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| Nov 20, 2008 | Italian boy diagnosed with ‘PlayStation addiction’ | An Italian boy has been diagnosed with “PlayStation addiction” following a marathon gaming session. The boy, 13, was rushed to a hospital where doctors thought he had suffered a stroke or some other serious condition.
Nope, just played a li... |
| Aug 18, 2008 | Old watch-like navigation gadget from 1920 | Way, way, way, way, way before the days of the Global Positioning System, people had to navigate using devices like the Plus Fours Routefinder, shown above. It’s from back in 1920 and consisted of a collection of small scrolling maps that y... |
| Jul 21, 2008 | That ad stinks! Armpit advertising hits the streets | Right Guard has come up with a stinky new idea for an ad campaign. Apparently, somebody behind the campaign figures that people tend to spend a lot of time looking at other peoples’ armpits. Or not enough time. I’m not entirely sure. But I ... |
| Apr 2, 2008 | Chinese man builds world's largest cellphone for some reason | We all have to have hobbies, it keeps our minds from going to mush. Mr. Tan of Songyuan City, China, has a pretty good one: He built the world’s largest cellphone, hoping for a world record.
As phones are getting smaller and slimmer it’s a ... |
| Feb 22, 2008 | Can Someone Explain Why It Should Be An ISP's Responsibility To Deal With File Sharing? | Last week, we noted that there was some draft legislation in the UK making the rounds that would have ISPs ban people found to have participated in unauthorized file sharing. Some people responded by saying that this was just a draft and th... |
| Dec 19, 2005 | Biggest Threat To Internet Cafes? Baseball Caps | Over the years, we’ve seen lots of people have odd fears about internet cafes, which often seem misplaced, blaming the cafes for the activities of their patrons. Plenty of governments have tried to crack down on internet cafes in attempts t... |
| Oct 13, 2005 | The Latest iPod Killer — Breast iMplants | Researchers at BT Laboratories say that within 15 years, women will be able to store MP3 players and their music collection in breast implants. “One boob could hold an MP3 player and the other the person’s whole music collection,” apparentl... |
| Feb 4, 2005 | Sleep Texting | This story sounds a bit sketchy, but Textually is pointing to a story about a man who has been caught sending text messages in his sleep. Yes, it’s something like sleep walking, but where the person sends text messages instead of walking. S... |
| Feb 25, 2004 | Is It Illegal To Plug Your Laptop In? | We’ve already heard stories of people being accused of “stealing” telecom services for hopping on to an open WiFi network, but what about stealing electricity for plugging your laptop in? Found over at WiFiNetNews is the story of a student ... |
| Jan 20, 2004 | Maybe You Can Find Work Online | As the economy got bad and jobs were difficult to find, the various online job sites got flooded, and the common wisdom became that job sites were mostly useless as a way of finding a job. Now that the economy is starting to pick up again, ... |
| Jan 19, 2004 | Coca-Cola Music Site Experiences Technical Difficulties | Today was the big day that Coca-Cola was expected to be yet another brand to launch yet another online music download store – but it appears the site wasn’t designed particularly well, as it failed as soon as the doors opened. You would thi... |
| Jan 13, 2004 | Replacing Computer Parts With Potatoes | Well, I like potatoes as much as the next guy, but I’m really not quite sure what to make of this report. It seems that a guy in Germany who bought a computer later returned it, saying it wasn’t working. When opened, the computer was stuffe... |
| Jan 5, 2004 | UK Motorists Ignoring Driving While Yakking Law | Over in the UK, it sounds like people are taking after New Yorkers and are pretty much ignoring the law banning talking on your mobile phone while driving. It also sounds like many people have no idea what is outlawed – as many believe it’s... |
| Oct 30, 2003 | Married By SMS | Some people seem to take things a bit too far. Found over at textually.org is this story about a couple who will exchange their wedding vows via SMS. While this is a silly fluff piece, it does suggest just how ingrained SMS text messaging h... |
| Sep 9, 2003 | RIAA Lawsuits Hit 71 Year Old Grandfather, 12 Year Old Girl | No surprise here, but among the 261 lawsuits filed by the RIAA was one against a 71-year-old grandfather who says that his grandkids have used his computer when they come to visit and that they’ve even explained this to the RIAA. So, here’s... |
| Sep 5, 2003 | Many Workers Need Help Turning Computers On | It appears that plenty of office workers are still quite uncomfortable with their computers. A new study has suggested that one in seven office workers doesn’t even know how to turn their computer on. About 20% needed help in saving or prin... |
