Bump is a smartphone app that transfers a user’s contact information from one phone to another by fist-bumping. Over the years, Bump has added things like photo sharing to their program, and today they’ve let me do something I’ve always wanted.
Now I can fist-bump my computer to upload photos. I’m not even going to use it, I just love how inventive it is.
Once in a generation, a visionary creates something truly revolutionary. A product that upends whole sectors of the population. A service that brings grown men to gnash their teeth and women wail in sorrow, all because they had not thought of it first.
Or, sometimes, someone makes a web site with hilariously oversized text, and sticks a WHOIS search form at the bottom. This person also might call it “The Facebook of Websites.” Ladies and gentlemen, I give you WhoDat.biz – the world’s first way to look up WHOIS data.
This is apparently the first product from Kanye West’s fabulous new design startup, DONDA. You might recall that time a couple months ago when Kanye went on a two hour non-stop Tweeting binge. Ideally, this isn’t what he was so excited about.
UPDATE: It’s a faaaaaaaake. Well played, clerks. Well played.
You’ve all heard of Facebook, where everyone knows lots about you, regardless of whether you posted it or not.
You’ve probably heard of Twitter, where you connect with people with short updates and grow your network of online friends.
You might have heard about Path, where you can share your thoughts, places, photos and even your musical tastes with a close number of friends.
You probably haven’t heard about Pair – that’s okay, it’s new – where you can connect with your loved one (yep, just one) when you’re apart.
We think we’ve come up with a social networking platform that speaks to you – and only you – personally. It’s called Solo.
The problem with today’s social networks is that they spread your focus away from the most important person in your life: you. That’s a problem. You end up being connected with everyone else and you stop being connected with yourself. And there’s no way you can be truly connected to others without being connected to yourself first, right?
Read the rest of Introducing Solo: The Social Network That’s Just For You at Vardy.me
From a former fellow at my old law school, who now writes for the Patent Law Practice Center:
From the high-five machine (US 5356330), to the kissing shield (US5727565), to the burial structure for human remains and significant memorabilia (US 6799399) whose resemblance to the Great Pyramids at Giza is uncanny. [...] check out the drawing of the patent for the Interactive Life-Sized Bowl of Soup (US 6168531). That’s right, an interactive life-sized soup bowl not only exists, but there’s a patent for it.
I’m struggling to imagine who would (A) invent an interactive life-sized bowl of soup and subsequently (B) decide I gotta patent this before someone else rides this gravy train! I’m sure weirder things have happened.
The whole slideshow is worth a look, because there’s nothing quite like technical drawings of asinine things.