It looks like an unlikely restaurant, McDonald’s, will start deploying electric car charging stations at a few of its restaurants. (Full disclosure… I like anything that moves electric cars in to the now, still waiting for my Aptera) I like the idea of businesses having stuff like WiFi hotspots and…
I don’t have a dog right now, but if I did, I totally wouldn’t trust it to roam around my apartment while I’m not there. Who knows what kind of mischief it’ll get into or what it’ll find lurking in my sock drawer. This Pet’s Eye View Camera makes it…
Electric scooters are a blast for both kids, and adults. One of the main bummers is that when your battery dies you have to wait hours for it to charge… not any more. The X-Treme Sccoters X-600 High Performance Electric Scooter comes with 3 batteries. Read on for details and…
Some say you can’t put a price on principles, those people are left eating crow time and time again. Welcome to the real world! The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker, undoubtedly the world’s largest distributor of bootlegged copyrighted material, the guys who talked a Big Game about values…
I, like most, started using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer because it was what I started off using and it came with the computer I bought. It works (sorta) so why switch? Have you ever noticed that as the day goes on your computer and browser get sluggish? I have found that…
Most speaker dock systems for the iPod/iPhone sound ok but tend to be lacking the bass department. And if they come with a subwoofer (which is rare) they usually cost an arm and a leg… not anymore. The Philips DC912 is available here for $79.99. Details of how to…
The smart folks at Toyota have created a mind-controlled wheelchair. The wheelchair reads brain waves every 125 milliseconds. Testers using the wheels and EEG cap system have achieved accuracy up to 95 percent which will make cubicle obstacle courses a challenge of the past. If nothing else the hat you…
The Palm Pre already has a new updated version of the software, version 1.0.4. The update for your Palm Pre to 1.0.4 seems to fix security vulnerabilities and not really improve on the product. Another noteworthy change that comes with version 1.0.4 is the blocking of homebrew apps on the…
The DeRose family (apparently much cooler than mine) have made a Potato Gatling Gun for entry in this years Maker Faire. Read on for details and a video of this potato machine gun.
Back when Apple first launched its App Store, Steve Jobs showed a slide with six categories of apps that would be verboten: “Porn, privacy, bandwidth hog, illegal, malicious,” and “unforeseen.” Well, as the App store has matured, apparently Apple has, too, and is now officially allowing uncensored “explicit” content to…