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- You Think You’re So Pretty: What Dove’s ‘Sketches’ Video Got Wrong
May 23, 2013 | 5:02 pm“I should be more grateful of my natural beauty” one woman concludes after participating in the Dove Beauty Sketches. In fact, the woman, Florence concludes that natural beauty “couldn’t be more critical to your happiness.” Florence came to these undesirable conclusions through participation in a commercial released as part of Dove’s campaign to promote “real [...]
- The Story of the Slurpee
May 21, 2013 | 5:37 pmIt might surprise you to hear that the Slurpee was an accident. Yet the beloved concoction, as a matter of fact, got its start when a Dairy Queen soda machine kept on malfunctioning. Its operator, Omar Knedlik of Kansas City, placed bottles of soda in his freezer as a failsafe. The bottles came out a [...]
- We Are More Germ Than Human
May 16, 2013 | 11:50 pmThe human body is one of the most fascinating and puzzling ecosystems in the universe, a complex community of cells, germs and microbes that is still being mapped and decoded. Recent discoveries in this field have caused scientists to reevaluate the way we look at our internal functions, and perhaps we aren’t as much ourselves [...]
- Daft Punk Streams New Album ‘Random Access Memories’
May 13, 2013 | 1:42 pmThe robots are back. The internet has been abuzz with hype for Daft Punk’s long awaited follow up to 2005′s Human After All, and today we finally get to hear it. While the official release date is still a week away, iTunes is offering fans the chance to stream all 13 tracks early. Simply follow [...]
- The Bluths Return: Watch The First ‘Arrested Development’ Season 4 Trailer
May 12, 2013 | 11:28 pmI’m afraid that I just blue myself. It’s the final countdown until the Bluth family is back and as dysfunctional as ever. The resurrected cult classic will return on May 26th for a fourth and final season released exclusively on Netflix. It’s been a long and painful time since the show was cancelled in 2006, [...]
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Want Google Glass? Win a Contest and then Pay for It Yourself
Back in April 2012 we wrote about an augmented reality project out of Google called Project Glass—an invention so hip it’s like wearing a Segway on your face. After nearly a year of catching top Google executives sporting their Google Glass headsets at swank conferences and ultra-secret parties for the rich and famous, Google has unveiled an updated demo video that gives us mere mortals a better idea of what this magical-face-device is capable of.
The demo video, entitled “How it feels [through Glass]” shows us typically cheery and adventurous people doing brave and exciting things all through the perspective of someone wearing the headset. They go hang-gliding, sky-diving, airplane-flying, ice-carving, car-driving, bubble-blowing, child-swinging, ice-skating, snake-taming, rollercoaster-riding, snow-boarding, ping-ponging, sword-fighting, marching-banding, cat-walking, and horse-riding (among other activities) all while using their Glass headset to record videos, search Google, take pictures, translate languages, video chat, and give directions.
While Google is looking to start shipping Glass by early 2014, they’ve recently opened up their developer program in the form of an online contest. The future winners of the contest are affectionately called Glass Explorers. If you want in, all you have to do is publicly apply by using Twitter or Google+ to create a post including the hashtag #ifihadglass.
Google has some further specifications: “Your application must be 50 words or less; You must include #ifihadglass in your application; You can include up to 5 photos with your application; and You can include a short video (15 secs max).”
But even if you win the contest by demonstrating your undying love for Google Glass, you don’t win a Glass headset. No. All winners will be eligible to then purchase the headset for $1500 plus tax. And after that, you will need to physically go to LA, San Francisco, or New York to pick your headset up and go through orientation.
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