Fashionably Geek has brought a new take on what evolution is about - at least from the Lego perspective. This t-shirt shows how a piece of Lego “goo” matures into a full fledged Lego man, complete with the famous yellow face and pincer-like hands that we’ve all come to know and love. It will retail for $19.95 each, and makes a statement to everyone that you’re in love with Lego bricks. (Read the full post about ‘Evolution of a Legoman’…)
Sprinkler IQ from New York is one company that goes all out to help you save water, and by doing so, it also helps you save the environment as well. The company deals with the development of smart irrigation systems, and is now offering homeowners, property managers, building owners and landscape contractors a way to save anywhere from 30% to 70% on their landscape watering bills with a newly developed patent pending technology. The Sprinkler IQ won’t be so high tech as to require a computer or a permanent Internet connection before you start to save precious drops of life giving water, and even better news in this day and age where the economic crunch is hitting everyone hard is the missing monthly subscription fees for this service, despite the fact that the user will start to save money and water right from day one. (Read the full post about ‘Sprinkler IQ has method to save water’…)
by Darren Murph, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 1:51PM If you’ll recall, the evolution of homebrew on the Wii started out quite similar to this. First comes the Hello World proof of concept, then comes Pong. It would just be wrong to unfold otherwise, right? Dragula96, the same guru who whipped up the original homebrew hack, has now introduced 2 Player Pong 1.0 — the first notable game to take advantage. (Read the full post about ‘PS3 homebrew capabilities inevitably leads to Pong’…)
If you’d like the option of a bit more than just plain bread toasted in the morning, you might check out this design. It actually has a rotary basket built into it, which also means nice hot croissants and other breaded goodness that you can toss into the basket. With the basket itself, you can set an individual timer as to how long to keep it going. On the rest of the toaster, since the rotary is on the top, your bread has to go someplace else for your morning toast. (Read the full post about ‘The Patentee the very first toaster with a rotary basket’…)
Ubuntu’s founder, Mark Shuttleworth, has proposed a plan to make his distro of Linux just that much more popular. He plans on overtaking Apple’s Mac OSX in the looks and desktop experience departments in order to overtake the art-savvy giant. Sure, these plans do sound a bit confident for where Linux is now, but that almighty force of Linux programmers is really starting to leave an impression on the industry. Shuttleworth believes the idea that open source operating systems need not only be for the tech savvy and he aims to push for easier, more stable, and more attractive aspects to updates to his operating systems. With Ubuntu updates popping out about every 6 months now, this dream may not be as much as a reach as it may seem. (Read the full post about ‘Ubuntu to beat Mac OSX in looks within 2 years?’…)
by Darren Murph, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 11:31AMLittle known tidbit for those not keenly watching the happenings at Infineon: the firm was forced to write down the value of its Qimonda stake by €1 billion ($1.57 billion) in April. Not surprisingly, Infineon’s head honcho is about ready to rid the company of the flagging unit, making quite a few direct statements in a Germany daily saying as much. (Read the full post about ‘Infineon CEO wants to sell flagging Qimonda unit… badly’…)
by Darren Murph, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 8:49AM Not quite sure why, but we get this whole Get Smart vibe from this thing. IOCELL’s contents phone would probably be more suited for a highly covert spy agency rather than your grandmother’s home, but we suppose even granny could appreciate the built-in hard drive that logs conversations, plays ‘em back and makes remembering things that much easier. Furthermore, the firm asserts that this thing can send completed calls out on the internet should you want to pass along the audio to someone else, and there also appears to be a USB port for possibly offloading those onto flash drives. Heck, it even syncs caller ID information with calls and provides background music during conversations (uh, okay?). (Read the full post about ‘IOCELL contents phone logs conversations, sends ‘em around the web’…)
by Darren Murph, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 8:49AM Not quite sure why, but we get this whole Get Smart vibe from this thing. IOCELL’s contents phone would probably be more suited for a highly covert spy agency rather than your grandmother’s home, but we suppose even granny could appreciate the built-in hard drive that logs conversations, plays ‘em back and makes remembering things that much easier. Furthermore, the firm asserts that this thing can send completed calls out on the internet should you want to pass along the audio to someone else, and there also appears to be a USB port for possibly offloading those onto flash drives. Heck, it even syncs caller ID information with calls and provides background music during conversations (uh, okay?). (Read the full post about ‘IOCELL contents phone logs conversations, sends ‘em around the web’…)
by Darren Murph, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 5:41AM Not that Samsung is actually looking to pump this out into beauty salons worldwide, but there stands at least a mild chance that sophisticated females shopping for new compacts would also spring for some storage. Joongoo Lee’s Costume is a sleek, deliberately styled 2.5-inch external hard drive that looks entirely at home mixed in with various makeup components. Additionally, the bundled dock is equally sexy, though we can only hope there’s a USB 2.0 port somewhere on this thing. Though this is just a concept, we wouldn’t put it past Samsung to turn into a reality — after all, it did just produce pink and blue BlackJack IIs. (Read the full post about ‘Samsung Costume hard drive concept appeals to the ladies’…)
by Darren Murph, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 5:41AM Not that Samsung is actually looking to pump this out into beauty salons worldwide, but there stands at least a mild chance that sophisticated females shopping for new compacts would also spring for some storage. Joongoo Lee’s Costume is a sleek, deliberately styled 2.5-inch external hard drive that looks entirely at home mixed in with various makeup components. Additionally, the bundled dock is equally sexy, though we can only hope there’s a USB 2.0 port somewhere on this thing. Though this is just a concept, we wouldn’t put it past Samsung to turn into a reality — after all, it did just produce pink and blue BlackJack IIs. (Read the full post about ‘Samsung Costume hard drive concept appeals to the ladies’…)
