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How This Philips Viral Ad Led to a Gun-Toting Bear Hunt

There’s nothing a marketing department loves more than a viral campaign. Millions of impressions! All that BUZZ! But what happens when authorities think your video of a bear just chilling on a street corner is real? Men with guns happen. The video above—which was somehow, some way intended to get people to buy a specific…

Tech News Brian Barrett Oct 14

In a borderless world, everyone would move to Singapore

Well, not exactly. Yesterday Gallup released updated data detailing where the world’s population would relocate if emigration were a non-issue. Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Botswana, and the United States were among the big gainers, whereas everyone wants to leave Somalia. From Gallup: Gallup’s Potential Net Migration Index finds Singapore, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Switzerland, Australia,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 21

The House That Grew From Solid Water

I like this Singaporean house as much as my dream house—also in Singapore. It may not be by the beach, but it looks like it’s growing from solid water. The living room itself has water walls: https://gizmodo.com/who-doesnt-want-to-live-in-this-dream-house-5580961 The Tangga House—as it’s called—is built around a central courtyard, with the borderless pool surrounding two sides of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 2

Who Doesn’t Want to Live In This Dream House?

Screw the 6,000-square-foot Central Park duplex, the $100 million house in South Kensington, or the 17th-century apartment with views to Notre Dame. I want the Fish House. Property porn doesn’t go more luscious than this. Made of wood, steel, and glass, glass, and more glass, the Fish House is an environmentally-friendly waterfront home in Singapore.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 6

Careful Not to Backstroke Over the Edge of Singapore

55 storeys up, this infinity pool could glide you straight over the edge of Singapore, if not the world. It’s part of the $6 billion Marina Bay Sands Skypark hotel, which just opened this week. Ok, so if you were really to propel yourself over the edge, you’d fall into a catchment-area which sends the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 25

The Pixel Cloud Skyscraper Is a JRPG Dream Fortress

This digital cloud skyscraper was a finalist in Singapore’s recent contest to design a pavilion for the World Expo 2010. And it’s nothing short of wondrous. By Singapore-based Design Act, “My Dream, Our Vision” is constructed from 3866 cubes of varying opacity, and serves as a physical manifestation of the intangible: digital information floating above…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 31

9 Year Old Writes iPhone Application

So, is the age of 10 becoming the new benchmark for career success? We already have an 8-year old Microsoft Certified Professional and now we can add a 9-year old iPhone developer to the list. https://gizmodo.com/8-year-old-macedonian-boy-becomes-youngest-microsoft-ce-5134468 The 9-year old I am speaking of is Lim Ding Wen from Singapore, and the app he developed is…

Tech News Sean Fallon Feb 5

Japan Has Double the Robots of Everyone Else, Density-Wise

As a break from all this CES news, let’s talk about robots—specifically, which countries are chock full of them. Unsurprisingly, Japan has the densest robot population, with 295 industrial automatons per every 10,000 workers. Perhaps a little more eyebrow-raising is Singapore’s place on the list, which beat out South Korea by five robots per 10K…

Tech News Elaine Chow Jan 9

Singapore Flyer Strands 173 People for Six Hours, Makes Me Reconsider Riding It

I’m in Singapore right now and had every intention to ride the Flyer, the world’s largest Ferris Wheel. But after it left 173 people were stranded for six hours last night, I’m… hesitant. https://gizmodo.com/biggest-flyer-in-the-world-makes-everyone-look-like-ant-394786 The view from the Singapore Flyer, which measures 492 feet tall, is supposed to be astounding, and I’m incredibly curious about…

Tech News Elaine Chow Dec 24

Man Banned From Owning a Camera Phone After Secretly Filming Woman On the Toilet

A man in Singapore (where else) has been banned from owning a camera phone for a year after being caught secretly filming a woman in an airport bathroom. Actually, “secretly” is probably a strong word when you consider that the perp, 19-year-old Samuel Ong, simply slid his camera phone under the cubicle door to catch…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jun 11

Biggest Flyer In the World Makes Everyone Look Like Ants

This is the view from the biggest flyer in the world, a 492-foot diameter monster located in Singapore, 16 feet bigger than the Star of Nanchang, China, and 98 feet more than the London Eye (which I’m looking at right now, after moving into the city this weekend.) The capsules’ interior look straight out of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 3

Singapore Airlines Flights Get iPhone/iPod Docks and 15.4-inch LCDs

Singapore Airlines is installing iPod docks and 15.4-inch widescreen LCDs in their all-Business Class Airbus A340-500 flights between NY/LA and Singapore, ensuring that we’re going to be flying with them if we ever have to travel to that part of the world. Each business customer can dock their iPhone or iPod and watch their own…

Tech News Jason Chen May 15

Hospital-Themed Restaurant Serves Meals in Test Tubes

The Clinic, a new restaurant in Singapore, is the mad scientist rendition of a fetish restaurant. Created as a tribute to pop artist Damien Hirst, it features waiters dressed in white coats and scrubs serving colorful pills and syringes of cocktails with names like “Nitro-Sangria” and “Sex on a Drip” to wheel-chair ridden customers. The…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA Jan 3

World’s Largest Commercial Jet, Airbus A380, Makes Maiden Voyage (Video)

The Airbus A380, the biggest commercial jetliner ever put into production, at long last took its first trip—and it didn’t hit any icebergs. Out of a possible 850 travelers, 450 were on board in this seven-hour Singapore Airlines trip from, well, Singapore all the way to Sydney. This means that, today Airbus officially steals the…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Oct 25

Singapore Contest Offers $600k for Best Robo-Warrior

All you bot builders listen up. Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency is holding a contest to see who can build the best street-fighting robowarrior. The prize? One million Singapore dollars (about $652,000 US). The bar is set pretty high, however, as the winning bot will have to know how to move within buildings, navigate…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Jan 24

Citibank Releases Biometric Finger Scanning Payment System

Citibank has developed a system of payment that uses a person’s fingerprint as the conduit of sale. Over in the high-tech wonderland of Singapore, Citibank is releasing the biometric scanners at places where people’s time is “more valuable,” like train stations, coffee shops, etc. Right now, the biometric scanner is tied into a specific type…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Nov 22

Singapore Space Port Fantasized About

Space flight is not just for governments any more, and a group from Singapore is getting in on the action, with a bold, fantastic press release about its plans to open a $115 million spaceport complete with astronaut training facilities and suborbital space flights. A partnership between Space Adventures, Ltd. and an unnamed Singapore-based consortium,…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 22

How This Philips Viral Ad Led to a Gun-Toting Bear Hunt

In a borderless world, everyone would move to Singapore

The House That Grew From Solid Water

Who Doesn’t Want to Live In This Dream House?

Careful Not to Backstroke Over the Edge of Singapore

The Pixel Cloud Skyscraper Is a JRPG Dream Fortress

9 Year Old Writes iPhone Application

Japan Has Double the Robots of Everyone Else, Density-Wise

Singapore Flyer Strands 173 People for Six Hours, Makes Me Reconsider Riding It

Man Banned From Owning a Camera Phone After Secretly Filming Woman On the Toilet

Biggest Flyer In the World Makes Everyone Look Like Ants

Singapore Airlines Flights Get iPhone/iPod Docks and 15.4-inch LCDs

Hospital-Themed Restaurant Serves Meals in Test Tubes

World’s Largest Commercial Jet, Airbus A380, Makes Maiden Voyage (Video)

Singapore Contest Offers $600k for Best Robo-Warrior

Citibank Releases Biometric Finger Scanning Payment System

Singapore Space Port Fantasized About

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