Well… so much has happened this week! – The most important one being (for me) England beating Germany (first) and then Ukraine (last night) to make it to the Semi Finals of the Euro’s!
For those interested – Denmark (to be played on Wednesday) and the finals are next Sunday!
Ok, for this week – here’s your Top Two Tech Stories!
- First up, following from my mid-week post on Sir Tim Berners-Lee, he’s only gone and sold his first web browsers code as an NFT!
An NFT of the original source code for the world wide web, written by its inventor Tim Berners-Lee, has sold for $5.4m at Sotheby’s in an online auction, the auction house said on Wednesday.
A non-fungible token (NFT) is a kind of crypto asset that records ownership of digital items, and has recently become a major asset in the creative world, with NFTs of artwork, music and internet memes selling for millions of dollars.
The NFT sold on Wednesday was created by the English scientist Berners-Lee in 2021 and represents ownership of various digital items from when he invented the world wide web in 1989.
The sale effectively comprises a blockchain-based record of ownership of files containing the original source code for the world wide web. The final price was $5,434,500 and half of the bidders were new to Sotheby’s.
The world wide web, or “the web”, is the system for navigating and accessing information on the internet. But you already knew that – right?
2. Ok – up next, don’t you hate it that you have to travel to the fridge to get your beer or cold drink?
Well.. that’s a problem of the past! That’s right – Heineken have made an autonomous beer cooler – that will follow you!
That’s right – 12 carrying 12 cans of cold beer right behind you! How awesome is that?!!!
The Dutch brewing company Heineken recently unveiled the “Beer Outdoor Transporter” — a branding concept cooler that uses motion sensors to trail behind its owner. The company launched an online raffle on Thursday for people who want to own one.
While it cannot apply your sunscreen, blow off the sand from the beach or cook your Independence Day hot dogs, it seemingly solves one issue.
“Nobody loves lugging around like a giant cooler and sweating in the 100-degree heat,” said Joshua Egan, brand director at Heineken USA. It was built around a “charming” AI personality and was shown this summer to mark the nation’s return to semi-normalcy after gatherings last summer were discouraged due to the coronavirus. It was also unveiled to draw attention to the brand’s new beer can design, as the beverage category faces increasing competition from hard seltzers.
It does not have to house Heineken products. The robot is constructed to tote around ice, so you could seemingly use any beverage you would want to keep cold. Like for example – Coca-Cola. Just saying.
So there you go – my Top Two Tech Stories for this week, all about Sir Tim Berners-Lee and beer’s following you around!