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Gadgets
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Live Streaming Contact Lenses: Coming Soon
23 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
More and more of the technology that we see in the movies is becoming an everyday reality. The contact lens embedded with a tiny LED that can light up when a wireless signal is sent to it is one of these realities. Soon you’ll be able to stream your social media feeds and bring up other holographic images cybernetically.
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Prince Philip Calls Wind Farms A “Fairy Tale”
21 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
He also called them “absolutely useless”, and he might have a point too. The Duke of Edinburgh, at age 90, rightfully points out that wind farms are heavily reliant on subsidies, and that those who claim they’re one of the most cost-effective forms of renewable energy believed in “fairy tales”.
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Android, And Everything Else, Destroying BlackBerry In The US
01 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Is this the beginning of the end for BlackBerry? Manufacturer, Research In Motion lost nearly two thirds of the US smartphone market share, year on year for the same period. HTC has taken a clear lead in the US smartphone market, and it’s been closely followed by Samsung, who just last week, surpassed Apple in total worldwide smartphone shipments.
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India Launches World’s First Gold And Diamond Jewelery ATM
31 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The machine, devised by a company called the Gitanjali Group, was launched at a central Mumbai shopping mall for the annual Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, on Wednesday. Prices range anywhere from R400 to R5 000, just in case you have that lying around for some last minute gifts.
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Sony Buys Sony Ericsson
27 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s just been revealed that Sony has bought out its Swedish partner, Ericsson, for $1,5 billion. Ericsson had a 50 per cent stake in mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson, but will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony now. Sony is rather excited about the move because now it can integrate its smartphones with its consumer electronics devices.
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At $3 Million, It’s More Of A Camps Bay Van Than A Camper Van
19 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Being rich is hard. Especially when it comes to road trips. It’s always an issue of “The Ferrari’s too small”, or “I wish my mansion had wheels”. Enter, the Elemment Palazzo. This bad boy not only brings an element of average American retiree to your life, it also has 40” TVs, a rainfall shower and a fireplace in it.
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Sony Recalls 1,6 Million Bravia’s Because Of Fire Risk
12 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sony is to recall 1,6 million of its Bravia brand LCD TVs sold worldwide since 2007. This comes after several serious malfunctions involving parts melting, and even possibly catching fire as a result, have occurred. Japan’s trade ministry today instructed Sony to recall the TV’s as a precautionary measure to prevent further incidents.
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BlackBerry Services Collapse Worldwide
10 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Millions of BlackBerry users from all over Europe, Asia and Africa have been without online services such as email and BlackBerry Messenger for the last few hours. A spokesperson for RIM has not yet passed comment, but we do know a major fault at the RIM data centre in Slough is responsible.
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Samsung And Google Scrap Nexus Prime Launch
07 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The companies jointly announced in a statement released a few hours ago that they have scraped the widely anticipated October 11 San Diego launch of the Nexus Prime, Samsung’s Android-based smartphone running the new Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Does it have something to do with Steve Jobs’ passing on Wednesday?
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“Steve Jobs Day” Set For 14 October
06 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
News of Steve Jobs’ death resonated around the world this morning. A sad day for many, but Steve’s death has put tremendous momentum behind the move to have 14 October named as “Steve Jobs Day”.
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Is The Kindle Fire Worse Than Facebook And Google When It Comes To Privacy?
30 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Terms and conditions: we never read them, but we know we know should. Here’s what you should know about Amazon’s Fire and the new Silk browser it comes with: they make it clear that the company is entitled to retain your tablet’s unique ID, plus the URL’s of pages you have visited, for up to 30 days.
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SA Aerospace Reveals Awesome New Multipurpose Aircraft
27 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Ahrlac (Advanced High Performance Reconnaissance Light Aircraft) will have a number of uses, including border patrol and surveillance. But, just in case, they’ve also equipped it with a 20mm canon. At a cool R79,59 million each, these badboys aren’t exactly recession friendly. But who cares? Who needs money when you have guns?
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Mini Robots Entered Into 225 Kilometre Hawaiian Triathlon
19 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Do you remember the old adverts that pitted the Duracell bunny against other batteries at massive distances? Well, Panasonic is actually doing this now. They’ve designed robots, and entered them into a rather large triathlon taking place in Hawaii next month, in which homo sapiens will compete.
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New Emotion Detecting Camera Knows If You’re Lying
14 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So they say this kind of thing is “new”, but I think what they really mean is that it’s “new” to public knowledge. It uses thermal imaging technology, something that’s been around for a while already, and it just seems impossible to believe that “scientists” wouldn’t have thought of it before.
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Apple Wins: Samsung Galaxy Stays Banned In Germany For Copying iPad
09 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A German court on Friday upheld an injunction requested by Apple barring the sales of Samsung Galaxy tablets in Germany. In what is surely another groundbreaking ruling against Samsung and the Galaxy Tab, the German court ruled that Samsung had basically copied Apple’s iPad.
