Tag: Cold
Dyson Hot: Fan-warming your cockles this winter
Dyson are preparing to do what they did for hoovers and fans for fan heaters too this Christmas, after last night revealing their Dyson Hot luxury heating system. Using the company's Air Multiplier Technology, the Dyson Hot heats a…
Avoid getting lost to snow blindness with the ViewRanger "off-road" sat nav
If you're feeling a bit "Ray Mears" and are planning on braving the great outdoors despite the chilly weather, you might want to consider taking the ViewRanger "off-raod" sat nav with you. Running on any S60 Smartphone and now coming…
Nokia planning insane cricket match on top of Everest
File this one under ‘WTF’. Finnish phone manufacturer is planning the world’s highest cricket match, on the slopes of Everest. Two teams will trek nine days up the slopes of the world’s highest mountain to play a game of Twenty20 cricket.
Team ‘Hillary’ and team ‘Tenzig’ will converge on Gorakshep, a frozen lakebed at an altitude of 17,000ft, on the Queen’s birthday – 21st April. They’ll all be carrying Nokia N85s and N79s, which will track their location, heart rate and let them blog.
The whole endeavor is in aid of charities The Himalayan Trust UK and The Lord’s Taverners, and the teams hope to raise more than £250,000. On their way down again, they’ll be teaching cricket to kids in a village called Khumjung, and donating their kit. It’s unclear if sweaty jockstraps will be included in that donation. If you’d like to find out more, donate, or follow the team’s progress, then hit up www.theeveresttest.com.
TD Tips: Winter Gadgets
Gosh, did you get snow last night? We did. A veritable blizzard of the stuff. In London, too – a “heat island”. It got me thinking – we don’t get a lot of winter gadgets. Tonnes of summer ones, tonnes of Christmas ones, but no winter gadgets.
I sent the Tech Digest team hunting far and wide for the gadgets most useful when the nights draw in, but Dan got lost in the process, and has somehow ended up in the southern hemisphere, so I’m afraid there’s no gadget from him…
Hot and Cold USB Coaster – keep your drinks at the right temperature
Another way of draining power on your laptop – the Hot and Cold USB Coaster…
New technology by Coca Cola allows ice-cubes to form in bottles of Sprite
Like consumers need another reason to drink Coca Cola products! Nonetheless, the world’s largest soft drink manufacturer has created a new form of keeping their bottles of fizz ice-cold by packing new technology into each bottle, so when the cap is twisted off, a mechanism inside will create ice made from the drink itself…
