Inflatable Space Hotel: Russia’s way of enjoying the world n beyond
June 30, 2007
“Honey, I’d like a honeymoon in space”, might become one of the most unsurprising statements of the century soon! No kidding! You better make all that money if you plan to get married in the next 7 years!
Las Vegas hotel tycoon, Robert Bigelow is all set to open the airlock of the world’s first inflatable space hotel! Goddamn! You might say! Isn’t the world moving at the most unbelievable pace ever? While you and me sit and think of honeymooning with our loves ones at some gorgeous place in Greece or Egypt, or maybe the Caribbean’s, there are people out there to make those dreams look like a toddler’s idea of fun!
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GE A730: Top compact digital camera on a budget
June 30, 2007
Just about 12 months ago $100 only got you a low quality, low resolution digital compact camera equipped with poor zooming and focussing capablities plus a super tiny LCD display. Finally, these days are over, the same $100 can buy you a pretty good compact camera now. The best example is the new seven Megapixel digital camera GE A730 by U.S. giant General Electric. Sure, this is not a premium brand camera such as the compact’s from Nikon, Sony, Canon or Kodak that retail easily for $100 to $150 more then GE model. However, the GE A730 delivers a solid mix of high-end options and easy-to-use functions on a budget - and even gives you more Megapixels then more expensive models from Canon or Kodak. Also: The GE gives you the ability to capture MPEG video Read more
iPhonication: Apple iPhone costs more then u think …
June 30, 2007
With the iPhone fever at its optimum best and the mega phone finally in stores (BTW: Gizmonistas! has one as well, see here ;)), you would read thousands of lovey dovey blogs about its greatness and so would you hear tons of apple-bashing ones! (like the one you’re reading now! Nah, just kidding).
Although Apple scores great with its final upfront pricing among everything it produces, I wonder how it plans to keep it great in the cell phone world!
As per calculations by some techno-analysts out there, it might cost you anything from $1974 to $5814 for a 4 GB one over the 2 year period (depending on which plan you’ve roped yourself into, and anywhere from $2074 to $5914 for an 8 GB one! Now that’s crazy you might say! I’m sure the sophistication and everything that the phone offers is a part cushion against your worries, and moreover why create a fuss about it? Read more
Apple: Secret camera upgrades for MacBook Pro
June 30, 2007
PC maker Apple Inc has secretly upgraded the Santa Rosa MacBook Pro with a new, higher resolution digital camera. The so far used 640×480 pixel camera has been quietly replaced with 1.3MP (1280x 1024) model. A number of Apple Macintosh developers have noticed and piblicized the change in model numbers when they tested their iSight enhancement application iGlasses on the new notebooks at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco earliier this month.
According to tech news site Wired.com, the Apple experts biked down to the local Apple store and ran some tests on the Macs there. Sure enough, the new cams were in there but oddly, built in applications like iChat don’t use the full resolution. The guys also believe that the camera wasn’t enabled at all until the recent OS X 10.4.10 update. Anyone out there with shiny new MacBook Pros, please leave your test results in the comments.
Nokia: N99 drives fans crazy, long before launch
June 29, 2007
Technology never stops! What’s a craze today is sure to become obsolete tomorrow! Today it is the Apple iPhone (personally, I don’t know what the hype’s all about, but damn! You got to learn marketing from Apple), tomorrow it will be the N99! That’s right! N-series lovers the world over are waiting impatiently for the N99, estimated to be the rocking best in the series! Even while the world breaks doors of every Apple and AT & T store today to pounce on the iPhone, Nokia is keeping mum about its much awaited phone! Maybe it’s just the silence before the storm, maybe it’s learning the moves of its competitor, who knows! But I am going to just skip this iPhone fever and wait for the N99!
Air guitars: The Japanese way of making you a rockstar
June 29, 2007
Imagine you’re walking down a crowded street on a gorgeous California summer day and you walk past the woman of your dreams (or so you think). Wouldn’t you want to dedicate something to her? How about circling your hands in the air and being able to play that dedication to her? Sure, it might scare her far far away from you, especially if she didn’t know what’s going on!
But the good news is, that if she does know what technology you’re using to spin that dedication to her, she is going to be floored (at least I would be!)! Read more
Internet TV: The way of the future! Or so I hope …
June 29, 2007
Internet! It’s always been trying hard to rid us of the “idiot-box” syndrome, and the good news (or bad news for TV stations) is that the market for Internet TV is estimated to grow by 13.7 per cent US$5.79 billion in 2011 (It was US$422.7 million in 2006), according to a research report from iSupply.We all knew this was coming, didn’t we? The web was always on the growth trajectory of being the most-sought after interactive video library ever! N with more and more people glued to the internet at all hours, Internet TV is big business (I personally stopped watching TV 3 years back, n hook up everything from news to video to music from online). The good news is Read more
MS enters web storage market: Why compete? Why not innovate?
June 29, 2007
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, all technical big-wigs are at bottlenecks with each other. Well, not quite literally. But yeah, Microsoft has made a smashing entry into the online storage market, with the introduction of two new services to its Windows Live line-up, with plans to introduce more by the end of this year.
Microsoft sure may have some sort of monopoly over the market, but Google, in my opinion is still the undisputed market leader with it having introduced far more user friendly storage options with gmail.com, and docs and spreadsheets far before Microsoft even thought of it! All that being said, the two new services Read more
Cell phone Xcess: The new invader of the world
June 29, 2007
A once considered “luxury” (Well, I still consider it one, coz I wonder what I would do without it), the cell phone is all set to take over half the world’s population in 2007. Pheww you might say, but it’s true! As per a report brought out by UK based telecom companies, the amount of cell phone owners will exceed the whopping 3.5 billion mark by the end of this year.
Just think about it. Just a few years ago, how many people would you have known carrying a mobile phone? Very few, I guess. But today, even if it’s a developing economy like India or China, you see a cell phone in almost everyone’s hand, whether it’s a highly successful businessman driving a Mercedec or a rickshaw driver. Read more
Porsche Design P’9521 cell phone: Sleek addiction
June 25, 2007
Presented earlier this month at the Red Dot Design Museum in Essen, Germany, the Porsche Design P’9521 cell phone is something that almost every cell phone lover and German sports car fanatic would like to own.
Classy and sophisticated, this handset, brought out by Porsche Design in collaboration with French Telephone Specialists Sagem, is some sort of rare mobile technology: It is made of aluminum and mineral glass and its case is pulverized out of a solid aluminum block. Read more
