SpecOps Systems has a special aim in its corporate sphere – that is, to design rugged, wearable computer technology which is capable of offering enhanced situational awareness of the battle space for military soldiers while they are in the heat of the battlefield. The special WC2 computer system works pretty much like an extremely powerful [...]
This Inflatable Sleeping Coat is more versatile than the jacket that Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future II. This super-jacket, for lack of a better word, is designed by designer Lin Tsui-Wei, and it is a raincoat, sleeping coat, sleeping bag, and even a mattress all in one. Normally, this coat ends at below [...]
The two Americans who were awarded millions of dollars after claiming they had come up with the idea for Facebook say their legal battle isn’t over. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss studied at Harvard University alongside Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, where they started a site called ConnectU. In 2008 a protracted legal battle between the two [...]
Bill Thompson is pleased to see the punk ethic alive and well online Anyone with a few minutes to spare online might enjoy visitingChatroulette – the finest expression of punk mentality from the emerging internet generation that I’ve yet come across. It’s not hard to play, as there are only three rules. You have to [...]
Chrome only: Google Chrome extension Postponer integrates the popular ReadItLaterservice directly into Google Chrome, so you can save interesting articles for later reading, and easily retrieve them with a toolbar button. We’ve previously shown you how ReadItLater saves interesting web pages for later readingin Firefox, but there’s been no great solution for Google Chrome users until now—the [...]
At least eight people got iPads from Apple pre-launch, three usual suspects plus some new faces. Their approaches are different, but the take-home remains the same: It’s good. Here’s the easiest way to digest all the iPad reviews at once: The following is a list of the original pieces from which the above quotes were pulled. [...]
Looking for a short, concise URL for yourself or your business? Good luck. LastWordsLeft lists the roughly 35,000 domain names tied to single English words left un-registered, so if you’re up for a hunting mission, here’s your shot. LastWordsLeft limits its searches to .com and .net domains, as there are, likely, small country extensions (.tv, [...]
Windows: If you’re a fan of system monitoring applications but you’re constantly underwhelmed by how little they actually monitor—just memory and CPU usage? Pitiful!—then you’ll want to take a look at Glint, a more-is-better system monitor. Glint can monitor up to 200 different aspects of your computer’s system and resource usage. Certainly monitoring just your [...]
Yesterday we asked readers about their run-ins with Steve Jobs, and they delivered. The Apple CEO is quietly ubiquitous, seen from Palo Alton to SoHo, from Whole Foods to Gotham catwalks, a shaggy-dressing crazy driver who’s kind to strangers. We asked how Jobs behaves in the wild for two reasons: One, we thought his outdoor café [...]
Over the past few months, Automattic’s popular blog platform WordPress.com has taken an in-depth look at their blogging ecosystem, and realized that one of the major pain points for the 12.1 million users who self-host their WordPress blogs is security and restoration. WordPress.com backs up all of the blogs that it hosts, but those users who [...]
