E47: Taylor Swift Fingers a Tantric Pouch! (feat. Kerry Flynn)

Amid the worst week on record, and joined by journalist and digital native Kerry Flynn, we turned to fashion and technology for a shred of delight. But there was none. Designers were parading models in straitjackets down the runways of Paris, the iOS 12 update unleashed a flood of accidental animojis, and Apple’s sad attempt to portray the humble bagel was an epic fail. Also this week: a PhD candidate in France developed a robotic human finger that attaches to your iPhone, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman are re-branding short-form content as “Quibi," people are shredding their artwork and their money, and our greatest living actress, Drew Barrymore, was insulted by EgyptAir Magazine. 

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In this week’s episode: 

Check out all the straitjacket trend for Spring 2019: https://nypost.com/2018/10/03/why-are-designers-dressing-everyone-in-straitjackets/ 

New Yorkers fume over bagel represenation on iOS 12.1 http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/10/whats-going-on-with-apples-new-bagel-emoji.html

A French PhD student has discovered a way to give our smartphones the ability to interact with us more, via a robotic finger: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/10/5/17940708/mobilimb-robotic-finger-attachment-smartphone

Business titans Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg are rebranding short-form content using a word with way too many vowels to be cool (it’s Quibi): http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-newtv-20181010-story.html 

This Week in Shredding: 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/oct/08/why-shredder-is-banksy-greatest-work

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boy-puts-envelope-with-more-than-1000-cash-in-the-shredder/

Learn more about tantric speed dating, where women put beads in men’s pouches: https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/tantra-speed-dating-event-new-york.html 

Here’s the background on EgyptAir Magazine’s bizarre profile of Drew Barrymore: https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/drew-barry