From the country that brought you excellent sausages, Kraftwerk and National Socialism comes this fantastically obscene advert for German job-hunting site jobsintown.de.
While those of us who are remotely Internet-savvy will have experienced, for better or worse (probably worse) the iconic meme that is Goatse Man's thoroughly wrecked anus, German media blokes have decided to interactively involve the Hamburg public, giving workers, tramps and students alike the chance to walk through the anus of a suited man.
The message is clear: don't climb up a smarmy suit's arse for a cushy job, take to the web instead. Where you can, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, job hunt in one tab and look at shockingly gross images in another, all from the comfort of your own home.
This advert proves what I've been saying all along. To Goatse (verb) is both Big And Clever. -Tamlin Magee
You can keep your PS3s and Wiis and PSPs and Tamagotchis and Bratz - you can especially keep that last one - because back in the days of Masters of the Universe, your toys came possessed by the f*cking devil.
While that advert suggests that He-Man has the power to defeat Modulok, just look at the damn thing. It is pure, unadulterated evil AWESOME.
Excuse this nostalgia trip. Hit the jump for another 'tube video, a heated and balanced debate on the evils of He-Man.
Fresh from French designers La Tête Au Cube comes this hi-tech doormat which does many things to a person's crib.
For starters, it says "Beware Of The Nerd" in a fairly charming way.
It will show you to your door no matter how many Flaming Sambucas/microdots/spliffs you've had the (mis)fortune to consume on your travels.
Door(mat) tax is €85 and you'll need a couple of AA batteries to make the little green men strutt their spacey stuff outside your door. – Ad Dugdale
Sony's getting desperate to goose the popularity of its slow-selling PS3, digging deep into its idea basket to catch up to the popularity of the Nintendo Wii. Apparently the company's plan of attack is to develop a VR/3-D controller, illustrated in this patent application for a "handheld computer interactive device" spotted today.
It takes the abilities of the Wii controller a step further, where in addition to determining where your hand is in 3D space, sensors in the glove can be triggered by individual fingers, letting you grasp objects or assign each finger to a different function. Added to that is tactile feedback. Hmm. – Charlie White
It had to happen, ever since LG stole the CES 2007 limelight with its BH100 Blu-ray/HD DVD player [above], and now it has.
Samsung has announced that it will launch its Duo HD player, the BD-UP5000, in time for Christmas. More importantly, it will fully support the HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BDR) interactive technologies, HDi and BD-Java, respectively.
Why is this important? Well, LG’s machine might be great for watching movies in both formats but, under the hood, it sucks when you want to use the menus and interactive content on HD DVD disks. This is a big let down. Samsung seems to be saying that the Duo HD will do it all. No news yet on prices.
“We are very pleased to announce the upcoming release of our Duo HD player,” Dongsoo Jun, executive vice president of the Digital AV Division at Samsung Electronics. “Consumers are hungry for more HD content but are currently confused about competing formats. Samsung’s Duo HD player will allow consumers access to every HD movie title available regardless of the authoring format.”
This is good news for consumers and, with any luck, more manufacturers will see the light and start churning out dedicated dual format players.-Martin Lynch
With 100 million iPods knocking around it’s easy to forget that other companies make decent digital audio players too.
Next month will see Sony’s latest Flash players arrive in the UK, sporting cool-looking OLED displays and 30-hour battery life. There will be a variety of colours and some will sport tuners.
The NX-E01x series will come in sizes ranging from 1GB to 4GB, with prices starting at £59. They will also sport some decent high-end earphones, a handy USB port and a mere three-minute charge will give you three hours of playback. -Martin Lynch
Japanese folk [who else?] will be the first to get Sony’s – and possibly – the world’s first OLED TV later this year.
Sony has revealed plans to launch an 11in model first onto the market and if they are anything like the prototypes I saw at the CES Show [above] in Las Vegas back in January, then TV design is about to get a real kick in the ass. Sony will be building a conservative 1,000 a month at a joint venture company, created with Toyota.
At around 5mm thin, the CES prototype had a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. The 27in version [a whole 11mm thick] had a Full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080.
As you probably already know, OLED displays – unlike LCD or plasma technology emit their own light so need no backlight, are brighter, have much higher contrast ratios, use less power, offer superior colour reproduction and handle fast-moving images better.
Of course, they’ll also cost you a kidney or two. And your first-born.-Martin Lynch
Fresh from French designers La Tête Au Cube comes this hi-tech doormat which does many things to a person's crib.
Editor and Contributor | Martin Lynch
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