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‘Find My iPhone’ App Helps Locate Wreckage Of Chilean Plane Crash
08 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In the aftermath of last Friday’s plane crash off the island of Robinson Crusoe, Chile, officials have stated that no effort would be spared in the rescue/recovery of the 17 passengers. This apparently includes using the Find My iPhone app to isolate the coordinates of one of the passenger’s last known whereabouts before the crash.
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Amazon’s Tablet Will Probably Be The Only Real Challenger To The iPad
06 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Amazon’s tablet is coming soon. Very soon, according to some of the rumours doing the rounds. We could even see the new device in the next few weeks. Supposedly, it will be in the seven-inch region, run a tweaked version of Android and be quite affordable too. But what’s going to make it special, and better than any Google attempt?
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Apple ‘Loses’ iPhone 5 Prototype In A Tequila Bar
02 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The device, which is due to be released shortly, was supposedly lost in a San Francisco tequila bar and then sold to Craigs List, an internet listings company. Apple engineers were reportedly franticly trying to get it back. Duh. This isn’t the first time a prototype has been ‘lost’, in April last year the iphone 4 was ‘found’ in a beer garden and sold to Gizmodo for $5000. Sneaky.
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Is That A USB Inside Your TV, Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?
25 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Remember the sad old days when the only screens that came with USB inputs in them were 15 inches wide, and you and 12 friends were forced to watch that awesome viral video on that single tiny screen, and inevitably there was a heated argument afterwards, because one of the guys who was watching from […]
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Get A Load Of This Samsung Smart TV (Prepare To Have Your Mind Blown)
19 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments
Hello gang. Check our new toy! Yes man! “That’s just a TV!”, I hear you say. TV? Just you wait, my friend. That’s just one of the things this puppy does. HD, or 3D TV? Sure. Skype, YouTube, Facebook, Picassa? Walk in the park, my friend. And each of those is tucked up in a […]
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Annoy The World With The Awesome RC Air Swimmers
16 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
How unfair is this shit. When I was a kid, if you wanted something to fly you had to chuck it off a three-storie building, or tie it to a string and trail it out the back of your mom’s car, Napolean Dynamite style. These remote controlled badboys are super realistic,with actual moving fins to propel them through the air. And you get to choose between evil shark or cute clown-fish.
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Bad Cellphone Reception? It Could Be The Sun’s Fault
16 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Bad cellphone reception and weak signal strength might be caused by the sun, according to new research. Solar flares emanating from the sun could be to blame for telecommunications customers’ slow internet, signal reception issues and GPS problems, thus taking some the pressure off the network providers, for now.
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Google Has First Self-Drive Car Accident – Who’s Responsible?
08 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
When I first heard about Google’s self-driving cars I was excited. Google weren’t the first to experiment with this kind of thing, and technology is evolving, but deep down I always knew it would be hard to trump KITT from Knight Rider or DeLorean DMC-12 from Back to the Future. Prius on Prius car love after the jump.
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NASA Launches Spacecraft To Jupiter
05 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Just when we thought NASA was going to take a backseat and let privatisation take the wheel for a while, they squeeze out yet another project. It just happens to be one of the space agency’s most ambitious missions too, and will attempt to discover the secrets behind the largest planet in the solar system – Jupiter.
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Internet Explorer Study Is Elaborate Hoax
03 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I was amused when I read that the article we published yesterday about Internet Explorer users having a lower average IQ than users of other browsers was a hoax. Not because I dislike IE users, but because this would have been the push they needed to, explore other browsers. Unfortunately though, sometimes global news agencies do get it wrong.
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How Much Is That Robo-Seal In The Window?
02 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The future is officially nuts. It’s getting to a point where stuff like this probably won’t shock you anymore. It should. Be shocked. These robo-seals, called ‘Paro’, not only bring comfort to recovering Japanese tsunami patients, they also sing, clap, and even take part in the residents daily exercise routines.
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Internet Explorer Users ‘Have Below-Average IQ’
02 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A study, and a fairly quantitative one, is suggesting that the dinner conversation talk I think some of us may have had about the average Internet Explorer user may be true. AptiQuant offered free online IQ tests to over 100 000 people and then plotted the average IQ scores based on the browser on which the test was taken.
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Real Life Sat-Nav Racing Game Grips Britain As Drivers Attempt To Beat The Clock
29 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The idea behind the game is pretty straight forward: you must beat your satellite navigational system’s estimated time of arrival. I’m quite sure this has crossed some of our minds a few times but apparently some seven million British drivers are actually partaking in the potentially lethal new craze.
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Fake Apple Stores Are A Global Industry
26 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Chinese officials have ordered two of the five fake stores already located in the south-western city of Kunming to suspend business while they’re investigated, a local government website said on Monday. But, it’s since emerged that similar fakes exist in countries from Croatia to Venezuela.
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Astronauts Aboard Atlantis To Experiment With Urine-Recycling Sports Drink
12 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Taking the Bear Grylls survival lifestyle to the next level, a crew member of the final space shuttle mission aboard space shuttle Atlantis, which departed on Friday, will reportedly be testing out a new system designed to turn urine into a sugary-flavoured sports drink.
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