All the stories tagged with: General
The future of air travel?
02/14/2006, Air travel could take a less frantic form with this Blimp impostor. When fully operational for commercial use, expect to experience the luxury and opulence that is similar to high-end cruise ships like the Queen Mary 2. Via Random Good [...]
660 Movie DVD Server Coming Soon to UK
02/13/2006, Kalediescape will be launching a DVD server in the UK, that can hold up to 660 movies, sometime in March. The server will allow customers to store DVDs on a remote server and to access them at any room similar [...]
Remote Controlled Middle Finger prank
02/11/2006, The $27.89 Remote Controlled Middle Finger is one fun device to play around with. It is especially useful when used during driving, as we know that anyone who cuts into our lane is an inconsiderate ingrate. Normally a closed hand, [...]
Flexible metal foil display from Universal Display Corporation
02/08/2006, Universal Display Corporation, partly funded by the US Department of Defense, is currently displaying a full color active matrix OLED display at the Fifth Annual Flexible Displays and Microelectronics conference in Phoenix today. Viewers can watch the 0.1mm thick 4” [...]
Sony Memory Stick Micro ´M2´ packs a punch
02/08/2006, Sony Europe has announced the Memory Stick Micro (M2) range that offers storage capacities of 256MB, 512MB, and 1GB. Available later this year, these minute cards can be used in tandem with an M2 adaptor that fits into a Memory [...]
German BMW site kicked out by Google
02/07/2006, The German websites of BMW have been from Google’s index because the car manufacturor is using what Google call « spamdexing ». BMW have been caught using doorway pages, this search engine « optimization » technique displays the website’s pages [...]
Keyboard With Voip Handset
02/07/2006, What’s great about merging peripherals is the amount of clutter that you get rid off. With A4 tech’s new Talky multimedia keyboard, you save the hassle of an external microphone. Yup a keyboard VoiP phone hybrid. The keyboard works with [...]
Cellphones to be used as computers in developing countries
02/01/2006, Bill Gates is the one promoting the idea saying that it would be the best way to spread computing in developing nations. A group at MIT apparently investigated an idea similar to Bill’s and concluded that it would need to [...]
Practical Fuel Cells ?
02/01/2006, It looks like Samsung is taking fuel cells seriously and has decided to make it a mainstream product by using it in Personal Digital Assistants and Portable Media Players. We heard about Fuel Cells for a while now and even [...]
Keian SD Memory Card Connects Directly to USB
02/01/2006, If I remember correctly, SD Cards that can connect directly to a USB port came out in 2005, however, they are still not that common in the U.S. That’s a real shame because it’s actually very useful. The Keian SD [...]
Transparent OLED technology is the future
01/31/2006, CRT monitors have shrunk to their LCD counterparts, whilst cellphone screens have taken the slim route to the point of transparency these days. 2 companies are developing such products via different methods. Fraunhofer has pioneered the use of a light-emitting [...]
Be a human hamster
01/31/2006, Remember those cartoons that featured hamsters running on a circular treadmill, generating electricity? Fancy that pipe dream coming true with a gyroscopic generator, allowing you to charge your devices while exercising simultaneously. A rotor in the center of Manual Power [...]
The TECA Concept
01/27/2006, Here’s what the creators of the TECA are saying on their site: “TECA is a microvehicle concept aimed at improving the safety, convenience and efficiency of two-wheeled travel. The aerodynamic shape should give performance improvements of around 35% and save [...]
