‘Tis the season of fun and joy but sometimes people tend to party way too hard. Nobody likes to end their nights too early especially in holiday season. So, it’s great to have a nifty companion in hand to notify you when you’re going over the limit with your booze.
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Our phones provide a convenient and easy way to always have an alarm clock with us, but the smartphone can be pretty dumb when it comes to customizing the alarm features, such as letting your phone know who’s worth waking up for and who can live with getting a call back after you wake up. Do you really want your nap disturbed by a telemarketer or would you prefer to have certain calls filtered?
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Have you ever taken a picture and then wished you had done a better job at focusing? Now you can make corrections after the picture has been taken.
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There was a time when a person could let their hair down at home while still interacting with the outside world through things like email and instant messaging, but technology has caught up with us, meaning the outside world can see our unwashed, unshaven, make-up free faces without us ever leaving the comfort of our home? Why put forth the real unkempt you when another face can be substituted? Who do you want to be?
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Here’s a quick round-up of Red Ferret posts from the past week for those who missed them. Enjoy.
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There are a number of effective renewable energy sources, wind and solar perhaps being the best known. But who would have thought that the lowly brussel sprout would be included in that group? The Designworks group has built the world’s first Brussels sprout-powered battery and hooked it up to a set of Christmas tree lights in London. After a survey found that most children in the UK would like to take Brussels sprouts off of the traditional Christmas menu, the…
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Have you ever seen something that has made you stop in your tracks and rub your eyes in surprise? No, we’re not talking about a Justin Bieber concert, but something a little more concrete. Something like a device which appears to defy the laws of physics in so many ways your brain hurts.
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We’re constantly bombarded with signs offering advertising and directions as we rush about getting from one place to another. A new partnership between lighting giant Royal Phillips and Desso, a high-quality carpeting producer, aims to replace many of these annoying signs with LED-embedded carpet instead. The carpet, which would seem ordinary enough, could when lit display important messages, directions, or other information, similar to an electronic billboard. It would replace the usual signs and notices that appear in high-traffic indoor…
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Right admit it, how many of you freak out if you’re sitting at a table and you notice that’s it’s wobbling when you lean on it? Yeah lots of you, we know. It’s particularly infuriating if you’re out dining and trying to make a good impression on someone, and that table just keeps twitching every time you cut into your roast parsnips. Well now we’ve found you a solution.
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There are times when the reality of living in the 21st century actually steps up and smacks you in the face like an annoyed Vulcan, and the whole concept of wearable technology is one of those emerging fads which is part of that. It was bad enough when portable computing became a daily part of life, but wearing clothes which are more intelligent than your sister’s boyfriend is really going too far.
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For many people email is more than just a communication tool, it’s actually a whole way of life. If you’re like me, you’ll use your email inbox as a reminder service, to-do list, activity archive and more, and after a while it becomes a core part of your daily routine. However most of the contents of my messages are irrelevant to my needs, so what would be cool would be a way to distil messages down to the core to…
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Sometimes it’s the simple things that make us smile, allowing us to forget about tablets and phones that are smarter than us and social media where we pretend we’re one of the cool kids. Sometimes, we just want to chill in the bathtub and play with a paper boat that has a real motor.
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Is it a game? A graphic novel in digital format? How about a little bit of both? If you’re looking for something a little different in the entertainment department, you’re going to want to keep an eye on this.
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With smartphones doing a swell job of telling us the time, watchmakers really have to step up their game to make us want to wear a clock on our wrist. Tokyoflash has done that with what we like to consider the Iron Man of watches.
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Students are getting ready to enjoy a much-needed break and looking forward to Santa bringing them notebooks for Christmas. Notebooks? Yes, because the old ones are filled to the brim, with assorted notes being scribbled on every spare inch of paper available. Wouldn’t it be easier – and cheaper – to simply erase all those unnecessary notes and use the same notebook again? Now you can.
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