FREE Hidden Electricity! – Instructables – The World’s Biggest Show & Tell – art, craft, diy, food, games, home, life, offbeat, ride, tech [category: offbeat] This Instructable will show you how to tap into a FREE source of electricity! All you need is a phone line! All phone lines have a constant flow of voltage, […]
Gadget of the Day – MicroOptical MyVu – Portable entertainment – News – Stuff.tv – Earth’s best-selling gadget magazine Most video viewing specs have the small hitch of cutting you off from the outside world by obliterating your view with their tiny screens. Not so with this spanking pair fresh in at the Apple Store. […]
Nintendo to launch Wii Fit game | Tech&Sci | Technology | Reuters.com Nintendo Co Ltd said on Wednesday it would start selling its “Wii Fit” home fitness game in Japan in time for the critical year-end shopping season, sending its shares to a record high. Nintendo’s announcement comes just a day after Sony Corp said […]
Bangladeshi develops humanoid robot from scrap | Tech&Sci | Technology | Reuters.com Move over Japan? A Bangladeshi graduate student is developing a robot capable of picking up objects, mopping floors and performing other simple tasks — at the fraction of the cost of other humanoids. Feroz Ahmed Siddiky of the International Islamic University in Chittagong […]
Senate blocks mandatory ID implants in employees – Los Angeles Times Tackling a dilemma right out of a science fiction novel, the state Senate passed legislation Thursday that would bar employers from requiring workers to have identification devices implanted under their skin. State Sen. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) proposed the measure after at least one […]
I4U News – Saitek Launches Obsidian Mouse Saitek has some pretty cool gaming peripherals including some rather interesting mice. The supermodel of their mouse lineup is certainly their new Obsidian wireless mouse. This little mouse takes a page from the Logitech G7 book and gives you two battery packs so you can mouse on and […]
Windows XP to be phased out by year’s end despite customer demand | APC Magazine Computer makers have been told they’ll no longer be able to get Windows XP OEM by the end of this year, despite consumer resistance to Vista and its compatibility problems. By early 2008, Microsoft’s contracts with computer makers will require […]
Update: EMI to offer music without DRM through iTunes | InfoWorld | News | 2007-04-02 | By James Niccolai and Martyn Williams, IDG News Service EMI Group has announced a plan to sell its music online without copy protection technologies, a significant step that will give consumers greater freedom in the way they can listen […]
WSJ.com In a dramatic acceleration of the seven-year sales decline that has battered the music industry, compact-disc sales for the first three months of this year plunged 20% from a year earlier, the latest sign of the seismic shift in the way consumers acquire music. The sharp slide in sales of CDs, which still account […]
The Lazy Guide to Installing Knoppix on a USB Key | tuxmachines.org Knoppix, the famous live Linux CD that practically started the live CD trend, needs no introduction to most people. One of the things that’s so great about it is that you can take it with you and boot to a familiar Linux environment […]