Interesting Links for 24-12-2011

[andrewducker]

• The world's lowest-tech iPhone speaker looks gorgeous.
  (tags: iphone apple music design )
• World Champion Masturbator, Masanobu Sato, Expands On His Favorite Hobby
  (tags: masturbation video )
• iWatchz - Wear your iPod nano like a watch.
  (tags: ipod watch apple )
• Dutch TV is the first to show cannibalism by the show host!
  (tags: cannibalism tv )

Comments

[autopope]

As Big Brother infected us from the Netherlands, I expect future reality TV shows in the UK to be brightened up by the prospect of the contestants eating one another. This would actually be a significant improvement ...

[octopoid_horror]

It's like we're living in the kind of dystopian near-future that I read about in slightly hackneyed sci-fi books when I was younger! Televised combat to the death must surely be next.

[autopope]

That's the main news channels every night, live from Kabul or Baghdad.

[octopoid_horror]

They seem to shy away from showing actual combat but rather drool over that aftermath a lot of the time.

Until we're watching cage fights between condemned criminals on nanotech optical HUDs, it won't feel like the future.

[chess]

The coverage of Libya seemed to be less shy, there were definitely actual launches of those shoulder-mounted rockets and stuff blowing up on screen on the BBC; and the coverage of the protests is all about the police violence, although I'm not sure how much that gets through to the mainstream media because I've been avoiding its coverage thereof to keep my anger levels down :).