QR codes (Quick Response) have become the rage in Japan from being used as tracking codes in machine assembly to being used in visiting cards or even tomb stones. Now, in the first large test in the United States, online guides Citysearch and Antenna Audio are rolling out the technology in San Francisco. More than 500 restaurants, shops and businesses reviewed by Citysearch are placing printed bar codes in their windows. People who have special software from Scanbuy Inc....

If you don't want be frozen like Walt Disney, sprinkled over the Himalayas like Sir Edmund Hillary or burnt in a pyre like Gandhi, the how about resting on the Moon? Celestis, Inc. is offering to send your ashes (obviously after you die) to the Moon, and of course for a fee. Robotic landers will carry the human ashes. The moon could become a final resting place for some of mankind thanks to a commercial service that hopes to...

Motorola MING A1800 is an update in the Linux-based MING line with many surprises thrown in. The MING A1800 is a CDMA and quad-band GSM device with two SIM card slots. The pocket-sized phone is pretty light yet sturdy and features a 3-megapixel auto-focus shooter on the rear-side. It also features Bluetooth and a couple other regular features; we don't have all the beans out yet! There are speculations that it won't surface at CTIA in the upcoming week...

Check out this uber-cool video featuring Wiimote extreme LED mod. In a display of bedazzling lights accompanied with "Through the Fire and the Flames", its total entertainment time! It's a treat to watch the LEDs coordinate with the music. Source...

Officials from the International Swimming Federation (FINA, the sport's governing body) are a worried lot and want to talk to Speedo pronto. With the Olympics round the bend, Speedo's LZR Racer is set to evoke terms like 'unfair advantage' and 'performance enhancing'. Speedo VP Stuart Isaac has this to say, "Yes, the swimmers today have advantages that let them go faster than swimmers ten years ago. However, that's the nature of sport, whether it's tennis rackets or golf clubs...

I would really like one of theses but sadly the Projector Clock is currently out of stock. This funky clock projects the time to a wall, giving you the feeling that the Big Ben is just outside your window! The super bright analogue clock visible day and night. It also has a sound activation option, so you can turn it on and off just by clapping your hands. What's more if you are planning on gifting this to a...

The LG KP320 is a very basic entry-level phone with a 3-megapixel camera with autofocus and can record video. With the TV-out function, you can hook up the phone to a TV and view your pictures. This musicplayer supports stereo FM radio and has 80 MB of memory that is expandable up to 4GB with MicroSD and TransFlash memorycards. It supports Bluetooth and the rest of the specs can be looked up here....

The LG KP220 candybar is an easy to use phone that features a very basic1.3 megapixel camera with 60 MB of memory expandable with MicroSD and TransFlash memorycards. It has a 262.000 colors display and is a musicplayer that supports stereo FM radio accompanied with a stereo headset. Bluetooth support is also there....

The new EasyShare frames from Kodak feature "Quick Touch" borders that lets you scroll though photos by simply sliding your finger along the border. This feature also gives you control over all the frame's other functions via the interface seen in this picture. Equipped with all the standard features the M820 and M1020 models boas 8 and 10-inch screens, respectively, along with audio and video support, 128MB of built-in memory, plus it accepts most of the popular card formats....

Apple products = Cool Steve Jobs portrait made from Apple products = Uber Cool Originally made in December 2007 and corrected in February 2008 to include the latest Apple products like MacBook Air, iPod nano pink etc. Made with Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop and Apple QuickTime Pro with custom developed scripts and techniques. Source Get the high res image on Flickr...

That's correct, if you go by the findings of the guys at MTV Multiplayer, then both the Donkey Kong Jungle Juice and Super Mario Power Up energy dinks taste the same. That's not very surprising as most energy drinks have the same Pepto Bismol, flat taste with and overdose of bubblegum aroma. The packaging seems to be the only point of difference; clearly Nintendo doesn't know the difference between princess-stealing, banana chomping apes and mushroom loving plumbers. If getting...

Revisiting the past when dialing a number meant actually moving a dial, the Port-O-Rotary is truly vintage albeit with a bit modifications. It has been specially modified to work like a cell phone. Open up the phone and slide in the SIM card and you're ready to go. Keeping the old spirit alive, the phone still has a dial tone; dials out through the rotary and the incoming calls ring the original, loud, gong style metal bells. The internal...

Although Las Vegas is the city of lights, San Francisco has been found guilty in un-necessary electricity usage in its skyscrapers. The city's Board of supervisors are sending 'LIGHT SWAT' teams in the night to take pictures of buildings to study idle lights left switched ON in commercial premises. Those found guilty will have to cough out some serious cash, with fines of $50 to $250 per offense, depending on the frequency of the problem. This is over and...

I always loved to fly! It brought back memories of my childhood when I could walk around the deck and occasionally just drop by the cockpit. Well now those days are not expected to come anytime soon unless I bought my own jet. The last solace I had was the comfort of sitting down on my economy allotted seat and listening to the jets hum away. Unfortunately that's about to change too, the nest time your onboard a UK-registered...

Many science fiction stories evolve around intergalactic travel by humans who have been kept in suspended animation by generations of caretakers who travel with them in spaceships. Although the real trials of such a phenomenon have been successful in conducting heart transplants or surgery, it's practical uses are speculative. However Warren Zapol, MD, chief of Anesthesia and Critical Care at MGH and senior author of the Anesthesiology study has another use of this. He thinks it could be used...