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DLink V-Click: Another WLAN – GSM twin hitting the streets
Another WLAN-WiFi enabled GSM phone will become available soon to consumers in Europe and the USA. D-Link is introducing a new unlocked Linux based phone that can be used with normal GSM cell phone networks as well as with wireless WiFi networks. HP, Nokia and Siemens (now BenQ) plus others have all recently introduced similar [...]
Screaming cell phones
UK based start-up company Remote XT has come up with a new solution to stop mobile phone theft. Currently, on average a mobile phone is stolen every 12 seconds in the UK. The service offered includes software available for most GPRS handsets that can connect to the Internet. It does not work with Blackberries. When [...]
Test your food before you eat it
Another piece of future-ware shown at the 2006 designboom / BUESSEL competition. David Tsai, the designer of the so called “Nutrinator” imagines its use in assessing and tracking food content to allows for more conscious and careful food consumption.…Are there peanuts in it? Is there MSG? How many calories is this meal? Nutrinator will let [...]
Cutting Board with Integrated Scale
Cut and measure ingredients with the same tool = one dish less to clean and less time spent. Sounds good but so far its only a design prototype. The cutting scale was designed by Jim Termeer and Jess Giffin. It won the 3rd price at the 2006 designboom / BUESSEL design competition. The two designers [...]
Turn E-Mail Spam into Flowers
excerpt of test01 entry
Neuros OSD: First Open Source Media Center
Neuros made available beta versions of their new expandable open source media center called OSD this week to developers and testers alike. The OSD (“open source device”) is a replacement of Neuros’s DVR set-top box loaded with masses of new features. It can record MPEG-4 video from analog sources such as cable or broadcast TV [...]
