Alongside adverts promising you “more RAM,” one of my favorite old pranks (or scams?) were the apps that pretended to measure your temperature. These either delivered completely random figures, or you could set a temperature yourself in order to “punk” your friends. Ah, simple times. Well, in today’s edition of Oh My God Technology Is Moving At A Terrifying Pace And, Also, Goddamn I’m Old™, there are rumors circulating that the Apple Watch Series 8 may include a feature that can measure the user’s body temperature....

Spanish artistIvan Puigis known for playful, poetic installations. In his latest work robotic arms rotate to hit the bottles, creating echoing sounds as well as concentric and repeated patterns representing the mandalas. The mandalas are drawings that serve to focus and quiet the mind in many eastern cultures. For its part, modern life offers endless motion pictures, comfort, science, technology, technocrats, Democrats, anarchists, fatalists… a broad portfolio for consumption. In the combination of these antagonistic points gestate the Mandalas for modern living....

CustomMade CEO Mike Salguero, a Boston University grad, began his entrepreneurial track selling anti-George Bush t-shirts. Now Salguero combines his passion for technology and problem solving to address the once complicated process of buying something custom. In 2009, Salguero and his college friend Seth Rosen foundedCustomMadein Boston, Mass. Buyers can have a hard time finding a reliable and capable maker who specializes in custom design, but buying custom means buying something of good value....

On September 11, 2001, New York City’s skyline changed forever. Using today’s augmented reality technology,Brian Augustwants to build an augmented reality app for the iPhone that will allow users to document their stories of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in NYC. The app is called 110 Stories and he’s currently raising fundson Kickstarter. “After the events in 2001… I started to think about all of the iconic views I had of the towers and all of those views being lost....

Researchers at Cornell University posted this video below of two artificially intelligent Chatbots aka Cleverbots talking to each other:“What happens when you let two bots have a conversation? We certainly never expected this… “ We’ve seen robots sensibly listen, take orders and talking to humans before. But conversation is typically dry and based on a set of commands. It’s all very if X than Y. Or if not X then not Y....