Archive for 'Gadgets'

Google Threatens Nokia with New Mobile OS Android

Google Threatens Nokia with New Mobile OS Android

Yesterday, Google took a strike at Nokia’s open source mobile platform ‘Symbian OS’ by demonstrating Google’s own ‘Android’. Google coupled the unveiling of Android by offering a $10 Million reward for developers who can enhance Android [...]

i-Phone vs. Bone-Phone: Which Will Sell In Japan?

i-Phone vs. Bone-Phone: Which Will Sell In Japan?

The novelty of the iPhone in North America may not matter much in a country where people are used to hi-tech handsets that double as electronic transit passes, credit cards, mobile TVs, GPS devices, music players, [...]

Secret Microsoft Project Revealed: Microsoft Surface

Secret Microsoft Project Revealed: Microsoft Surface

An amazing new touchscreen platform! Yet, do take the ‘we did it first’ MS hype with a grain of salt. I saw similar touch-screen technology from a French-Japanese company in Japan in 2006, though the ‘Surface‘ comes with some impressive [...]

Hair Straightening Vending Machines

Hair Straightening Vending Machines

It’s Saturday night, the music is pumping and you are on a hot date . Everything is going down fine until the humidity in the club suddenly turns your hair from Cher to Macy Gray in [...]

Steorn's Orbo Technology: A Hoax?

Steorn's Orbo Technology: A Hoax?

Two days ago on July 5th, the science world turned its attention to London’s Kinetica Museum to view the demonstration of Steorn’s ‘free energy’ technology (branded as ‘Orbo’) with a mixture of anticipation and skepticism. Unfortunately, [...]

Chinese Scroll Cell Phone

Chinese Scroll Cell Phone

Very slick concept design from designer Yun Liang. The phone will utilize upcoming flex-screen technology (ePaper) to mimic traditional Chinese scrolls that must be ‘un-rolled’ to be read. You only have to un-scroll the screen if you [...]