Funky stuff, man!
Don’t look now, but airships are about to make a comeback. Big time. The idea of using lighter than air craft kind of went away with the flaming disasters of the 1930s, but now a new generation of technologies offers safer, more efficient options for these giants, And now one British company thinks it has come up with the perfect product to attract buyers to the market once more.
Anyone who has more than one cat will recognize the problems with ensuring that one feline doesn’t bully the others when it comes to feeding time. Unless you stand over them watching them eat, it’s likely that the bully will end up eating the food from the other cat’s plate, which is not good for either animal.
If you have a coffee table it’s probably primarily used to hold snacks and your feet while you watch TV. If you’re really fancy, maybe some statues and large art books. With the Duet Multitouch Coffee Table, you can turn your foot rest into a touchscreen computer.
There is nothing quite like getting (or giving!) a hand written letter. The problem with giving them is that it takes so long to write them. Wouldn’t it be great if there was some sort of robot that could do that for you? Now there is. Bond is the company that uses robots to write beautiful letters.
The world needs more wireless. There are just too many applications and products chasing too little spectrum space. And the biggest challenges are yet to come, as more and more machines start to ‘talk’ directly to each other as part of their functions. Which is why various countries have been looking at ways to provide more bandwidth for these services. The most promising is TV White Space, the unused portion of the TV spectrum which used to be occupied by…
With little fanfare a new app has just been released in the UK which could signal a profound change in the way many of us travel each day, pointing to a new paradigm for daily commuting. The new Liftshare app (Android, with iPhone to follow shortly) works by linking together those who need a ride with those who are offering a seat in their car. It’s not a new idea, but what’s different with Liftshare is the fact that there…
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Electric power is getting into everything nowadays, not just cars, planes and skateboards but also more exotic things like boats and ships. It should come as no surprise then, to find out that some enterprising developers at a German company have come up with an electric surfboard.
There have been no shortage of ‘alternative’ electric vehicles over the years, and unfortunately most of them share the same struggle to gain traction in a market which expects convention. Hence the demise of products like the Aptera, while the Tesla marches on.
Don’t know about you, but there’s been a fair few times when I’ve been to some place, a store or a service or something like that, and had a bad experience which I wish I could warn people about. Sure you can leave a review, but it’s a bit of a hassle. What you really need at times like that is a way to warn people who might be visiting that location. Now there’s an app which could help with…
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There’s clever, and then there’s really clever, and the new WhatSim is a very smart product indeed. Capitalizing on people’s need to stay in touch when traveling without breaking the bank, this new SIM card service for mobile phones provides an ultra cheap global WhatsApp chatting platform for all.
If you’re a developer of mobile games and apps, one of the big hassles is having to test everything to make sure it works OK. Which means loading the software and laboriously going through the tests on a demo phone touchscreen to make sure it all works as it should. Or you could get smarter.
There’s no question that we waste a huge amount of energy every day, which is not fair on the planet or on our pocketbooks. The problem is it’s hard to identify easy wins, where we can make savings which are significant and yet don’t adversely impact our lives too much. Now a Swedish company has come up with an ingenious system which promises to completely overturn our shower waste and give us a better shower at the same time.
If you’ve ever found yourself at a loss for a way to listen to your music while proclaiming your love for the Force, come over the Dark Side with this Death Star Bluetooth Speaker.
LED tech has really transformed the world in a big way. We’re talking ultra low power lighting in everything from bicycle lamps, to aircraft and cruise liners. It’s great because it’s small, flexible (you can embed it on strips and curve it any way you want) and it’s cheap compared to more exotic technology.
We don’t care what you think it looks like. Because it isn’t that. Nope, this is something else entirely. Totally. This is in fact Hibou. Hibou Owl in fact. And Hibou is a smart owl toy, that can do some interesting things.
