August 2009

Google Maps – now with Arterial Traffic info

For those of us commuters, especially the ones living in the suburbs of some big city, traffic can be a real nightmare. And of course, we’re all looking for alternative routes and usually when you drop off the freeway, you’re taking a gamble that the side streets will be better traffic-wise. Help is here – [...]

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New Sony e-Book reader coming in Dec

Sony steps up the the e-Book reader wars as they announce a new addition to their line-up. The Reader Daily Edition (yes, cumbersome name) has an integrated 3G wireless conn (with free AT&T service to the Sony bookstore), a 7″ touch screen that operates in both landscape and portrait modes and has 16 shades of [...]

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Amazing video takes you back to the 80s, Lego animation style

If you’re a video game fan then you need to watch this amazing video made mainly with Lego. I thought the Pac Man bit was the best part. Apparently, this took over 1500 hours! “8-bit Trip” indeed. via Gizmodo

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Microsoft ‘Arc’ Mouse – Folding Portable Mouse

Microsoft have announced their latest addition to the portable mouse market – the Arc™ Mouse; a mouse which can fold away to 60% of its size to be carried and can be unfolded to make a comfortable pointing device for your laptop. The mouse utilizes laser technology for extra precision over optical, broadcasts over 2.4Ghz, [...]

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Latest Apple Rumour – iTablet?

Rumours from Apple are common, but a few of them do seem to come true – perhaps this is one of them! I am a bit skeptical about Apple releasing the ‘iCar’ that I heard about last year though! However, the latest offering in the rumor scene is some sort of Apple Tablet (could it [...]

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Flexible Illuminated Keyboard

Flexible keyboards are old news, we’ve seen them and grown tired of gadget programs still referring to them as amazing new technology. The illuminated flexible keyboard gives us something to talk about -  it’s a completely flexible keyboard that can be rolled, folded and washed (yes, it’s fully washable – no more finger grime on [...]

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Humor: XKCD flowcharts how computer experts ‘know’ where everything is

Part-humor, part-truth, today’s xkcd webcomic totally nails how we ‘computer experts’ actually know where to find everything in every program!Click the image for the full-sized version.

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Air Conditioned Bed

Remember those sticky nights where you just can’t sleep with the heat? Well a Japanese company has come up with a solution for this – the air conditioned bed which works by blowing cool air over you as you sleep. The makers, Kuchofuku, already make air conditioned shirts so this just seems a natural progession [...]

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49 Port USB Hub by Cambrionix

Should you ever need to plug 49 USB devices into a hub at once, you’ll be thankful there is a solution – Cambrionix’s 49 port USB hub. Okay, so it wasn’t designed for the consumer market (it was supposed to be used in large test labs and business offices) but it would still be pretty [...]

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Yahoo! Mail still #1, but for how much longer?

Image via CrunchBase ComScore shows Yahoo Mail is still the world’s leader in e-mail services, but the bad news (for Yahoo) is that Google’s Gmail is the fastest growing service. Hotmail is still #2, and AOL just slipped to #4 after Gmail who leapfrogged them to go to #3. Four years ago when we sized [...]

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