PlayCafe is a website, currently in beta, where users can watch a live daily game show, call there and win prizes ranging from iTunes songs to Nintendo Wiis and $1,000 in cash. The game show is streamed live Monday-Friday at 6 PM PST / 9 PM EST during almost 2 hours but they are planning to expand to four hours starting next week.
It is an interesting concept. You don’t need any complex program to watch the show. You only need Adobe Flash version 8.0+ and a browser like Mozilla Firefox 2.0+ (recommended) or Internet Explorer 7.0+ (For Mac OS you can use Safari 1.2+).
Currently, the prizes also include Amazon gift certificates, ringtones and magazine subscriptions. To play, you must sign-up, be logged in when the show begins, listen to the host (who will tell you about the rules / questions) and answer those questions in a window, which appears in the page during the show.
According to some news reports, currently the website has an average of 250 to 300 players per night. They have three types of games: Mix and Match (about matching things in categories), Predict the Poll (with questions like: “What percentage of Americans…?”) and Media Mash-Up (they present a media clip and you have to answer some questions about it).
Spanish fighting bull breeder Victoriano del Rio has decided to bet on new cloning technology rather than risk buying a traditionally bred replacement.
JuicyCampus is a crazy site. If you are a student in a campus, you can write whatever you want there anonymously. The original idea was that the site would be a gossip site for college students where people could write hilarious material, or thought provoking posts.
But human nature can be very aggressive when people is protected by the anonymity. JuicyCampus is having a big issue with defamatory posts against some people. Those include insults where a person’s full name is published and accusations about “child molesters” with no evidences. Some parents think the site is not funny.
The situation has become so stressful for the site owner (Matt Ivester) and even he has published a letter in the official site blog and made a plea for decorum and decency in their posts.
Honestly, a simple letter from the founder doesn’t seem enough to control human nature. This site is simply a way to concentrate lots of hate, wickedness and heavy jokes from students.
At the moment, it is not a commercial device but it could be soon. The technology exists. Nokia has built a concept that demonstrates how future cell phones might be stretchable and flexible in order to allow the user to transform their mobile device into radically different shapes. The concept is named Nokia Morph.
Nokia Morph would use nanotechnology to give a flexible body with transparent display and self-cleaning surfaces. The device also would include a keyboard and a touchpad to satisfy the user’s needs. “We hope that this combination of art and science will showcase the potential of nanoscience to a wider audience. The techniques we are developing might one day mean new possibilities in terms of the design and function of mobile devices”, Dr. Tapani Ryhanen, Head of the NRC Cambridge UK laboratory, Nokia, said.
The concept device will be on display from February 24 to May 12, 2008 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and it is part of the “Design and Elastic Mind” exhibition.
Nanotechnology is a possibility to integrate complex functions to current devices and the advantage would be the low cost. These technologies can be implemented within the next seven years.
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PlayCafe is a website, currently in beta, where users can watch a live daily game show, call there and win prizes ranging from iTunes songs to Nintendo Wiis and $1,000 in cash. The game show is streamed live Monday-Friday at 6 PM PST / 9 PM EST during almost 2 hours but they are planning to expand to four hours starting next week.
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