Zombies, Meteors, and Robots? who cares, I just made nachos in my Vivos APOCOLYPSE SHELTER. Is the world going to end in 2012? If it does I will owe you $100. Using Granny magic a twenty sided die and a shadow seeking groundhog, some scientists have interpreted the Mayan calender ending to signify the end of the world. The Mayans on the other hand believe the end of the “Long count” to be a time of celebration. The calender itself has ended multiple times before in fact. In any case, if you need a way to trick that girl of your dreams to give her last romp in the hay with your ugly self, convince her to enter THE VIVOS APOCOLYPSE SHELTER. Together you may re-emerge to spread your alarmist genetic seed across the planet. On the Vivos website is a ticker counting down to the end of the world as we know it and also the time you have left to prove your idiocy by buying one of these. Vivos also showcases all the potential disaster scenarios peppered with stock photos of loving families and sunrises. With around 20 shelters peppered across the states it will cost you a mere $50 000 to secure a spot with Vivos in their $10 million, 200 person shelter with enough supplies to last you one year. so far about 1000 applications have been submitted. Other than an awesome reality show with slutty girls and fist pumping idiots I can’t imagine a use for this. All the same, if the world really does end save me a spot…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T9heta_qLI

via: PhysOrg, Vivos

Geminoid F is hotter than your girlfriend, and by girlfriend I mean that poster of Jessica Alba you taped to your pillow. Strangely, using less pneumatic actuators than her predecessor 12 vs. 46, Hiroshi Ishiguro designed the Geminoid F to mimic many facial expressions. The company Kokoro plans on using these approachable automated robots to replace secretaries and the like. I imagine this will solve that whole “why can’t I sexually harrass anyone I want at work” problem. For a price tag of $225, 000 Geminoid F will go on sale and as long as you have a good hiding place you won’t weird out your neighbours.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dJOAf2Dt98

 Source via: popsci, Spectrum

A Russian mathmetician, Grigory Perelman 43,  living in his mothers tiny cockroach infested apartment has won the Clay Millenium Prize in mathematics for solving the “Poincare Conjecture”. The Poincare Conjecture is one of the world’s most complex mathematical problems and has made scientists everywhere limp in bed from its massive mind bending powers.  Not only has Dr. Perelman solved the elusive problem, but he has also given a Million dollar middle finger to the world saying that he “has all he wants” (yelled through a closed door). Declining the prize saying ”I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo. I’m not a hero of mathematics. I’m not even that successful; that is why I don’t want to have everybody looking at me.”  A total recluse, he has been urged by a local children’s charity in St. Petersburg to accept it and donate it. Instead, I recommend to accept the $1 million dollars and construct a large shiny solid aluminum statue of his bearded self. If that doesn’t do it, he could always invest in 1 million mechanical pencils and continue fighting the good fight on the lonely math front.

Hey smartass try it yourself:

Consider a compact 3-dimensional manifold V without boundary. Is it possible that the fundamental group of V could be trivial, even though V is not homeomorphic to the 3-dimensional sphere?

source via: BBC

A machine has been developed to display on screen the thoughts seen or remembered on screen using only your thoughts! Finally the dark seedy underbelly of your mind can be on display for all to see. The device uses brainwave activity detailed by an MRI machine into a moving image on a computer screen. Professor Jack Gallant at the University of California says: “At the moment you want to see something and want to describe it you have to words or draw it and it doesn’t work very well. This technology might allow you to recover an eyewitness’ memory of a crime” 

Using a fMRI scanner,the American team scanned the brains of two volunteers while they watched videos. The results were fed into a computer which looked for links between colurs, shapes and movements on the screen, and patterns of activity in the brain.The computer software was then given the brain scans of the volunteers as they watched a different video and was asked to recreate what they were seeing. The software was close to the mark. In one scene featuring comic actor Steve Martin in a white shirt, the computer reproduced his white torso and rough shape, but was unable to handle details of his face. In another, the volunteers watched an image of a city skyline with a plane flying past.The software was able to recreate the skyline – but not the aircraft.

Steve Martin is one more memory that I would rather repress

Suddenly our innermost disgusting, repulsive, terrorist, secret or sensitive thoughts will be on display for the world to see. Crime fighting? If I can visualize big foot carjacking my 86 toyota corolla it doesn’t mean it happened. Most memories are generative, in that we re-create them on the fly and do not retrieve them from some static database. In fact some memories I argue should remain buried, like the time my uncle asked me to help him wax.

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Wikitude AR Travel Guide

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EA8xlicmT8

An augmented reality known as Wikitude AR Travel Guide, overlays important descriptive information about locations so you don’t have to waste your valuable time realizing that the place you just visited sucked! Instead you can stand in one spot rotating in circles like an asshat.

ARhrrrr

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNu4CluFOcw

Now we’re talking, a zombie game that uses a ‘boardgame’ like platform to overlay a video game known as ‘ARhrrrr’. Also has the added bonus of making you look like an idiot taking pictures of an empty coffee table while sweating like a Pig on a treadmill.

Pit

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGsfDDxhFN0

What’s that? want more board games? try a racing game that takes all the fun out of real racing! in fact you don’t need a driving licence or good personal hygiene to start takin it to the streets in your own racecar on your under-used coffee table!

TAT Augmented ID

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb0pMeg1UN0

Can’t remember the co-workers’ you’ve been sitting beside for 10 years? me neither! now using the TAT Augmented ID all you have to do is creep them out by pointing this crap at their face and like magic their facebook/twitter/contact info will pop up! All information you probably never cared about to begin with! look forward to: “Hey your twitter/facebook status is not accurate as you are at work and it clearly says you are gearing up for lunch.”

What with life being as exciting as it is, could it get any more exciting your wondering? well yes it can! Go off and print out your own pieces of paper and wow your friends and family as you make it fly around in front of your computer like a schizophrenic that thinks paper airplanes are constructed by taking paper and folding it zero times!

[check out the toyota Augmented reality here!]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF2e5VOJ3DE

This technology can be used to model Pirate Osama Bin Laden’s beard, or perhaps Enrique Iglesias’ mole, or maybe even compile Britney’s million crotch shots into one blurry 3d crotch.

Ever run into a rat willing to turn tricks for easy money or who would sell its own mother’s wheelchair for an easy fix. That fix… is potato chips. You know your fat when… you start stealing and pawning your elderly neighbours commemorative spoon collection to buy cheetoh’s.

Junk food elicits addictive behavior in rats similar to the behaviors of rats addicted to heroin, a new study finds. Pleasure centers in the brains of rats addicted to high-fat, high-calorie diets became less responsive as the binging wore on, making the rats consume more and more food. The results, presented October 20 at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting, may help explain the changes in the brain that lead people to overeat.

The rats were apparently exhibiting the core features of addiction after exposure to junk-food. Just goes to show that apparently you really can’t have just one.

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More of this is on the way in Finland

The United nations apparently also have an initiative to have porn and WOW access a universal human right. Currently Finland has one of the most connected countries with 95% of the population having ready Internet access. If there is one way to fight the war on sunlight and cardio, it is guaranteed broadband Internet.

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