| Sep 2, 2003 | A New Method For Online Signatures – Your Mouse Movements Reveal You | Some new technology has been created that apparently is quite accurate in identifying if you are who you say you are – by watching the way you sign your name with a mouse. Apparently, just like people sign their names using a pen with some ... |
| Aug 15, 2003 | Ways Not To Steal A Mobile Phone | A shopkeeper in Taipei noticed that his mobile phone was missing, and had his wife try to call it. When the breasts of one of the shop’s customers started ringing, they realized what had happened. If you’re going to steal a mobile phone, an... |
| Aug 5, 2003 | Goodbye To Hello In The Digital Age | Hello. Does anyone actually type “hello” and “goodbye” any more? It doesn’t seem to fit in a digital world with email and instant messaging. I know I tend to go with the much more informal “hey” and “later” when dealing with friends. A new ... |
| Jul 25, 2003 | Athletes Limber Up For The Mobile Phone Olympics | Remember last week when we talked about the Ukranian mobile phone throwing contests? Apparently, that’s nothing. Over in the UK, they’re having an entire Mobile Phone Olympics where phone flinging is only one of four events. Other competiti... |
| Jul 23, 2003 | The On-Again, Off-Again Space Wedding | Remember the cosmonaut who was going to get married from space, but was thinking of canceling the wedding after the publicity got out of hand? Well, it appears that the Russian government has cancelled the wedding for him saying that they n... |
| Jun 25, 2003 | Lack Of Internet Skills A Barrier To Progress At Work | I would guess this really depends on what your job entails, but a new survey has found that many people who lack internet “skills” feel that it has held them back at work. There are plenty of jobs where I would assume it would be a requirem... |
| Jun 10, 2003 | Conman Left Fake Wife As Deposit To Steal Mobile Phone | The crooks these days are getting more creative. In China, a man went into a mobile phone store with a woman. He asks to test out a specific phone, and leaves his “wife” in the store as collateral. Then he never comes back. The woman claims... |
| Jun 4, 2003 | Speeding Up The Internet | Not much in the way of details in this article, so I’m a little skeptical about some of the claims (and am guessing that the reporter is probably exaggerating some of the usefulness of this), but some researchers have developed a system cal... |
| May 15, 2003 | Rent A Segway… Get Arrested | Reuters has an article that’s getting picked up all over the place this evening about a company that just started up to rent the incredibly overhyped Segway scooters to those unwilling to pay $5,000 for their own. The rental prices run at $... |
| May 9, 2003 | Man Selling Son Online Draws Police Attention | A Scottish man who jokingly took out an online ad offering to sell his son was visited by police after someone complained that he was involved in “child slavery”. The guy says it was all a big joke, and he took out the ad two years ago to t... |
| May 7, 2003 | Ultra-Thin Screen A Step Towards Electronic Newspaper | We’ve had stories about “electronic paper” and ultra-thin screens before, but this is the first time I’ve seen one including a photograph of the actual screen. This one is developed by E Ink, one of the two major players in the space. Of co... |
| Apr 28, 2003 | All Reality TV, All The Time | For those of you who just can’t get enough of reality TV programming, it seems that some former contestants on reality TV programs are teaming up to put together a cable TV channel that will be all reality TV programming, all the time, 24-h... |
| Apr 18, 2003 | The Latest Made Up Email Disesase: Pre And Post-Mail Tension | Yahoo commissioned a study about how people use email… and considering they provide an email service, I’d take the findings with a fairly large grain of salt. They’re claiming that a huge percentage of people suffer from what they call “Pre... |
| Apr 14, 2003 | Webcam Thwarts Robbery In Brazil | If you thought webcams were just useful for seeing friends online, think again. A woman in Brazil (where webcams are amazingly popular, apparently) had an |
| Mar 3, 2003 | Student Writes Essay In Text Message Form | With just a little stretching you could probably turn this article into something you’d find in the Onion. We’ve had articles in the past about teachers getting annoyed with students using “texting shorthand” in their papers, but now a teac... |
| Dec 6, 2002 | Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens, Ohers Joining UN Handset Recycling Plan | The question of what to do with old, obsolete and discarded mobile phones and other wireless devices is a growing problem. It seems that Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens, and a bunch of other device manufacturers are now going to work with the UN o... |
