We all saw it coming, but it’s finally out and true. According to a recent Nikkei report, the Finnish handset maker is likely to bid the Japanese market adieu by the end of August. As per the report, Nokia had stopped supplying cell phones to Japanese carriers in 2008 and come July will be shutting down its Vertu handset stores in Tokyo's Shibuya and Ginza districts. Nokia's phone service, run on network infrastructure leased from NTT DoCoMo Inc., will also...
Ever wished that you could play some of the combat games for real, and not really get killed in the process, then here’s a guy you should be thanking soon, if all goes well that is. Meet Aram Bartholl. The creator of first-person shooter glasses and life size replicas of Need for Speed Underground 2’s flashing neon arrows and Counter Strike’s crates in public space is back again. And this time he plans to build a one-to-one scale replica made...
Technology today can help bring back the past and shed light on it. Moshe Koppel and his team of Israeli scholars of the Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv have come up with software that has helped researchers confirm the theory that the Hebrew Bible, the Aleppo Codex, was written by multiple authors over time, finally coming to be what it is today. The Hebrew Bible, or the Torah, alternatively known as the Pentateuch or the Five Books of Moses...
This iPhone is not made from semi conductors and revolutionary technology. [Presurfer]...
Jenn H celebrated her birthday with this awesome Yoshi cake. It was made by Perfection Confection in Gray, TN. [Perfection Confection via Geeksaresexy]...
Today is a day of historic significance for the mobile phone industry. It was today, 20 years ago, when th Finland’s former prime minister Harri Holkeri and vice mayor of the city of Tampere Kaarina Suonio made the first ever GSM call. The call was made on the commercial network by Telenokia and Siemens which now goes by the name of Nokia Siemens Networks. It was built for the Finnish operator Radiolinja and now operates under the name of Elisa....
Rubik’s Cube is more than just a 3-D mechanical puzzle toy. This puzzle concept has been well received by the geeky world and we have seen some amazing renditions like the Rubik’s cube Table, Rubik’s Cube subwoofer and Rubik’s Cube with Font Designer smarts. Latest developments tell us that Demaine has found a new way to quickly solve a puzzle of any size and his ways are quite different than that of Tomas Rokicki....
Be it an automaker or gadget giant, we have seen them using really off-beat stuff in the effort to leave us enamored. But these French luxury automobile maker, Bugatti, touched new heights with its latest Veyron Grand Sport L'Or Blanc offering. The car chassis here is crafted out of porcelain to accentuate its exemplary design and swirls. The monster price tag of $2.4 million doesn’t come as a surprise here. the term in its name ‘L'Or Blanc’ translates into white...
Google has partnered with Virgin America to dish out Chrome books to their passengers for testing on select flights. So anybody who is flying on on Virgin America between the airline’s home airport in San Francisco and either Boston, Chicago O’Hare or Dallas airports between July 1 and September 30 will get one of these and they can see what it is like using the free in-air WiFi pass....
Data transfer isn’t how it used to be. Nor is gaming. Things change and for the best. We may miss the good old NES controller that endeared us to buttons but we got to admit that the gesture-control-magic by Kinect is not even a fair comparison. Yet, we adore the good old NES controller from where it all started. That’s why we recommend the NES controller USB drive that packs up to 32GB of vacant storage space for you to...
M-Vision knows the way around the audiophile, media-head and visual-sucker. That’s why they roll out amazing products like the Cine 230 digital projector. It scores big on color and clarity, with 1.85 – 2.40 lens that keeps the zooming capabilities to the max. Other features include 1080p full HD support, 1000 lumen Cine 230, a slightly letting-down 3000:1 contrast ratio, two HDMI ports, a good mate for a home theatre audio setup....
Heat isn’t something the human body is unfamiliar with. Even Eskimos would vouch for some insanely extreme body temperature levels. That’s what makes perspiration a way of life, especially for those who live along the humid coastal belt. That’s where the USB-powered cushion comes to the rescue of the numerous folk who are condemned to a lifetime before a computer, gathering blisters and heat boils on their bottoms. Now make sure that even your butt gets the cool drift of...
What they meant by naming a phone ‘Eternity’ was a mystery till this latest leak revealed that the phone does have something that can take it on the path to the everlasting. The HTC Eternity will be decorated by a generous amount of screen space, amounting to a whopping 4.7-inches, a WVGA Super LCD, a 1.5GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, Windows Phone 7 (Mango) powered, an 8-megapixel camera with dual-LED flash, 720p HD recording, a 1.3 megapixel camera for video...
Motorola haven’t been on our front page for a while and that’s probably because they are concentrating their forces elsewhere – China. The MOTO MT970 may not be headed here but it doesn’t mean that we aren’t entitled to covet our eastern neighbor’s goods. It’s the first dual-core TD-SCDMA 3G phone to be coming in from the house of Motorola. It will include Android 2.3 Gingerbread as the operating platform, a 4-inch qHD display screen, SHOP4APPS application store for China...
Heard of love dolls before? Well, these aides to a lonely lifestyle have just served a whole new purpose; helping dental students get comfortable with their practices, before pulling out the teeth of their first patients. Called the Showa Hanako 2, this love-doll-turned-medical-robot will be sold by the Yoshida Dental Manufacturing Company. With a silicone skin and mouth lining by Orient Industry, a maker of dolls, this robot boasts arms and a tongue with two degrees of motion freedom, while...
