Now I know it’s totally unethical for us to go about flaunting our interests in chocolate and icing since it doesn’t really pay off. At the end of the day we end up eating it and that’s that. However, we cannot take anything away from Debbie Goard who has been making some of the most awesome cakes we have known. And yeah, the reason it’s on a geek site is because all of these are themed around games. Be...
The awesome new AirSwing technology by Toshiba is light, user-friendly and totally affordable. All it takes is a good old web camera to take in your gestures as inputs. All it takes is 3% processing power on a 400MHz ARM 11 CPU. That’s all it takes to give you the power to sift through your photographs with mere flicks of your park and also carry out other gesture sensitive activities. Using this technology, users can make the most of...
Now here’s something that can totally kick the green nuts square. The awesome new Samsung LCD PC with uber low power consumption is powered by USB 2.0. It isn’t a crappy little midget of a screen but a sprawling 18.5 inches of eye candy. It consumes just 6.3W. Exhibited at SID 2010, these screens have been kept under wraps since they’re too hot to be made public. It makes use of LEDs as the light source. With a lifetime...
The Amazon Kindle has surely lost sight of the need for color and instead makes up for the lack of clarity in the display. It seems that these screens will not have a touch screen or a color display, instead, it will provide a sharper display and be more responsive. With the iPad out and everyone talking about it being a perpetual substitute to every possible e-reader in the world, starting with the Kindle, there has to be something new...
You no longer need to sacrifice the slot for you flash on your Nikon DSLR camera so as to get that GP-1 dongle from Nikon in your camera’s hotshoe. The camera can now be rigged with the awesome PhotoTrackr Plus that fits into the camera’s 10 pin terminal. With the help of Bluetooth connectivity it manages to communicate with the transceiver. It manages to cover about 44 GPS tracking channels. This far surpasses the mere 18 channels that the GP-1...
The Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan recently gave videophiles a lot to look forward to in the coming years. They displayed an awesome 42 inch 3D LCD TV that didn’t require viewers to wear those awful glasses. It seems that they have even made a promise of multiplying the number of such screens being produced in the near future, in the 65 inch range. So will we finally see the biggest limitation of using 3D overcome?...
There are reports that a fire broke out in Foxconn Electronics' (Hon Hai Precision Industry's) production site in Shenzhen, China on May 29. No one was injured, although some equipment was damaged in the fire. However the company claims this will not affect the shipments or its capacity as most of the damaged equipment was insured. [Digitimes]...
Sharp Japan has announced 10 new models to its flagship Quadtron series, of the lot there are four models supporting 3D. The LV series will be made available in 60, 52, 46 and 40”, they will pack in a UV2A panel supporting a full HD resolution. Sharp will be bundling a pair of active shutter 3D glasses which not only deliver depth but the much needed brightness in 3D content. Standard features include dual TV tuners and USB recording....
Putting a rest to rumors for good is the Asus Eee Pad EP121. It packs in a 12 inch screen and is powered by the low voltage Intel CULV Core 2 Duo platform and as for the OS it runs on Windows 7 Home Premium. The unit is 12.2mm thick and weighs in at a comfortable 1.48Lbs (675 grams). Coming to the battery life Asus claims it can last for a good 10 hours, something which pegs it against...
Now here’s a real shocker, China already has their own version of the iPad and it’s called the iPed. I was kidding about the shocking part of course. Shenzhen, China is where the iPed can be found and it seems this is where the Foxconn plant is located. What’s the Foxconn plant you ask? Well this one of the larger locations where the iPhone and the iPad are manufactured. The iPed is running on Apple’s arch nemesis, the Android...
Keeping in tube with the new Prince of Persia movie and console game, the iPhone users were not to be left out as Ubisoft has launched the Prince of Persia Retro for the iPhone and the iPad. Gamers who love classic games will get to go back in time and reminisce with this classic. Of course the technology they’ll be playing it on is far superior to anything that the game was available on when it was new. The...
If you love your car like nothing else matters and total it, what would you do to keep its memory alive? Well one guy decided to erect a memorial of sorts using the bits and pieces of his Beemer. After his 2005 BMW 645CI convertible had ‘passed’ he decided to use the parts left over to build a six foot, 240 pound robot with movable head and arms. It’s not a transformer, if that’s what you’re imagining, but more...
We’ve reached a point in medical technology where it’s possible to look cool and stay healthy. Paul Barone, a postdoctoral researcher in MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering together with professor Michael Strano are at the drawing board stage of a new type of blood glucose monitor for diabetics that wont require you to shed a drop of blood. No more finger pricking. Not only will this new method be painless but it’s supposed to be more accurate. It’s a...
Intel just announced a couple of new high-performance processors that they’ve designed for the enthusiast community. The release includes the quad-core Core i7 875K, and dual Core i5 655K. The Core i7 875K is clocked at 2.93 GHz, with a maximum Turbo Boost speed of 3.60 GHz. While having identical clock speeds to the Core i7 870, the 875K comes with a fully unlocked BClk multiplier, which is featured in Extreme Edition processors. The unlocked multiplier helps with overclocking....
OLPC is in a constant flux to re-invent cheap technology for the countries that can’t afford the bigger brands. The founder, Nicolas Negroponte has already conceived of the next revolutionary affordable PC called the XO-3 is going to be touchscreen tablet. This will be a masterpiece, a $75 tablet PC seems unrealistic but not unreasonable and if anyone can do it, it’s these guys. The concept is probably an Android device (although that particular OS hasn’t been confirmed for...
