Over one billion people in the world do not have access to clean water. Water-related diseases constitute 80% of sickness and is the leading cause of death all over the world. Therefore Playpumps International has created a mechanism that resembles a playground toy for many third world countries. The Playpump will be installed near schools [...]
Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino has taken an unused phone booth and converted it into an aquarium for the Lyon Light Festival in France. Now city council workers will have to feed the fish as part of their daily chores. Personally I could stand outside and watch these fish all day if I had the [...]
Acer has unveiled another Ferrari notebook as part of a branding deal that they have made with the automotive company. The Acer Ferrari 1200 LED screen is 12.1 inches and uses an AMD Turion X2 Ultra dual-core mobile processor with up to 4GB of DDR2 memory. THe laptop comes with a Bluetooth mouse and VoIP [...]
The GigaPan Epic is a robotic mount that helps photographers create detailed panoramas. David Bergman used his Canon G10 and the GigaPan Imager to take a panoramic photo of Obama’s inaugural address. The GigaPan Epic and Stitcher software is available for $379. And the GigaPan Epic 100 will be available for $49. The Epic is [...]
Ajoka, a micro surveillance solutions company has recently created the Real Lighter DVR. The device can record 640 x 480 or AVIs in QVGA at 30fps. The device can support up to 8GB through a microSD card. The lithium ion battery is good for 6 hours of filming and it can be charged by USB. [...]
Gonzalo Álvarez lives and works on an island called Tenerife. He makes fancy clocks and furniture in his spare time. Check out the aesthetics of this one-of-a-kind clock: Spanish steampunk clock.
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The 16GB Leyio File Sharing Device has a built in fingerprint scanner to ensure that nobody jacks your files. The flash drive also has a built in digital screen and USB port built in. The Leyio 16GB file sharing device has Wi-Fi built in but can only connect to other similar Leyio devices.
The device will [...]
Authorities in Tampa has been using the Microsoft Surface to visualize safety information for Raymond James Stadium, the spot for Super Bowl Sunday. The Surface will be displaying Microsoft Virtual Earth map for region tracking events, incidents, resources, and real-time tasks. All of the tracking using Virtual Earth will be done in real-time. [...]
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) has released the numbers for their 4th quarter and WOW, are they stellar! Netflix’s 4th quarter profit climbed 45%. Netflix’s growth was driven by low prices and streaming video services.
Netflix’s customer base grew by 718,000 in the last three months of 2008. This is more than double the growth that management expected. [...]
VeriSign is planning to buy Certicom about three days after Research in Motion decided to pull out of a hostile bid for the security company. VeriSign will buy Certicom for $73 million. Certicom is an elliptic curve cryptography company. VeriSign plans to enter new markets through the use of Certicom’s ECC public-key encryption technologies.
VeriSign one [...]