Month: October 2006
Turbine Chip to Replace Batteries?
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working on a gas-turbine engine — about the size of a ten pence piece — that could fit inside a microchip and potentially produce enough energy to drive a laptop or…
ChaCha adds humans back to the search equation
The biggest problem with search engines, of course, is that they're not mind readers, so to our minds, they're often somewhere between dense and outright stupid. ChaCha lets you chat with an actual human during the search process, so…
Middlesbrough names and shames antisocial behaviour on the fly
Be careful littering, skateboarding or fighting in Middlesbrough – talking CCTV cameras have arrived to tell you off. Control room operators surveil various parts of the downtown, and if they see anyone misbehaving – from drinking in public to…
Website of the Day: Got Schwartz?
Today's Website of the Day is Got Schwartz?, subtitled 'how gaming is changing the world: technology, society, business and education'. It features some interesting articles as well as commentary on recent gaming news, about gaming and its effects. There's some…
Review: MobileWear bluetooth watch
The Propaganda Fossil make watches. Sony Ericsson make phones. Together they make…. phone watches. This is their partnership answer to Motorola and Oakley who created the O-Rokr shades. The MobileWear watch uses Bluetooth to connect to your phone, displaying…
Doodling and Googling: Brit kids artwork vote for prime homepage logo
Google have been running a competition to find out what UK kids think of British life today, and to put their thoughts into artwork based around the Google logo. They've had over 15,000 entries which were whittled down to 10…
Tate Modern putting art-inspired music tracks online
The Tate Modern invited a selection of musicians to compose pieces of music inspired by a piece of art in the museum. Each month they'll featuer that music in Tate Modern alongside the piece, and the following month will post…
Firefox hack critical and unpatchable
Two hackers at the recent ToorCon conference in San Diego said they've found a critical flaw in Firefox that affects it on all operating systems and (as far as they're concerned) is unpatchable. Put simply, it has to do with…
Monday interview: mobile advertising expert Russell Buckley
Mobile advertising is going to be increasingly high-profile in the next few years. And I don't mean Crazy Frog or those baffling Phones 4 U TV commercials. Advertising on your mobile has so far been largely restricted to annoying…
Tesco PC software coming for under £20
Remember the days when Tesco sold groceries? Just groceries. Now we have clothes and home accessories and electronic goods and insurance and Internet services and, well you know what a giant they've become. The latest company we could claim Tesco…