Sony launch new "Portrait" TV

By +Brad Naylor

Electronics giant Sony have announced that they will be launching a new TV known as the Portrait TV this Spring. The large 9:16 ratio screen comes in response to the number of people making videos on their cellphones in portrait or vertical mode rather than using the traditional landscape orientation.

The new Portrait TV from Sony

Where did the Harry Potter concept originate?

By +Brad Naylor

JK Rowling published the first Harry Potter book way back in 1997 but where did the inspiration for her characters and book titles come from? One possible theory comes from the fact that a former boyfriend was a computer programmer who worked for Hewlett Packard.

HP could stand for Harry Potter or Hewlett Packard

Scientists reveal naturally colored snow

By +Ian C

A team of international scientists based in Helsinki, Finland, have announced that they have created different colored snow, and not by adding food coloring. According to their press release, their method is entirely natural and does not involve dyes or colors.

The magic of photo editing shows what colored snow won't look like

Slap the Penguin welcomes Windows 10 users

By +Brad Naylor

Do you have Windows 10 yet? It seems that although Microsoft are claiming that Windows 10 has been installed on almost 100 million devices, only a small percentage of those devices have visited slapthepenguin.com. According to our analytics, during the month of August less than 1.5% of visits to our pages came from a device running Windows 10.

Upgrading to Windows 10 can be a pane

Vietnamese Brothers demonstrate levitation sacks

By +Tina Cruris

30 years ago, a certain movie promised us hover boards by the year 2015. So far the technology has not materialised in a workable format, but they could be about to change thanks to Hoi Dong and Quan Tri Noi, two brothers from Vietnam who have recently demonstrated their levitation sacks, which appear to defy gravity without the need for any kind of magnetic track.

Hoi and Quan show off their sacks

The Fitbit fad.

By +Alexa Rankin

For many people, fitness is about walking, running, cycling or swimming to stay in shape and maintain good health, but now there there is a new breed of fitness enthusiasts who measure their success by the number of steps recorded on their Fitbit.

Danae demonstrates how to put on a Fitbit device

Look first, leap second

By +Brad Naylor

You may remember June 30th, 2012 when the scientific universe decreed that an extra second needed to be added to the year to account for the slowing of the earth's rotation around the sun. This Leap Second allowed the hyper accurate atomic clocks which run on International Atomic Time (TAI) to resync with Universal Time (UT1) which is defined by the rotation of the Earth. Well this year, on Tuesday June 30th we are getting another one.

Universal Time - A visual representation

Top 5 ways to learn Chinese

By +Alexa Rankin

There are many methods of learning Chinese available today, across a range of budgets, each one using a slightly different style and with varying levels of results. Read on to discover the top 5 ways to become conversationally fluent in Chinese.

The picture says it all. Top 5 ways to learn Chinese

Scientists discover drugs on meteorites

By +Brad Naylor

A group of research scientists at the University of Oregon have discovered that 70% of the meteorites that they have studied have traces of drugs in their structure. The team have found evidence of THC, LSD, and MDMA on over 300 pieces of space rock including the world famous Willamette Meteorite during their 6 year study.

Willamette Meteorite found to be covered with drug residue

Dear Tina - How do you pronounce .GIF?

By +Tina Cruris

Dear Tina, I recently got into an argument at school about how to pronounce the word GIF. I have always said GIF with a hard G and a buddy claims that it's GIF with a soft G. Please tell me I am right so that I can rub it in his face. I know you are a girl but I know that you can give advice on any topic and I trust you to come through with the facts for me.

P.S. you are super hot looking. Sometimes in bed at night, I read your posts and I touch myself. I tried friending you on facebook but I think there is something wrong because I never get an answer.

Thanks (for everything), Jimmy Johnson

Apple bans fart apps from new watch

By +Brad Naylor

Tech giant and fan boy magnet Apple Inc. have surreptitiously banned all fart apps for their new apple watch according to some app developers. For those without imagination, the concept of a fart app is to hide the iPhone close to somebody else and while standing an inconspicuously safe distance away, press a button on the Apple Watch to trigger a fart sound from the iPhone, thus making it appear that the target 'let one rip'.

"Farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt!" How else would you write a fart sound?

Apple introduce racially diverse iOS 8.3

By +Brad Naylor

This is probably old news to fanboys and iPhowners, but the new Apple mobile operating system iOS 8.3 is available for download and it has some new features and improvements, including over 70 bug fixes which have plagued iPhone 6 owners since iOS 8 was released.

iPhone 6 + iOS 8 = bugs

Siri and Cortana in an e-PA bitch fight

By +Brad Naylor

The battle of the electronic personal assistant has turned into a 64-bit bitch fight with Microsoft's Cortana taking on Apple's Siri as well as competing against the so far non-personalized OK Google system.

Who is will win the 64-bit bitch fight?

Harrison Fore! Actor crashes plane on golf course

By +Brad Naylor

Veteran film actor, Harrison Ford is described as battered but comfortable after crashing his vintage WW2 training plane onto a golf course after it lost power right after take off. He was flying solo in the two seater, single-engine Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR.

"She'll make point five past lightspeed."

What color is Spock's uniform?

By +Brad Naylor

There were two major news stories this week and I aim to handle both of them in one post. Last Friday we lost the star of the beloved TV series 'Mission Impossible', Leonard Nimoy. 

Leonard Nimoy - Mission Impossible

Radioshack to close nearly 1800 stores

By +Brad Naylor

Since 1921, Radioshack has been a Mecca for geeks. Or at least it was until the internet was invented and the geeks abandoned their real social life in favor of the safer, virtual social life. The international high street chain which started out as THE place to get electronic components for Ham Radios, and later, state of the art High Fidelity music equipment has announced that it will close 1784 of it's US stores by March of this year.

Personal HiFi for the 21st Century

Virtual Vulva game delayed again

By +Brad Naylor

Halfbrick Studios, the brains behind great mobile games like Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, are struggling to launch their new game, Virtual Vulva, because it is considered to be too adult for iTunes and Google Play.

Will Virtual Vulva be available in 2015?

Taylor Swift takes on the Great Omnipotence

By +Brad Naylor

It is a brave soul that goes head to head with the all powerful, the Great Omnipotence (noun), The Big G, and the spunky young songstress, Taylor Swift thinks she has what it takes. She has filed a lawsuit against Google requiring them to cease using the phrase "Speak Now" as part of their voice command system, claiming they are infringing copyrights from her 2010 album and single releases of the same name.

Speak Now - Taylor Swift vs Google

The Evolution of Absolution

By +Alexa Rankin

Since his papacy began in 2013, Pope Francis has been shaking up the Catholic Church by reviving old values, and accepting ideas traditionally ignored by previous pontiffs. Frankie the First has accepted (but does not condone) homosexuality, and has even given the idea of evolution the thumbs up since it can be integrated into the biblical version of creation, Now His Holiness is embracing technology by launching a new iPhone app for Catholics worldwide.

Now you can confess your mortal sins anytime, anywhere

Minecraft Nazi strategy guide discovered

By +Brad Naylor

The game of Minecraft continues to take the world by storm with an estimated 20,000 new players every day, pushing the total number of registered users beyond 50 million. This makes the world of Minecraft a lucrative business indeed, but not without potential pitfalls. In recent months there have been an increasing number of complaints that hate groups are attempting to use Minecraft as a recruiting tool.

Neo-Nazi attempt to recruit through Minecraft