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Mac Cloners Open Tech on sale for $50k
Got a spare £25k lying around? Fancy owning a computer manufacturer who make desktops that are compatible with Mac OS X? Open Tech are for sale, according to a notice on their website…
Scientists on Google Earth discover that cows are magnetic
There are many animals that sense their place in the world through tapping into the earth’s magnetic field. We think that bees use it to work out where the hive is, and it’s thought that birds and fish use it when they migrate. However, before now it’s never been thought that cows might tap into it too…
Facebook blocks Scrabulous worldwide
In a not-entirely-unexpected development of the story of the grim fate of Scrabulous, Facebook have blocked the Scrabble-clone application in every country except India. Mattel, who own the rights to Scrabble outside of North America, formally demanded the block due to copyright concerns…
Nokia officially announces N85 and N79
If you’re in the UK, then did you have a lovely bank holiday weekend? I did, but it got even lovlier this morning when the news came through that Nokia have officially announced the N85 (which we’ve previously reported on) and N79…
RUMOUR: Upgrade to the Prada phone
The Prada phone looks like it’s getting an upgrade. In a break from mobile phone naming tradition, which frequently makes no sense whatsoever, it’s called the PRADA II. It’s as pretty as you’d imagine for a phone associated with Prada, looking much like the original…
Get a brainwave using the FeelFree headset
Binaural Beats are weird. Discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, a German physicist and meteorologist, they’re auditory processing artifacts created when you play sounds of slightly different frequencies to each ear. A beating tone is percieved, as if the tones mixed outside the brain. The weird bit, however, is that they appear to entrain brainwaves, producing relaxation and health benfits. Enter the FeelFree headset…
Speed-Vest tracks your speed
This kit, aimed at couriers and delivery drivers with safety in mind, will integrate with a embedded computer on your bike and show everyone exactly how fast you’re going using electro-luminescent wire…
Turning roads into solar collectors – why has no-one thought of this before?
Roads get really hot. Really really hot. But 2cm below the surface of the road gets hotter still, and some researchers at Worcester Polytechnic University reckon that we could use that heat in power generation…
Cyber Funerals – broadcast your funeral across the world
It can be a real pain co-ordinating a funeral. Family members living abroad can face the horrible decision of not having a chance to pay your respects or paying a fortune in last-minute plane tickets…