Tuesday, Dec. 26 2006
Posted by Tiago
I bet you have received this kind of email spam also known as the Nigerian 419 Fraud, if you didn’t receive it yet you are a lucky person. Anyway, read the wikipedia entry about Nigerian 419 if you are interested to know more about it.
Basically this is how the scam works:
A wealthy foreigner who needs […]
Sunday, Dec. 24 2006
Posted by Tiago
In order to make up for the latest Crocodile Skin iPod Station and to prove that there are smart companies using natural products, Olympus was the chosen one to make a wooden camera.
They will use a process called “three dimensional compression moulding” which gives the final product a good aspect overall and it also […]
Posted by Tiago
The Japanese company Runat has come up with some good looking speakers that are directly related to Disney cartoons, one of them is Winnie The Pooh as you can see per the image.
These speakers are located on the feet and can either work via USB or with a normal AC adapter, each one weights around […]
Posted by Tiago
Crocodile skin is most likely to be one of the strangest materials used on an iPod Docking Station, but that didn’t affect the decision of Dunhill to create this peculiar product.
They decided to call it iPod HiFi and that is the only information available, but I’m starting to wonder what will they come up with […]
Wednesday, Dec. 20 2006
Posted by Tiago
At this time of the year (December) it is common for Google to present the top searches made on their search engine, and that is exactly what they did today.
Here are the results with a tiny bit of information taken from Wikipedia and other sources:
1. bebo - social networking website
2. myspace - social networking website
3. […]
Monday, Dec. 18 2006
Posted by Tiago
In an effort to improve Google Earth and Google Maps information about Europe, the giant has aquired a swiss company called Endoxon.
What exacly is Endoxon? A developer of internet mapping solutions, mobile services, data processing, cartography, direct marketing and the Trinity software suite.
Interestingly enough Google only bought 3 of their business units which are […]
Posted by Tiago
In case you don’t know Reigncom and their mp3 players, I present you the latest one called iriver S7. The stylish and small player is suppose to be used as a pendant around your neck and it doesn’t have any screen to display information, it is much like an iPod Shuffle in which you press […]
Thursday, Dec. 14 2006
Posted by Tiago
For the people that can’t get enough of design innovation on USB pens, there is a new item that can certainly be added to the mext (2007) Christmas list.
The Squid shaped USB device has a low level of storage capacity – only 512MB – but to make that not-so-good factor disappear, they added a […]
Posted by Tiago
How it works:
You hum (sing with closed lips) a song for a couple of seconds and the engine tries to identifyy which song you are trying to reproduce. Of course its database has limits so it might not identify the song, or maybe you are just bad at humming.
Anyway, after humming comes the search results […]
Posted by Tiago
This is one of the most practical alarm clocks I have seen lately, besides being original on the design it is also good on the features, I mean… how many alarm clocks with a remote control you know? Not many.
As you can see on the image, the TV displays the time by using LED lights […]