Everyone knows the famous Star Trek line, “to boldly go where no one has gone before.”  Now the Internet is penetrating the final frontier of privacy – your underpants – literally.  Fundawear is technology that “beams” your touch to someone’s private places using a Smartphone App and Internet connection.  Oh yeah, you also need specially made female lingerie and/or male underwear with tiny vibrating motors.

Durex in Sydney, Australia invented Fundawear—underwear allowing your partner (or yourself, we don’t judge) to remotely operate sensors sewn into undergarments to simulate touch over the Internet.  It seems fitting that Fundawear comes from “the land down under.”  (Sorry, it has to be said.)  But they are serious and marketing this as the next big thing for relationships.  Here’s a promotional video that tries to make this seem legitimate:

Fundawear claims that it allows you to transfer touch over vast distances.  But let’s get real – this is high tech foreplay.  And it can take masturbation to a whole new level.  Not to mention the practical joke potential.  Simply replace your friend’s underwear with Fundawear.  Later in the day when they are at a business meeting you can provide them with some surprising stimulation!

There is also the potential to make otherwise mundane tasks A LOT more exciting.  Imagine how Fundawear could spice up a day at the DMV waiting to get your license renewed.  Your partner (or yourself) brings up the Fundaware app and the next thing you know you are smiling at the DMV, something you hardly ever see.

Will Fundaware bring a whole new universe of exotic fun?  Or will it fall in the black hole of creepiness such as products like the Stadium Pal.

FYI – The Stadium Pal is an apparatus that attaches a tube to your “manhood” that connects to a bag attached to your leg.  So you can drink all the beer you want and pee without having to actually go to a toilet.  You don’t miss a single second of the game because of pesky bodily functions.  And your legs stay warm to boot.  Weird, right!

Not sure if this tingly tech for underwear is cool or creepy?  But it is, as Spock would say with a raised eyebrow, “Fascinating.”

Think you waste a lot of time on social networking.  Maybe not.

Thanks to this infograph on vintage social networking, it shows all  the things we no longer need thanks to the wonders of social media.

The geeks shall inherit prime-time TV.  Emmy-nominated sitcom The Big Bang Theory hits 20 million viewers rivaling ratings juggernaut Idol. That’s no bazinga.

Even more impressive is that the nerd-centric show is in it’s sixth season and it’s ratings are still on the rise.  Most TV shows of this age are watching their ratings decay and “jumping the shark” to keep viewer-ship.  (Idol anyone?)

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to do the math.  With other “nerdy” shows like Glee on the air and self-proclamation nerds like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on the top of their game, it’s a golden age for geeks.  Even the 2012 presidential election felt the power of geekdom.  Nate Silver, who is sometimes described as a nerd, became all-the-rage after using math to accurately predict the landslide victory for President Obama.  Go math!

Speaking as a geek, all I can say is – may The Force be with us.

Watch The Big Bang Theory Thursday nights at 8PM on CBS.  Or you can catch the reruns in syndication just about anywhere (check your local listings).

Here’s a clip from The Big Bang Theory to wet your appetite.

You enjoy reading, but like most of us in the modern world, it’s hard to find the time.  Whispersync allows you to switch back and forth between the Kindle book and the Audible audiobook on your iPhone or Android device without ever losing your place.

Here’s how it works:

• Go to Audible.com and setup an account.
  If you have an Amazon account you already have an Audible account.
• Download the professionally narrated audiobook from the My Library section of the app, and start listening.
• Pause the professional narration when you’re ready to switch to reading on your Kindle, and pick up right where you left off.

Available on any Kindle E Ink Reader, Kindle tablet, or Kindle reading app.  Get the free Audible app for your iPhone or iPod Touch (from iTunes) or your Android device (from Google Play or the Amazon Appstore, and sign in using your Amazon credentials.

I’ve been using Whispersync on my iPhone.  I downloaded the free Audible app and free Kindle reader app.  Then I purchase a Kindle book with narration.  So far it’s been working great.  I was waiting for an appointment so I pulled out my iPhone to read the latest book I downloaded.  Just I was getting to an exciting part it was time for my appointment.  Afterwards I had to rush to the car to make my next meeting.  So I put on my headphone and brought up the Audible app.  When it started it ask if I wanted to sync with the Kindle reader.  I relied yes and narration picked-up where I had left off reading.  Cool!

Here’s a video commercial about Whispersync.

“Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.  If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.”

- Gene Roddenberry

It’s a geek’s world, and in this new world the geek gets the girls – or boys, whatever is your preference.  Hey, Geeks don’t judge.

Batman has had many forms through the years.  From dark, to quirky, to even campy and nipply.  The New York Film Academy created this info-graphic that sums up the last 70 Years of Batman.

As silly as it was, the 60′s Adam West Batman is still a favorite incarnation.  While it may have strayed from the original Batman themes of justice and vengeance, it brought Batman to the masses.

One of my favorite quotes from the 60′s Batman series was when Dick ask if he could ride Bruce’s prize racing horse Waynebow:
Dick: “Bruce, let me ride Waynebow. I’m light enough.”
Bruce: “No, Dick, I couldn’t allow my own ward to ride my own thoroughbred. People might think it was funny.”


Infographic by New York Film Academy, an International Film School

The geek shall inherit the Earth!

This hypnotic and stunning video of the Aurora Borealis was created over the course of three years. The video is long in terms of “Internet” time (13 minutes). But it’s worth a few minutes of your time to stop and be amazed at one of the Earth’s most breathtaking natural phenomena.

It reminds us that the world (and our life) is full of wonder and awe if we just take the time to stop and enjoy it.

This video was shot in Abisko National Park, Sweden and created by Lights Over Lapland.

Lights Over Lapland the Aurora Borealis Experience from Lights Over Lapland on Vimeo.