‘Are You Dead Yet’ is an app recently released in China that asks a user daily if they’re still alive. After two missed button-press confirmations, it notifies the emergency contact they entered when they signed up via an email. I want to read that email. [App developer] Guo and his

Because ‘Black Mirror’ was actually just a regular mirror all along, AI app 2wai (pronounced 2-way) creates digital avatars that you can interact with, promising to connect the currently living with the currently dead for a monthly fee. Because that’s something we’ve been needing. Allegedly all that’s needed is a

Because some people actually bother putting their know-how to good use, this is a video of Youtuber Engineezy building and playing a physical version of the Flappy Bird video game. It’s a very impressive build, featuring pipes that rotate on a conveyor belt, randomly adjusting their height as a player

This is a short video of somebody’s hamster doing the math with the help of a smartphone calculator app. Now I’m not entirely sure what it was calculating, but I suspect it had something to do with the revolutionary velocity of its hamster wheel. Really heady stuff. It looks like

This is a Great Big Story interview with Australian voice actor Karen Jacobsen, jokingly known as “the only woman men will take directions from.” Since 2002, Karen has been the voice of over 1-billion GPS devices and smartphone apps. Ha, I knew I recognized her from somewhere! She lives in

This is a video of a man testing a human-to-cat translation app on Porkchop (Sandwiches! Oh shit, get the f*** outta here!), a kitten he’s catsitting for a friend. I’m not sure if the cat was responding to the actual translation, or just the sound of another cat, but it

Presumably inspired by socially distanced birthday parties, Blower is a $2 iPhone app that can blow out a candle by holding the speaker up to the candle. What a time to be alive and celebrating another trip around the sun! The app works by generating pressure waves from the phone’s

Brickit is a smartphone app (currently available for iOS, Android coming soon) that can analyze any photo of spread out LEGO pieces (aka a LEGO minefield), identify the different pieces present via machine learning, suggest things you can build with them, and provide the step-by-step instructions to build those things.