Archive for the 'Technology' Category
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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DIGG: Wisdom of the Crowds or Famous for 15 minutes
Social Networking site “Digg.com” puts quite some efforts up to show its users that they are just submitting a duplicate news story. While the duplicate search often comes up with some unrelated stuff it almost always finds duplicates. And when we see that somebody before us has already spread the news we just digg that story and cancel our submission. Not so for many other Digg users as it seems…We just had a look around in their Apple sections and the image below shows the results…
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Video: Google’s Master Plan
Here’s your daily dose of conspiracy theory. The Video Google’s Master Plan – recently made available on YouTube – is looking into the “underlying” plans that are driving Google’s business. The movie is greatly done and uses excellent visualization techniques. A high quality version together with additional information is available at…
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Time: Encrypt your messages online with an Enigma
German web site “enigmaco.de” has made a Flash version of the well known WWII encryption devices available online that encrypts or decrypts text. Have a try…
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Video: This thing called the “Internet”
A great 6 minutes TV documentary from 1993 about the thing called the “Internet”. We haven’t heard the sound of a connecting modem for a long time (3:00)…
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Gadgets: Train your brain before you flush
The Mind Trainer Toilet Roll encourages you to train your brain as your drain. Each square of the roll is printed with a different mind bending puzzle or game (in colour). One-time use only…
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