Every health nut out there will probably agree that Cycling is one of the better ways to stay in shape and it’s great for the environment. But what’s really great about cycling, and I can personally attest to this is, when you travel abroad or you move to a new city and instead of struggling for parking spaces with our car, directions, traffic and such, you can get places quicker and taken the sights better via cycle. So keeping...
I think Microsoft has finally realised that the market for PC gaming is not small potatoes anymore. They’re apparently working on a game that will cater to the PC gamer which has the Xbox guys going – What the *%#$ ! They’re focusing now on the guys who spend their hard earned cash on GPU and CPU upgrades ever so often. Maybe they think they’ve peaked and nothing is going get better than Kinect so let’s just change our...
Apple and it’s famous devices and services that go along with these devices have their hand in everything and now Wall Street is also on their list. Wall Street big wigs Morgan Stanley will now have their very own app that allows its equities and economics research to be uploaded on to Apple's suite of products. This is the very first time an institution from Wall Street has done something like this. The App is simply called the "Morgan...
Trust an iPhone fan to think of something that’s pretty normal and take it to the device. In this case, if you’re a doctor who happens to be having a meal and someone collapses in the restaurant, the first thing you’ll hear is – Is there a doctor in the house? And there you are, all medically ready but without your trusty Stethoscope. Never fear thanks to Peter Bentley iOS app iStethoscope, it’s you and your iPhone to the...
More on the Pre IFA front is from Philips. Who would have thought, Philips would be the first company to bring out an Android powered media device. The much rumoured about GoGear Connect is going to be officially unveiled at IFA 2010. This baby is going to be similar to the GoGear Muse, at least that’s what the image going around say with a 3.2-inch touchscreen. It’ll feature goodies from Google of course including a web browser, because, yes,...
There isn’t much you could do to get your aquatic workout gauged correctly. However, with the help of this amazing new gizmo from FINIS called Swimsens you can do the same. It’s shaped and sized like a real watch and has an automatic stroke measuring system that can differentiate between a backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle and butterfly stroke. You can also enter your gender, age and body weight so as to gauge how much of that flab you are needed...
If there ever was a better thing to do to make people who have gotten out of a three hour ordeal in a mine, trapped, feel better then it would be to gift them a PSP. There isn’t anything else that matches the total entertainment solution on this (relatively) affordable gaming console to forget all the horrors that you’ve been through. That’s just the thing that 33 miners have been blessed with after they were trapped in a Chilean...
As good as this awesome USB Battleship charger comes nothing else, if you’re a geek who’s been in the navy. You can connect various flash drives to it so as to connect them to your computer simultaneously as well as to charge them up. It’s really a war you have to put up against lack of battery juice and this battleship provides just the right amount of arson....
As it happens to be the size of gizmos are shrinking and so are the devices that act as displays and interfaces. To aid in the creation of a really small display that displays images in HD one would require the pixels to be shrunken to a really small size. That’s just about what the researchers at the University of Michigan have worked upon. They have used nanoresonators to form a high-resolution display that has pixel sizes 1/8th that...
What better security system would you like to have than an iPhone App that shows you what the darn thieves are doing inside your house, in real time! That’s just what happened with Vince Hunter from Dallas. He was on vacation with his family, a good 1,500 miles away from home when an iPhone App called iCam sent him an intimation stating that the motion detectors in his house had been activated thanks to some kind of movement within...
Who doesn’t want a goose that lays golden eggs or a cow that drops golden dung? The golden dung we have here may have a bit too much to turn the whole experience of getting rich into a slower process. You cannot go on and sell the poop but in fact you have to buy it, light the mosquito coil that it houses, sleep soundly, wake up, work hard and continue the process again. Stress on the work hard...
If your iPad seemed to have everything but a QWERTY keyboard in it then you can fill the void with the brilliant Folio keyboard. It connects to your tablet via Bluetooth. You can set it up against the collapsible back stand that comes along with it so as to enjoy watching movies on the iPad while it is placed within the case. The flap of the whole case acts as a protective sheath for your iPad. The makers, Sena...
Today is a sad, sad day. It is with deep nostalgia and regret that I must inform you of the possible, imminent demise of the Oxford English Dictionary, from bookshelves, that is. The publishers of the OED have announced the unlikelihood of new editions ever again appearing in print. In its full-blown, multi volume form, the institutional lexicon spans 21,500 pages and has a 300,000 entries. The Chief Executive of publishers at Oxford University Press argued that with the...
German optics makers Minox have announced their plans to showcase three new cameras at the upcoming TFWA World Exhibition in Cannes. Minox are famous, or notorious, for their original mini spy camera dating back to the Second World War. It had a brass body covered in a stainless steel shell, which telescoped to reveal or cover the lens. It also featured a parallax correcting viewfinder and Minostigmat 15mm/3.5 lens, which could focus as close as 20cm. The new ‘Next...
The traditional Japanese hot spring town of Atami is on otaku alert following an influx of techno nerds on summer vacation with their virtual girlfriends. Thanks to a Love Plus campaign by Konami Digital Entertainment, the increasingly sleepy holiday town has received a new injection of tourist life, with more than 200 male visitors coming to visit and stay with imaginary sweethearts. Love Plus is a dating sim for handheld Nintendo DS consoles and AR applications on iPhones. Marketed...
