This is stupid – and it’s funny. It’s funny, and it’s one of the stupidest crowdfunding ideas I’ve ever seen. Blood Sport is a device that drains a video game players blood into sterile bags for donation, whenever that player loses virtual blood in a game. The aim is “to make blood donation fun”. It’s sponsors call it […]
Parcel Motel, the round-the-clock delivery service for online shoppers has released research detailing the savings available to online shoppers when shopping on UK websites. The preference for shopping on UK websites was shown to be prevalent amongst online shoppers, with over 50% of Irish adults shopping regularly* online on UK websites. The reasons behind these […]
The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Alex White TD, today published online national and county maps that identify the homes, businesses and schools where commercial providers will deliver high-speed broadband access by the end of 2016. Minister White said that the State would invest in all the remaining areas to ensure that every […]
Ireland has hit the Information Security headlines after it was revealed that it is the third most affected country, representing 9% of all cases, of a new backdoor malware discovered by Symantec, which they describe as “groundbreaking and almost peerless“. They’ve named it Backdoor.Regin. Regin is an extremely complex piece of software that can be customized with a […]
Startup Weekends are in full swing right now in Dublin, Cork and Limerick. Here’s a video we shot last week at Galway Startup Weekend! [youtube]http://youtu.be/RiR7LJj-Cr8[/youtube] Paul Killoran of Ex Ordo is co-organiser of Galway Startup Weekend. He explains that it’s less about launching a company in one weekend, more about a long term investment in startup culture: This […]
If you use a smartphone then you’ve probably got used to terrible battery life. You might have forked out for an external battery pack or something else to help extend the battery life. So a new “take” on charging phones probably isn’t that surprising. What is, however, a little surprising is the way this one […]
In 25 years working in radio, there’s one piece of advice I heard early and often: if you see a microphone, you should always assume it is ‘live’. The same should probably go for webcams. The news today that a Russian website has been discovered which aggregates the feeds from over 4500 cameras worldwide has […]
And the people did rejoice as the Newlands Cross Flyover opened to traffic this morning. N7: No delays at all on the approach to the M50 due to the opening of the Newlands Cross flyover. Long Mile Rd is busy though. — LiveDrive (@LiveDrive) November 20, 2014 There’s been significant traffic disruption over the past year […]
Last week, Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave revealed that over 24,000 people had registered for the 2-for-1 discount price on tickets for Web Summit 2015. Faced with with a potentially huge surge in demand for the first 1000 tickets, they decided to postpone the sale to allow for further load testing. Now they’ve confirmed that 1000 discount tickets […]
I love this. The dancing is wonderful, but what’s really funny is the nervous passengers trying not to look. This must be what air travel does to us. [youtube]http://youtu.be/S32bgx36G-0[/youtube] The dancer is a talented actress named Angela Trimbur: check out her YouTube channel. Here, have another one! [youtube]http://youtu.be/eVVXtknZVf0[/youtube] Related articles Strangers on a Plane Air travel is […]
