Tag: .uk
Onboard vehicle cameras to detect speed limit in 2008
In undisclosed models in 2008, German electronics giant Siemens AG will roll out (sorry) cars with onboard cameras that read speed limit signs and beam a chastising message on the windscreen. Those with cruise control enabled may find it…
Amuse your cats with the robot Bug Jar
My cats like to be amused, and my cleverness in having two so Dana and Bester would amuse each other has just meant that they stalk me in shifts. Perhaps the solution is this fake Bug Jar, which is…
Robot chair goes on tour with its fall-apart pull-self-back-together act
The Robotic Chair looks like a regular wooden straight-backed chair, until it falls apart into several pieces… whereupon the pieces invoke their 14 motors, 2 gearboxes, and various other components to pull the entire chair back together into a…
Light Display Projector for Ghosts now, Snowflakes later
"Darling," you say lazily, sipping another Solstice Punch and rolling over to apply yet another layer of coconut oil, "I do so miss the winter. Pull out the Light Display Projector and put on some snowflakes, would you?" Or…
Evesham Crusader Carbon3 PC trades horsepower for emissions
Fast, good, cheap, pick two, as the saying goes, and the Evesham Crusader Carbon3 PC goes for the latter two – if you define 'good' in terms of virtue. Running at 1.5ghz (a VIA C7-D chip, "the first ever…
What's On TV to launch online UK TV guide, claims uniqueness
What's On TV magazine is to launch its own online TV guide and gossip-fest web site in January next year, and claims that it will be the UK's only website providing a comprehensive, trusted one-stop shop for all the biggest…
Banning 'happy-slapping' on the web: likely?
UK government ministers want to impose tougher controls on video sharing sites such as YouTube in order to end the sharing and broadcast of violent home-made videos. Whereas "Happy-slapping" (I hate that phrase, it's so misses the point) videos may…
Wi-Fi Walker saves you from miserable extinction
Wifi Walker is another little gizmo that lets you detect open wireless networks by pushing a small button rather than conspiciously unloading your entire gear and walking around peering into the screen with such intensity that you trip over…
Art-O-Meter rates art, gives you snotty comments
Why fool around pretending interest in Michelangelo's David or Guernica or Duchamp's Fountain when you can just glance down at your Art-O-Meter and have it tell you what you're supposed to feel? Okay, it's only a piece of art…
UK is a nation swamped by spam
A new survey suggests that 85% of UK households receive unsolicited emails every day. 14.4m home users are exposed to unsolicited and harmful spam, but only 4% have any email filtering in place. 74 million unwanted emails come into the…