Month: September 2006
Display your alien, glowing DNA in a GloFrame
Send Generate a DNA sample and they'll make art out of it. Using "proprietary 'edgelighting' technology" to smoothly light up this slice of your protoplasm, it looks somewhat like a rather expensive screensaver on a monitor gone walkabout. Comes…
Buffalo's USB keyboard and Skype handset
If you make a lot of calls and are basically a cheapskate… you probably don't want to buy a whole new keyboard anyhow. Which begs the question of exactly who the Buffalo USB keyboard and Skype handset is aimed…
Website of the Day: Moby Games
Today's Website of the Day is Moby Games, a user-generated database of computer games from time immemorial (well, the late 70s) to the present day. It's a great resource and if you're into games you could find yourself getting lost…
One less reason to hate Zune
Ahem. As several eagle-eyed Zune fans have spotted (and pointed out), one of the Top Ten Reasons To Hate Zune was wrong. You don't transfer 30-second samples via Wi-Fi to other people's Zunes. It's full-length tracks, but they can…
Yay or Nay: Nokia N95
This week's Yay or Nay Wednesday is the just announced Nokia N95 (watch Katie's NY preview). It's a monster-featured multimedia phone/camera/music player with all manner of communication possibilities, with Bluetooth, HSDPA, GPS amongst others. What do you reckon. Is it…
Silver-zinc batteries debut as next-gen to lithium-ion
Zinc Matrix Power has unveiled its new rechargeable battery technology at the Intel Developers Forum, based on silver-zinc instead of lithium-ion currently used in many modern rechargeable batteries. They see three main advantages that their amalgamation of silver, zinc and…
Happy Birthday Google: 8 today
Can you believe Google is 8 years old today? (or at least, this is its official birthday.) If you've not been on the Net for long, you might not remember a world without Google, but back in the nineties, Alta…
Apple and podcast: Update and 'the truth'
I, along with some bigger names on the Net, have been rapped for reports that Apple is trying to trademark the term 'podcast'. Rob from Podcast411.com picked me up in the comments of that article: Actually your article is not…
Wednesday interview: Michael Kornhauser of ALK on why satnav is going mobile
Could the next killer app for mobile phones be satellite navigation? ALK certainly hopes so. The company has been selling its CoPilot Live application for PDAs and smartphones for some time now, but in the latter case it's always…
Apple .mac webmail to be upgraded
Apple is to update the features on its subscription-based .mac webmail service to make it look and feel more like Mac OS X Mail client on the desktop. With the tag line "Totally new. Totally familiar" Apple are playing up…
