Voice Look Up is a voice recognition program for PocketPCs. ‘Look up contacts by voice…dial phone by voice…create emails by voice…schedule meetings by voice…’

I’ve just received a PR email outlining the ways that Bluejacking can be used for advertising purposes. Nasty email. Nasty concept. Let’s hope it crawls back into its box real soon now (to join the naff viral marketing stuff in the corporate gutter). One example given? TagText. Sheesh! Oh dear, I may have started something ugly here. I suspect that it was the Ferret that first introduced Bluejacking to a wider world. Little Ellie sent me an email invite to…

The Radar Golf system is designed to help golfers find their balls. Quickly. Even if lost in the rough. This could actually be a rather neat solution to the plague of slow weekend players thrashing around in bushes the world over. The only drawback is that golf ball makers will have to integrate an electronic tag into their products, which they may not be too keen to do. ‘The unit emits a radar signal that scans and looks for the…

Sanyo’s Solar Ark is the world’s largest solar-power generating structure. It contains over 5000 solar panels and 77,000 LEDs which can be used as a gigantic billboard display.

The Wearables Central Showcase contains a veritable feast of geekarocity in the form of folk who have created their own wearable computer systems.

A new ‘dog on a chip‘ (huh?) may one day be used instead of real canines to check for illicit substances like drugs. Once detected it sends an alarm to a laptop. ‘The dog-on-a-chip works with antibodies by looking at their molecular structure, Hunt said. In this case the researchers tested cocaine antibodies, which change in structure and mass if they come into contact with cocaine molecules.’

Pipi-Max is a little toy dog that drinks from his bowl and then relieves himself on your carpet. Probably hilarious. For a very short time.

Matsushita Avionics Systems has just announced a new collaboration with Delta Airlines and EchoStar to introduce a new version of its ‘MAS eFX‘ in flight entertainment service. Live telly at 30,000 feet? So explain again to me why we can’t use mobile phones? ’24 free channels each of all-digital, live, satellite broadcast TV programming and all-digital broadcast audio programming; as well as a multi-player interactive video game.’

I’m still not completely sure what Lomography is – even after having visited the web site. Nevertheless, for some strange reason, I feel a curious empathy for the concept. ‘Rule #1 – take your camera everywhere you go.’

Those who do not believe that within a few years we will have animated movie stars, should take a look at the stills and videos of Kaya. And this is just an early work in progress.

StirChef. Now let me get this straight. There are folks who want to cook and yet can’t spare the time to stir a saucepan full of ingredients? Fabulous!

Now here’s something which could cause problems if it gets out of hand. Darester – the world’s first ‘dare auction’. Accept or offer dares, jokes or pranks for hard cash. A sort of e-yeughBay?

The Reg is reporting that the Internet Archive has offered to host the 5 terrabytes of MP3.com music files when the domain is handed over to CNET on December 2nd. Everyone cross fingers and toes that it works out.

10 Things Friends teaches us about New York. 1) New Yorkers never lock their doors. Ever. 2) No matter how full a New York coffee shop is, the comfy centre couch will always be free and available for your circle. 3) In New York boyfriends and girlfriends from outside of your immediate circle always have some irredeemable feature which means that they have to be dumped very quickly. 4) New Yorkers never eat meals. They snack. Constantly. 5) New Yorkers…

Inspired by this Kuro5hin thread recently, I have compiled a very short link list of some of the free music sites that are out on the web at the moment. Of course this is literally just a fraction of the total, but I figured that 1 million free & legal music tracks or so was enough to be going on with. I’ll link the file permanently on the front page here for general use. ‘And yes, I realise that with…