Archive for January, 2011

Blekko is a search engine which isn’t exactly as flashy as more popular engines. But on January 24th 2011, they were headlines hitters all around the world, as Ashton Kutcher, who’s movie is number one in box offices, has invested $200,000 in Blekko. It serves as an extension to the company’s most recent round of funding. So beforehand, they hadn’t really made a new for themselves, but that has all totally changed now. More »


Holocube is a brand of products in their own category. They include projectors, projection booth, and ultra-simplified computers. Now we are turning are attention towards the HC70, a six foot tall box with a 70 degree diagonal screen for full sized human projections. More »


Kraft and Intel have got together to design the new Kraft Store Kiosk, a vending machine that helps indecisive people choose what to eat. Users only have to stand in front of the machine, while its built-in cameras scan their face. The ‘Anonymous Video Analytics’ will then recommend something from the kiosk. More »


Now the intense rivalry from all tech franchises has increased even more. Samsung are aiming to overtake Apple on the number of shipped notebooks. 10 million portables were apparently shipped in 2010, with their target set at 16 to 17 million for this year. More »


Pirate Bay will be launching a new music site this spring, claiming that the recording industry must be looking over their shoulders right now. Pirate Bay find trouble to operate when constantly being blocked and the founder have faced several convictions. But they won’t give in, as they are still having a go. Apparently, they are working on a music distribution site. More »


On Monday 24th January 2011, Google began rolling out a new service to be used on your mobile and printer. It will allow you to print and Gmail message and certain types of email attachments straight from the cloud. Under the name of Cloud Print, you will need to hit the setup page and register your printer for use. More »


Best Buy will be this first retail store to carry the upcoming Motorola Atrix 4G. It will hit the shots in the days around February 13th, which is just three weeks away. With the laptop dock, you can transform the Atrix into a full laptop, including full screen and keyboard. More »


HP Topaz have now revealed its very own WebOS tablet. A render of the large-form tablet was seen earlier this month however, specs and plenty of details come with it this time round. It is under the code name of Topaz, and it will feature a 9.7 inch 1024 x 768 pixel oil and scratch resistant display. More »


ShibuyaCamera recreates the fun mood of the photo sticker booths (purikura) that are very popular in Japan. Just take your picture with you camera and get started playing with the many different frames, stamps, fonts, basically everything you’d need or want to deck out your photo. More »


Nowadays, it seems that a lot of people seem to be yearning for more than just the iconic white ear buds of the iPod. People don’t want to blend in with the rest of the crowd; they want to show some individuality. Well, Sony launched their PIIQ line of headphones last year for that exact purpose: to make you stand out. After browsing through the collection, I finally settled on the Giiq set and clicked BUY. More »


The multi-billion dollar search engine company, Google, has long been searching for new and innovative ways to transform the world as we know it. With such huge acquisitions as YouTube on its plate, Google is continually searching for websites and companies that it thinks will benefit it. Well, looks like Google has located its next target: fflick. More »


- NFC technology installed on the iPad 2 and iPhone 5 looks to transform your daily device into your credit card too - is this how it should be from now on?

- A $30 unlimited data plan comes to the Verizon iPhone, but act quick since it is to be a temporary deal. More »


With the proliferation of highly popular (and addicting) social media games such as Farmville and Restaurant City, gaming developers have found a unique niche for earning some extra cash from Facebook users wanting to add some extra “zazz” to their “farm” or “restaurant” decor. Well, looks like the execs over at Facebook want in on this cash to, because, starting on July 1st, all social media applications are required to have a Facebook credits option for any payments. More »


Verizon has recently confirmed $30 Unlimited Data plan for its iPhone users, the same pricing as AT&T’s before they dropped theirs in June 2010. At that time there wasn’t much anyone could do as there wasn’t any other option than to accept the only iPhone carrier’s decision. More »


The new Digital Storm Enix desktop has come with Intel’s latest Sandy Bridge chipset, a Core i7 2600k processor overclocked to 4.7GHz. It is available starting at $1,132, although it only comes with a Core i3-2100 processor, 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 1TB hard drive, and an NVIDIA 1GB GeForce GT220 graphics card, and also Windows 7 Home Premium. If you want to go for the ultimate alternative with the 4.7GHz one, be ready to spend at least $2,160 on it. More »


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