Feb 26th, 2007
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If you like gadgets you need my RSS feed. It keeps you up-to-date on all the gizmos you love!Filed under: Displays, Sony, LCD
Sony’s feeling good enough about its new 3LCD rear-projection line to lose the WEGA moniker and brand these things BRAVIA. Improvements include new cabinets that are about 22 percent slimmer than the [...]
Feb 26th, 2007
by hueland.
Amazon.com Widgets Filed under: Displays, Samsung, Plasma
We may debate which format is better for high definition — LCD or Plasma — but Samsung for their part is going ahead with new plasma displays, including three new 1080p-capable sets for the Korean market. The sets come in 42-, 50- (SPD-42- and -50Q92HD), and 63-inch [...]
Feb 26th, 2007
by hueland.
Mash ups (mixing two services together) has been one of the keystones of the Web 2.0 toolset and we are starting to see this trend move into mobile. In AAS Podcast 13 Ewan talks to Tom Morris about his mash up of Twitter (a SMS social networking tool) and the London Underground.
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Feb 26th, 2007
by hueland.
The GSM Table Lamp is a GSM room monitor fitted into a table lamp. Which means that you can dial into the lamp from anywhere in the world and hear what’s being said in the room. For as long as you like (or until your mobile phone battery runs out). Sneaky [...]
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Feb 26th, 2007
by hueland.
The Teac RX-1DAB Radio features a flat panel NXT speaker which is supposed to make it a wafer thin radio which you can hang on your wall. We’re not so sure. Anyway from the front it certainly looks the part, so good on the designers we say.
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Feb 26th, 2007
by hueland.
The Stadico Stadium Construction Toy is perfect if you don’t want to spend $2 billion buying a stadium, but would love to own your local team home. They’re made up of over 2,500 pieces and will take you some 20 hours to complete, but think of the satisfaction of owning Old Trafford. [...]
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Feb 26th, 2007
by hueland.
The R/C Fork-Lift Truck actually looks as though it could be a bit of fun when you’re bored out of your skull on a grey Monday afternoon. Scooting around picking up improbably shaped items just appeals to the magpie in me, especially since I used to drive one of these puppies [...]
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Feb 26th, 2007
by hueland.
Package Shark is a tool for opening those incredibly infuriating plastic blister packs which now appear to be made of reinforced Kevlar coated polymer. I’m sick to death of wrestling with these things and so anyone who says they’ve come up with a way to slice them open quickly and cleanly [...]
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Feb 26th, 2007
by hueland.
xFruits is a pretty looking Netvibes type thing which has cutesy icons and promises to let you mashup your RSS feeds to your customised delight. My question is – what does this do that hasn’t already been done before, and better? Answers on a Web 2.0 business plan napkin please to…..
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Feb 26th, 2007
by hueland.
The guys at DivShare sent me notification of their new free file hosting service a while back which to be honest got a bit of a ho-hum from me. Too many such services, not enough time. And as far as I know most of them have their problems. We recently tried to [...]
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