This reminds of my bitching every time I need to restart Windows Vista on my gaming desktop, and think ‘What part of _only download but let me chose when to install the updates_ don’t you understand when I see that exclamation mark on the shutdown button. Read more »
Ok, show of hands… and be honest. Who among you uses the same login name and passwords for practically everything? Much worse, who uses “password” as your passwords! LOL. There was a time when I was in that vicious circle of keeping everything the same too. Until I read about “identity theft” and how seriously it can harm your credit rating… moreso, your life. If remembering passwords have become more than a chore, a torture for you, well… you may want to think about getting a password manager to help you out. I like my MacBook’s keychain program as it does wonders for me during my memory blackouts. But still, Read more »
Ok, I know this is still a concept but this has been one of the more solid, practical, functional, space-saving idea I’ve seen so far in Q1 of 2009. The SoundShelf designer (Polish designers Witek Stefaniak and Anielka Zdanowicz ) nailed it when they observe speakers are literally shoved in a corner and adorned with “novelty” items just to make it “blend in” with all other furnishings. This concept takes the speakers and “makes it” part of any room by making it serve a purposeful role. A hanging bookshelf or a standing DVD rack, good ideas! Sure, the design may not be just as able to produce great sounds like Read more »
This seems a perfect recycling alternative to combat that credit crunch we are going through. Recycling with flavour. I bet you all still have a VHS Recorder lying around somewhere but who needs those nowadays anyway? Why not convert it in to a toaster?! Read more »
I don’t particularly follow the mobile phone market unless they are made of Lego blocks, but yesterday I followed the releases over at MWC. Mainly to see what Windows 6.5 would look like and in the hope of more information around the Palm Pre. For once I must admit that the Redmonders finally got something right with WM6.5. The honeycomb setup for the phone’s homepage looks attractive and most of all usable. That must be a first for Microsoft! Even though the background of choice too dark is and Windows Mobile still fugly looks with the humongous status bar and its icons, it certainly looks thousand times better than any Read more »
I’m not sure… it feels all too weird to wear this even if gives you the convenience of hands-free video recording. Will I get a lot of stares, definitely. Will I get laughed at, probably. Will my forehead ache… I’m sure. The intentions are very noble though. That’s a video camera with a fabricated strap that attaches it to your forehead. Probable use would be extreme sports (?) or something to do with recording an in-your-face situation. The camera captures images at 320 x 250 resolution at a 30 frames-per-second rate. Not bad. It can take still shots too, about 1,200 and around 6 hours of video time. How, 8GB Read more »
No that’s not Michael Arrington’s dog I want to discuss! Those among us who have reached their ’30s, or especially Europeans, might remember the dog, Lycos’ dog. Today this ‘pre-Web 1.0′ portal, which started as a search engine in 1994/1995 and was the worldwide most visited website in 1999, has shut down in several European countries. The news was announced last month already, still this is a dinosaur in the deadpool. Not just a dinosaur, for many Lycos was where everything started: their first email account, their first online dating profile and even their first website (Tripod and Angelfire hosting). Shall we call today a _sad day_ for the internet? Read more »
Only very rarely has an entry been this easy. What you see is what you get. A Rubik’s Magic Cube with light, sound and accelerometer. *drool* Where’s my ThinkGeek wishlist again? I want one! The perfect Rubik’s Cube update according to me. Read more »
Hmmm… this is probably one of the coolest store grate turned into an advertisement. For sure it’s a store for music equipment and supplies. It may also have been sponsored by Fender as you could see the logo prominently speaking out. Nonetheless, I really like the way the human mind plays into inanimate objects. People walking or even driving buy would surely take notice AND possibly turn this into positive store sales. We have no word on the stores location yet, nor do we know where and who did this work of art. Hey I hope this isn’t a Photoshop project, though this is a GREAT project too. I could Read more »
Well, the post title tells it all BUT if it wasn’t there would you have known that these googly eyes tell time? The block on the left says it’s 3:15, while the one on the right says it’s about 2:50. Can you see it? I had a laugh when I saw this, and probably this will be something a geek’s table need to animate it at a bit. It’s relatively small to occupy a small table corner, and will surely tilt everyone’s head asking “what is that!”. Sure it may probably give you an additional second or two to actually TELL time. First-glancers would just laugh at it at about Read more »
