http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWu9TFJjHaM
Behold: The MYO armband from Thalmic Labs. The device uses six-axis and muscle activity sensors to allow users to control electronic devices with hand and arm gestures. The device connects via Bluetooth 4.0 to OSX and Windows with iOS and Android versions in development.
Available to pre-order for $150+shipping here.
You know you shouldn’t.
We have one, yes just ONE, box of Irish-made food-based board game Smorgasboard to give away.
Cooked up in Hasbro, Co Waterford city, Smorgasboard is the perfect mealtime diversion for couples/families that have literally run out of things to say to each other all ages.
To enter…
The Fourth Annual Great Irish Foodie Quiz will take place on Thursday, March 7 from 7.30pm in The Circle Club of the Bord Gais Theatre. Entry costs €100 for a team of four with all proceeds going to Down Syndrome Ireland. Pre-Booking (essential) here.
Team names already booked include My Little Pony Burgers, Gastronomicon and A Flock of Budgies
Unless you can do better.
Lines close at 1.45pm 2.15pm.
The team name judged finest takes the ‘Smorgasboard’. Winner announced in comments.
It’s busy in St Peter’s Square,
The faithful have all gathered there,
To see the last show,
From the outgoing Joe,
And say their goodbyes, and a prayer.
John Moynes
(Guardian)
The Delgany Inn, Delgany, Co Wicklow, 1971.
They might have waited for the rain to ‘lift’ and supplied the male model an undergarment to avoid unnecessary ‘pure wool’ chafing.
Other than that.
Good times.
Previously: The Aran Safari Jacket
Via Brand New Retro
UCLA graduate Mark Nelson’s multi-award winning MFA thesis project concerns a group of misfits in Leeds during World War 1 who must overcome their deficiencies to save Blighty and the world.
At nineteen minutes, it’s pretty long for a ‘short’ but still worth a full-screening.
Tally-ho.
Hairy, unhygenic misfits crouched in a dank room geeking out over RAM size.
We’ve come a long way.
*cough*
The Internet Exchange in Dublin (exact location unknown).
1996.
Pics by Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland.
John and Ashleigh Bennett from Chicago have their son Jude’s room wired up with an iPad-connected remote camera.
Here’s what they discovered recently.
Sido writes:
Reading between the lines the Italian population voted against Draghi’s Austerity. The really weird thing is the notion that you can choose a government with balls.
Italy Votes Against Austerity Leaving EU In Turmoil (Guardian)
ECB Bond Plan In Jeopardy As Italy’s Voters Reject Conditions (Telegraph)
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Long Johns!
Aoife Murray writes:
BBC [1950s) drama Quirke is shooting on North Great George’s street today. Check out ye olde authentic washing line outside Senator Norris’ place! No sign of Gabriel Byrne yet.
James McClean (top) and wide-brimmed IRA gentlemen from the 1920s.
It comes after the Republic of Ireland star professed his love for song The Broad Black Brimmer by The Wolfe Tones prior to Sunderland’s game against West Bromwich Albion at the weekend.
The song tells of a boy whose father is killed while fighting for the IRA, with the title referring to the wide-brimmed hat worn by many of the group’s members in the 1920s during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War.
McClean tweeted: ‘On flight for the maras game. Only one thing for it —headphones in, Wolfe Tones on! What’s everyone’s fave song? Broad Black Brimmer edges mine.’
The Broad Black Brimmer by The Wolfe Tones
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