Wi-Fi Scale Tweets Your Weight
Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale already stands out in your bathroom: sleek, smooth and fully functional, the very opposite of the sagging meat sack you drag into the shower every morning. Now it can beam your insecurities to your poor Twitter followers, automatically, before you have even thought about brewing a wake-up cup of coffee. The Withings scale, you may remember, records body mass, fat levels and other paranoia-inducing statistics and compiles them for presentation on the web or on your iPhone
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Wi-Fi Scale Tweets Your Weight
Seeing as most ergonomics guides tell you not to tilt your keyboard up, a laptop stand may not be such a good idea for the desk, but AViiQ’s “Portable Laptop Stand” has other uses. The obvious feature is that this stand folds, and when collapsed to its quarter-inch minimum can easily be slid into a laptop bag. The mechanism itself is quite neat, almost origami-like: The aluminum sheet is hinged with plastic.
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Origami-Like Folding Laptop Stand Is Perfect for In-Bed Movies
The only time I leave my blogger’s lair with my laptop is to attend the annual CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas. The sole dangers there come from the bad breath of hungover show exhibitors and viruses flown in from the corners of the globe to be transmitted by a million filthy handshakes. None of these fazes my trusty MacBook, but if I ever took it into the real outdoor world it would be kept inside a Haglöfs laptop dry-bag, a waterproof, padded notebook nirvana, all wrapped up in an orange color that normally graces 1970s sci-fi movie spacesuits
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A Watertight Case: The Haglöfs Laptop Bag
Rural Scotland has been earmarked a slice of the £200 million to be handed out by the Government in order to boost the UK’s rural broadband access. On Friday Stephen Timms, the Communications Minister will outline plans created by the Government to improve the poor quality of the broadband services in rural parts of the UK. Telephone groups and Scottish local authorities will be attending the meeting to hear the Digital Britain plans for the country
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Broadband In Rural Scotland Set To Get Funding
SAN FRANCISCO — BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has been losing developers’ hearts to newer, sexier platforms like the Apple iPhone and Google-backed Android operating system. Now RIM is trying to win them back with a host of enhancements to the BlackBerry services platform and new ways for developers to make money. RIM will allow in-app transactions, create a new payment service, build a better browser and offer higher quality mobile gaming support, Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of Research In Motion promised developers at the company’s second developer conference today
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Research In Motion Woos BlackBerry Developers
We liked the look of the Lightscoop flash modifier we covered a couple of weeks back, so we tested one out. And while the camera-mounted mirror isn’t quite as easy to use as we’d hoped, it gives results way better than you’ll get from even the best built-in flash when used bare. The Lightscoop slides into the hot-shoe of your camera, making it only suitable for DSLRs which have a) a hot-shoe and b) a flash that is in the middle of the camera
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Hands-On With the Lightscoop Flash Modifier
Apple is rumored to be testing a prototype of its fourth-generation iPhone with a radio-frequency identification chip, which could greatly enhance the handset’s capabilities for business and scientific applications. Business news publication Near Field Communications World cites a “highly reliable source” claiming to have seen the next-generation iPhone in action with an RFID scanner. “It’s not full NFC, but it’s a start for real service discovery, and I’m told that the reaction was very positive [and] that we can expect this in the next-gen iPhone,” the source told Near Field Communications .
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Rumor: Next iPhone to Gain Radio-Frequency Powers
Mobile operator 3 ( three.co.uk ) has refreshed its range of mobile broadband free laptop deals with the addition of new high-spec laptops from Toshiba, Samsung and Compaq. The UK’s leading mobile broadband provider has secured the recently released Toshiba T130, the Samsung N130 and the Compaq Mini 110 netbook. The Toshiba T130 is the slimmest laptop notebook ever made by Toshiba and comes with a 250GB hard drive and 3GB of RAM.
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3 Refreshes Mobile Broadband Free Laptop Deals
Mobile operator 3 ( three.co.uk ) has cut the price of its Mi-Fi broadband plans as it readies itself for the Xmas mobile broadband sales rush. Expected to be one of this year’s most wanted Xmas gadgets, 3’s Mi-Fi broadband is a small wireless router that uses 3’s broadband network to create its own mobile Wi-Fi hotspot. A number of Wi-Fi enabled devices like netbooks and the iPod touch can then connect to the internet at the same time – which means friends can share the connection and get online whilst out and about
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3 Cuts Mi-Fi Broadband Price For Xmas Rush
TalkTalk ( talktalk.co.uk ) has launched a new 24Mbps high performance broadband package, known as TalkTalk Pro. Currently available to order by phone only on 0800 049 7865, TalkTalk Pro offers wireless broadband download speeds up to 24Mbps coupled with an unlimited download usage allowance. Free anytime phone calls to UK landline numbers starting with 01, 02 and 03 are included together with free calls to 0845 and 0870 numbers.
