Students at the National University of Singapore got a 10 finger discount courtesy of Coca-Cola. The company modified their vending machines to dispense soda in exchange for hugs. Coke hopes the machine will spread more than just germs. “Happiness is contagious. The Coca-Cola Hug Machine is a simple idea to spread some happiness,” explained Leonardo O’Grady, ASEAN IMC Director for Coca-Cola. “Our strategy is to deliver doses of happiness in

After years of getting beat up, Doctor Octopus is dying and claims he wants to be remembered as “the man who preserved the Earth for all time.” He launches a network of lens into orbit, which first speed up global warming as a warning and then temporarily reverse global warming as an incentive. In order to make the effect permanent, he needs the assistance of world leaders. They eagerly agree.

Cybernetic prostheses usually replace lost function but in Japan they’re the latest fashion statement, known as Neurowear. It combines technology and fashion to created an “Augumented Human Body.” Necomimi are cybernetic cat ears that move in sync with your brainwaves to convey emotion. However, the movements are more accurate to the fictional cat girls that populate anime rather than actual cats. “When cats are frightened or want to scare away

Jennifer Love Hewitt recently told Maxim that she’s proud of her 36C breasts. “It’s horrible to say, but I like my boobs. They’ve always served me well. They’re good,” said Hewitt. They’re certainly serving her well in Hewitt’s newest role as a single mom working at a “massage” parlor. Lifetime has been promoting The Client List with a series of provocative photos but they were apparently too sexy for Entertainment

For a quarter of a century, exactly where The Simpsons live has remained a mystery. It’s only been ambiguously referred to as Springfield, USA. In a recent interview with the Smithsonian creator Matt Groening revealed: Springfield was named after Springfield, Oregon. The only reason is that when I was a kid, the TV show “Father Knows Best” took place in the town of Springfield, and I was thrilled because I

First Google got into phones, now it has its sights set on eyewear. It’s posted a video demonstrating augmented reality glasses, dubbed Project Glass. The lensless glasses have a display in the corner which digitally superimposes things like weather stats, text messages, map directions, subway alerts, calendar reminders, and of course Google+. “A group of us from Google[x] started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps

Admit it, you think you’d be a better leader than Rick or Shane. Well now’s your chance to prove it! Telltale Games has licensed The Walking Dead for 5 episodic games, which will be released monthly starting in late April. The games will be canonical to the comic but begin at the outset of the zombie apocalypse when Rick Grimes is still in a coma. Players control Lee Everett, a

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from The Walking Dead, it’s that you need friends who have your back. AMC’s The Walking Dead: Social Game lets you test out your survival skills as well as your social skills by recruiting your friends on facebook to help defend your camp, which will continuously be under attack by walkers even when you’re not online. More friends means more guards but it also

The season finale of AMC’S The Walking Dead ended with the on-screen debut of Michonne, a sword-wielding zombie slayer who first appeared way back in issue #19 (2005). Only now is her origin being told in a six-page mini-comic for the April issue of Playboy. Spoilers The story opens with Michonne racing home from work while still dressed in a skirt and high heels. The zombie outbreak has already claimed

You’d expect a replica of Captain Kirk’s chair to cost an astronomical amount of gold-pressed latinum but ThinkGeek is breaking all the Rules of Acquisition and giving it away for just $25! The Star Trek Inflatable Captain’s Chair is the next best thing to the real McCoy. The paint job features details like black cushion seat, wooden armrests, and various buttons & lights, including Yellow Alert, Red Alert, and Jettison

Since beach volleyball’s introduction to the Olympics in 1996, female athletes have been required to wear a bikini or a full body suit for cold weather. However, the London 2012 Olympics will allow women to wear less revealing clothes like shirts and shorts. The sport is currently dominated by the western world (United States, Brazil, and Europe) and the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) wants to make it more inclusive by

Cartoon Network celebrated April Fools’ Day as it usually does by replacing anime with Tommy Wiseau’s infamously bad movie The Room, or so it seemed. The opening credits were interrupted by the return of the Toonami programming block, which included 11 anime series: Bleach #247, Dragon Ball Z #191, Gundam Wing #10, Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki #19, Outlaw Star #25, Big O #1, Yu Yu Hakusho #110, Blue Submarine No. 6

Everyone knows Captain America is actually Steve Rogers, a 90-pound weakling who was transformed by the Super-Soldier Serum. The real secret is that he’s a comic geek!? Not even the Watcher saw this coming. Avenging Spider-Man #5 opens with a comic within a comic, called Liberty Bonds. The one page comic was written and drawn by Steve Rogers before he became Captain America, but is eerily prophetic. It tells the

Anchorman Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) made a very classy entrance on Conan this week. After giving an encore of his jazz flute solo, he announced some exclusive news in the most roundabout way possible. “I want to announce this to everyone here in the Americas, to our friends in Spain, Turkey, and the UK, including England, that as of 0900 mountain time, Paramount Pictures and myself, Ronald Joseph Aaron Burgundy,

You may have to wait a little longer for the Xbox 720 (durango). A lite version will be released first, according to “MS Nerd” an anonymous blogger who has a knack for forecasting the future of Microsoft (hence the alias). “My understanding is that we’ll see a Xbox device in late 2013 which does Arcade-style games & all the current & future media apps with Kinect (with near-mode). It will