Find Your Digital Twin on Facebook

Find Your Digital Twin on Facebook: "

If novelty is your thing, then you’ll be pleased to discover that Coca-Cola has finally launched their Coke Zero Facial Profiler.

As you may recall, we covered the announcement of the facial experiment back in October, and were intrigued by the application’s premise: using Facebook to find your digital double.

Now that app is live, we put it to the test and found that it works as promised. Once you connect your Facebook account with the Coke Zero Facial Profiler, the app will scan your photos (you can also use your webcam to snap a beauty shot) and use facial recognition software to match your face against others in their database.

Once the matching process is complete, voilà, there’s your digital twin staring back at you. You can then share your match on Facebook or Twitter or grab a URL to share with your friends (here’s my match). Should you be so bold, you can also contact your match on Facebook.

While the premise itself is kitschy, the application experience is pretty slick and some of the matches are surprisingly so dead-on that you might even do a double take. Try it out for yourself, and let us know your thoughts.

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Reviews: Facebook, Twitter

Tags: coca cola, coke zero facial profiler, trending

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Italian Police Wrecked a £150,000 Lamborghini Patrol Car (13 pics)

Italian Police Wrecked a £150,000 Lamborghini Patrol Car (13 pics): "The accident happened near the city of Cremona. An Italian police officer wrecked a £150,000 Lamborghini Gallardo (560bhp). He crashed into parked cars after he swerved to avoid a vehicle that was pulling out of a petrol station.
Luckily, no one was hurt in the crash, only the two officers who were in the Lambo got minor injuries.
What a shame to destroy such a car!

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Italian Police Wrecked a £150,000 Lamborghini Patrol Car (13 pics)

Italian Police Wrecked a £150,000 Lamborghini Patrol Car (13 pics): "The accident happened near the city of Cremona. An Italian police officer wrecked a £150,000 Lamborghini Gallardo (560bhp). He crashed into parked cars after he swerved to avoid a vehicle that was pulling out of a petrol station.
Luckily, no one was hurt in the crash, only the two officers who were in the Lambo got minor injuries.
What a shame to destroy such a car!

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C'mon Man! Week 12 2009

Diet Chromium OS — Less Filling, Works on Most Everything

Diet Chromium OS — Less Filling, Works on Most Everything: "

Chrome OS has only been “out” a short while, but due to its open-source roots, folks are already making it available for those hardy souls who want to give it a try. Dell has already put it out there for Mini 10v owners, but others were left to their own designs. No more, as a distribution, dubbed Diet Chromium OS, has been released, and reports have it working on just about everything out there.

The first noticeable change is the 300 MB download, down a far cry from the 8 GB that “real” Chrome OS consumes. That makes Diet Chromium OS much easier to get hold of as the download is quite manageable. This explains the distribution’s name. The real magic of Diet Chromium is that driver support has been extended for all sorts of systems. Users are reporting already that Diet Chromium works on everything from netbooks to quad-core powerhouses.

Our buddy Brad at Liliputing has put together a good tutorial for getting Diet Chromium running on a system near you. Brad’s method installs Diet Chromium on a USB drive, so no local system installation is required. You build the USB stick, boot from it, and off you go. I’m definitely going to give this a try.

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