Author: Stuart Dredge
Hitler explains Second Life
I think the headline says it all really: just watch and learn. And laugh.
Terrorise your workmates with a Disintegrator rubber band gun
Sorry, that should be DISINTEGRATOR, because sometimes products genuinely have earned the right to be capitalised. So, the DISINTEGRATOR is a rubber band gun like no other.
NEC develops face-identification technology. FEAR IT!
Here’s a story to send the tin-foil-hat brigade wild. NEC has unveiled new software that can analyse videos and identify individual faces within them.
Taiwan greenies set for doorless solar car
Hybrid? Schmybrid! The future for eco-friendly motoring is solar power. Well, for those of us who don’t live in [insert name of comically-rainy local city, as appropriate] anyway. But what will future solar cars look like? This is the aim of the World Solar Challenge competition.
Now Japan wants to fly paper planes in Space
With the Cold War a distant memory, what are space researchers to do to fill their time? Make paper planes, that’s what. At least, this is what researchers at the University of Tokyo are doing, in partnership with – who else? – the Japan Origami Airplane Association. Obviously, this is paper planes that can fly in Space.
Computer network monitoring… Quake style!
Officially, Quake III Arena has no place in a corporate IT support department. In other words, unofficially, it's what they play all day, instead of fixing your computer. Possibly. However, that's not the case at the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, which has got together with Cisco to turn Quake III Arena into a computer network monitoring tool.
GreenEyes Eye Catcher promises proper eye contact when webcamming
Fed up with looking shifty while videochatting using a webcam? Yes, I’m looking at you Leslie Grantham. Although it appears you’re looking at something els… Oh.
Macworld 2008 Keynote: MacBook Air, Apple TV 2.0, iTunes Movie Rentals…
The dust is settling from Steve Jobs’ Macworld 2008 keynote, which was lacking in new iPhones, but had plenty of other big announcements to chew over. The unveiling of the MacBook Air super-slim notebook was the highlight, measuring just 0.76 inches at its thickest point, but offering a 13.3-inch screen, 80GB hard drive, and Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
Macworld 2008: Digital Copy for iTunes makes DVDs iPod-friendly
Apple and Twentieth Century Fox used Steve Jobs’ Macworld 2008 keynote to announce a new technology called Digital Copy for iTunes. In short, when you buy a compatible DVD, you’ll get a free digital copy of the film, which can be transferred to your iTunes library, and from there played on your PC or Mac, or transferred to an iPod or iPhone.
Macworld 2008: Read Steve Jobs' lips – NO new iPhone
There was a big iPhone-shaped hole in Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at Macworld 2008 today. Much of the speculation in the run-up to the event focused around the likely announcement of a new model – either a beefed-up 16GB version, or the all-new 3G edition.
