Every year, the CES show floor is filled with the most bizarregadgetsand concepts you can imagine. Sure, big corporations announcebig TVs,flashy monitors, andfast CPUs— but for me, weird stuff is the best part of CES. Even though few people are attending the event in person, the joy of technology means we can still enjoy the strangest things on show. LG’s OLED fitness bike Can’t go on a bike ride? Worry not....

ChaCha, the US-based Q&A service for mobile phones, has today announced it’s launching in the UK. This means that if you’re looking for an answer to any question, including phone numbers, addresses, trivia and any other tidbit, you can text 85852 and receive a human-generated personalized response. As you may already know, the UK already has similar text-based Q&A services such as63336, which was launched initially as Any Question Answered (AQA) back in April 2004....

Change.org, an online petitioning platform, is the latest victim of an organized distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack allegedly originating from China, believed to be caused by the site’s call to release artist Ai Weiwei from custody. Under theDDoStactic, malicious codes infect computers to trigger mass attacks against targeted websites. The attacks, which started late Sunday, have nearly brought down the site. According to Change.org founder Ben Rattray, “the current attack originates from an expanding group of computers primarily based in China, and has yet to stop....

UPDATE:Unfortunately, this great concept video has been taken offline. A shame, as we loved it. Still, read the description – we’d love to see an app like this come to fruition. UK broadcasterChannel 4has an online catchup and archive TV service called4oD, which launched aniPad appearlier this year. While the app that was released is usable and functional, it’s nowhere near as interesting as whatcouldhave been. London-based developerThe Noble Unionpitched for the job of building the app together withMobile IQbut didn’t get the gig....

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