This would have been a perfect device for my parents if this was invented 20 years ago. This device costs only $30 and can be used to set time on how many minutes or hours a video game can be played by kids. An excellent tool for parents to stop the ongoing argument! I remember arguing with my folks for hours for playing just one hour. Looks like this is going end soon. Morrissey, 79 years old, is the...
By all means possible, we cannot come up with something cornier than a makeshift, ultra-portable toilet seat that’s made of cardboard. This may make its way to the Ripley’s list but when you take a deeper look at it, you see the sense it makes to have one of these in certain times. Such times arise when we have those grueling camping trips in hostile woods, where we’re fed some unhealthy food that makes us want to poop in...
The 2nd Division of the Army’s 5th Brigade will march into Afghanistan with the most sophisticated infantary equipment yet. This will include various GPS communication modules, wearable computers and electronic maps that collectively weigh eight pounds. This is part of the Land Warrior program that will deploy troops clean away the rest of the scum that’s filling the terrorized nation. Though the equipment comes as a refuge to the troops who initially had to purchase their own walkie-talkies to...
If you ever dreamt of owning a penguin but was thwarted since you don’t have a frigid zone-like environment in your office then here’s your chance to get even with the thwarters. MyDeskFriend is a penguin that moves about your desk and connects to Facebook, thus giving you alerts about messages that come in and friends who try to contacts you. It all looks cute and interesting until you encounter the most intriguing feature of it. It has five...
Keeping in mind all the extra equipment that we carry with us to work, leading cellphone manufacturers have pledged to come out with phones that use a single, universal charger. The companies who have made the pledge include Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Apple. From next year onwards these companies will produce phones that can be charged with this charger. It seems that in the EU alone, there are over 30 different chargers available. It gets on one’s nerves to...
Here’s a great way to bring back the golden days of vacuum tubes, given that they are slimming out in purpose and production. Vacuum tubes were used to build the first computer and scores of other devices before and after it. The problem that they heated up much too quickly was the reason that they were soon put out and replaced my more compact chips. Paul Fryer has come out with a chess set that’s made with vacuum tubes...
Hell bent on blurring the line between digital cameras and mobile phones Nokia is churn out 12 Megapixel camera phones next year. Well, at least that’s what PhoneReport says, quoting undisclosed sources from Nokia and Carl Zeiss. The phone which may be from the N-Series will be announced later this year but wont hit stores till 2010. Only Nokia can confirm the rumors or put them to rest. Pictured above is the Nokia N86 the company's only 8MP camera...
The new Motorola Clutch will be available from Sprint this summer onwards with a new service agreement for 2 years costing $39.99, $20 instant rebate and $50 mail-in rebate. The Motorola Clutch i465 is the first iDEN Nextel Direct Connect device with a full QWERTY keyboard. It also has group messaging features allowing you to create groups of 20 people. The Clutch i465 also meets Military Specification 810F for low pressure; high and low temperature, dust, shock, vibration and...
Google unveiled a new service designed to provide information using SMS text message to mobile phone users in Africa, where cell phones are prevalent but Internet penetration is low. Africa has the world's highest mobile phone growth rate. Mobile use on the continent is six times higher than Internet penetration. But most devices in Africa have only voice and SMS capabilities and this is where Google is trying to focus its technologies. The Google SMS will be first available...
Named after an extinct huge shark, Razor’s new headphones must really awesome. And why not? How many headphones do you know of that can give a 7.1 surround sound! It also has a remote for adjusting the volume and a mouthpiece to use while gaming. Yup the secret is out. This is exactly what they are made for. I can clearly imagine playing Call of Duty 4 with these headphones on already! They cost $150 and I guess it...
The Episode 2 of Top Gear’s 13th season that was aired in the UK was really a heart stopper. The main event was the one mile drag race between two super cars – the McLaren F1 and the Bugatti Veyron. Both these cars are rare and seeing them together on a drag race is well, no chance, forget rare. The venue chosen by the team was Abu Dhabi because of the arid climate with no rain or snow and...
The world’s largest automobile maker, Toyota, is currently developing its Brain Machine Interface, which uses thought control and brain wave analysis technologies to make life better for elderly and handicapped people. By attaching a series of electrodes to the scalp of the head, it helps to measure the brain activities that are associated with certain thoughts. The BMI then displays those signals on an attached screen and can create a set of instructions in all types of scenarios which...
Dell is working hard on a MID which is powered by Google’s mobile OS platform. There are also reports from multiple sources it will be more like a slightly larger iPod touch. Despite its history with Intel, there are reports stating the Dell is preferring ARM as the processor of choice. The article also calls it repeatedly as MID which makes you wonder if there is also a phone on the cards as well. Well all we can do...
As much as we are thankful to the Russians for the vodka, sometimes they can be a little cuckoo (well, that should have been elemental in discovering the spirit anyway)… they have a thin for planes I think. Just yesterday a guy proclaimed his love for his girl by drawing a heart in the sky for her (yeah, violin background and all) and today this. It is supposed to be a Russian TU jet body attached to the second...
Samsung has announced the Haptic AMOLED for the Korean market. The phone comes with a high-resolution 3.5 inch AMOLED display (something which the iPhone 3GS lacks), 5 Megapixel camera, GPS, Bluetooth and the Korean favorite T-DMB. The Haptic AMOLED features 'One-finger Zoom' function, Divx, Haptic UI 2.0 version and support for popular video formats like H.264, MPEG4, and AC-3. The phone will be available in Korea for 800,000 KRW ($ 550)....
