Twitter’s new look for profiles has been rolling out over the past week or so, and many Irish users have found themselves invited to try it out today. The main feature is the addition of a large “header photo” like the cover image in Facebook and Google plus. This is a great opportunity for the photographers and graphic […]
The first ever video uploaded to Youtube was a short video taken at San Diego zoo and uploaded to the site on April 23rd 2005. It’s not very long, it’s not very exciting, but often historical things aren’t “exciting”. 9 years later and it’s hard to imagine an internet without YouTube! So here it is: The […]
**** Warning: this post contains images depicting violence **** Inviting the public to share their experiences of your organisation can be a very effective use of social media. But the difference between social media and PR is that you don’t control the conversation, as the New York Police Department discovered when they encouraged people to tag photos using […]
It’s Earth Day, and the world’s giant technology corporations are aboard the bandwagon and promoting their green credentials. We’ve already featured Apple’s video, and Google are not to be outdone, with a delightful Google Doodle featuring exotic species: the Rufous Hummingbird, the Japanese Macaque. the Veiled Chameleon, the Puffer Fish and the Dung Beetle. From its beginnings the USA in 1970, Earth […]
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook provides the voice to a new video from Apple that comes with the simple title “Better”. The video talks about Apple’s environmental credentials and how they’re working on improving them, but it’s also pretty clear that Apple’s “better” refers to its products as well. Here’s the video: http://youtu.be/EdeVaT-zZt4
Plaster casts have certainly changed since I broke my arm as a kid; now it seems plaster itself could be on the way out – and that’s not the only innovation on the way. The Osteoid looks like Borg technology, but because it can be 3D printed to a custom fit for every patient it’s actually […]
The British Pathé Archive, an extraordinary visual record of the 20th century, is now available in its entirety on YouTube. Spanning the period 1896 to 1976, the collection totals 85,000 films which were produced as short news programmes to be shown in cinemas. The collection includes coverage of major historical events, as well as sport, fashion, culture, travel and […]
So if you combine Frozen’s “Let It Go” with Game of Thrones the end result is .. well.. pretty epic I guess 🙂 (And yes, this does contain spoilers up until season 4 episode 2, so don’t watch if you want to avoid them)
What’s your ideal job? What about the toughest job out there? Watch this. We won’t spoil it for you. http://youtu.be/HB3xM93rXbY
This is one of the most exciting videos I’ve seen about Oculus Rift, and it’s a Technology.ie exclusive! MissionV is a virtual reality platform for teaching and training which is currently beta-testing in 11 Irish schools. Recently, its founder James Corbett brought me to visit one of those schools: St Kieran’s NS in Broughal, Co Offaly. The kids there […]
