1. Digital Condoms
The condom has hardly changed in 100 years. Sure there are new flavours from time to time and added little rubber bumps 'for her pleasure'. But on the whole you’re wearing the same old piece of latex. Until now.
Introducing the terrifyingly named Electric Eel. Two researchers out of Georgia Tech have created a prototype for an open source digital condom that’s literally wired with electrodes and hooked up to a microcontroller. This is meant to mimic the pleasurable sensation that’s dulled by traditional condoms. The researchers are now trying to crowdfund the project to bring it into production - but their campaign so far is a flop having raised only $60.
2. Group Pokemon
Over 50,000 people are playing Pokémon. Normally this wouldn’t be news. But these 50,000 people are all controlling the same character at the same time.
A user of video streaming site Twitch.tv has set up an emulator of Pokemon Red where viewers give directions to the same character. The issue is that when 50,000 people are giving directions at the same time they tend to cancel each other out. So instead of the game continuing it will often get stuck in the same place for hours. That all makes for interesting vision... if by interesting you mean incredibly uneventful.
Surprisingly 12 days in the game has actually made progress. It may even get finished. The big question though is why are people trying to complete the game if it's so time consuming and boring?
3. Crowdpilot
With Crowdpilot you’ll never be lost for a topic or have to think for yourself ever again. The new app live streams a meeting, lunch or date to your friends. They can then send back text-based advice.
You can even “hire an assistant” someone you don’t know or have ever met for 99 cents and they’ll give you their best advice. Which will totally never ever go wrong.
