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Africa: Kenya gets world first mobile phone money transfer service
Safaricom, Kenya’s biggest mobile phone operator, has launched a service this week that will use short message services (SMS) to transfer money even from or to customers without bank accounts. The product allows the operator’s 5.8 million subscribers to use their mobile phones to send money within Kenya where often the money earner of a family is working in a city to support family members living in rural areas. “…This service is the first of its kind in the world. We have plans to take it elsewhere…the first international link, between the U.K. and Kenya, will come in the very near future…
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Gadgets: The Lettuce Safe
If you want to hide away your valuables where a burglar would never look for you can now use the “Head of Iceberg Lettuce Safe”. It looks like a normal salad head but is actually a small safe. While the fridge/freezer has been rather popular place to look for – remember all those Hollywood movies where the valuables have been hidden under the ice cubes – have you ever heard of someone stealing…
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Gadgets: The A-List of iPod Skins and Cases
We searched dozens of websites and manufacturers to bring you this list of the best skins and cases for your iPod. Most of them are available for different iPod models and all of them are still available for sale (We had to exclude some that are sold out). You will find an image, a short description and a link to the manufacturer web site, but if a particular skin or case is only available from an online shop you will find that link too…
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Gadgets: Floppy Notebooks
Online shop “ThinkGeek” is offering recycled Floppy disks as writing journals. They even have old 8” for those who need to write down a lot. Floppies in the standard sizes 3.5″, 5.25″, and 8″ have been converted into writing journals. The floppies used are assorted, so some of these floppies have labels, while others are blank. Some are colored and some are just black…
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Humor: Art Lebedev Eraser
Russian design studio Art Lebedev is offering a palm-size eraser that is shaped like a Delete key on a computer keyboard. About USD 8…
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Research: Unveiling the Quantum Computer
There were quite some stories going around the last days regarding Canadian company D-Wave and their presentation in the Silicon Valley yesterday. If you want to learn more about it: ABC News has a two page story about it. Rose.blog (D-Wave) also has more detailed info and links. There is a Press Release at the [...]
