Archive for September, 2007
Calculator Digital Camera For Number Nerds Hits
Now you don’t have to pack both a digital camera AND a calculator when you go on vacation. The poetically named DIGITAL CARD CALCULATOR CAMERA does it all — badly. The two gadgets are so clumsily integrated that the calculator doesn’t even tap into the camera’s battery — it’s solar powered, just l…
Numeric Keypad Mouse For Number Nerds Hits
Japan’s Sanwa managed to build a NUMERIC KEYPAD INTO A MOUSE, which they shout the NT-MA2. The innovation should help the average user save 13.2 seconds per week considering they don’t have to move their hand from mouse to keyboard for numbers, according to my calculations. (props to Akihabara News)…
Downgrade 1.1.1 iPhone firmware instructions
If you went ahead an installed 1.1.1 only to end up with a Jonathan Ive-designed paperweight at the end of it, you’ve got a couple of choices: go to your nearest Apple store, tail within your legs, and hope they take pity on you and fix your iPhone somehow, or turn to your friendly neighbourho…
iPhone 1.1.1 full rundown including hidden features
With the tail end of Sunday in sight, I’d imagine quite a few iPhone owners have been spending the weekend getting to grips with Apple’s 1.1.1 firmware upgrade, downloading the 152.3mb file and bringing their shiny handset up to Steve-speed. The headline feature is of course the iTunes…
Burma Another Reason to Boycott China Olympics
I told you August 11 that everybody wants to boycott China’s Beijing 2008 Olympic games but nobody agrees on why (cultural genocide in Tibet; regular genocide in Darfur; defective and dangerous products; catastrophic pollution; animal cruelty; slaughter of endangered species; repression of citizens;…
Burma Another Reason to Boycott Beijing 2008
I told you August 11 that everybody wants to boycott China’s Beijing 2008 Olympic games but nobody agrees on why (cultural genocide in Tibet; regular genocide in Darfur; defective and dangerous products; catastrophic pollution; animal cruelty; slaughter of endangered species; repression of citizens;…
China Is rigid On IP Theft … When It’s China’s IP
The government of China allows and even protects the thousands of Chinese companies that blatantly steal the intellectual property of companies worldwide. But when someone steals IP belonging to the government, the hammer comes down. The government ordered police to arrest a man that week for runnin…
