Imagine the scenario. You’re going about your business in all innocence, gaily enjoying the fruits of your computing while using Windows XP, when all of a sudden, wham…along comes some people from Redmond, Washington who change things all around and tell you must use Windows 8 from now on, complete with a whole new strange and intimidating interface design. What to do?
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Playing games on your tablet is fun and all, but compared to your PC it doesn’t stand a chance. You can’t exactly put your whole computer setup in your bag, and are stuck playing PC games at home, or maybe a LAN if one crops up. Can you imagine what it would be like if your tablet were just as powerful as your rig?
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What problem am I talking about? Foggy mirrors, of course! Every time you step out of a bath or shower, the mirror is covered in condensation, and you have to wipe it clear with your hand or a towel. No one wants streak marks to form on their nice clean mirror, but not everyone is patient enough for it to clear up on its own.
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If you are an avid gamer, then you are likely searching for ways to make your experience more and more immersive. We’ve seen virtual reality helms and the like in the past, but nothing has really been over-the-top outstanding. While a wall-sized projector is about the closest we can get at the moment, it doesn’t mean there aren’t some amazing things on the horizon.
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Apparently there are people who worry about losing their hair, despite the fact we’ve been shedding it since we were in caves. There’s no question that Future Man will be completely bald and smooth as a bowling ball, and it’s pretty fair to surmise that anyone with any kind of body hair will be thought of as a throw-back to Neanderthal times.
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Where’s My Cellphone Dot Com is a free service designed to help you find your mobile phone in case you’ve misplaced it in your home or other mysterious location. Just enter in your lost handset’s number (US only) select a time delay up to 5 mins and it will call your phone for you to help you find it. Good luck if it’s on silent or off. Or maybe not. This has been a public service announcement.
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So you know that fancy tablet computer you just bought? The one that cost you anything from $100 to $600? Well you can’t be satisfied with what it can do, surely? You must resent the fact that it can’t make coffee for instance. Or wash the dog. Or even perhaps the fact that it can’t act like a whiteboard for scribbles?
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We admit it. We’re suckers for speed. In some things. Most especially in things like web browsers where life’s too short to hang around waiting for a bit of software to load so you can find the opening time of your local restaurant. So every time we stumble across a cool, fast browser which comes with all the goodies, we sit up and take notice.
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How excited would you be if I handed you a cube? Yea, it’s not that exciting until you find out that it has multi-axis accelerometers, rumble, wireless connectivity, 56 multicolored LEDs, and 4-channel audio. Ok, that’s still not as exciting as what all of that does put together.
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When you think of a bamboo peripheral such as a mouse or keyboard, you think of a light warm brown color. While this is a “green” product, people don’t always buy it for that reason. Aesthetics play a big part in what you put in your office, since you have to look at it all day. If you want to be eco-friendly, and also fit your new gear into your color scheme, then do I have a treat for you.
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We all know how an hourglass works. You turn it over, and watch the contents spill from one chamber to the other in a timely fashion. What would you do if the contents not only started glowing, but you found out they were alive?
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There’s something of a morbid fascination we humans have with examining tiny things. Maybe it’s because we’re a little bit afraid of things we can’t easily see, and let’s face it with good reason. Most of the really nasty entities that can kill us are so tiny that even a decent professional microscope can’t catch them.
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If you are like most of us you have two eyes. Sure they may not be as handsome to look at as mine, but you likely have two of them, and they are probably located on your head somewhere above the nose. It’s important to remember that your eyes are pretty tough to replace. Sure you could buy these things, but while they may look cool, they could cause difficulty with your depth perception.
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Running a small business is hard work, and marketing it to get more customers is even harder. The cost of advertising and press activity can be prohibitive, and it takes time and effort to find the best option for small budgets. Now a new company has come up with something that might make a difference.
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The works of Tolkien have been getting a good re-reading thanks to the Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit movie. These stories pulled you in as books, and are immersing you in Middle Earth as movies. While we may not actually live in the same world as Frodo or Bilbo, it doesn’t mean we don’t like to pretend that we do.
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