Tag: marriage
Digital love: Computer weds couple after groom creates priest
It's almost suitable, as the happy couple met online, at a site aptly called "Sweet On Geeks". So when the big day approached, and the groom couldn't find a priest free to conduct the ceremony, he decided to make…
Japanese couple married by i-Fairy robot priest
It was an i-fairytale day, like something out of an electric dream for Tokyo couple Tomohiro Shibata and Satoko Inoue, as they became the world's first couple to take their marriage vows in front of a robot priest. "Pastor" i-Fairy…
Japanese woman jailed for killing virtual husband
Let’s be clear here, before we start. No physical harm has come to anyone here, so before you get all “omg wtf computer games make people violent”, think again. A Japanese lady has been jailed after she hacked into a game called “Maple Story”, and ‘killed’ her virtual husband’s avatar…
STREET VIEW SNAPS #4: Marriage Proposal
Aw, this is quite sweet – a lovely Googler called Michael Weiss-Malik has proposed to his wife-to-be through Google Street View. He doesn’t work for the street view team, but just works quite closely with them, and found out that they were doing a run alongside the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA…
Twitter's first marriage proposal?
WIRED reports that the increasingly popular Twitter microblogging service had its first public proposal of marriage yesterday morning.
Max Kiesler, a San Francisco-based web designer, asked his co-worker and partner of 15 years, Emily Chang, for her hand in marriage…
Video game console wedding cake pleases the wife, loses appetite of groom
At the risk of Tech Digest resembling Kotaku’s very-unofficial spin-off blog, Game Cakes, I couldn’t not share this doozy with you. When Tech Digest writer, Al, got married a few months back I suggested he have a game-themed cake, and sadly he vetoed the idea, but I bet after his eyes fall on Game Daily writer, Carol Orsini’s wedding cake, he’ll regret not forcing his missus into that Monkey Island cake he always dreamt about. Girls dream about dresses when we’re young, the boys dream about wedding cakes in the shape of Alex Kidd…
