Technology is truly a beautiful thing and most of us wouldn’t know quite how to live without it.  Sure, we’d live without Facebook, but you start cutting out the basic items like the washer and dryer then there will be issues.  Despite that we all love our technology, sometimes you get a little worried about how far things are being taken.  Like this new program that’s out called Kiss ME.  Go ahead and guess what it does.

This program comes straight from the National University of Singapore.  It’s a wireless digital communications media that’s meant to send out a tele-kiss.  Yes, it’s a kiss sent in real time to mobile devices.  Somehow I think I could survive to wait until the real thing.  Getting an electronic kiss just doesn’t taste the same.  They even want to create a system that has the convincing properties of a real kiss, such as using an artificial mount with life-like lips and the proper amount of pressure and temperature.  Ew.

Source: Newlaunches

At some point or another we have all been a little bit of an addict to our tech toys.  Some have it a little worse than others, but none of us are perfect.  Every so often I have a day that I feel like I have to step away from the technology.  Truthfully, I don’t have that hard of a time, but that’s just because I really enjoy hiking.  Hiking is one task that can take all day and you really can’t use your phone in the areas I tend to frequent.  Now there are others that may not remember the last time they went completely offline.  If you want to give it a try there is one site that you can head to and make a pledge.

You’ll be pledging to do 10 no device dinners between now and Thanksgiving of this year.  Then on Thanksgiving Day have a full no device day.  Originally it was set for September 18th, but they’ve changed it to Thanksgiving Day.  The goal of the founders is to help people really enjoy the people around them instead of constantly checking their phone.  You can read all about why the founders decided to start up this pledge.  Right now they have 10,729 pledges and it’s still a long way from Thanksgiving.  Head on over to their website if you think you can handle the time away from your gadgets.

Source: GadgetLab

There has been talk of people getting Blackberry thumb in cases where the person has used their phone to text excessively.  Now obviously the injury can come from multiple types of phones since the issue is with the way a person texts on their phone.  In cases of text related injuries, the person often required expensive massages just for their hands.  However, one banker has a much more severe version of the Blackberry thumb.  She was texting clients 12 hours a day on her iPhone and ended up requiring surgery.

The tendons in her thumb had become so inflamed they had to actually be removed.  Her recovery after the surgery could take up to 2 months.  Hopefully her job paid for all of this, despite the fact that they could never give her enough cash to compensate for such an injury.  Hopefully those who text too excessively will consider cutting back before any extreme precautions need to be taken.

Source: Switched

There has been a whole lot of scuff over what gets approved and what does not as far as apps go.  Some are considered to be too vulgar, such as boob jiggling applications.  Well Cosmo is a big time female magazine that along with makeup tips is chocked full of sex tips.  Now instead of keeping their tips in paper form, they’ve branched out to create an app.  Despite all of the apps that have been shot down, Cosmo’s  Sex Position Of The Day App made it to the list for not only the iPhone, but for Android users too.

Now all you have to do is grab your phone to find a sex position for the evening.  It features the Carnal Challenge Rating, which shows more or less flames just depending on the difficulty of the position.  It even has instructions and colorful illustrations to help you along the way.  Considering all of the barely perverse apps that have been shot down it’s a little surprising that this one passed, but maybe it’ll give you something fun to do on a lazy afternoon.

Source: Crunchgear

There are always debates on which smart phone is the absolute best out there.  Phone users can get into heated arguments over it, all the while listing off the top specifications of their phone of choice.  Well now iPhone users have one more thing to give them a little edge above the other brands out there.  It turns out that iPhone users are having a whole lot of sex when compared to Blackberry and Android users.

One graph is kind enough to show how much the men and women are having separately.  In each case the women were having a bit more fun than the male phone owners.  There is another chart that shows the layout by age as well.  Now I would like to point out that all of this data comes from the dating site OkCupid.  This isn’t some deep long researched study done by Harvard.  They’re just some statistics that were thrown onto Excell from the dating site.  That means that you iPhone users can swear by its accuracy, but the Blackberry and Android owners have room to claim that it couldn’t possibly be correct.

Source: Technabob

There are a lot of important factors when you’re choosing not only an apartment, but the person you intend to share it with.  Things like your budget and the area you’d like to live in make perfect sense.  Also it’s important to get along with the person, so sometimes you need to meet and see how you get along with each other.  Along those lines I suppose it’s best to avoid living with someone who pulls all sorts of things that make you crazy.  Well this guy had all the basic guidelines down on his Craigslist post looking for a place to live in NYC.  He even declared his big pet peeve, iPhones.  Yes, if you have sold your soul to Steve Jobs you shouldn’t call him up to find a place.

