Smart Target is a research company which is based in Portugal and is dedicated to the development of monitoring products designed to keep children safe. It has taken just two years for them to develop the Kiddo Kidkeeper which was released in the second quarter of 2007. Smart Target has developed a wireless proximity alarm system designed to boost child safety by helping parents quickly locate wayward young ones and keep them within a pre-set "virtual fence". Previously we've...
Do you usually forget where you kept your house keys? Maybe you tie a string to remember where you last left it just before you forget what the string was for in the first place. Your finger is the only key you'll ever need for the biometric fingerprint door lock. This one is not bad-looking, and the price ($199) is pretty reasonable. A bonus: you'll never leave your door unlocked again because this puppy is a guard dog that...
Samsung's SGH-i200 smartphone. It has 3G connectivity with Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard, and is supposedly aiming at the cheapish smartphone market by costing around $290. At 11.8mm thick, the Windows Mobile 6 (6.1, perhaps?) standard handset should disappear nicely into a breast or pant pocket, and that'll have to be a key selling point since it lacks both WiFi and GPS. On the upside, you still get a plethora of GSM standards all the way up to HSDPA, there's...
Google has just announced a pretty wonderful new program, offering free lifetime phone numbers and voice mail accounts to every homeless person in San Francisco. A homeless person will be able to call in for his or her messages from any phone. The move by the city and the company would allow someone to be able to fill out a job application, which asks for a call back number. This is designed to help them get on their feet,...
Bored by the current crop of Bluetooth headsets? The Bluetrek Bizz has two nifty tricks up its hands-free sleeve. Described as "unique", it's the world's first headset to offer you storage as well as the hands-free functionality you'd expect. This device acts a headset while you talk on the phone and can be quickly transformed into a flash memory device "at a second's notice". First, it charges via USB, so there's one less AC adapter to carry in your...
At the Abilene Christian University in Texas new students are to be given an iPhone when they start lessons this coming autumn. At ACU freshmen will use the iPhones or iPod Touches to receive homework alerts, answer in-class surveys and quizzes, get directions to their professors' offices, and check their meal and account balances - among more than 15 other useful web applications already developed, said ACU Chief Information Officer Kevin Roberts. 93 percent of ACU students bring their...
A Windows Mobile PocketPC Trojan that disables security, installs via a memory card, can't be uninstalled and makes itself your home page has been detected by both McAfee & US-CERT. Here's how it works according to researcher Jimmy Shah: WinCE/Info Jack sends the infected device's serial number, operating system and other information to the author of the Trojan. It also leaves the infected mobile device vulnerable by allowing silent installation of malware. The Trojan modifies the infected device's security...
These days there is no limit for being labeled as the fastest on the road. Just hang on to the tag of being the fastest in a specific category till some other creation zooms past and grabs it! Well as of yet the honor goes to Acabion GTBO for being the world’s fastest-ever road vehicle, taking just 30 seconds to reach 300mph before hitting a maximum 340. Considered to be a fusion of a four wheeler and a two...
The Quad II is one of the most highly respected mono-block hifi valve amps around. First introduced in 1953, it's still used by many enthusiasts. For the 2008, we have the latest Qaud II Eighty Valve mono power amplifiers. It features KT88 output valves, running as two pairs and partial cathode loading in the output transformer. For many audiophiles, the age of the transistor left a big hole in the emotion and pleasure provided by good valve amplification. The...
Loneliness is a common curse of the aged as well as the young. Just having a pet in the house changes ones perspective towards life. It's an incredible stress buster to watch a pet play with a piece of string or even play fetch. The drawbacks of one are the mess they create in the house. St. Louis-based researchers conducted a study on loneliness at three U.S. nursing homes. One group was given a flesh-and-blood dog named Sparky to...
Competition is a fair game but no one company can exploit trade and get away with it. The European antitrust regulator levied a record €899 million fine against Microsoft on Wednesday in a ruling designed to send a clear message to the world's biggest software maker - and to any other company - of the dangers of flouting its competition rulings. The size of the penalty, the equivalent of $1.3 billion, which surprised lawyers and legal experts, was a...
William Henry, an applications specialist at Ireland's Tyndall National Institute, has developed a new LED that can keep going for years on a single charge. The micro LED--which is significantly smaller than conventional light-emitting diodes--requires only a few billionths of an amp to operate. Thus, it can survive for quite a while on a limited power source. One of the researchers on the project had one running constantly for two-and-a-half years on his desk. Then someone damaged it while...
The battle between good and evil just got a little more grisly. Several countries and companies are developing the technology for robot weapons, with the U.S. Department of Defense leading the way. More than 4,000 robots are deployed in Iraq. According to Noel Sharkey, a robotics professor at the University of Sheffield, killer robots could soon be used by extremist militant and terrorist groups. He estimates that an autonomous, GPS guided flying drone could be built for as little...
This might look like a photo of Korean actress & singer Song Hye Kyo but it is not. It is infact a 3D rendering modeled using 3D Max and Zbrush. And we thought that Final Fantasy was the best CG till date. Source...
I am not so much of a Tetris freak but for those millions fans who would love to play the game whenever possible, here is a portable version of the game. Now the details are a bit sketchy because they forgot to teach me Korean in school, but because my picture comprehension skills are good, I figured that you needed to hook the game up with the wires to a TV. Now the pink device takes in two wires,...
