Greenlaunches is offering another chance to win a stylish eco-friendly gift for its ardent readers as well as all those who care for our planet and environment. Participate in the contest to walk away with a chic, green bag by Matt & Nat. All you have to do is suggest interesting and innovative ideas to recycle plastic bottles. Anybody from any corner of the world can share their passion for a greener life and grab this $300 bag recycled...
MWC is around the corner and the leaked images have started poring in. This week it is the Samsung M700 which looks more like Helio offspring. The candybar phone sports a 2.8-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, Bang and Olufsen amplifier, GPS and a 3 Megapixel camera. Also included is some kind of DJ scratching application to spice up your parties. The phone may be available by May this year. Expect to see more of it when MWC kick off (hopefully)....
Like you didn’t think this could ever happen, but something very similar to what we saw in Minority Report will soon make its way into our palms. It is called Wear Ur World (WUW), or 6th Sense and allows you to access information as though you always have a PC in front of you, but controlled by hand gestures. MIT researchers have combined a number of standard gadgets including a webcam, projector, and mobile phone, to form a brand...
Danny Johnson, 14, of Grapevine, Tex., set a new world record in Guitar Hero III by earning an astonishing 973,954 points playing DragonForce's "Through the Fire and Flames" at a Guinness World Records event in Manhattan. Players rack up points by hitting buttons on a plastic guitar controller in time to the music, this guy has set the record for breaking many game controllers faster than anyone else yet too. Via [NY Times]...
Sanyo's latest announcement, the HNV-M70 ALBO digital frame, whose design is strictly retro and bubble shaped. The ALBO is a 7-inch 800 x 480 LCD with integrated Wi-Fi b/g, memory card slots and infrared receiver. It also automatically flips from portrait to landscape when you physically rotate the display. It features 256 MB of internal memory, which can be increased by adding memory cards. It also sports 1-W stereo speakers, which makes this an ideal gift for the girlfriend...
If you managed to watch the movie ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ and marveled at the special effects involved in it, you will have one more reason to smile. among the dozens of special effects involved in making the film, a robot was used to mimic an older version of Brad Pitt which needed 155 technicians to work flawlessly; the same technology has been used in a unique robot version of Albert Einstein. Einstein may have been dead...
The car curious can now check out the Tazzari ZERO configuration calculator online which lets you choose car body and alloy wheel colors. The Zero will come with four driving modes: race for a “track feel”, rain for when the road is - you guessed it - wet, standard for daily use and economy for increased range. The two-seat mid-engined, rear-wheel drive Zero will have a top speed limited to 80k/h (50mph), a maximum range of 140km (88 miles)...
Apple is expected to design a connected television over the next two years, launching in 2011, with built in DVR functionality. This is what Gene Muster wrote in his lengthy report. This means that recorded shows could then be synced with Macs, iPhones and iPods over a wireless network. Such a device would cement the company's footprint in the digital living room offering a variety like interactive TV, music, movies and gaming features like an all-in-one package. Apple would...
MSI have officially announced their all in one nettop. The MSI Wind NetOn AP1900 comes with an 18.5 inch WSXGA 16:9 display, Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz processor with up to 2GB of DDR2 memory and a 160 GB SATA hard-drive and DVD Burner. A fully operational saves around 86% from a traditional PC by just running on 35W. The MSI Wind NetOn AP1900 comes with gigabit Ethernet, WiFi b/g, 3 USB 2.0 Ports, a D-Sub video output and...
Recently Gmail Labs has introduced the option of multiple Inboxes in Gmail. Google Software Engineer, Octavian Costache is the brain behind this idea, implementing the Google's famous 20% time where employees spend 20% of their work time doing personal things. So starting today, you can implement the multiple inboxes and spend less time monitoring important messages that could get filtered away....
Little Island, from Tokyo, Japan, specializes in making robotic dolls after the likeness of real people. Hiroaki Koike runs the company. These dolls are very complex as it can talk, reach to touch and also perform a variety of movements like nodding and waving. You could order a bridal doll that greets everyone who comes for the wedding....
Darumouse has combined a 2 GB flash drive and post-it notes as one single unit. The company just took some chunk of wood, drilled a hole to put in a 2 GB flash memory into it, and removed enough wood so that it holds some mini post-it notes. What do you have? – A 2 GB flash drive with Post-it note dispenser....
Pictures of the yet unannounced Samsung cell phone have surfaced online. The phone called the Acme i8910, appears to be clad in a black and silver color scheme, and features a large touchscreen display, an 8 megapixel camera with a second front facing camera for video calls, as well as a built-in GPS receiver, WiFi, and a standard 3.5mm audio port. It is believed that there will be two versions of the device, one with 8GB of internal storage,...
In a rather bizarre instance of what may be a precursor to more severe phishing attacks, a group of rather smart spammers have resorted to target unsuspecting people not via the traditional forms of spam email. Rather these bunch of miscreants are targeting car owners by using fear as a weapon to install malware on unsuspecting car owner’s computers. The spammers print up phony "PARKING VIOLATION" notices and plaster them on cars parked on the street. The phony ticket...
Though the header appears to be misleading, I meant every word of it. Questions will arise that how can a recycled gun be meant for ardent readers? Read on…...The BIG RAYGUN ACTION is recycled out of a hookah, old radio parts and a few parts from Meccano kit. Robert Rankin has built this distinctive piece of recycled art for the cover of his 31st book, Retromancer. Since the book about the Second World War, this badass big ray gun...
