This week, Dyson’s new hair-care product, the Corrale straightener, how you can experience travel without leaving home, enjoy being read to by Geordie Laforge and Captain Jean-Luc Picard, and playing Nioh 2 and Spyder. But first, can you believe that people actually think that 5G has something to do with the coronavirus pandemic?
No, 5G is not causing COVID-19 for chrissakes
Don’t know where this idea came from, but it counts up there with among the dumbest. (for good primers on the ridiculousness, look to Slate and BuzzFeed).
Poles and towers with 5G equipment on them are being set aflame by dumbasses in the UK.
Google has banned all advertising on content that claims a link between the mobile network technology and the pandemic and Facebook is removing posts that claim a link.
Dyson has a new product to help you style your hair
The new thing people are doing while staying home is cutting each others hair.
That seems very risky to me. Also semi-permanent.
Instead, why don’t you style the hair of people in your household? Dyson’s new Corrale straightener ($650) can help.
While Dyson’s Airwrap styler can curl your hair with only air, the straightener requires heat. But Dyson says it’s heating system means that you should be able to get the same styling results with much less heat. The Corrale has three different heat settings and flexible plates.
But what makes it really great? It can be used cordless, providing up to 30-minutes of cord-free use before needing to be recharged.
The Dyson Corrale straightener is available now.
Virtual travel experiences to get your head out of your home
Courtesy of Travelzoo is this list of 20 places from around the world you can visit without leaving your couch.
The National Theatre in London is showing plays and the Berlin Philharmonic is giving away 30-day passes to watch performances.
You can visit Volcanoes National Park and Bryce Canyon are in there. A
And you can tour street art from the world’s urban centres, the Vatican Museum (including the Sistine Chapel), and the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian.
Settle in, get comfy, and let LeVar Burton and Patrick Stewart read to you
Actor and host of Reading Rainbow LeVar Burton is doing three reading sessions a week streaming from his Twitter account, one for children, one for young adults, and one for adults.
THIS FRIDAY, APRIL 4th, it begins right here on
twitter</a> <a href="https://t.co/pxWZ5lat5k">pic.twitter.com/pxWZ5lat5k</a></p>— LeVar Burton (levarburton) April 1, 2020
Meanwhile, at his Twitter, Patrick Stewart is, every day, reading a Shakespearean sonnet. In case you were wondering, there are 154 of those. Enough for nearly half a year.
Sonnet 18. Perhaps the most well-known sonnet in the book. Speaking of the book, a little backstory on that too. #ASonnetADay pic.twitter.com/XjSDIntMos
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) April 6, 2020
Nioh 2 is the sword fighting action game you need right now
To be clear, you’ll use many more martial weapons that swords when playing Nioh 2, the new action game developed by Team Ninja for the PS4. But there are so many different types that it’s just easier to say, “swords”.
I actually had more fun using the kusarigama which has a sickle-like blade and a heavy ball separated by a metal chain that can be used in close but also at a distance.
Set in feudal Japan, this is actually a prequel to the 2017 action RPG, Nioh. As with that first game, spirits and demons from Japanese folklore populate the game. What’s different here is that those mythical creatures also influence your ability to fight.
You get to create your own character here, and while you’ll have fun wielding all those different weapons you won’t have an easy time of it. Nioh 2 is definitely in the category of games that require you to practice and figure out how to defeat the creatures that stand in your way.
It’s ideal for these days when we have a bit more time at home than we’re used to.
Cute, compelling Spyder a challenging pastime
New to Apple Arcade is this fun and quirky action game, Spyder in which you play Agent 8, a robotic spider, who solves environmental puzzles while trying to thwart the plans of an evil criminal organization.
The game comes from Sumo Digital and it will take you a bit of time to get a feel for how to move Agent 8 and use its various tools and gizmos. This may have the look of a cutesy game, but the challenges you’ll face are not simple.
It’s got the tone of Roger Moore’s James Bond, with colours and animation that pop with a bit of over saturation, and the sense of scale is really curious. You’re a miniature robot, after all.
The game is designed to be played across all Apple devices, including computers, iPads, iPhones, and even Apple TVs. That means that it responds to touch controls, but you’ll find it easier to play using a game controller
You can play Spyder with an Apple Arcade subscription ($6 a month).
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