Google’s Talking Shoes From The SXSW Conference

This past weekend at the famous South by Southwest (SXSW) conference, the smarty-pants at Google showed up with their latest prototype: a pair of talking shoes. The motion sensing, “smart shoes” have an embedded speaker on the tongue that can talk to you if they sense you are being lazy, not moving enough or encourage you when you’re moving or exercising. The shoes were designed in collaboration with Adidas and can relay the information to your smartphone. For example they can tell you how fast you are moving.

Google has given new meaning to what the tongue of a shoe is meant to do with these smart sneakers, which is to smack-talk its wearer in this case. The shoes aren’t for sale but we’re wondering just how advanced the technology could get. Hopefully for most people the shoes won’t get too “smart” and be able to detect things like foot odor. Just imagine getting shouted at by your shoes saying, “Yo bro, your feet stink!” Nevertheless, sneakers just got a whole lot smarter thanks to Google.

[Photo: Google]

Eyeball over these lips for a few seconds and you’ll probably get a little ‘creeped’ out. Lets face it us girls love a new make-up trend but this is definitely one we hope NEVER catches on. The photo almost appears to be an inversion of the popular meme from 2005 known as Mouth Eyes where people placed their mouth on their eyes using photoshop and then uploaded the images. We found out the photo actually came from Swedish make-up artist Sandra Holmbolm who has even more crazy make-up tricks to check out..

[Photo:Horrifying eyeball lip art by Sandra Holmbolm]

Cue the warm, fuzzy feelings. Coca Cola has put security cameras to good use and captured little moments of people giving a little bit of their love. Coca Cola wants you to look at the world a little differently and notice all the kindness and bravery happening around you all the time.

What do you think of the campaign? Does it make you more likely to drink a Coca Cola now? Us neither, but the sentiment is nice.

Good new for those of you who waited in line at the Maison Martin Margiela x H&M launch this morning and found the Candy Wrapper Clutch to be sold out!  If you hurry over to SHEfinds, you may be able to still get one! Good luck!

If you’re still wondering why this eye is full suds, take a closer look. When Reddit user Liammm took a peek at his picture of his draining kitchen sink, he found something else looking back at him.. literally. This optical illusion makes you take a second look. Is it a kitchen sink or a beautiful (yet spooky) eyeball?

Talk about perfect timing.

Karlie Kloss is no stranger to being the hot topic. After her nude pics and photoshopped ribs, you’d think she’d want to stay away from controversy! Well, Victoria’s Secret didn’t help her last week. They sent her stomping down the runway during the 2012 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in this fringed leather bikini, an overload of turquoise jewels, and (the most important item of all) a towering Native American headdress replica. Not such a great idea, VS.

The Native American community was less than pleased (especially since it was a short 3 days after Gwen Stefani and No Doubt were forced to pull their music video because Gwen was.. yes, wearing a sexy Native American getup). Why are the Native American garbs taking so much heat? Among other offensive reasons, the headdress is a traditional sacred item that is being used as a costume. Native women are insulted that they are thought of as a relic/theme/trend of the past.

Victoria’s Secret has decided to pull the controversial look from the fashion show’s broadcast and any other press. A representative from the company told Huffington Post, “We are sorry that the Native American headdress replica used in our recent fashion show has upset individuals. We sincerely apologize as we absolutely had no intention to offend anyone. Out of respect, we will not be including the outfit in any broadcast, marketing materials nor in any other way.”

To make this all worse, November is Native American Heritage Month.

WTF is going on with Britney’s hair? Did she shave her head again? It looks like she’s wearing a horrible wig.

So after looking into it, SHE IS! And Lucky Magazine took the heat for the poorly-received photo shoot. The pop princess’s loyal fan base was not a fan of this month’s glossy cover. What was the hate mail medium? Twitter, of course. They took the social networking site by storm, tweeting chastising comments like, “Did @britneyspears even show up for the photoshoot or did you just photoshop her face on a body?”

Ouch. Lucky responded by apologizing for disappointing some of their readers.

But it makes me wonder, what did her real hair look like that day?

Judge for yourself, but I think she was a little schwasted.

Technology is taking over our lives! With every generation comes more and more gadgets, phones, and techtastic devices that make it even harder for parents to grasp their kid’s attention. A home-cooked meal won’t even do the trick! Cue the quirky Apron Alert — Smart Design’s Interaction Lab created an apron that actually tweets the status of lunch out to the world!

You have to be joking me, right? Parents have been forced to use a “smart” apron to interact with their kids?

How does it work? It can sense when you put the apron on (aka begin cooking the meal) and when you have taken it off. The apron sends an automatic tweet or text message to let people know when the meal has begun and when it is ready.

I assume that kids think this invention is lame. But, hey, if parents want to give it try, I’m not judging. With the technology out there today, you have to do anything you can to get their attention. If a texting apron is the only way, so be it.