Category: Weirdness
"Impromptu" line-dance fever takes over Microsoft retail store
Fair play to them for keeping it up for a nerve-wracking 4 minutes, despite the store's customers clearly either uninterested or too embarrassed to look.
X-Factor hopefuls John and Edward get their own web game
Players must bounce "Jedward" to the top of the voting tables in a bid to win over the cruel destroyer of pop-worlds, Overlord Cowell (inexplicably portrayed by the Mousebreaker-developed game as German).
Unofficial Michael Jackson phone for sale
With faux diamonds and moon walking silhouettes of Jackson etched on the back, the gold coloured handset is a sight to behold.
Left 4 Dead 2 – How to kill zombies in real-life
Tech Digest's very own Gerald Lynch gets prepped for the zombie horde with an SAS survival training session.
Yike Bike, the world's first folding electric bike set to launch
As if the Segway wasn't daft enough, look out for the Yike Bike, weaving its way into oncoming traffic next year.
Go "Tank Paintballing" for under £100 thanks to IWOOT
What do you get the person who has everything? A day of tank-warfare perhaps?
iBlushBabes upskirt video app heading to iPhone
It's good to see Apple's approvals team working hard then.
Star Trek record player
Alas it is just a concept which is based on the NCC-1701 from the latest Star Trek movie.
Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt sales soar as Amazon reviews go viral
Humorous reviews of a wicked-cool T-shirt featuring 3 wolfs and a moon went viral this week sending sales soaring 2,300%.
“It’s got 3 wolves on it. Like, I’d be happy with a t-shirt with one wolf on it, but this one’s got three. Three wolves – and a moon, and it’s a full moon and stuff, so it kind of makes me feel like a werewolf when I’m wearing it – which is kind of my favourite way to feel,” said Carl Chesterson, in one of the 454 reviews on Amazon.
But Isabelle O’Carroll, editor of online fashion bible, Catwalk Queen, told us that actually, “Wolf print t-shirts have been the height of hipster cool for some time now, and then Martin Margiela had some airbrush hippy tees in his SS/08 collection (that’s spring summer 2008 for the non-fashion types)”
“Then Topshop followed suit with their take on the trend, so the wolf tee might be hitting headlines but as usual fashion got there first!”
And actually, Tech Digest wouldn’t mind a return to the days when a man could don a wolf, or He-man, or Fat Willys t-shirt without being castigated.
Michael McGloin, art director of the firm behind the tee said: “We’ll take ironic fashiom any day, we’re printing another 400,000 more t-shirts.
“It’s just a fantastic thing.” It is. It really is. Wolf t-shirts for all.
4Chan hit YouTube with Porn Prank
4chan are at the centre of another internet crapstorm after users of the site laid siege to YouTube, posting a plethora of lewd and pornographic videos.
Already infamous for attacks on white supremacist Radio DJ Hal Turner and responsible for the Rickrolling phenomena, 4channer posted videos tagged with the names of tweenie stars The Jonas Brothers and Hannah Montana.
The films start with innocent footage then meander into smut.
“We are aware of the slew of pornographic videos that were uploaded,” said a spokesman for Google.
“We are addressing them as we would any video that violates our community guidelines.”
“In addition any account we discover that has been specifically set up to attack YouTube will be disabled.” Yeah YouTube you tell them.
