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WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.
Facebook launched an anonymous chat room app this week, which allows you to talk about just about anything and no one will ever know it’s you.
Spotify’s announced a new service which lets premium users add five separate accounts to their monthly bill so they can split it between friends or family. Thousands of future family arguments avoided.
If your dog suffers from anxiety (don’t scoff, pet skeptics it’s a real thing), this iPod for dogs is just the thing. According to Mashable, the device plays music that is specifically designed to soothe nervous pooches.
If this actually works, we have to have one. Chinese designers have invented an umbrella which uses a”force field of air” to keep rain off you, Buzzfeed reports. The people walking beside you probably wouldn’t be too happy about it though…
Internet security is everything now, especially in light of recent high profile leaks of user data. With that in mind, this week Google introduced a new tool to be used in two-step verification for Gmail – an actual physical key.
The Air Umbrella guys were looking for $10K crowdfunding on Kickstarter and managed to raise over $100K earlier this month. The mind boggles.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1243275397/air-umbrella
Did the designer(s) of the air umbrella consider the fact that umbrellas are also used as shading devices in hotter parts of the world?
Did the umbrella guys also consider the fact that umbrellas block the wind and on a windy day the rain doesn’t just fall straight down? And also, umbrellas are great because they don’t need batteries.
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