For the first time in a semi-regular feature we’re asking for your opinion on things. Every so often (most likely on weekends) we will put a question up for you (our glorious readers) to answer, in the hope that something good comes out of it…
This weekend’s query is a simple one: On June 2nd-4th, LA [...]
Those great guys over at Blue Blots have made a list of 35 the decently abnormal USB drive designs on the market today. And by decently abnormal, I don’t mean a thumbdrive that has a company logo printed on it, and that’s all.
There’s usb drives shaped like pizza, sperm, Lego, keys, carabinas, even a [...]
The Short Version: The Palm Pre is being thrown out by Sprint on the 6th of June for $200. It’s data-plan heavy, and can be charged by a Touchstone charger for extra outlay.
The Longer Version: You can get the Palm Pre for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate. If you value your [...]
I’m sure you’ve seen yesterday’s post about Wolfram Alpha and it’s semi-uselessness compared to the current big dog on campus Google. I did query if I was throwing the wrong data at it. And it turns out to be true.
Searching for “how many roads must a man walk down” actually comes up with a [...]
Over the weekend, Wolfram Alpha was launched. And Google got worried. Let’s see if it needs to be worried with a little test of what they can do, and for no good reason at all, chuck Ask Jeeves into the mix too…
Search Term: Malcolm Owen
WA: Finds both Malcolm and Owen as names, comparing the two [...]
QR Codes are a fantastic idea. Mostly. And yes, I’m talking about a technology that has been around for quite some time and it really didn’t take off outside of Japan, but go with me on this.
I know that you lot would have seen them before and dismissed them as futuristic ideas that will never [...]
It’s strange really. Sometimes the best adverts come from the internet. Such as this one from Nokia called The-Unloader.
The basic idea behind it is that you upload a document, then in a Dilbertesque way, the doc gets printed and sent along a production line to be destroyed, ruining the point of printing the document out [...]