We’ve all experienced the misery of camping or festival toilets. The smell, the mud, the lack of toilet paper…horrible. Luckily for the people of Argentina, the organisers of ‘Personal Fest’ music festival have taken a stand – transforming this neglected area into a significantly more enjoyable experience.
The festival’s organisers tried various techniques to pimp their porta-potties, including painting them bright colours and ‘hacking’ them so they played a different sound or lit up when occupied. The result was a much more enjoyable and interactive experience – not something you’d expect from festival toilets!
Watch the porta-potties in action here:
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International condom manufacturer Durex has launched a new app and service that discreetly delivers condoms within an hour. (Nice find, Tim)
If you get ‘caught short’ then you simply need to access the SOS app or Durex’s SOS website. Within 60 minutes, Durex will deliver your condoms via someone in disguise – for example a ‘pizza delivery man’ – so your date stays none the wiser.
Users can order condoms between 4pm and 4am anywhere in Dubai, and the service aims to expand to other countries too. This service is a nice step-up from France’s ‘condom machines on every street corner’ strategy, which may be effective but definitely ruins the look of many a picturesque village! See Durex’s SOS movie here:
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Go outside and play. That’s what our mothers always told us. So how do you get today’s youth to get away from their screens when there’s so much more content available online and, let’s be honest, adults are doing the same thing? Good old incentivisation.
Now parents can monitor their children’s activity levels and reward them with electronic device time with the ibitz PowerKey from GeoPalz. Pop it in their shoe and watch from your smartphone, locking them out of their game playing or goggleboxing if they’ve not been lively enough.
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For its new range of condoms ‘SKYN’, Ansell has launched a campaign asking Spotify users to create a ‘sexy songs’ playlist. (Thanks, Jason and Alex)
The ‘SKYN the Mix’ campaign invites users to vote for their favourite sexy songs and create their own intimate playlists. Ansell hopes the campaign will help to normalise a taboo subject – and with early leaders in the mix including Barry White, Marvin Gay and Chris Isaak, they’re off to a strong start!
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I am writing this on an iPad. I could use a notepad and pen but I like not having to write it up later, and I can receive email and text or go and browse the net. ‘Great’ you’d think, right? The thing is, I keep getting…
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…ah, distracted, yes these little interruptions keeping me abreast of any new messages I have. Much like reading a webpage with some flashy ads running up the side, these alerts keep distracting me. Why don’t I just turn them off then? The thing is, I have to confess I’m addicted to them.
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So I’m addicted to updates on my shiny connected pad gadget, so what? The trouble is when I try to read a magazine article or worse an actual book, I find I have trouble concentrating. The problem is that my mind keeps wandering and wondering…
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…what’s happening on Twitter – have I got any new emails, so on and so on. I have unwittingly trained my mind to accept information in short bite-size chunks and it’s got used to being bombarded almost constantly by updates.
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This problem has been recognised by Freedom software, who have developed an application that disables your internet connection for a specified length of time. Once disabled, you need a full reboot to get your connection back. How times have changed, productivity software that disconnects you…
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I consider myself a digital immigrant (I’m 37 and the first music I bought was on vinyl and cassette). I notice the change in my levels of concentration and find it quick scary – but what of the true digital natives, the kids who are growing up only knowing a world of smart phones and 4G and always-on connectivity?
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Technology seems to be an extension of the self and, without even knowing it, are our children’s brains going to be wired differently – or has this always been going on since the invention of the wheel?
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It seems to me we need to embrace technology (you can’t just hide under a rock, can you?). Imagine a business not having an internet connection these days? But maybe we should be building-in some safe guards or quiet time into our lives, in and out of work?
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So less iPad for me and more books. That’s fine, I love books, OK now let’s just check Amazon…
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If you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, please don’t message me.
Over and out.
