fact that you didn’t know when it was time to drink…
goldvision tries to thrive in a world against its will. His selection of shoes is excellent. via Grand Theft Auto Pacifist: 1 Brand New Shoes – YouTube.
Until now, mining good journalism from the web’s depths has been done from the top. Over the last 13 years, looking for “signals” that flag quality content has been at the core of Google News: With a search engine scanning and ranking 50,000 sources in 30 languages and 72 editions, its inventor, the famous computer…
One advantage video games have over movies and books is that they are the only medium where you actually feel like you’re walking in the shoes of the protagonist — a good game will convince you that’s really you galloping across meadows, exploring futuristic cities, having sex with pigeons, etc. Or, you know, just being…
Earlier this year, we covered a phenomenal mashup that featured Dinosaurs‘ “star” Earl Sinclair dancing to The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize,” and at the time claimed it was the “greatest thing the internet has ever done, until the next greatest thing the internet has ever done.” Today, the internet has once again done the greatest thing it will…
Six legendary game designers. Six dream projects that were never meant to be. 1. Will Wright (SimCity, The Sims) “In the late ’90s, I started working on a game called Wild Geography Excitement. The object of the game was to steal bars of soap from fancy hotels and feed them to a dog. Each time…
https://youtu.be/9l5TrAXScbE via ▶ We Can Dance – Hollywood Movie Dance Tribute – YouTube.
Share this on Faceboook? Video editor Robert Jones created this mashup as a “tribute” to Hollywood movie dance scenes (77 of them to be exact), and the result was an instant viral video that was immediately watched by over 10 million people. Set to the tune of Men Without Hats’ “The Safety Dance,” the video’s…
https://youtu.be/zs7xO5P3Az4 via ▶ Coldplay’s Game of Thrones: The Musical (Full 12-minute version) – YouTube.
The world was never graced with a Star Trek spinoff series devoted to commander William Riker’s escapades, but one YouTuber is giving us a tantalizing taste of what could have been. The (brief) pilot episode of Riker is cobbled together from The Next Generation, and it embraces the absurdity of the seminal sci-fi show to hilarious…