As we sit in front of our computers, below our resting fingers is a cesspool of germs. Our keyboards collect everything our hands touch, collects food debris and any dust that is within the air. We don’t like to think of it often, well, until we are about to touch a public computer, then we might think twice. Even though we may take a wipe to it now and again, is it really enough to say that it is clean? …
There is nothing like vinyl, the way it would slide out of the cardboard sleeve and glisten from the light onto the blackness of a record. Music was made with circular lines that with a stylist would belt out your favorite tunes. Since technology has made our formats of music players smaller and has improved how quickly we can receive music we miss out on the process of finding a gem, nothing will beat walking into a record store and finding the treasure to add to your collection. An accomplishment that was rewarding and one that you wanted to take home right away to introduce to your record player. …
Leaning forward to access your mouse and keyboard cannot be great for your posture and when you work on a computer all day your posture is important or you will end up with some unwanted aches and pains. The Mobo Chair Mount Ergo Keyboard and Mouse Tray System prevents you from having to lean forward, instead providing space on the chair for you to easily use your mouse and access your keyboard while remaining in good posture. via: Amazon…
It’s an app world. The success of iOS and Android (as well as the lack of success for Blackberry and others) can be directly attributed to the way that apps have taken over our daily lives. The abundance of tools and games on a platform directly influences how well they will be adopted. Microsoft knows this and is going full-steam ahead with the concept as they prepare to launch Windows 8. At every level of the operating system, they hope to load it up with the degree of apps that have helped the competition succeed in recent years. To do so, they need adoption from developers. They have held various…
The world is a fun place, always ticking and turning. No matter what time of day it is where you are it is 5’oclock somewhere. It is neat to know what time it is around the world and even more awesome if it is accessible to you in a cool way. …
Have you ever held an iPad? Let me rephrase… Have you ever held an iPad for any length of time? They can become quite uncomfortable to try and position so you can enjoy your gadget the best possible way without having to strain your arms or crank your neck. You my friend need an iPad floor stand so you can watch your movies and read your E-Books in style and luxury. The floor stand will telescope, tilt and swivel so you can adjust it to your level of relaxation without causing you tension. You can easily navigate your apps, or relocate the stand with ease so you can be sitting, standing or reclining while…
Robots are ultra-cool, something we have wanted since long before Rosey the maid from the Jetsons. Technology has allowed us to turn ideas into reality but the robots that have been created are either too expensive or have brutally failed. Our smartphones have almost become our robotic limb, a gadget that we cannot live without; in fact we have chosen to become heavily reliant on this multipurpose tech. So, it would be super awesome if we could turn or smartphones into robots right? Yep. …
If you have a couple million dollars and a burning desire to have a vehicle that none of your friends at the country club have, there’s no need to look at the super exotic cars for your midlife crisis. Those are for amateurs. Today’s toy of choice may only go 10 kph and run on a diesel engine, but it’s guaranteed to turn heads more readily than a Aston Martin One-77. The Kuratas is here and available. It may just be the cheesiest vehicle ever made. Then again, it may also be the most epic. Complete with BB guns that fire when you smile and water projectiles “that sometimes even hit their target”, this toy is…
Hello my far away galaxy friend. We meet at last… Charge forth with light sabers, wookies and storm troopers and be sure to banish all non-Star Wars loving creatures from your area on Planet Earth, for we are about to sound like R2-D2 to them as we pivot ourselves into galactic history. Ahhh… R2-D2, only the most beloved android there is, and no we are not talking about phones here people! We are talking about the human cyborg C3PO’s best matched counterpart R2-D2. The resourceful and spunky droid, though only able to communicate through beeping sounds easily became a much loved astromech…
As the population grows we are slowly being forced into high-priced condensed living quarters, making living in the city bittersweet since we are close to amenities but squished together like sardines. Any type of clever creativity for maneuvering furniture or acquiring furniture that has dual purposes can be very handy; in fact it can turn a small cramped apartment into an organized comfortable living space. Washing machines (if lucky to have one) are chunky and take up a lot of space in what is otherwise a very good spot for other things, so like many, we are forced to give up the luxury of washing…
The very first wooden framed computer has been created. Designers at MicroPro collaborated with the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM to introduce to the world the “iameco” computer, the one of a kind Eco-friendly computer that could possibly be the future of Technology. As a whole we are becoming more and more aware of our surroundings, people we interact with and of our impact on the environment. Seems fitting that what we use to communicate with others would be Eco-friendly too, right? Of course there will be a need for ensuring that devices that are friendly…
The science of entertainment is getting more complicated. Disney Research in Zurich and Walt Disney Imagineering at Cornell are working on Physical Face Cloning to be able to create animatronics characters that behave with the precision of a human face. First, they are designing a synthetic skin that can mimic the movements and tendencies of human skin. How the skin on a face reacts to motions such as talking has been problematic, but the Disney team hopes that a silicon based solution guided by computer simulations will be the answer. Here are two videos that they recently released showing the…
