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- Written: June 7th, 2005
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- By: Dale
HAL-5 Robot suit for old folk
You gotta love the Japenese, they don't get nearly enough credit for the HUGE dent they have made on society though. No rather we ridicule and make fun of , as usual, it's just more fun. Here are some the unfortunates: Divets: www.japinventions.com www.japinvents.com And here is how the Japs redeem themselves: Dents: HAL-5 www.hal5.com This suit is incredible. ...
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- Written: May 31st, 2005
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- By: MarkB
GPS Panties
So you're a worried father of dating daughters, or you're the paranoid geeky husband of a gorgeous wife. How can you tell if you're daughters and wives are nothing getting into...er...trouble? GPS Panties Forget-Me-Not-Panties are the answer to peace of mind for concerned dad's and husband's the world over. Equipped with a GPS Transmitter, you're able to get the location of your loved one any time of day or night, including a few ...
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- Written: May 20th, 2005
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- By: MarkB
Software Piracy
We've all done it...in one form or another right?...borrowed 60 stiffy discs to copy Wolfenstein from your mates best friends neighbours commodore computer? Yeah, well things have gotten waaay worse since then. A report by Business Software Alliance showed that thirty-five percent of all software installed on PC's is pirated! 35%! Thats a crap load! The losses therefrom? $29-33 billion dollars! The countries that are most at fault are Vietnam, Ukraine, China, and Zimbabwe. A monstrous 90% of software installed in ...
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- Written: May 17th, 2005
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- By: MarkB
Finally, the PS3
Prepare yourself for a mass sale of PS2's, as flocks of geeks and gamers alike rush off to purchase the all new Playstation 3. First reports are quite flattering. The PS3 is boasting a rounded and more 'spacy' look and it'll take up pretty much the same amount of space in your TV cabinet. Die hard Playstation fans will no doubt be overjoyed to know that your archive of old PS1 and your ...
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- Written: May 16th, 2005
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- By: MarkB
Baked Beans can or WiFi Antenna?
Sheesh, what next! Next generation computer hardware whizz Steven Buss, An entrant to Intel's International Science and Engineering Fair has created a WiFi antenna from an empty baked beans can. Dammit, thats gotta be a far sight cheaper than my WiFi card! ...the one he calls a "cantenna," made from an empty baked-bean can, let him connect to his 802.11b wireless network from almost as far--a mile away. How about them apples! Thats pretty impressive, I gotta admit. Especially considering he's ...
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- Written: May 11th, 2005
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- By: MarkB
Sony’s “iPod Killer”
Sony's version of the iPod, its NW-HD5 was recently launched. It'll set you back about $340. For that you'll get a surprisingly light .mp3 player with a 20GB storage capacity and 40hours of battery life. Is that so? In their quest to out-do, out-design and out-last the iPod's popularity, Sony seems to have cut some major corner and might we suggest, maybe a corner too many? It is light. We'll give it that. Perhaps too light ...
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- Written: May 9th, 2005
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- By: MarkB
Dual Graphics Cards
Rumor? Made up? Impossible? Nope. Its real and its here... Step aside AGP, we have a new winner, PCI Express. Thanks to the joys of modern technology and advances therein, you can now join the powers of 2 graphics cards to make one monster graphics processor. Its been done before in a somewhat neanderthal manner with loads of cables and wires joining the two cards, but now thanks to Nvidia's new SLI adapter, its possible ...
