Facebook's Aditya Agarwal explains that we can expect to see a variety of new apps under Prototypes, including Funny products (like Facebook's Pirate language), and early versions of features they're working on.
Last year we had incredible speakers, the popular and somewhat intimidating Office Hours, fancy after parties, dozens of impressive startups battling it out for the ultimate grand prize, hundreds of startups getting noticed in Startup Alley, and almost 1,000 hackers who gathered together to build some awesome, and some funny, products in their allotted 24 hour time slot.
They'll also learn the secret meaning of all those funny product names AND how to prepare a plate of kick-ass meatballs.
With that in mind, we browsed the Web for the funniest products that made us go, "Well that just can't possibly work," and trust us: we found ourselves asking that a lot.
Bored Elon suggests occasionally funny, absurdist products and services — a "TV that automatically turns on subtitles when it recognizes by your facial expression that you're having troubling hearing dialogue" — but the joke seems to be that these farcical speculations barely differ from ideas like the Hyperloop.
Bored Elon suggests occasionally funny, absurdist products and services a "TV that automatically turns on subtitles when it recognizes by your facial expression that you're having troubling hearing dialogue"—but the joke seems to be that these farcical speculations barely differ from ideas like the Hyperloop.
The funny, generous product of a two years' vigil with the Makah Indians of Neah Bay, Wash., and their effort to re-establish the cultural tradition of whale hunting, abandoned so long ago they had to learn it from scratch while animal rights people hung around and condemned the whole affair.
The funny, generous product of a two-year vigil with the Makah Indians of Neah Bay, Wash., and their effort to re-establish the cultural tradition of whale hunting, abandoned so long ago they had to learn it from scratch while animal-rights people hung around and condemned the whole affair.
Leo Resig, co-founder of Resignation Media (which owns both properties) tells me Tapiture has its roots as a photo-tagging system on theCHIVE, before growing into a site of its own, where users can share (or, in Tapiture's terminology, tap) photos of attractive women, cool products, funny jokes, and anything else.
Whether he felt funny wielding the product of corporate sponsorship, or whether the guitar had lousy action, we'll never know.
At the center of the story is a teenager named Aaron Soto, a lover of art and comic books, a seeker of friends, a funny and soulful product of the projects.
