If you are the type who likes sports, chances are that your kids are going to grow up with a fondness for it as well. However, as much as they want to toss the ole pigskin around with you and your friends, it’s likely not such a great idea to include them in the game. Well, not a serious game that involves tackling and trash talk anyway.
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If you are into recording audio, chances are you have looked into the costs of purchasing brand new equipment, and it’s not pretty. Running any sort of business that requires you have a professional standard for audio and video likely means that you are going to try and fudge good results from cheaper equipment. So long as the end product is good, that’s all that matters, right?
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Have you ever found yourself in need of an electrical device, with no charging station in sight? This could be a very dangerous situation if you are lost in a habitat that you don’t know very well. It’s always good to have a backup charger, but what happens when that source of power dies out as well?
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We’re desperately trying to work out why you would need to embed an xGB flash memory drive inside a whistle, but we’re failing to come up with anything. You’re worried about being mugged and your accounts data being stolen? You live in a foggy city and often get lost on your way to work? You act as a part-time referee at the weekends and need to keep the game rules close to hand at all times?
Read MoreEven in today’s smartphone driven environment, there are a huge number of handsets that record video in the 3GP format (.3gp). This is all well and dandy until you want to play back the video on something other than a phone, at which point you’ll discover that most computer players are not equipped to handle this mobile video format.
Read MoreClimate change is a topic that won’t go away, and thankfully it looks as though more and more people are beginning to understand the real dangers that man-made warming is likely to create. Sure there are still deniers out there, mostly paid shills for the industrial combines, but even hardened deniers are now starting to see the light and switch sides.
Read MoreThere are people in the world who love bowling. When I say love, I really mean to say that they are fanatical. This isn’t always a bad thing, but if you like to overindulge in this particular hobby, chances are that you want to be playing all the time.
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Warm weather is upon us, and that undoubtedly means that we will be going on all kinds of outings. Whether it takes us to snowy peaks, warm beaches, or rocky cliffs, we will likely be on some sort of outdoor excursion. The only problem is that you will likely have your phone on you as well, and the elements won’t be as kind to an electronic device.
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It seems that the era of of cell phones that have physical keypads have gone out of style. Everyone wants to have, or already has I should say, a touchscreen phone that has a glass face. The biggest downside to this is that your phone is very fragile, and one fall may make it unusable.
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It’s come to that moment when you need an extension cable. While you’re happy to have them on hand, but you have to sift through to find the perfect sized one that isn’t going to be too long or too short. You can only hope that no one is going to trip on it, or that it’s going to unplug because it has fulfilled its duties.
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Earlier this week, we saw an alarm clock that told you the time through words, and now there’s a wrist watch that does the same. Its name is the Qlocktwo W, and it is the first of its kind. Even though it’s not available just yet, it offers a different perspective on time.
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If anyone remembers the Etch-A-Sketch, think back to why you enjoyed them so much. It was essentially a blank piece of paper, which makes it a little confusing as to why we loved them so much. However, every line was connected, and you really had to think about what you wanted to draw. Especially if you wanted to write letters or words.
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It may look innocent enough, like an ordinary cheap pocket lighter you’d find in any hardware or corner store, but the Discreet Lighter Pepper Spray packs a nasty little secret for anyone trying to give you grief. Instead of dispensing a nice comforting flame, this puppy will shoot pepper spray into the face of anyone unlucky enough to be in the target area.
Read MoreThere’s few things worse than going on vacation, happily grabbing huge numbers of photos of family, locations and events and returning home to find that the memory card, or your hard disk storage is corrupt and the images are all gone. Unfortunately it happens all too often, and we generally think that there’s nothing we can do. But there is.
Read MoreRecent history is awash with file sharing applications and services across the world, ranging from the massively successful BitTorrent to smaller yet still impressive services such as Tribler. However most of them either fall short in features such as privacy, or they are aimed purely at those who just want to share files with no consideration for copyright or other legal issues.
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