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More Cool Inventions! Top USB gadgets and Cool USB Toys
USB has always fascinated me — it’s amazing how you can transfer both data and power through USB. And many companies have leveraged on that to create some really cool inventions! Just check these USB gadgets that I found..some of them are positively zany – like the USB Chameleon, while some can really promise serious [...]
Continue reading...Cool Looking Electric Single Seater Car Inventions
7. March 2008
Wow! I saw a really cute looking three-wheeled single-seater car today and immediately went to look for information about it online. Turns out that it’s the creatively-named, Electric One-Person Car! It’s produced by Hammacher, and has a top speed of 70mph. The amazing thing about this car is that it can travel up to 30 [...]
Continue reading...Toshiba Announces End of HD DVD, Sony’s Blu-ray Triumphs
19. February 2008
I was just reading in the papers about the decision of Wal-Mart dropping HD DVD for Blu-ray, and wondering what the impact of that would be. I guess I found out. Toshiba has just officially announced the discontinuation of its high-definition video format, HD DVD, after numerous bigwigs such as Wal-Mart, Netflix, Best Buy and [...]
Continue reading...Book Safe to Keep and Hide Valuables (Cash, Jewelry, etc)
30. January 2008
I remember when I was much younger, and I happened to watch this movie where one of the characters stowed some secret item in a book safe. The much-younger-me was very much the impressionable and easily astonished kid, and if I don’t recall wrongly, I was extremely surprised when I first discovered the book safe. [...]
Continue reading...Tata just produced the world’s cheapest car
12. January 2008
The world’s cheapest car was just produced, in an announcement made by Tata. This small car has an engine of 625cc, and can go for 20km per litre of petrol. It actually looks pretty decent, and sort of resembles the Mitsubishi I. However, if the announcement is accurate, then the basic model comes without air-conditioning! [...]
Continue reading...Switching Off Appliances Still Draws Power
28. December 2007
My previous post about power adapters got me interested in electricity and it led me to this article on how there are vampiric devices in your home, sucking energy all the time. I got pretty surprised when I read the article (Read the full article here: http://www.electronichouse.com/article/why_your_electronics_suck_energy/). It turns out that all our appliances still [...]
Continue reading...Climate Change Worries? Want to Go Green?
19. December 2007
Concerns over the environment, and the push to go green has grown exponentially over the years until everyone’s talking about it these days. In my opinion, I think one of the ways to reduce greenhouse gases is to have people give up their passion for fast cars for the situation to change. It’s just not [...]
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22. March 2008
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