Just a round up of some of the fantastic new things that have been featured today, on the first of April:
Google Animal Translate
Introducing Translate for Animals (beta): Bridging the gap between animals and humans
Google have now updated their real time translation software with an android app (sorry iPhone fans!) that provides animal translations. So now you can answer the question as to what Mr Dog/Caesar is actually talking about.
DIY Carbon Freezing Kit
Yes I know you love me dear, but why can’t I move my arms and why am I now someone’s favourite wall decoration?
Now you can cryogenically freeze yourself for 5-30 years. Yes, really! Making a complete Han Solo of yourself has never been easier. Or possible.
full details available here (via firebox.com)
Textp
Help save youtube bandwidth by selecting textp rather than video. For every person who selects TEXTp and keeps it on while they watch a video, they save YouTube $1 a second, resulting in potentially billions of dollars of savings (not to mention the environmental benefit of saving server load).
TEXTp is the result of months of intense transcoding efforts by our engineers, who toiled for weeks to ensure that a large chunk of videos on the platform could be reduced to their most basic elements. By replacing the images in the video with a series of letters and numbers, the videos are far less taxing on our system — and have the added benefit of promoting literacy!
see the above in all it’s textp glory on the Youtube website