Archive for category: Tech
Tech | Free Might Not Be So Good
March 21, 2012 9:00 am TechEver wondered why the battery life on your smartphone was so short and why the operating system ran so slowly? Free apps could be the answer. I’ve never had a problem with free apps for one main reason: they’re free. However, free apps could drain up to 75% of a phone’s battery life. Microsoft teamed [...]
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Tech | Playing music through paper is normal
March 19, 2012 9:00 am TechNowadays, paper simply doesn’t do it for most people. Tablets and e-readers are being favored over the environmentally unfriendly paper alternative. SXSW has used a new technology called Listening Post that uses a special conductive ink that can be used to create electronic circuits. The image to the left shows a Listening Post poster that has a [...]
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Tech | Hundreds Queue for iPad 3 in London
March 16, 2012 5:41 pm TechApple’s new iPad was a hit once again when it went on sale in stores a few days ago. Customers queued around street corners awaiting the time when they could finally purchase what Apple is calling ‘another revolutionary device’. So what is the verdict on Apple’s new product? The iPad 3 boasts a much sharper screen [...]
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Tech | Dolby thinks you can justify spending $40000 on a monitor
March 12, 2012 11:57 am TechSurely the selling point of a lot of monitors is that they’re slim, sleek, small and sometimes portable? Dolby begs to differ. Their new 42-inch PRM-4200 Professional Reference Monitor could almost be compared to perfection. It certainly is the most high quality, accurate monitor I’ve ever seen but I struggle to understand where the $40,000 price tag has [...]
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Tech | Headphones That Keep You Connected
March 9, 2012 9:53 am TechAt one stage during the technology revolution that has been going on for the past decade or so, noise-cancelling headphones were the best accessory to any music player. They still are. Although not according to Roel Deden, a student at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Deden has created the Twin Headphones prototype which features two sets [...]
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Tech | Cupcake ATM Provides New Way to Get Fat
March 5, 2012 9:00 am TechNext time you have a cupcake craving at 3 a.m., you can simply saunter up to a cupcake ATM, insert your credit card, and receive a delicious baked good. This isn’t the future we’re talking about—this is now! Or, well, very soon. Sprinkles, a bakery chain, recently installed this wondrous machine at its Beverly Hills [...]
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Tech | iPad 3 To Be Announced Soon?
March 3, 2012 9:00 am TechIt’s been all over the intertubes today: Apple sent out invitations to a March 7 press conference, where it is anticipated that they’ll unveil the iPad 3, and possibly a new Apple TV. They must have misplaced my invitation; I’m sure of it. The cryptic invitation depicts a person’s hand touching an iPad–probably the iPad [...]
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Tech | Japanese Researchers Invent a Shut-Up Gun
March 2, 2012 8:59 am TechIf you’ve ever wanted the person behind you at the movies yammering loudly on his cellphone to shut the hell up, there’s a (nonlethal!) gun for you now. Two Japanese researchers have invented a device called the SpeechJammer, which uses a microphone and speaker to effectively stop a person from speaking. This is done by [...]
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Tech | Bringing Back the Boombox
March 1, 2012 9:00 am TechTake yourself back a few decades, before the days of iPods, mp3 players, CD players and cassette players. One of the most iconic pieces of tech in a timeline of music history is the boombox. The boombox hit the consumer market in the mid 1970s and was the only thing that could get you any [...]
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Tech | Today, in 3D Printer News
February 29, 2012 9:43 am TechIt’s probably a good thing that 3D printers have been so prohibitively expensive to the casual hobbyist. If I had one, I know I’d waste all my plastic “ink” on creating real-life emoticons, or miniature figures of ’90s boy band members, or something else stupid and wasteful. Well, hide my wallet, because the $300 MakiBox [...]
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Tech | Nike’s New Sensor Shoes Will Run You to the Finish Line
February 28, 2012 10:10 am TechTo follow on from my previous article about Nike’s new fuel band, this blog reveals Nike’s latest innovative adventure: the Nike+ Training Shoes. Along the with the training shoes, customers can also buy the Nike+ Basketball Shoes (as seen in the featured image). Both of these products use sensor systems and accompanying software to provide performance [...]
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Tech | When Pressing a Button on Your Remote Is Too Strenuous
February 24, 2012 7:50 am TechMan, when I get home from a long, stressful day of work, the last thing I want to do is fumble with a TV remote. Sooo many buttons. I wish someone would invent a television interface that would respond to my voice…oh, wait! Turns out Google is working on it. In a patent application that [...]
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