Gillette Fusion: Top Five beards
Whatever beard you wear, chances are you need a top-notch razor to keep it in trim. Gillette's new six-blade Fusion razor claims to offer the most comfortable shave yet, thanks to five blades squeezed very close together on the head….
Single Pixel Digital Camera, Coming Soon?
Researchers at Rice University in Houston Texas have developed a prototype camera that uses a single pixel image sensor. Actually that’s a bit of an over-simplification, and you needn’t worry too much about the technology coming to a digital…
Wi-Fi Monitor With Audible Alert, Freeware
Here’s a handy little program Propellerhead has found for road warriors. It’s called WiFi SiStr from a Belgian outfit called Dnsoft — try saying that with false teeth. Once installed it sits quietly on your wireless laptop’s desktop, monitoring…
Monday interview: MTV's Angel Gambino on mobile social networking
When researching my post last week on mobile social networking, I canvassed several industry bigwigs to get their views on how well the likes of MySpace and Bebo would translate to mobile. Helpfully, Gmail chose to file the response…
Play musical safes with the Zaporozhye
If music be the food of love, play on, seems to be the message of the Zaporozhye, the musical condom. There's a sensor in the base and some teeny-tiny speakers that play music "louder and faster" as the sex…
US Air Force prototypes a PHaSR
The Personnel Halting and Stimulating Response uh, device, about the size and weight of an M60, fires a pulse of light that temporarily blinds anybody in the beam. It seems to be a crowd-control device more than anything else,…
Technology on standby significant contributor to global warming
Did you shut your PC down before you left work on Friday night? A recent PC Energy Report has shown that one in five white-collar workers left their work computer on overnight at least three times a week. That's around…
Paid to Digg? IMO the service sucks (on so many levels)
Do you like Digg? Do you like money? Do you like ripping off genuine users and sites to help promote crap paid-for-submission sites? You do? Then the Digg Submitter is for you! Get paid 10 cents via PayPal every time…
Roadstar LCD TV Boombox with music and DVD playback
For me, the term "Boombox" doesn’t really apply to anything apart from the old school Brixton briefcase – the monster sound systems with an output that could damage brickwork. This Roadstar 5 in 1 TV Boombox isn’t that -…
Not just youth on MySpace: half are over 35
Analysis of US traffic to MySpace suggests that the perception of the social networking site being the near-exclusive domain of teenagers is false. Around half of its users are aged over 35, with only 30% under 25 and just 12%…