| Dec 4, 2002 | Finnish Taxi Drivers To Pay Royalties For Backseat Music | By this point, I shouldn’t be amazed at the lengths the music industry will go to in order to make sure that any time any piece of music is played anywhere in the world, they make sure that they get paid for it (often from many different so... |
| Dec 3, 2002 | Scientist Wants To Control The Weather | A Scottish scientist has received a grant to work on his plans to be able to create rainclouds. The system would use huge turbines that would suck water out of the sea, turn it into vapor, and shoot it up into the atmosphere. The idea, of c... |
| Nov 20, 2002 | Teens Smoking Less Because Of Mobile Phones | It’s fairly common these days to see research about how teenagers use mobile phones – and most of the results aren’t that surprising. This study, however, might be surprising to many people (though, it makes plenty of sense once you think a... |
| Nov 6, 2002 | Woman Jailed For Using Sheriff's Domain Name To Sell Porn | I don’t want to rush to judgment or anything, but I would think, that if I had been convicted for “pandering obscenity” and told not to sell any more homemade porn tapes, that I wouldn’t go back online and sell more porn tapes. Even more to... |
| Nov 5, 2002 | German Police Chase Criminals By SMS | Police in Germany are experimenting with a new method for catching criminals. They’re asking various people, like bus and taxi drivers, to sign up for a system where they will be alerted by the police via SMS of the descriptions of criminal... |
| Oct 14, 2002 | Toshiba To Unveil Bluetooth Hardrive | If your PAN is running short on storage capacity, Toshiba has you covered. They are releasing a 5GB Bluetooth hard drive that can store 1000 MP3 or 3000 megapixel digital images. Now all you need is a Bluetooth equipped MP3 player, digital ... |
| Oct 10, 2002 | Pre-Pay Users Should Switch To Contracts | In the US there’s always talk about using more prepay offerings (which aren’t very popular here) to sign up customers who otherwise wouldn’t sign up for a mobile phone. In Europe, pre-pay is much more popular. However, a new study in the UK... |
| Oct 8, 2002 | Government Suggests Carmakers Talk To Doctors | I have to admit that the following report made me wonder about a few things. It’s the news that a government appointed group, the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, has suggested to automobile manufacturers that perhaps they sho... |
| Sep 30, 2002 | SMS To The Rescue | Stories about people being saved thanks to their mobile phones are becoming more and more common. The latest story involves a snowboarder who fell into a crevasse in Austria. What’s funny is that he sent his girlfriend an SMS instead of cal... |
| Sep 24, 2002 | New Scheme To Recycle UK Mobile Phones | A group in the UK is setting up a system to recycle the 15 million mobile phones replaced each year. Each phone will be tested and sent to other places in the world where they’ll work with the local network. If they can’t be used, then they... |
| Sep 5, 2002 | Dutch Catholic Church Offers Religious Ringtones | I guess the Dutch Roman Catholic Church is trying to be hip with the youngsters of today. Realizing the popularity of downloadable ringtones, they’re now offering 15 different religious ringtones for all your religous ringing needs. As they... |
| Sep 3, 2002 | No Google In China | Just days after hearing that Google is pumping up their efforts to sell more ads in Europe and Asia, one area they might want to pass on is China. It turns out that China is now blocking access to Google. We’ve written in the past about Chi... |
| Aug 23, 2002 | Islanders Vote Against Mobile Phones | With all the stories of places banning the use of cell phones in public places or while driving, a small Australian island has decided not to have any mobile phone service at all. They took a referendum of residents of the island, with 607 ... |
| Aug 20, 2002 | Only In Finland | If someone was going to develop a wireless way to track and communicate with hunting dogs, you can bet it would be the Finns. They have developed a device that combines GSM and GPS so hunters can not track their dogs, but also issue verbal ... |
| Aug 20, 2002 | Online Cancer Advice Harmful | I’d say this one has to go into the “well, duh” category. Scientists have said that a study of online advice for cancer patients has shown that sites presenting “alternative” cures for cancer are often more harmful than helpful. They even l... |
| Aug 14, 2002 | Politician Tries To Ban Mobile Phones | A politician in NYC is trying to ban mobile phones in theaters and art galleries making it illegal to use phones in those places. This seems like a fairly extreme response. Considering that cell phone banning technology is illegal in the US... |
