Month: October 2006
Tuesday Top Ten: Reviews of the Firefox 2.0 web browser
Apparently more than two million people downloaded the Firefox 2.0 browser in the first 24 hours after it was officially released. But if you're not one of them, you're probably wondering whether it's worth getting. Plenty of people on the…
Robot vehicle goes up stairs, over bridge of freaks
The fellas at Boing Boing are wondering if anybody knows what this robot vehicle sighted in Japan is exactly. Apparently it can climb curbs and stairs, and navigate crowds, so well that the occupant seemed relatively blasé about his…
Power Aware Glowing Cable
Instead of the same old rubberized black power cable, the Power Aware Cord pulses brighter and brighter as you draw more electricity. Developed by Anton Gustafsson and Magnus Gyllenswärd for STATIC!, the idea is to draw attention to not…
DigiMemo A402 digitally captures your inky scribbles and recognises your handwriting
Here's another scanning solution for those of you who like using good old pen and paper for taking your notes and drawing diagrams, but would like an immediate way of capturing them digitally for later editing on your PC….
CardScan Executive desktop business card scanner: bringing order to the busy businessman
OK, so organising your business cards (you have business cards, right?) isn't the most exciting thing ever, but is necessary and a perfect excuse for a piece of technology to help. Mini desktop scanners aren't particularly new but version…
YouTube Video of the Day – Darth Vader being childish
So, Darth Vader… he's the baddest bad guy in the galaxy eh? How about this video that lifts the lid on his childishness? They never told you that about the dark side did they?…
One Minute Preview: Navman N Series
We wrote about the launch of the new N Series of Navman GPS products here a little while ago. And to celebrate the launch, they took me on a trip round London Town to discover all the best bits of…
DocuPen RC800 promises fast, full-page colour scanning
There are plenty of options for scanning content at your PC but the options become trickier when you're on the move and want to scan a number of pages into a machine-readable format. Enter the DocuPen RC800, a handheld…
Microsoft to offer Office Live UK beta from November 15th
Microsoft have been beta testing their Office Live suite of web hosting and business tools in the US for a while now, and whilst they're ready to shift to a fully working version on November 15th, other selected countries including…
Vodafone exclusively offer 'world first' mobile movie release: Mission Impossible 3
Vodafone have scored an exclusive for new purchasers of Nokia N93 multimedia computers. Nokia will launch the film Mission: Impossible 3 on 512MB memory cards on the same day the film is released on DVD, to be available for free…
