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Text from Dog: What if Your Dog Could Text You?

July 9, 2012 By Vernon Gadson 1 Comment

If, like me, you own a dog and you care for your dog and you feed it and you play with it and you clean up its poop, then you may have at one point or another wondered what it would be like if your dog could talk. Admittedly, most dogs’ talking points would simply be, “feed me,” “lemme out” and “pick up my poop,” but what if your dog could speak of something other than their baser urges, like Brian from Family Guy?

A hilarious and imaginative tumblr account called Text from Dog imagines such a thing, and takes it one step further: what if your dog had a cell phone and could text you? The blog, created three months ago, posts the conversations between a dog and its owner (October Jones), as captured by the owner’s iPhone. The name of the mischievous mutt featured in the blog has no known name (although it appears to have opposable thumbs), but the owner’s twitter account shows that it is a bulldog.

Below are some of their hysterical SMS conversations (warning: there’s some swearing), as captured and posted by Mr Jones. Enjoy, laugh and thank the heavens above that your dog can’t text you. [Read more…]

Filed Under: animals, fun Tagged With: account, animals, apple, comedy, dog owner, dogs, funny, internet, iphone, online, pets, phone, text from dog, texting, tumblr, twitter

All Tangled Up: Stunning Earphone Wire Art

June 18, 2012 By Vernon Gadson Leave a Comment

Don’tcha hate it when your earphone wires get all tangled up? You place them in your trouser pocket for all of five seconds and voila, you’ve got a thousand knots to untie. Well, take a look at these unholy tangles, which form to create gorgeously illustrated portraits. You may recognise a few famous faces here.

Part of a pen-to-paper art project entitled ‘iEarphones,’ the pieces include a portrait of Beatle member John Lennon, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, a tyrannosaurus rex and a lady (warning: a nude lady) with the hair of Medusa, though instead of snakes slithering atop her head it’s – you guessed it – earphones.

The earphone wires appear to be that of the Apple iPod, and they are skillfully drawn by Canada-based artist Bashir Sultani. Below, you can see a video taking us through the making of the John Lennon picture, and below that is Sultani’s project in full. Now if you don’t mind, I’m gonna go browse eBay for some wireless headphones, ‘cos I’m tired of all this untangling crap. [Read more…]

Filed Under: art Tagged With: apple, art, drawings, earphones, headphones, iphone, ipod, pen and paper, steve jobs, stunning, technology, the beatles, wires

Yummy: Deep-Fried Gadgets

June 13, 2012 By Vernon Gadson Leave a Comment

You ever been so hungry you deep-fried your laptop? No? Well, that’s what Brooklyn-based New Zealand still life, art and fashion photographer Henry Hargreaves seems to have done, as you can see below. Inspired by an experiment in which electronic products were cooked and eaten (that experiment didn’t go very well), Hargreaves has deep-fried a whole assortment of gizmos, from MacBooks to iPods, iPads to headphones, and photographed them.

“I like to play with food and the juxtaposition of different worlds,” Hargreaves told the Huffington Post. “Also I see similarities between tech culture and fast food. Quickly devoured and then discarded.” But Hargreaves hasn’t used actual electronics for his pieces: they are in fact made of a material called ‘foamcore.’ Still, the pieces look magnificent, and perhaps a little tasty – anyone else hungry? [Read more…]

Filed Under: art Tagged With: apple, art, brooklyn, cool, deep fried, electronic products, fast food, gadgets, gizmos, headphones, huffington post, laptop, macbooks, new zealand, photography, technology

Siri, Why Don’t You Understand Me? [Infographic]

June 6, 2012 By Vernon Gadson Leave a Comment

For those unfamiliar with murderous computer system HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s science-fiction masterpiece “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Siri is a totally cool, totally handy and totally unterrifying piece of artificial intelligence. Launched in October 2011 as part of the iOS 5 system for Apple’s then-new iPhone 4S, Siri (Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface) is a personal assistant that fits right in your front pocket. With speech recognition software built into its noggin, Siri has the ability to perform multiple tasks for its user with just the utterance of a few brief commands. Among many others, these tasks include making phone calls, sending text messages, surfing the net, recalling stored information and even recommending nearby restaurants – yes, Siri knows where to wine and dine.

It all seems very helpful, but some iPhone users are not so satisfied with Siri’s system, or perhaps don’t trust it as much as Apple may wish them to. This is shown in a new infographic from OnlineDegrees.com, who take a look at statistical data, opinion polls and interesting facts surrounding Siri and its users, as you can see below. The results are fairly mixed, but it looks like Siri is nonetheless here to stay, and may even take over human society to become our vicious technological rulers – all hail Siri! [Read more…]

Filed Under: infographic Tagged With: 2001 a space odyssey, apple, apple products, artificial intelligence, cool, gadgets, infographic, iphone, ipod, siri, speech recognition software, stanley kubrick, steve jobs, technology

Top Five Most Monstrous Plants

May 30, 2011 By Vernon Gadson Leave a Comment

Forget dangerous creatures; some plants can be far more scary. Trapped in one place and slowly and agonisingly digested sarlacc-style? I don’t think anyone would relish that fate (although that said some people do have rather strange tastes these days). Here follows a light-hearted look at some of the more terrifying types of flora out there. Triffids? Poppycock! These little (or, in some cases, big) blighters would definitely give Audrey II a run for its money. [Read more…]

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