Tag: Gary Cutlack
Can't find a taxi? Get a Smart Car out of a vending machine instead
Photographed in Tokyo’s Shibuya Station is this awesome oddity – a vending machine for the virtually disposable little Smart Car. You may select a convertible or hard-topped model, depending on how flash you’re feeling.
Then you can drive off looking very silly indeed.
Obviously it’s not real. You won’t get a car out of it – just some promotional…
Sharp's 108" LCD actually out to buy – should you have 11 million yen knocking about
11 million Japanese yen is about £52,000. Plus the shipping for a 108″ LCD TV from Japan is likely to be another £52,000, so it’s probably best to stick with that 28″ CRT of yours for a little while longer yet.
The Sharp LB-1085 – which we first revealed back in our coverage of CES 2007 – will be buyable in Japan this July. Theoretically buyable, should you be in Japan and have a van big enough…
SEGA Toys EMA – a living, dancing, kissing robot to fill that empty void
Finally, a piece of SEGA hardware we can love almost as much as we loved Dreamcast – and this one is capable of loving us back.
It, or indeed, “she,” is called EMA, which stands for Eternal Maiden Actualization. “Eternal” presumably means she’s got fantastic battery life, “Maiden” is because she’s got realistically proportioned breasts she’s programmed to not mind you touching, and “Actualization” because, well, just look at the beauty!
Isn’t she lovely? She apparently has a “kiss mode” that makes her willing and actually accepting…
Ministry of Sound still going – launching Ibiza-themed blog, social network and live music portal
Although dance music has turned from something good into a series of abysmal high-pitched reworkings of old songs sung by horrendous blonde slappers, nightclub “lifestyle” chain Ministry of Sound is still going. We really thought it had closed in about 1998.
But not only is MoS still going, it’s expanding – opening up a new web presence based entirely around the goings on and party scene of Ibiza. It is, of course, a social network, offering live TV presented by attractive ladies, blogging…
"Robot receptionist" dream finally made real thanks to Chinese tin-man monster
That absolutely hideous MONSTROSITY to the left there has been given the name Siasun and set to work as a receptionist in the Chinese city of Shenyang.
It/she works at the fantastically Communist-sounding “administrative examination and approval service center” in Shenyang, where it/she nods, waves and even, so it is alleged but we would have to see it to believe it, talks to businessmen…
Apple reveals 'Steve Jobs Air'
The new streamlined Steve Jobs Air comes in the smart casual denin jeans and sleek dark top we’ve come to know and love, but now – thanks to a rigorous low-carb diet – Apple’s new Steve Jobs Air weighs in around 15 pounds lighter!
Pictured below – the original bulky Steve Jobs 1.0 (left) and the slimmer Steve Jobs Air:
Sadly, this means the new Steve Jobs Air is incompatible with previous Steve Jobs version 1.0 accessories…
GTA IV sightseeing – how close is Liberty City to the actual Big Apple?
Do you know GTA IV’s Liberty City inside-out yet? Have you at least memorised where your house is and where all the strip clubs are? Also, have you ever spent £1200 on flying to New York for a weekend, just so you can save about £25 on buying socks and pants really cheap in GAP on Fifth Avenue?
If you answered “SHIT YES!” to both of the above, you will like this very much – it’s some guy’s collection of photos of New York compared to screenshots of GTA IV’s NYC-inspired Liberty City. See what is real and what is fiction over on his Flickr page.
NYC and LC are “pretty close” it would appear, although the skyline’s seriously…
Another wi-fi detecting thing – this time it's a SHOE
Clearly the next step in human evolution is to develop a sixth sense that makes the hairs on your arm stand up or your belly button flash green when in range of a wi-fi signal – but until then we’re stuck with rubbish novelty items to let us know when there’s some stealable internet nearby.
And now it’s wi-fi shoes. Or, at least, it’s a concept piece, in which a pair of trainers have had a miniature wi-fi detector stuck on them…
Judge orders YouTube pranksters to apologise – in YouTube video
You have to love the occasionally maverick decisions handed out by US judges.
Some crazed lawmaker out in Florida has ordered a gang of unruly youths to apologise to their victim via a YouTube video, after they chucked “soda pop” at a drive-through junk food joint waitress.
Unsuspecting Taco Bell employee Jessica Ceponis…
Weak bloggers cave in to Metallica's new album non-review demands
This story’s a bit of a mess. We know some UK bloggers were invited to listen to an “unmixed” demo of the new Metallica album and weren’t required to sign any non-disclosure agreements or stick to an embargo regarding what they heard.
Which meant they could all, quite legally, tell the world all about it on their blogs.
So sites like The Quietus ran with reviews (cached version here) – only to get told to take them down shortly afterwards. This has, predictably enough, turned into a mammoth Metallica HATE-FEST with everyone blaming the put-upon band for trying to break the internet again…
