What could be better than spending five figures on an analog wristwatch made out of exotic metals, and hand crafted with care and attention? Well for the folks at Linde Werdelin, it’s adding on a couple of interesting accessories which turn the timepiece into something else entirely.
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Suddenly we’re intrigued by the rise in sophisticated metal detecting equipment hitting the market. Hey, what do we know, maybe this stuff was always this good, but right now it looks like in the right hands these new products can give you the metal, depth and type of ‘target’ under the earth in an instant or two. No more spurious digging. Treasure…ahar!
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Android’s everywhere nowadays, in fridges, toasters, washing machines and your Aunt Maude’s curling tongs, so we’re totally not surprised to see it coming out in force on handheld gaming consoles. There have been a number of major devices announced, but this is the first we’ve seen from a Far Eastern brand trying to break the scene.
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How would you like to set up your very own security service? You know, like spying on people, keeping tabs on their conversations, all the things our governments enjoy so much right now? You would? Great. We’ve got a nice little tool for you to use, right this way. Mind your head on the CCTV cameras as you come in.
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We love it when new startups make big bold statements, because it’s so much fun watching them try to live up to them over the subsequent weeks and months. So it is with Just Reach Out, a new online service which apparently believes it can completely replace PR firms with a single Reach Out box.
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If you carry around a smartphone, you need to keep it charged. But just as importantly, you’ll often want to move stuff to and from the handset, whether it’s photos, music or just plain old data files. The choice of tools to get this done are legion, but for our money, one of the coolest and most effective gadgets you can have with you is this ChargeKey, a two-in-one data and charge cablette.
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Finnish designer and creative director of 3D systems, Janne Kyttanen, has recently posted a video outlining a possible future where 3D printing is embedded in our lives in a completely new way. He asks us to imagine a world where everything we own – in this case specifically our vacation luggage – is stored as nothing but computer code. Instead of carrying our belongings with us on holiday, the idea is we print it all out at our destination on…
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Sometimes you really have to wonder what goes on in the mind of some marketing teams, as they sit round the table during those long, lonely product creation sessions. We’re starting to imagine it involves lots of ‘nope, it’s already been done‘ type conversations nowadays, with a more desperate, shrill tone emerging as the session goes on.
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If you’re one of those folks who’ve been bitten by the video bug, you’ll know all about the joys and frustrations of getting your work done. Apart from having to learn all the ropes, it’s also tricky putting together professional looking productions without having the money to spend on the nice little extras. One extra which is particularly valuable is the use of B-roll, or stock footage, which can really add something to your video.
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So you’ve got your shiny new bauble, eh? Enjoying it? The new Samsung Galaxy S5 is definitely making waves as you’d expect, with the usual kind of sales figures in the millions over launch weekend. Of course now the first sales rush is over, we’re expecting some add-on feeding frenzy, and one of the first out of the blocks is this puppy.
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We keep checking our post box, but so far there’s no sign of the flying car we ordered back in 1970, but there are signs that the techs are trying their hardest to give us some other promised goodies as fast as they can.
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Forty times more aerodynamic than a Bugatti Veyron and with a top speed of 90 mph, the Arion 1 is aiming to be the fastest human powered vehicle in history. The bicycle, or more accurately velocipede, is the brainchild of an engineering team at the University of Liverpool in the UK, and it will attempt the world record in September 2015 in Nevada, USA.
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Bioengineer Manu Prakash of Stanford University has come up with an excellent design for an ultra cheap paper based folding microscope which could provide low cost health monitoring and diagnosis in areas where conventional scopes are too expensive.
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OK, now this is definitely on top of the ‘why’s it taken so long’ list. How many times have you wished you had a toasting machine which not only did the job, but also let you see how things were getting on in there, so you could make sure no burnt bits were happening?
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