Have you ever found yourself in front of a sink wishing it was a bathtub that you could climb into no matter what was waiting for you at the bottom (e.g. toothpaste, spit, nail polish remover, etc.)?
If so then you’re in luck, because the Ladybird from Yanko Design combines them into something truely unique.
Designed for [...]
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According to a high-level internal email making the rounds at Best Buy, they have it on good authority that CompUSA’s holiday revenue is half of what it was last year, store-restocking shipments are not being scheduled past February, and additional liquidators are being called in to help manage the closure of the 103 remaining stores.
If [...]
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The Playstation 3, Sony’s entry into the next generation console wars, is without a doubt a technical powerhouse.
First on sale in the US on November 17, 2005, there were two variations initially available, one with a 20GB hard drive for $499 and another with a 60GB hard drive for $599.
Additional differences between the two [...]
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The excellent, excellent remote access software LogMeIn has been around for the PC for a while, but for Mac’s it’s relatively new. In beta since June, 2007, it has left beta and is now at v1.0.
What is it?
It allows you to securely connect to, and remotely control, a computer using just a web browser. All [...]
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Where is the best food city? Paris? Maybe New York?
Nope. According to the latest Michelin Guide, it’s Tokyo, Japan.
In case you don’t know, receiving a star from the Michelin Guide is a big deal.
Accoding to Jean-Luc Naret , director of the guide (and a Frenchman):
“Tokyo is becoming the global city with the finest cuisine, [...]
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While currently just a prototype, Eureka Aerospace has successfully tested a device that seems straight out of a near future scifi flick.
Using the same type of technology that is used in your average microwave oven (though at a different frequency), Eureka Aerospace’s device is currently 5-feel long, 3-feet wide, 1-foot thick and weighs just [...]
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Larry Langford, mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, recently announced a $3M deal to order 15,000 OLPC XO’s, one for each of Birmingham’s first through eighth graders.
That works out to $200 for each XO…I guess with that kind of money they were able to get around OLPC’s “Buy One, Get One” program.
The students can expect their computers [...]
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