If there was anything like an alarm clock making competition then the entries sent would surely bowl anyone over. Given the recent innovations that have been put to practice in the making of alarm clocks, there is not much left to explore in the segment. The Wake n’ Bacon broadens the idea of a perfectly awakening experience and this time it isn't a mini bomb or a hot water draft that will awaken you. The alarm clock simply starts...
Got some information that's too secret to be mistakenly accessed? The number of data protection software offered are one too many today but that's just on a personal level, what if the information you hold is critical either for defense or just a few scanned secret letters you wrote to a girl in school? You would definitely not want your wife to read any of them. Instead of using unreliable mathematical models to protect data, this new chip by...
Witnessing the Olympic games is not a chance any sports lover would want to miss, not to mention taking some great pictures while your there. So you managed to save up and pay for the ticket to Beijing and threw in a hi-end digital camera as well for some of the best photography exercises you'll ever pursue. In a pure stunt of copyright agreement with the local media, the Olympic committee has officially banned the use of hi-tech professional...
Calgary EMS has now decided to go for an overhaul for their ambulances. The first being the replacement of the rear view mirror with a real-time audio video screen. Apart from that an all new five point harness that makes the drivers feel like fighter pilots, of course with more stability for on board equipment and more hand rails. After two ambulance roll-overs in the past year and several injuries on the job the Calgary EMS fleet needed some...
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is all set to give Australian cyclists an edge in their quest for the Olympic gold. After ensuring cyclists with the best bicycles on the block, they have gone one step further to ensure a gold win. During test rounds in the Good Luck Beijing road cycling event 12 months ago, Mick Rogers had a little pill in his stomach when he was riding, and it was collecting core temperature data to a...
After the space race Russia is in the diving race, it managed to plant a flag on the North Pole seabed to proclaim its marine domination last year. Lake Baikal, the world's deepest and oldest lake, is home to some of the world's rarest types of fish and other water-life. Formed 25 million years ago it contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen fresh water. It has now descended up to 1,680 meters (5,510 feet, or just over one...
Yamaha Motor Co Ltd will release a hybrid electric bicycle that optimally assists the pedaling at all of its eight gear speeds in Japan. The new sporty model Yamaha bicycle, "PAS Brace," is aimed at male users. Its assisting power is controlled according to the gear position and the speed, realizing a sporty ride. The Yamaha PAS Brace features an eight-speed gear for a smooth ride and a shift position sensor to detect the gear speed at which it...
GM has done it again, the world's second largest auto maker has amassed a staggering loss of $15.5 billion dollars for the 2nd quarter of 2008. In the same period a year earlier, GM recorded a net profit of $891 million. GM blames the losses to labor unrest and its over massive restructuring plan. The company has already lost its number one position to Toyota as the Japanese auto maker outsold GM by 277,532 vehicles for the first half of...
Breakfast in Egypt, lunch in Milan, dinner in Paris; if this is the lifestyle you follow, naturally you won't bat an eyelid to send your prized set of wheels, half way round the world to get it serviced. A rich sheikh from Qatar flew his Lamborghini to London to get it serviced. Not that there was something seriously faulty with the car. It was just a routine service. What angers me really is that with money, why didn't god...
Looks like the Aussi government thinks that their airport security personnel are just twiddling their thumbs and have plenty of time on their hands. Checking for vegetables and fruits or sand on your shoes is chicken feed; they want them to move on to bigger things. They want them to enter into your big bad world of technology. Expect them to complain to Santa, if you've been bad and downloaded some pirated content on your MP3 player. According to...
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has approved the Halting Airplane Noise to Give Us Peace (HANG UP) Act. In flight calls have been banned for a long time and we all know that we are supposed to switch off our mobiles during a flight. Personally I think this is a great move, who wants to be stuck next to a chatterbox glued to the mobile, next to you on a flight. This bill will permanent the long-standing ban...
As promised we have kept an eye on the Nokia N96 for you and here is some more news. Nokia says that UK will be getting the N96 by the 1st of October. Carriers hosting the device include 3, Carphone Warehouse, Orange, Phones4U, T-Mobile and Vodafone. Apparently the phone will offer a TV tuner, 3G speeds, 16GB memory, 5-megapixel camera, microSD card slot and AGPS. Specs also include a 2.8 inches TFT, 16M colors screen, practically unlimited entries and...
It's about time that new rumors regarding iPod Touch up gradation surfaced. It's quite likely that the next-gen boasts of 64GB capacity and GPS. In case you already haven't indulged in this Apple offering you may as wait for the second generation to arrive. Both the speculations sound plausible because increase in storage should be the norm and adding GPS would be wise. Source...
With all the sophisticated security gadgetry installed in your premises, who would have thought that a Helium filled rubber balloon was sufficient to make the system kaput! I couldn't help laughing all the while when I spied this article. All it took by Brooklyn-based artist William Lamson was a helium balloon, stone and static electricity to do the trick. So much so for high-tech technology! Source...
When you hold a commanding position in your field, everything you do can affect rivals in a big way. Concerned about the cash crunch faced by most economies today, Nokia has decided to slash prices on its mobile phones. Nokia holds 40% of the world market for cell phones and they planning a 10% cut on many of its phones. Maybe this exercise is to make good the lack of sales due to staggering markets. Whatever the reason, I...