| Aug 5, 2002 | SMS Job Hunting | An Italian job center text messaged 1000 people notifying them of a job opening. The move was a last resort but the job center plans to use SMS again in the future. The messages were unsolicited and could technically be considered spam. Thi... |
| Jul 31, 2002 | Too Late For Disposable Phones | Hop-on recently got approval for their disposable phone, but is it too little too late (never mind all the little corporate problems they have)? Some analysts seems to think disposable phones will never be more than a niche market. I tend t... |
| Jul 30, 2002 | Bye Bye Digicam, Hello Mobilecam | Strategy Analytics predicts that camera phones will outsell digital cameras by 2007. Touching on the MMS pricing story we posted yesterday, SA warns that while the camera phone may outsell digital cameras, service pricing will still be a bi... |
| Jul 30, 2002 | Spam Takes Up 10% Of Your Time | A new study in the UK shows that dealing with spam costs employees approximately 10% of their working day. Maybe I just don’t get that much spam (though it certainly feels like I do), but 10% seems a tad excessive. I’d be the first to agree... |
| Jul 26, 2002 | How You SMS Reveals A Lot About You | A new study looks at various aspects of mobile phone usage to determine their personality types. Based on how you type text messages, how loud you set your ringtones, and if you use custom faceplaces and ringtones you could be a creative, j... |
| Jul 23, 2002 | China Claims Third Place In The Internet Race | For a country that works so hard to block out so much of the internet, it’s a bit surprising how proud China is to have the 3rd highest number of people accessing the internet (after the US and Japan). In their rush to shut out such dangero... |
| Jul 22, 2002 | SMS From Hospitals | There is always something interesting happening in the UK with text messaging. They seem to be obessed with it. The latest experiment involves a hospital sending out SMS reminders to patients about their appointments. Great idea, you don’t ... |
| Jul 17, 2002 | Wireless Gaming Is Big Business | Datamonitor’s latest report says that there are already 157 million wireless gamers worldwide. They predict that number will grow to 500 million in the next four years. While we always take analyst market size predictions with a huge grain ... |
| Jul 15, 2002 | Recharging At Church | It’s nice to see the Church adapting to the times. After it was discovered that a young couple was visiting a Milan church just to recharge their mobile phones one of the priests said, “Letting them charge their mobile is a bit like giving ... |
| Jul 2, 2002 | Vodafone To Launch Photo MMS In The Fall | Vodafone plans to launch MMS this fall in seven European markets. The service will be similar to J-Phone’s successful Sha-Mail service. At the same time Vodafone CEO, Chris Gent, hinted that Vodafone could push back its 3G launch to 2004. V... |
| Jun 28, 2002 | Moby Automatically Enrolls Hate Mailers Into Fan Club | Music star Moby apparently got annoyed that his personal email address was published somewhere and he started getting hate emails. So, to get people back, he changed to a new email address and made sure that everyone who sent email to his o... |
| Jun 21, 2002 | More Phones Than People in Taiwan | Taiwan is one of the few countries that has more phones than people. Their phone to people ratio is 1.007 phones to people. What’s more interesting is the rate at which Taiwan accomlished this feat. In just four years Taiwan went from 2M ce... |
| Jun 4, 2002 | Protect The Children | Bangladesh has decided that despite inconclusive evidence on either side of the cell phone radiation debate, that they have better take some action. So they are getting ready to ban anyone under 16 from using a cell phone. Now that these ki... |
| May 31, 2002 | 13 Year Old Buys Helicopter And Jet On eBay | Apparently a “penniless” thirteen-year-old kid used his school’s computers to buy a helicopter and a jet on eBay for a bit over a million dollars (actually, the article switches back and forth between dollars and pounds). He also bought a p... |
| May 21, 2002 | Decoy Cars Used To Track Down Car Thieves | Police in the UK are testing new remote control decoy cars that they’re placing strategically in the hopes that they’ll get stolen. The cars let the police watch the crook steal the car, and can then track them or even take over control of ... |
| May 20, 2002 | Your Email Or Your Kids | A new study out of the UK shows that British parents spend more time on email than they do with their kids. While that might seem a bit alarming at first, I think it’s sort of an odd comparison. I’d say most parents spend more time at work ... |
| May 17, 2002 | Atari on Your Mobile | Motorola has licensed classic Atari games for use on mobiles. Pong, Asteroids and Breakout will be made available as downloadable java games. In the futre Motorola phones could ship with Atari games preloaded. Should Nokia’s Snake game be s... |
