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The pursuit of profit is pounded into submission by documentary ‘Zeitgeist: Moving Forward’ [VIDEO]
It’s doubtful anyone can have a middling response to “Zeitgeist: Moving Forward.” The documentary is one of those creations that either makes you cheer that someone is finally speaking truth to power, or that the filmmaker should be locked in a freezer at the bottom of a deep, deep hole.
Ancient Greek astronomical machine re-created with Legos
Two thousand years ago, a Greek mechanic created a machine that predicted the motions of the celestial bodies. The device, pulled up from a shipwreck in 1901, became known as the Antikythera Mechanism. You have to wonder what that ancient Greek gearhead would think if he saw what’s in this video.
Hilarious Wikileaks analysis by Taiwanese animators
It’s hardly a laughing matter; An Australian national accused of espionage and treason by a foreign power, excluded from the services of multi-national financial institutions at the request of an excitable few, hung out to dry at home by a PM who misread ‘the public mood’, all for publishing information illegally acquired by others. Yet, NMA.TV has once again managed to turn the serious into the absurd.
Imagine if life had a progress bar [What your business can learn from video games]
We all now understand that the past decade has let consumers build a ‘social layer’ on top of their everyday lives, using services such as Facebook and Twitter to capture their social lives on the web. In this clip from TEDxBoston, proud Princeton “dropout” and mobile-entrepreneur Seth Priebatsch considers the next layer in progress: the “game layer” (a pervasive set of motivating ‘dynamics’ that will reshape education and commerce).
If Sesame Street ran Apple’s marketing, it would look something like this [Introducing the iPogo 300]
After unveiling the iPogo 300, we at Stately Anthill Manor can only hope Sesame Street will attempt a send-up of the “Really?” campaign for the new Windows Phone 7. Or those Droid spots in which humans get all fuzzy inside over turning into machines. Yeah, those campaigns need an unhealthy dose of Elmo.
Have chunky fingers? Here’s an iPhone the size of a fridge!
We were tickled beyond words this week to discover that three Austrian developers have at last solved the problem those of us with fat fingers have when navigating a phone’s touchscreen. They’ve created an iPhone that’s as large as a refrigerator door. Your biggest, most chunky-digited AFL star can now swish through his apps with ease.
What the interwebs were talking about this week
Sure, this clip involves innovation, creativity and mild commentary on the evolution of technology. But it also includes the whacked out claim that Charlie Chaplin accidentally caught a time traveller on film. And for that, this video is among the Top 10 viewed on YouTube this week. Happy Beer O’Clock Anthillians!
Now even unions can be crowdsourced. But weren’t they always?
The whole concept of a unionism depends on having a ‘crowd’ and harnessing the power of that crowd to gain collective bargaining power. Therefore, it might seem slightly strange to describe ThePoint’s online service, designed to help office workers anonymously organise with their coworkers, as ‘crowdsourced unionism’.
Could this adorable, app-enhanced doggie be YouTube’s next pop star?
The music industry’s backlash against Auto-Tune is well-documented, though it reportedly endures on countless CDs and on every episode of “Glee.” LaDiDa isn’t designed to be insidious; it’s tech is actually quite cool. The user chooses a musical tempo and style, then serenades the iPhone or iPad. The app uses the voice to compose a melody. Think of it as karaoke in reverse.
Creepy and underhand or viral advertising gold? Coco-cola brings back its Happiness Machine
We wrote about Coca-Cola’s ‘Happiness machine’ when it first appeared in an unnamed US university campus in January. Indeed, we asked whether it could be the ‘worst viral campaign’ ever, simply because it seemed so contrived. However, the pimped-out vending machine is back. This time, in Europe.
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