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TalkTalk Launch 24Mbps ‘Pro’ Broadband Package
Soon, you’ll need more than two hands to count the number of Android phones on the market. At this rate, it seems inevitable that the number of phones running Google’s open source operating system will eventually outnumber the number of iPhones, which run Apple’s proprietary (and closed) operating system. It’s a situation that has many observers thinking back to the 1980s, when IBM introduced its PC and eclipsed Apple in market share by betting on open platforms.
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Android Army Pumped for All-Out Attack on iPhone
Dozens of owners of Apple’s new 27-inch iMac are reporting performance issues ranging from sluggish Flash playback, erratic hard drive behavior and buggy operating system installations. The most common complaint seems to revolve around poor Flash performance, whereas videos play back very choppily and appears to cause CPU spikes. The YouTube video below attempts to document the problem.
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Customers Complain New iMacs Plagued With Performance Problems
Yes, it’s a car ad, but you’re going to watch it anyway because a) it’s Friday and b) it features the awesome Danny Macaskill (or the Mac Danny as we like to call him) on his bike. We’ve posted a couple of Danny’s videos here before, but to be honest we just can’t get enough of watching him throw his bike around the city streets. Check the huge gap he leaps around thirty seconds in and imagine just sitting up on that concrete monster, let alone standing up there on a bike .
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Video: Danny Macaskill’s Bike-Ninja Skills Used to Sell Cars
We’ve been waiting a long time for an Android enabled device that wasn’t manufactured by HTC. A few weeks ago Motorola answered our prayers with the Cliq, a handset flaunting an Android OS but outfitted with a complicated skin that revolved around social networking. It was difficult to use, bloated as a beached whale, and generally a pain in the ass to use
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Video Hands On With Motorola’s Droid
TalkTalk owned Tiscali UK ( tiscali.co.uk ) has launched a new DRM free broadband music download service in partnership with eMusic. The new ‘Music For Life’ subscription service, available to all users of Tiscali’s UK portal for £9.99 a month, offers a staggering 6.5 million songs (MP3’s) for users to download. The Senior Director of Online at TalkTalk, Neal McCleave said: “We are always looking at ways to enhance our portal and offer the best services to our six million users
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Tiscali UK Add Broadband Music Download Service
You know, one of the main reasons for owning a dog (apart from picking up girls) is to get a little exercise. Every day you take a stroll with your filthy, butt-sniffing pal, tossing him a ball and generally getting the blood flowing. Now, with the Autofetch Motion Pet Ball you don’t even have to take the wet rubber lump out of pooch’s slobbering mouth and strain your poor weak shoulder by throwing it.
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Self Fetching Ball is Cruel and Unusual Toy for Dogs
<< previous image | next image >> Like humans, dead gadgets get autopsies, too — only we call such hardware dissection “teardowns.” But why do we rip our beloved gadgets to pieces? To learn more about the nature of technology, engineering and industrial design, of course. It’s kind of a beautiful thing, actually: staring at a gadget’s ugliest internal parts to learn its secrets
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Gallery: Sony Gadget Teardown Porn
Like it or not, Motorola’s new Google-powered Droid smartphone will be compared to the iPhone. The good news is that this feature-rich handset, running version 2.0 of Google’s Android OS, compares very favorably to the Goliath of the smartphone world as a utility mobile-computing device — and, oh yeah, a phone.
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Motorola’s Droid Is Memorable, But Won’t Make You Forget the iPhone
Apple recently told the media that its “holiday lineup is set,” meaning there will be no new Apple products for the rest of the year. That means for the next few months, Apple fanatics have nothing better to do but speculate, trade rumors and argue among themselves while they wait for the Cupertino, California, company to deliver a touchscreen tablet, rumored for an early 2010 release.
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Gadget Lab Contest: Show Us Your Apple Tablet Mock-Up
If Howard Hughes hadn’t shuffled off this Earth in a pair of tissue-box shoes 33 years ago, this is doubtless the keyboard the notorious OCD sufferer would be using. It is, according to the maker Vioguard, the world’s first self-sanitizing keyboard. Rather than wait for you filthy shaved monkeys to get around to cleaning it, the keyboard automatically retracts into its own motorized home and is therein bathed in glorious, cleansing UV light, which will kill a satisfying 99% of germs (although it will do nothing for the cookie-crumbs languishing inside)
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Phobia-Watch: Self-Sanitizing Keyboard