October 2008

Motorola joining the Android gang

In what can only be regarded as good news for Android, Motorola is making an Android mobile handset. High points – touch screen, slide out QWERTY keyboard and most importantly, lots of social networking features, particularly Facebook and MySpace interfaces.

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MOMA Perpetual Calendar

Ever realize how much cool stuff there is hiding out in museum shops? Well, thanks to the Interwebs, you can get your paws on these gadgets without entering a museum and having to learn stuff. God forbid. Here’s a mechnical beauty designed by Gideon Dagan for the Museum of Modern Art. It’s a perpetual calendar [...]

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Objet’s Alaris 30 Printer – the latest in 3-D Printing

A few years ago we ran an article about the future of 3D printing, and how it could eventually end up as a consumer-grade possibility. Price-wise, this may still be restricted to small businesses at best, but 3D printing is a reality today. Enter the Alaris 30 by Objet, an Israeli company that specializes in [...]

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New Apple 13-inch MacBook

We can’t help but feature Apple’s latest MacBooks just announced this week. First up is the new 13″ MacBook. Highlights of this refresh include the body that is carved from a single block of aluminum, the glass Multi-Touch trackpad, and powerful NVIDIA 9600M graphics cards. The 13.3″ MacBook also features 1280×800 LED-backlit screens, 2.0/2.4GHz Intel [...]

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UK Govt planning e-mail/phone Big Brother system

The thing that we were afraid of not too long ago (the FBI’s Carnivore program), is coming up in the UK now. The UK Home Secretary is proposing a similar system that would track times and dates of messages and phone calls. Needless to say, it’s experiencing a great deal of resistance. 

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Firefox 3.1 Beta is out

New features include even better Web standards improvements, location awareness, a new tab-switching preview that some folks are raving about. Read more about it and/or download it now.

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Create your own CD/DVD paper sleeves with a Web Bookmarklet

Here’s another example of very cool apps that the Web has spawned, or is it just a matter of folks adapting to the new media/format? Either way, it’s cool. Oh yeah, it’s a bookmarklet called Liquid Mongoose that converts Web pages into printable paper CD sleeves. It only works with the Netflix or Music.AOL.com sites [...]

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Thinking green about IT

Think Green. In technology and the environment – Green IT we talked about ways to be more efficient with the technology we use. There are three main areas where improvements can be made: selection, utilisation and disposal. Looking for more energy efficient equipment, making the most efficient use of it, and recycling equipment are ways [...]

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YouTube to air full episodes of old TV shows. First up, Star Trek

If Hulu isn’t filling your old TV-content needs, then YouTube may be your savior. So far, they’ve only got a few shows on tap, but they’re (were) pretty popular – Star Trek (the original series), Beverly Hills 90210 and MacGyver. This is part of Google’s attempt to better monetize YouTube with some new video ad [...]

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The Power of Post-its

It’s Friday. Time for something completely entertaining, no thought required! Watch what happens when you take over a quarter of a million multicolored Post-its and create paper slinkys. Mesmerizing. via Gizmodo

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