I never thought I’d see the day when a piece of free software got me reaching for my wallet and singing the praises of everyone involved – but here it goes… It’s a quick story over two days… So bear with me. The story starts with the stark realisation that even after shelling out for [...]
There needs to be a Gadget for everything? Right? Well given that cardboard is so 1980′s and every item of clothing will soon need to have a battery to make it “do something” – the MingleStick fills an age-old niche. The business card replacement. While I can’t see companies handing out MingleSticks instead of business [...]
On occasion, I give presentations both in my office and traveling. I had considered buying a projector to use with my laptop, but put it off because most of the ones I had seen were bulky and expensive. I was thrilled when I came across the Pocket Projector for only $399. It is simple [...]
Security in technology platforms continues to be a matter of grave concern. The birth of new gadgets ensures that many devices, as they get adapted into society, will be just that many more gizmos to play with for purposes both good and bad. It’s partly instructive and partly amusing to take a look at how [...]
The first thing to understand about the Digital Age and the home computing revolution was that it was all one big accident. Actually, it was more like a series of little accidents. With other inventions, like cars or washing machines or bread, we had a good idea of what we wanted and [...]
You’ll score points around your trivia circle with this one: who came up with the name “battery”? Benjamin Franklin, that’s who! He picked that name when observing how a row of Leyden jars resembled a battery of cannons. Leyden jars were then a primitive form of capacitors, which were made to store large amounts of [...]
Flying cars? Clones? Colonies on the moon? Other geeks and science fiction fans look for ward to these futures with stars in their eyes, but we work in tech gadgets. So our ambitions are going to be a little closer to home, a little more realistic, and a whole lot more practical. Here’s the [...]
We’ve been inspired by sites like Bash.org and their funny, but very old and stale, IRC quotes. So we’ve decided to bring that concept into the 21st century by starting a collection of memorable tweats from the wild, wild world of Twitter.com. Because, well, somebody had to think of it first. Enjoy these virtual messages [...]
The smartphone set has so far been smugly confident that they’re staying ahead of malware. But desktop and laptop users know what’s coming: there is no such thing as a completely secure computing system, and smartphones are no exception. Already, a few smartphone viruses have been spotted in the wild; they use SMS and Bluetooth [...]
Every time we check lately, there’s another glowing review of an HTC Touch mobile device online. This Engadget story is one of the latest, linking to a German review calling the HTC Touch HD an “iPhone killer”. The praise mentions features including the TouchFLO 3D interface, the Opera web browser, and the large display. We’re [...]
