These days everything is just a click away. Almost everything! Be it buying, selling or even recycling. Just type recycling cell phones in a search machine and watch out for the endless results. A significant surge in the number of websites providing this service has led to this boom on search machines. Since the awareness for recycling mobile phones has seeded amongst consumers, this business of getting rid of cell phones in a responsible manner is benefiting all, including our...
When Amazon made the Kindle 2 official, we all thought this would take atleast a year and half for it get replaced but within 3 months of launch, it surprised us all with Kindle DX. Now if you have the fear that this will also get obsolete with the introduction of a color Kindle, well, worry not, because according to Jeff Bezos is of the opinion that the technology is years away. So all you have decided to buy...
A job advertisement with Microsoft has appeared to hint that the software giant is working on the successor to the Xbox 360 and also a massive multiplayer online game that’s capable of hosting 300,000 players. That many players are at the same time. Most MMO games use multiple servers to each host a small fraction of the overall players in the game. EVE Online is the only single server MMO. That has around 300,000 players but only 50,000 of...
HDMI Licensing is the body responsible for licensing the High-Definition Multimedia Interface specification. The body on Wednesday announced specifications that will be introduced in the upcoming HDMI 1.4 specification. The latest HDMI specifications will offer networking capabilities with Ethernet connectivity and will also be adding an Audio Return Channel to enable upstream audio connections via the HDMI cable. The detailed HDMI specification 1.4 will be available for download on its website not later than June 30th. The networking capability...
On May 5th around 6 in the evening, one of the community workers accidently left his laptop in his car when he parked it near corner of Hearst Avenue and Euclid Avenue. Just before 8 in the evening, a burglar smashed the car window and stole the laptop which was kept in the rear. The victim reported burglary but there were no significant leads that could lead to an investigation. Now this is really interesting what you will be...
Game designer Shinobi inspired by Futurama's "Anthology of Interest II" episode is recreating that scene in an actual PC game. If you've seen Futurama's "Anthology of Interest II" episode, specifically its Raiders of the Lost Arcade segment, you'll remember Fry and friends jumping into a mobile air artillery platform to fight off a swarm of raiding Nintendians in a very Space Invaders-esque scene. Game designer Shinobi is recreating that scene as an actual PC game (a game of a...
What we earlier thought to be the Idou has finally got a name. SE have decided to call it the Satio and boy, does it impress. Let’s start off on the best part; the phone boasts a 12.1 megapixel camera with xenon flash, an active lens cover, touch focus, face detection, the self-explanatory Smile Shutter technology, Smart Contrast, Photo fix, BestPic, Geo-tagging, red-eye reduction and 12x digital zoom. (Phew!). The video capture has a class of its own as...
Sony Ericsson has punched in the newest entry, the Aino, at a time when we were all wondering about what happened to their sense of style. It’s got everything about good looks and features from the phones of this era. From a stunning three inch display screen with 16 million colors to a 8 megapixel camera. The latter has more delights stuffed into it like flash, touch focus, smile and face detection. It’s also got some good sound output,...
It’s a wonder of nature, bestowed upon youth to cause a few irritating spasms across their mothers mind. But as we all know, nature never blesses anyone with anything extra. Knuckle cracking – though it’s such a pain for the victims, the assailant does well enough to suck out all the pleasure from his actions. But once they crack, they remain pretty quiet for a while. This doesn’t give the assailants the required, continuous flow of pleasure from irritated...
I know the feeling when your cronies call you a ‘holy cow’, every time they spot you with the old rugged bible under your arm. Opening and reading it in the bus draws some uncertain smiles as well and oh boy, that doesn’t make me feel good, nor you. Does it? So to solve all our problems we have this cool new Bible format: a USB drive. It’s got a name too that goes, ‘God on the Go’. So...
You haven’t been struck with the novel thought of a purse holder in a car as yet, have you? Well, Rolls Royce sure has. With their latest, the 200EX, there comes along a purse holder at the backseat. The holder is large enough to hold most of the overburdened purses of Rolls Royce women. Probing around the images of the car we gathered that there are some finer, less feminine works of art and technology all around. For instance,...
The very idea that there is a game with rape as its main source of action, is in itself disgusting. Why on earth would you make a game to rape someone!?!?! I don’t know what the game is but I am guessing its something related to this. So now that Japan is making a stand and banning rape games, I don’t think it is such a big news. They shouldn’t have ALLOWED such games in the first place! They...
At the SID 2009 in San Antonio, Samsung Mobile Display (SMD) showcased a prototype 6.5 inch AMOLED screen. The new screen is more flexible than its predecessors and has a response time 1000 times faster than a standard LCD. SMD sees many applications for the flexible AMOLED (newspaper,epaper, e-passport, military maps, newspaper and many more. As of now it is still under development with no information on its commercial release....
As a Star Wars fan I always thought about this. Can A Lightsaber which effortlessly cuts through Droids and thick steel doors on Starships also cut the man of steel? Well the answer is no and it is said by people who know their stuff. RED LIGHTSABERS Superman receives his power from the radiation of our yellow sun, and is weakened when exposed to radiation from a red sun. It is possible that a sith lightsaber, being red, might...