Also if you’re against those who react overly strongly to anything as trivial as the usage of a certain brand of phone, this is probably not the roommate for you.  Sure, it’s fun to make fun of the guy publicly throwing a fit over iPhones in a random housing post, but at least you didn’t get stuck finding out he was obsessive after you’d signed a lease with him.

Source: GeeksAreSexy

Getting threatening or just flat out unwanted texts can be annoying to say the least.  I’ve had to change my number  before thanks to AT & T giving me a phone number that apparently previously belonged to a frat boy that loved getting dirty jokes from his equally mature buddies.  It’s a pretty simple process, you just call the company and the problem is solved.  However, it’s very tricky business when you happen to be the one sending yourself those texts.  It’s amazing, anytime you change your number, that vindictive part of you finds out the number as well.  Of course if you’re a little nuts and trying to frame your ex-boyfriend and his sister-in-law then you might not want those texts to stop.

The very committed 25 year old woman, Manunga, informed police of getting threatening texts from both parties.  She actually made 19 visits to the police department and caused the ex-boyfriend and his sister-in-law to become arrested 3 times, which meant they got to spend time locked up while they attempted to raise bail money.  Unfortunately for Manunga, the sister-in-law wasn’t about to take it and proved that the texts did in fact come from Manunga through a pre-paid phone she put in the sister-in-law’s name.  Manunga is now facing 3 felony counts of false imprisonment by fraud or deceit and 2 misdemeanor counts of making a false police report.

Source:  Crave

One church sadly found themselves without a cross at their church after theirs was destroyed by a storm.  That happened 30 years ago and up until now they had been unable to replace it.  Thankfully T-Mobile has paid to replace it, thanks to it conveniently doubling as a cellphone tower.  It’s a bizarre twist of events to have a cross filled with technology to keep our cellphones going, but right or wrong it gave the church their cross back.

I’m sure not all will approve of the merging of technology and religion for the New jersey St. Gregory Episcopal Church.  Truthfully I’m a little undecided on which side I’m really on with the whole matter.  I could see those that are religious perhaps having a small problem with the modern world invading on something that has been around for so long.  However, if cellphone companies were turning their current towers into crosses it might be viewed differently.  Then others, both religious and non-religious, might just be happy that the church got part of their property back after an unfortunate storm.  Like I said, I’m a little undecided.  I’m definitely not outraged over it, but it is odd.

Source: Switched

It’s a beautiful age we live in, where we can sue just about anyone no matter who is at fault.  Say you’re cheating on your husband and the cellphone company accidentally outs you on the whole affair.  Instead of realizing you made a huge mistake and the universe has found a way to out you, you cry about it and sue the company for $600,000.  Why?  Well clearly she couldn’t be the one that ended her marriage, it’s the cellphone company.

You see Nagy had her cellphone through Rogers and it was sent to her under her maiden name.  Then through the same company they had cable TV, internet and a landline, but it was sent to her husband’s name.  Well Rogers decided to merge the two and sent her bill plus everything else to her husband without notifying her.  Which according to her lawyer is an invasion of privacy and breach of contract.  When the husband opened the bill he noticed on the itemized cellphone bill there were several hour long conversations.  He decided to do a little digging and realized what was going on, therefore left her.  Sure, the company should have notified her or not done it at all.  However, whining that the cellphone company is what ended your marriage and job is just pathetic.

Source: Switched

There are a few things if you text or post them on any social networking site, it just makes you an insta-douche.  Texting an employee that they’re fired, yes, that’s one of those things.  Now, I’m by no means saying that technology is at fault.  I fully believe that if Mr. Youell hadn’t had the use of technology, he’d still find ways to act just as poorly.  Since he did have a cellphone though, he took the time to send off a nice little text to Shayne Bolsher an employee of Fife Fine Foods.

Of course upper management says they can make no comment, since Barry Youell has run away and hid taken a 3 week holiday.  The sad portion of the story is that the former employee’s union can’t really help him much.  Since he wasn’t continually employed for over a year by that employer, they can’t start a case on the grounds of unfair dismissal.  At least Barry Youell will forever hang in the douchebag hall of fame.  That’s something I suppose.

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