YouTube commences paid channels

Also Samsung’s bendy TVs, watch live TV with overseas friends and get a nappy-soiled tweet
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Also Samsung's bendy TVs, watch live TV with overseas friends and get a nappy-soiled tweet

YouTube commences paid channels On Thursday YouTube introduced a host of paid channels including Comedy.TV, Baby First, UFC select etc. From what we learnt, this is just the beginning. YouTube will be letting more popular channels charge viewers a subscription fee of 99 cents per month or more. These channels will offer free viewing content for two weeks before charges are applied. Obviously there will be discounts for annual subscriptions among other offers, but should viewers pay just to view content? Like it or not, this may be the next big change in the way you consume video.

Samsung to get bendy? Believe it or not, advancement in technology is going to make us way lazier than we are now. Take this new patent filed by Samsung. According to it, Samsung TVs of the future will be able to bend and rotate to give you the best viewing angle at your command. Users can bend these TVs, sporting flexible displays, using no more than their remote controls. Additionally, users can also alter the picture/video to fit the screen's new position. Sounds pretty awesome, though for those of you who keep misplacing your remote, you'll have to move to get the right angle. Losers!

SimulTV is the answer Don't you just hate it when you're watching something really awesome on live TV and want to share it with your friends, but have to take your eyes off the TV? Looks like this social TV start up really understands this particularly intense problem - SimulTV brings video content, video chat, Facebook and Twitter, all onto one screen, allowing users to video chat or sent messages while watching a streaming video/show on demand. Users can also rate content, share on Facebook and tweet while watching. The service will officially launch in June, by which time they should have fixed the four people limit on simultaneous viewing.

Tweet Pee From all you bad parents out there, Ogilvy Brazil has created a device that will send you a tweet every time your child wets himself. The device, which is fixed to the outside of your child's nappy, works with a sensor that can detect humidity. A change in temperature will prompt the device to send you a tweet in collaboration with its smartphone app. We can't believe there'd be people out there who're actually waiting for such a service, but if you're one of them be warned that this device does not account for "the long job".

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