If you enjoy going on outdoor excursions, you know that it’s helpful to have a backup power supply for your gear. No one wants to be caught without their music, phone, or games now do they? However, after a certain point you’re going to run out of juice, and there’s not much that you can do for it if you’re camping out. Unless you have a solar powered option of course.
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That’s right folks, Valentine’s Day is coming up fast, and that means getting a special something for that loved one in your life. There’s the normal chocolates and flowers with a nice dinner involved, but that is soon to be a thing of the past. If you really want to make their day special, why not send them something magical?
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Have you ever come upon a situation where you thought, “I wish I had recorded that” or “I wish I had a camera”? Hilarious, wonderful, and silly things happen all the time, but you don’t necessarily want to walk around with a handheld video camera out all day. That’s why you should wear one on your shirt!
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Sometimes some is not enough. Some ice cream, some pizza, some vacation time. There are times when you want more, in fact times when we need as much as we can get, even at the risk of being called a greedy pig (no offence to porcines). And this applies to computer accessories too.
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Smartphone hardware has improved by leaps and bounds over the past few years, with processing power, memory and even battery life that would have been unthinkable back in the dark ages. But strangely enough the one area still lagging is the networks, which still struggle to provide reliable, consistent coverage for their long suffering users.
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Google engineer Dany Qumsiyeh has spent his 20% free project time at Google to produce an ingenious automatic non-destructive book scanner, using low cost components and a vacuum cleaner. Yes, a household model. The thing about book scanners is they’re either fiendishly expensive to buy because of all the technology needed to keep the pages safe, or they’re cheap and kind of cumbersome, requiring manual page flipping and button pressing to do the job. Enter Dany’s design, which is cheap…
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Not everyone sleeps the same way. Some prefer to lay on their side or back, and others snooze on their stomach. Whatever position you sleep in, it’s normally in a horizontal line, but that doesn’t work for everyone. If you would prefer to sleep at an incline, you’ll need to either have an army of pillows, or a way to raise the head of your bed.
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We all have different ways of using our tablets. Some doodle with their fingers, while others scrawl things out with a stylus. If you prefer to use a utensil, then having the proper stylus can make a difference in how you write, draw, or play games. Most styluses have a rubber hald ball on the end, which doesn’t really tell you where you’re going to touch, or how big the line is going to be.
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How many of you send out letters to family and friends? The honest truth is that most of us rely solely on email anymore. We don’t have to buy stamps, envelopes, or any paper products for that matter. It’s just a couple strokes on the keyboard and poof; it made it to its destination without getting lost on the way. With that said, sending a handwritten note can mean a lot, so there are times where you’ll want to send…
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In the U.S. alone, around 9 million fridges are tossed out or end up in landfills each year. And they, along with the hazardous chemicals then contain and the greenhouse gasses they emit, definitely aren’t biodegradable. But a partnership between General Electric the EPA, the Home Depot and the Appliance Recycling Centers of America (ARCA), now provides a green solution – shredding old fridges. Over the past year, ARCA has recycled more than 100,000 refrigerators and freezers, using a massive…
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There’s nothing so fine as sitting next to someone on the bus or train who’s talking to themselves. You know that feeling right? The sinking bit in the pit of the stomach as you hunt around desperately but discretely for an alternative seat you can bolt to? And whatever you do, don’t make eye contact!
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We’re not really sure whether the marketing folk in this company really thought things through when they came up with the Mirror Screen Protector for the Samsung S3 phone. Sure, the idea of sticking a thin film onto your touchscreen which is mirrored, so you can use it to pretty your face at important moments seems like a good idea, but what about being able to view the phone itself, to send texts or make a call?
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Well in case you haven’t heard, welcome back from the moon, and yes Kim Dotcom’s Mega free file storage site has launched. Not only launched, but exploded on the world actually. What is it? Well apart from now becoming the largest New Zealand hosted site in the world in just 3 days (beating out Google.co.nz) it is a direct rival to file storage services such as Dropbox, which has seen a large dip in traffic since Mega launched. But what…
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Researchers at Fujitsu Labs have announced a new technology which which lets you transfer files from a computer to a mobile phone just by filming the screen with the phone camcorder. This means that one day we should be able to share photos, movies and documents between phones and computers just by pointing the phone at a screen, no clumsy apps to install or buttons to push.
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By this point you likely have at least heard of Steampunk. Think Victorian era and technology like that of Star Trek smooshed together. This is a very wonderful aesthetic, ripe with metals, leather, and other more archaic crafting skills. There are plenty of items out there that are worth looking at, but if you want something more than a painted Nerf gun or a kitschy item with gears glued on it, you’ll have to be willing to put out the…
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