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Issue 70 / 2014
TECHNOLOGY
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NEXT GLASS
App scientifically tailors your taste to every drink..
Next Glass has tested over 23,000 bottles
to help you decide whether you will like
a drink when scanning the bottle. With
a huge database, you get a personalised
score with nutritional information. This is
ideal for those with particular tastes, with
the app using lab data of each drink such
as wine or beer to calculate how much it
matches your taste.
PLAGUE
Newest home for spreading viral photos and videos
You might think that the market for
apps sharing photos and videos is
well covered. What makes Plague
special is there are no followers or
friends, offering equal opportunities
so that any upload has the chance to
go viral. When any photo is shared, it
is automatically sent to four near-by
Plague users. It also informs you how
far and where it has spread.
THE POSITIVE SIDE OF FILE SHARING: 'THE MAN FROM
EARTH' FILM RESURRECTION
Eric D.Wilkinson thanks 'pirates'
for torrenting his 1998 movie
The torrent site
RLSLog.net recently
received an email of
gratitude from film
director Wilkinson af-
ter the site made his
film available to tor-
rent. Positive reviews
on Amazon and IMDB
appeared as Wilkin-
son revealed in an
email to RLSLog that
the movie went from
11,235th in the most
popular movie cat-
egory to 5th on IMDB,
and also reached the
number one spot for
independent movies.
This is with no adver-
tising budget and over
a decade after the re-
lease. Clearly piracy
is not all doom and
gloom for the film in-
dustry, in fact quite
the opposite as many
can use torrents as a
'preview' before buy-
ing the movie.