March 12th 2010
Learning to program can be difficult. It requires dedication and patience. Yet all over the internet people are trying to teach you to do it in a few weeks, a few days, or in some cases 24 hours (C++). The comic above runs through one way to become programming expert in just 21 days, though [...]
March 11th 2010
Rock-paper-scissors, I imagine, was one of those games created when people were looking for fun and competition but lacked any kind equipment (or even a deck of cards for that) matter to play a game. But as simple as a game rock-paper-scissors is, however, some people take the game very seriously and it is even considered a sport [...]
March 9th 2010
Several people are reporting that there are odd charges on credit cards they’ve used to make purchases from online retailer Monoprice. This is what the company had to say: More »
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Tags: Credit Card Statement, Credit Cards, Monoprice, Odd, People, Psa
March 9th 2010
If you read this site, you probably know about legal onlinemusic services like Spotify, Pandora or Last.fm or Napster… but a stunning percentage of people don’t. They believe that the only way to get music online is illegally: the only source they know of for downloadable music is Bittorrent. Their ignorance of the legal online [...]
March 8th 2010
Dropped calls, network congestion, and sluggish mobile data speeds could become a thing of the past for the people owning data-hungry smartphones (like the iPhone) if Time Warner Cable Inc. sells the nation’s carriers like AT&T and Verizon on its wireless backhaul service.
The technology lets wireless operators transfer data using Time Warner’s cables laid underground [...]
March 5th 2010
Tags: Cebit, Ces, Hanover Germany, Hordes, Journalists, People
March 3rd 2010
Tags: Brain, Gadget, Gadgets, Going To The Dentist, Gums, People, Stainless Steel, Steel Needle
March 3rd 2010
We asked people on the street what they thought of when they thought of Sony. [We Miss Sony] More »
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Tags: People, Sony
March 3rd 2010
Tags: 3g, Amp, Apple Ipad, Ceo, Fi Version, Option Apple, People, Wi Fi
March 2nd 2010
Tags: Amp, Motorola, People, Smartphone
March 2nd 2010
When Michael Jackson was laid to rest last year, the King of Pop went out in style with a gold coffin that was as extravagant and bold as the singer’s lifestyle. Thank goodness, though, the people in charge of Jackson’s final arrangements did not hear about a similar gold coffin shown this year at a recent international luxury fair in Italy. I’m sure if they [...]
March 2nd 2010
Tags: Emotional Attachment, Gee Whiz, Genders, Industry Robots, Names, People, Robot Industry, Robotic Vacuum Cleaners, Roombas, Sex Industry, Sex New, Sex Robot, Sex Robots, Sleep
March 2nd 2010
Tags: 10 Years, Baked Beans, Bottled Water, Knees, Millennium Bug, People, Playstation, Ps3, Supermarkets, Tins
March 1st 2010
Tags: Apps, Iphone, Mdash, Myth, People, Piracy Rates, Sounds, Truth
March 1st 2010
Tags: Halden, Houses, Music Studio, Natural Lighting, Norway, People, Philips, Prison Architecture, Street Art
February 26th 2010
Tags: Lighting Condition, Nikon Review, Peek, People, Photography
February 24th 2010
Sprint’s expanding its 4G mobile broadband service—also known as WiMax—quite a bit this year. They intend on making it available to a whopping 120 million people by the end of 2010. The…
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Tags: Broadband Service, Mdash, Mobile Broadband, People, Speedy, Sprint, Wimax
February 24th 2010
People are building pretty impressive robotic projects with Lego Mindstorms kits these days. Just recently I wrote about a record breaking robotic Lego Rubik’s Cube Solver and now we have a Mindstorms project that looks and acts like a little robotic Segway. But only this DIY robot project project didn’t utilize any gyroscopes whatsoever.
Built by [...]
February 23rd 2010
That’s what this RBC/ChangeWave’s surveys says. Back in April 2007, fewer people were interested in buying the original iPhone compared to those wanting to buy the iPad on February 2010. Does this…
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Tags: April 2007, Changewave, Ipad, Iphone, People, Rbc, Surveys
February 23rd 2010
Some people thought I was unfair to Flash, calling it an unnecessary piece of power-sucking crap that has no real use beyond online video and advertising. So here’s the question: Apart from video,…
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Tags: Crap, People, Sites Flash, Using Flash