| May 16, 2002 | 2,500 Messages In One Month | About two weeks ago SprintPCS finally got their act together and figured out how to let their customers send text messages to people using other carriers. So, I’ve finally joined the text messaging revolution, and I’m finding that I end up ... |
| May 7, 2002 | 25% Of Mobile Phone Thefts Are Faked | It turns out that nearly 25% of all reports of mobile phone thefts are faked – mostly as part of an insurance scam. The best story in the article is of one (apparently not so bright) scam artist who called to report a stolen mobile phone – ... |
| May 7, 2002 | Boyfriend Looking At Porn? Steal His Computer | If you’re worried that your significant other is spending too much time checking out online porn, it’s probably not the smartest move to then get some of your friends to break into their house and steal the computer. That’s what one woman d... |
| Apr 24, 2002 | Reach Out And Buzz Someone | Researchers at the MIT Media Lab on working on a technology that transmits vibrations between mobile phones. The experimental phones sense how hard a caller is squeezing their phone and where on the phone they are squeezing. The information... |
| Apr 23, 2002 | Doom, Gloom and a Rainbow | As wireless carriers and infrastructure players release their numbers it’s becoming clear that while national economies are recovering, the wireless industry will take a bit longer to bounce back. For example, last week Nokia announced slow... |
| Apr 23, 2002 | Text Messaging Continues Explosive Growth | The Mobile Data Association reports that text messaging continues its rapid growth. 75 billion text messages were sent in the first quarter of 2002, a 50 percent increase over the same period last year. 100 billion messages can’t be that fa... |
| Apr 23, 2002 | Killer M-Commerce App? | Ericsson has developed a system that allows users to pay for parking via their mobile phones. The system can alert users when their time is nearly up and allow them to top up the meter, all via the phone. What a great idea. Simple concepts ... |
| Mar 14, 2002 | Just Can't Get Enough | Sainsbury’s, a UK based grocery chain, recently used SMS to notify recepients of job availabilty at a new store. The SMS read ‘I wnt u, I need u, I cnt get enuff of u.’ They were attempting to be clever but ended up upsetting people. The fu... |
| Mar 6, 2002 | Meet Dan Playstation 2 | Whoa. Some people really need to get a life. Dan Holmes (who the article makes clear is not married) has changed his official name to Playstation 2. He did this after he couldn’t find anyone who would let him marry his Playstation 2. Sony s... |
| Feb 6, 2002 | A Different Kind of Health Concern | In an experiment that is part of the study on the health effects of mobile phones, scientists found that the microwaves from mobile phones increased the fertility of lab worms. They don’t believe that the experiment’s results have any impac... |
| Feb 4, 2002 | Consumer Wireless Devices | 2002 is going to be a very interesting year in terms of new and interesting wireless devices that break the traditional cell phone mold. While we’re still waiting to get our hands on Danger Hiptops, Handspring Treos, and Nokia 55xxs, the Eu... |
| Jan 29, 2002 | Cows Making Prank Phone Calls | Ah, the content free story of the day. It seems that in Belgium an ingenious farmer hooked up his cow’s milking machine to call his mobile phone number if it malfunctioned. Of course, he put in the wrong phone number and for weeks a random ... |
| Jan 24, 2002 | Robot Phone Screams Callers Name | Yes, this is exactly what we don’t need. Some company is getting ready to come out with a mobile phone with a robot head that among other annoying features will scream out the name of whoever is calling. Won’t that be fun? It also is suppos... |
| Jan 16, 2002 | Koreans Addicted To The Internet | Korea has one of the highest broadband adoption rates in the world. However, this may be leading them into a state of internet addiction. A study (I’d like to see the methodology) is suddenly claiming that 1/3 of South Koreans are addicted ... |
| Nov 29, 2001 | A New Nokia Phone? Or Four Potatoes? | This one is random. A guy who bought a new Nokia phone from a department store, found that when he opened the box, there were four potatoes there instead of the phone. I imagine this was a prank rather than a secret contest by the Potato Gr... |
| Nov 29, 2001 | Forget Internet In The Air | It appears the airlines have a lot more important things to take care of these days than figuring out how to let their passengers surf the web from 30,000 feet. Delta, American Airlines, and United Airlines have all pulled out of a Boeing p... |
