teens
Robots
Specialised DVR For Cars Could Make Teens Better Drivers
5:00AM Jack Loftus | Technological progress is amazing. Case in point: When I was learning to drive, my safety monitor was a “mum”. It barked orders at me as I navigated the streets, oftentimes recklessly at high rates of speed. In the future? Robots! More »
Phones
Texting While Driving PSA Delivers Bloody, Bone-Crunching Message
3:30AM Jack Loftus | Holy shit. The initial accident is bad enough, but the creators of this texting PSA, not content with the usual scare tactics, add in some flying glass and a neck crunch to hammer things home. Then the second car appears. More »
Science
Predictive Texting Turning Kids Into Fast-Thinking Idiots
8:40AM Jesus Diaz | A study published in the Journal of Bioelectromagnetics, says that children aged 11 to 14 abusing predictive texting in mobile phones are turning into fast-thinking idiots. Sounds about right. Of course, lead researcher Professor Abramson doesn’t say it exactly that way. More »
Music
Brilliant Girl Jumps In Front of a Pickup Truck to Save iPod
8:20AM Adam Frucci | Here’s an example of great priorities: a 16-year-old girl dove in front of a pickup truck to retrieve her dropped iPod. More »
Random Stuff
Young Modern Love is Dead: Teens Can Go To Jail For Sending Nude Mobile Phone Photos To Each Other
2:14PM Brian Lam | One in five teens send nude photos to others they date or want to date. The law says that makes them child pornographers…of themselves? Weird! And glad I’m not a parent! [NYT] More »
Online
Pool Crashing in the UK Becomes Latest Google Earth Prank
8:30PM Gizmodo US Edition | The latest craze for teenagers with no place to go except Facebook is “dipping,” or gatecrashing someone else’s swimming pool. According to the Daily Mail (commenter djheath’s favourite publication, if I recall correctly) putative trespassers select their swimming pool using Google Earth, and then notify their mates using social networking sites. The would-be revellers often turn up in fancy dress, and are advised to bring a bike (for a swift getaway). Owners only discover their pool has been dipped when they find a bunch of beer cans floating on the surface the next morning. [Daily Mail] More »
Random Stuff
British Teen Repellent System Irritating US Residents Soon
3:40AM Jason Chen | You remember that lousy mosquito noise device generators in the UK that were supposed to drive teens away because only they could hear them? The ones that actually turned out to be audible to just about everybody? They’re coming to the US. People here aren’t too happy about it, with some bans and protests after (and before) some shop owners decided to install them. What do you think? Is this going to work better than calling the cops? [CNN via Boing Boing] More »
Press
