When you meet someone in a professional setting, the best way to make sure you can keep in touch with someone is to give them your business card. After a conference or two, your collection of these little cards can be quite extensive, and it’s hard to keep track of them all. Trying to organize them by stack only works if you never bump into your desk.
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So things didn’t go quite as planned for the mighty Apple corporation with their recent release of maps for iOS. Apparently it’s not so easy to do mapping properly, who would have guessed? The black eye has been compounded by the fact that Google seems to be running away with the whole mapping functionality stuff, just take a look at their latest offerings like bicycle routes, labels and webcams. That’s just rubbing it in.
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When you think of a ‘masculine’ guy, you think of eating steak, fighting bears, and working on cars. This is all well and good if this is your typical week, but if you want to catch the eye of someone special, you will need to clean up every now and then. It’s little details that you may not think of, but will definitely be noticed if they are attended to. Some of it has to do with how you present…
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When the technology started going for glass-faced surfaces, I was a little more than perturbed. I used to be able to text without looking at the face of my phone and not worry if I had accidentally misspelled something or opened a different menu. Using a keyboard for touchscreen devices like smartphones or tablets gives you tactile feedback, but you normally have to different sized versions for different items.
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If you are a fan of Portal 2, then you likely know of the portal gun that Chell uses in the game. It could shoot out a blue and/or orange ringed portal that would help you weave your way through mazes called ‘tests’ by a crazed robot who was trying to kill you. Thankfully none of us have been subjected to a situation like that, but wouldn’t t be awesome to have the portal gun? Sadly the technology just doesn’t…
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Here’s a quick round-up of Red Ferret posts from the past week for those who missed them. Enjoy. Super Missed Call – take control of your missed phone calls [Freeware] – What is it with mobile phone… Muziic – is this the future of music radio? – The whole music scene is in… Logitech Wireless Rechargable Touchpad T650 does away with your mouse – Several years ago, there was talk… Sennheiser U320 Multi Platform Headset can work and play as…
Read MoreThere’s something cool about automated machinery, especially stuff that appears to mind read our needs. Maybe that’s why we’re all impatiently waiting for some neat android robots which we can order around and show off with. Unfortunately the I, Robot world is still a way away, but in the meantime we can enjoy the fruits of some of our tech designer’s fertile imaginations.
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The move away from landline phones to mobile and Internet calling continues apace, and it’s spawning a whole new way of communications. We’re no longer content to be tied to one place when we chat, we want to roam around, whether it’s from room to room or from street to street. However all this mobility does make it difficult to do some things that are useful, like recording important calls for later reference.
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Ever been in the maddening situation of trying to remember a song which is on the tip of your tongue, but which you just can recall? Well there are a bunch of tools out there to help, like Shazam and suchlike, but these are based on computer pattern matching, which means they’re only as good as the patterns in the database. But fear not, there’s now another option.
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There are some ideas out there that seem absolutely ridiculous upon first glance. However, once you really start to think it over, you realize how ingenious it is, and wonder why you didn’t think of it first. When it comes to eating utensils, you would think that we don’t need any more innovations past the ‘spork’, but you’d never realize how wrong you were.
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If you want to keep a valuable safe, you would normally put it in a lock-box of some sort. Thanks to years of TV and movies, we know that this is normally hidden behind a painting somewhere in the house. If you want to confuse a burglar, then you’re going to have to be a bit more creative with where you place your precious items, especially things like keys, passports, and credit cards.
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Have you ever wanted to blast away tens of thousands on a singular item? Not only that, but something that would only be worth buying in a very specific geographic location? If you fit those two criterion, then you are going to love the amazing toy that is depicted above.
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The brain is definitely a funny thing. You work hard all day, thinking, planning, doing and come the evening everything goes into tired mode. Yet immediately you go to bed, your mind springs into action and stops you from dozing off to a nice night’s sleep. It’s weird. We can blame caffeine, stressful days or sloppy eating habits, but it’s still an incredibly annoying and common problem.
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One of the big challenges of our global family is to deliver affordable health care to those who don’t have much money, especially in the developing world. The massive advances in first world health mechanics is all well and good, but if it requires a $10,000 down payment, it’s not going to help someone with a median income of $10 a month. Which is why it’s great to see organizations like Diagnostics For All step up and offer low cost…
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There are many artistic souls out there who don’ t want to fill their homes with just anything. While you can choose what decorations go up on the wall and what color the carpet should be, it’s a bit tough to find items like a fireplace with artistic influence. Not to mention that you would have to put in a lot more than just the fireplace if you actually wanted to use it.
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