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Byte-size: Down on the dowry: one for bridezillas

By Lindsay Harvey
Hamilton News·
23 Jan, 2012 04:00 PM3 mins to read

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Angry Birds? That's so 2011. Now it's all about Angry Brides - well, in India anyway.



As much about fun as about influencing a cultural change, the online game Angry Brides challenges young Indians to want to do away with the dowry system

It's already attracted 270,000 fans who attack their virtual grooms with weapons, including one rather spiky-looking red high heel.

The greedy grooms - who have the characters of an engineer, a doctor and a pilot - dodge the things thrown at them while demanding their dowry.

Each time they get hit in their attempt to get the dowry, the player wins virtual money towards their virtual anti-dowry fund.

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The game was created by an online dating website shaadi.com and is available as a Facebook app.

"Shaadi.com has always believed that marriage is an institution of love, where there is a place for togetherness, mutual understanding, family values and emotional support, but not for dowry," it said in a statement.

Dowries have been illegal since 1961 in India, but it hasn't killed the tradition of the bride's family giving expensive gifts to her groom's family.

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No pants? Sweet as

Think your bottom is nothing to write home about?

Tell that to a team of Japanese scientists and they'll tell you about their idea to use people's unique bum shapes to keep your car from being stolen.

The scientists have a pressure sensor sheet that they say can identify an individual's posterior and when put on the driver's seat can decide if the person sitting on it is the real owner of the car.

Dr Shigeomi Koshimizu, who led the team, was reported to have said the sheet has 39 ways of distinguishing one pair of buttocks from another.

Still, he has admitted there are still a few minor technical problems that are stopping it from getting closer to being installed in new cars.

If you're not wearing pants it has no trouble distinguishing your backside, but when you put pants on it gets a bit confused.

"The recognition tends to be compromised by different clothes," Dr Koshimizu said.

Skinny TV takes the cake

All the weird and wonderful gadgets that were shown at the Consumer Electronics Show have been beaten out by a television - albeit a razor-thin television.

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Shown by LG Electronics, the 55-inch TV, which is just 4mm thick (or should that be thin), was crowned the winner of the show by the techie writers at CNET.com. The "Best Emerging Tech Product" in their eyes was a 3D printer called the MakerBot Replicator, which can print objects up to the size of about a loaf of bread.

Got any news, gadgets or queries? Contact lindsay.harvey@apn.co.nz

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