Published time: 31 Oct, 2017 12:26 German football ultras have posted anti-Semitic stickers depicting Anne Frank wearing the jersey of top flight club FC Schalke 04 in an apparent copy of recent behavior by hard-core supporters of Italian team Lazio. The stickers emerged in Düsseldorf, around 45 minutes from where Schalke play their home Bundesliga […]
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Should heavy-duty pickup trucks have window stickers and fuel mileage estimates?
If you were to stroll into your nearest Chevrolet, Ford, GMC, Nissan, or Ram dealership, you’d find a bunch of pickup trucks. Most of those would have proper window stickers labeled with things like base prices, options prices, location of manufacture, and, crucially, fuel economy estimates. But you’d also run across a number of heavy-duty […]
Hacking street signs with stickers could confuse self-driving cars
Enlarge (credit: Ivan Etimov et al. / Thinkstock) Progress in the field of machine vision is one of the most important factors in the rise of the self-driving car. An autonomous vehicle has to be able to sense its environment and react appropriately. Free space has to be calculated, solid objects avoided, and any and […]
‘Smart stickers’: Wearable tech will ‘cure disease of sexual assault’, says MIT researcher
Published time: 24 Jul, 2017 21:11 A MIT researcher has developed a product which can supposedly detect and prevent sexual assault in real time. The invention, known as a ‘smart sticker’, attaches to any piece of clothing and connects to an app on the wearer’s phone via Bluetooth. The stickers pick up on the initial […]
Stephen Colbert, NASA Take On Gwyneth's Magical Goop Stickers
The odds of a “magic healing sticker” being an effective alternative to health care are even slimmer than the odds of Gwyneth Paltrow agreeing to appear on The Late Show again. Stephen Colbert on Tuesday made a mockery of the Academy Award winner’s Goop lifestyle brand, which has released a line of wearable stickers that allegedly “treat […]
Ex-NASA scientist calls Goop’s ‘healing stickers’ a load of BS
You’re probably used to ignoring all those overpriced New Age-y therapies and miracle cures Gwyneth Paltrow’s website Goop tends to promote. Remember that time when it suggested inserting jade eggs into the vagina to “increase chi?” No? Well, you can’t make this stuff up. One of its latest recommendations, wearable stickers by a company called […]
Put Your Bumper Stickers on Your Fridge, Where I Can’t See Them
– Back in the days when I had the courage to board a commercial aircraft, I remember a few trans-atlantic trips where I was given a little bumper sticker that could be affixed to the side of my seat. It said, “Wake me for meals.” Wow. Really? Wake me for belching, too. That was during […]
Popular iOS notes app Bear adds sketching (and stickers)
Bear, a fast, lightweight and lovely note-taking app for iOS and the Mac, has been building a following over the past year or so. The app’s excellent design, small but essential feature set and steady stream of updates have made it worth its subscription cost ($ 14.99 per year or $ 1.49 per month, though […]
Amazon’s iOS app inexplicably adds photo stickers
Back in February, Amazon added its product- and barcode-recognition technology, “Flow,” to its iOS shopping app. The feature had its own standalone app, but bringing it to the main one let users scan items using their smartphone’s camera and add to their account’s lists. The latest version, updated yesterday, added something a little extra: Stickers. […]
Apple’s new iPhone stickers ad is filled with pop culture references (AAPL)
YouTube Apple’s new ad is all about iMessage stickers, one of the new features introduced with iOS 10. The video, “Sticker Fight,” (watch it in full below) shows people running around and slapping the animated stickers on anything imaginable: other people, objects, and food. Throughout the fast-paced ad, Apple has hidden a number of pop […]