Month: December 2006
Top 50 TechDigest.tv weird gadgets of 2006 : No's 25 – 1
And so our list (started yesterday) concludes. Here is a run-down of the top TechDigest weird gadgets of the last year…
Top 50 TechDigest.tv weird gadgets of 2006 : No's 50 – 26
We all love gadgets, but if there's one thing that we love MORE than gadgets it's weird gadgets. So what better way to say goodbye to 2006 than to have a run-down of the top 50 weird gadgets TechDigest brought news of to you over the last 12 months. What follows is…
Tech Digest 2006 interviews redux: HP Labs, Eleksen, OMG
Welcome to the third and final part of our transparent attempt to spend more time on the sofa after Christmas review of some of the best Tech Digest interviews of 2006. Today, it's some of the more whiz-bang futuristic ones,…
Walk and glide skates
Piled on the pounds after all those leftover Christmas turkey meals? Then you need to get yourself a pair of these. Called the Walk n' Glides, they're a set of…
What you didn't find under your tree this year: Art.Lebedev Optimus Keyboard
A long and weighty present sits under the tree this Christmas, you edge to it when no one's looking; they're all distracted by the Doctor Who special anyway. The gift wrap cover depicts elves and goblins, "not very festive," you think to yourself, "but I'll let it slide." The name tag dangles seductively before you eyes, you read it…
Should Al Gore give away An Inconvenient Truth?
Michael Eakes is a geek who knows his stuff, so it's not surprising he hit on a good way to get more people to see An Inconvenient Truth: he wrote a letter asking Al Gore to give the movie…
US FDA OKs cloned meat
Saying that cloned meat is "virtually indistinguishable" from the conventional variety, the US FDA has declared "that meat and milk from cattle, swine and goat clones is as safe to eat as the food we eat every day" and…
Washingtonienne lets it all hang out (at her trial)
Far be it for us to comment on the lurid details of a trial in far-off America, but since it impinges on whether or not we can flash our own lurid details one supposes we shall, for England. Jessica…
Turn on (satnav), tune in, drop out (brain)
A siren voice crashed a lot of motorists into a lot of rocks, piles of sand, and lavatory huts in 2006, as drivers followed bad satnav directions with spectacularly bad results. "I just thought the navigation system knew a…
Rights for robots in 2027?
A problem that may plague your children: sometime in the next twenty years, someone may develop a robot to agitate for robot rights. A study from the UK government suggests that "correctly managed, there is a very real possibility…