| Nov 21, 2001 | Lap-Dancing Name And Shame Website Shut Down | A website was set up (amusing called TheyHaveToPayForIt.com) to try to shame patrons of a lap-dance club in the UK by posting pictures of the people entering the club. However, instead, the site has been shut down for violating the policies... |
| Nov 2, 2001 | Men No Longer Necessary | It seems that those of us who are of the male gender are not really needed much any more. We may even be in danger of extinction. We have shorter life expectancy, higher rates of major diseases, and we also have more issues with alcoholism,... |
| Oct 9, 2001 | Email Threatens The Jobs Of Carrier Pigeons | Shows what I know. For some reason, I had been under the impression that carrier pigeons were extinct (aha, mystery solved thanks to the pigeon FAQ). Turns out they’ve been an important part of some communication systems in India. Not any m... |
| Aug 10, 2001 | Serena Williams Kicks The Online Shopping Habit | When do we get an article detailing all the stories of celebrity internet addicts? The latest is that tennis star Serena Williams says she started shopping online because she was sick of being recognized in stores – but then got addicted an... |
| Aug 9, 2001 | Bill Gates Gets Phone Call From His Bench | A few weeks ago we wrote about the park bench in the UK that Microsoft was wiring up. They finally “launched” the bench last week, and two teenagers discovered that you could use it to make free phone calls (even internationally) – so they ... |
| Jul 13, 2001 | International Space Station Sucks | Astronauts aboard the international space station say that life sucks there. It sounds as though very little thought was put into a lot of things. American appliances couldn’t plug in to Russian outlets. They didn’t have enough supplies (ra... |
| May 9, 2001 | Nuns Opening Cybercafe | A group of nuns in Holland (the oldest of whom is 89) enjoyed a presentation about the web so much, that they’ve decided to open an internet cafe. I wonder if they’re going to install filtering software, or if it’s safe to assume that there... |
| Apr 16, 2001 | Russians Create Artificial Brain | I’m a bit skeptical of this one, but some Russian scientists are claiming they’ve created a virtual artificial human brain. There have been plenty of similar claims in the past, but none have actually been that impressive. The scientists ar... |
| Mar 29, 2001 | SMS Flirting | Orange did a study of teens using SMS and they found that a lot of them use text messages to flirt or to ask members of the opposite sex out on dates. It’s too bad they didn’t have such things when I was a kid. |
| Nov 29, 2000 | New Kozmo Competitor: The Chinese Post Office | Okay, I just thought this one was amusing. As China gets more Americanized, how long will it be until services like Kozmo start moving their way in? Well, now Kozmo will have some competition in China, as the Chinese post office has branche... |
| Sep 27, 2000 | Medical Robotics?Getting Closer | The latest work with robotic operations looks promising; it has got as far as successful heart surgery with dogs. Hopefully, human heart surgery isn’t too far off because advances in surgical technology have been a long time coming and are ... |
| Aug 4, 2000 | Brits Use Email to Say I Love You | A new study in the UK shows that folks in Great Britain use the internet to say “I love you” more than anything else. Of course, the third most popular use was for breaking up a romantic relationship. I’m not sure if this tells us more abou... |
| May 25, 2000 | When Ducks Ruled the Earth | Not quite sure how this fits on Techdirt, but for some reason I felt it had to go up here. It seems that scientists are now saying that after dinosaurs were extinct, some duck-like creatures may have ruled the earth – or at least Australia.... |
| May 15, 2000 | The Internet is Shaped Like a Bow Tie | Some researchers have discovered that the internet is a bit divided. In trying to create a topology, they discovered that the internet is shaped like a bow tie with a core set of sites that are all linked to each other, making it easy to su... |
| May 11, 2000 | Virtual Marilyn Monroe | A story (amsuingly reported from Ananova (the virtual newscaster) about a team that has created a virtual Marilyn Monroe which they show interacting in a video clip with Humphrey Bogart as well as other virtual Marilyn “exhibits”. Who needs... |
| Apr 18, 2000 | Virtual Newscaster to launch tomorrow.. | The world’s first virtual newscaster, Ananova, will be launching tomorrow.. Yes I know that Mike previously reported this back in January, but I figured since she’s launching tomorrow I figured I’d update everyone. I’m not too sure how big ... |
| Jan 17, 2000 | Virtual Newscaster | Well, it had to come sooner or later. A virtual newscaster will soon be able to read the news to you on your computer (or pda, or cell phone) screen. You can also look directly at the company’s web page for more info. Somehow I really don’t... |
