Optimus Maximus gets price and date

A customizable keyboard worth $ 1500 coming to town.. It's $1536 to be precise, and that is the year Shakespeare was born. What's so special about the keyboard? Well, it's customizable and can change language and work with many apps with OLED display on the keys.
Check out the Keyboard here
Watch the demo at this location here

How fast are you with the Keyboard ??

Check it our for yourself here. Know your speed in WPM and race with others too.

How to make a WiFi booster for free

Knight Armour redux, invented by Troy Hurtubise for just $2000 apiece

This armored suit called the Trojan has withstood knives, bullets, light explosives, clubs, and even a round from an elephant gun, it sounds like quite the winner. Proclaimed to be the "first ballistic, full exoskeleton body suit of armor," Trojan is crafted from high-impact plastic lined with ceramic bullet protection over ballistic foam, and features nearly endless compartments, morphine / salt containers, knife and gun holsters, emergency lights, a built-in recording device, pepper spray, ingestible transponder for those "last resort" scenarios, and there's even a fresh air system powered by solar panels within the helmet. Mr. Hurtubise claims the 18 kilograms (40 pounds) suit is comfortable enough to make road trips in (yes, he tried it), and if any major military would take him up on it, they could reportedly be produced for "around $2,000 apiece." Now that's a bargain, folks. Check out more here
and part II here

Honda to Showcase Walking Assist Device

Too tired to walk? Don't despair. Honda is set to showcase an experimental model of a walking assist device which could support walking for the elderly and other people with atrophied (weakened) leg muscles, at BARRIER FREE 2008 to be held at Intex Osaka, from 25th to 27th April, 2008. Not long before you can have one of these and take your regular 10 mile walks between meals. ;)

Interactive Hologram responds to gestures

Ok, so we are looking into the future. Reminds me of the Startrek type holographic Televisions. Watch the Vid to see how it responds to gestures.

Space Debris, someone take the garbage out..

Between the launch of Sputnik on 4 October 1957 and 1 January 2008, approximately 4600 launches have placed some 6000 satellites into orbit, of which about 400 are travelling beyond geostationary orbit or on interplanetary trajectories.

Today, it is estimated that only 800 satellites are operational - roughly 45 percent of these are both in LEO and GEO. Read on here

Bohemian Rhapsody by various artists, almost

Lose a point, lose your head !!!!!

Its been ages since John McEnroe 's antics on the court. But John mostly lost his shirt, this Youzhny here is losing his head, literally.

First watch running on Windows Mobile 5 engine

Epoq, which has already had a video watch on the market for some time, has developed what is believed to be the first wristwatch running Windows Mobile 5. Its EGP-WP98B claims to have an OLED touchscreen, 1.28GB of memory, Wi-Fi networking, Bluetooth, VoIP support, and--get this--handwriting recognition. And a faux alligator wristband, of course. But as Mobile Magazine says, it might be a tad difficult to get full use out of Windows on a 1.4-inch display. Check it out here

GOOG in relief rally after strong 1Q showing

GOOG stock jumped $74 or 17% after healthy Q1 earning show and this might well be the highest 1 day rally in the history of their stock since they went public in 2004.
Good show GOOG.

Scary MS Vista Vid - a spoof???

The chorus goes a little something like this:

"If they have been waiting / No more hesitating / When they see the improvements in security / The desktop and mobility and productivity / They'll say 'Vista gotta get me some'"

A Microsoft spokesperson told ChannelWeb the video is a joke, and was developed as a way for its sales team to "poke fun at themselves a bit."

We hear you MS, loud and clear.

Stephen Hawkins speaketh...

Throw away Mobiles @ $20 sans LCD

Alvin Toffler's prediction of a throw away society is here to stay. Hop-on, Inc. of USA announced today that its low end GSM cell phone with no LCD screen was a big success during CTIA meetings in Las Vegas, resulting in an initial test purchase order of 10,000 phones fro Europe markets.

Peter Michaels, President of Hop-on stated, "During our meetings with distributors in Vegas the response to our simple, inexpensive, $20 phone was phenomenal. The initial test purchase order with multiple purchase orders behind it is a big step in introducing Hop-on to Europe."Read on here

Wind Mill Redux

AeroVironment, Inc.: Media Player: Winds of Change Video

Remember how there used to be small homegrown windmills in farmhouses in the last century. They are coming back, with mighty leaps in technology, and are set to adorn your high rise.
The "Architectural Wind® Building-Integrated Energy Generation System" - a system by AeroVironment Inc. which takes a new approach to harnessing wind power using low-profile turbines designed to maximize electricity generation by taking advantage of the way wind flows over certain types of buildings. This small, modular wind turbine system designed for installation on buildings in urban and suburban areas. By eliminating the support tower, reducing noise and vibration, and creating a sleek and adaptable, modular housing that installs quickly and easily onto buildings, without penetrating the roof, AV defines a new category of wind energy systems that adds value to buildings and demonstrates clean energy at work.

With a sleek, color-matched series of specially designed, highly efficient and low profile wind turbines, property owners can integrate Architectural Wind™ systems easily into new and existing buildings. Read on here

Charge anywhere, POS solution for your mobile

You will soon be able to process credit transactions from your smart phone, however, Comstar, the solution provider will need to know more about you to get started. If you fill out the form on their website and submit the information requested , you will then receive an email requesting your processor account information which you can obtain from your merchant service provider. Want to try it out, visit their sign-up page here

Microsoft Users Rallying To Keep Windows XP

Users are drumming up petitions, blog posts, and Web sites aimed at trying to convince Microsoft to continue support for Windows XP, which Microsoft plans to discontinue on new computers beginning June 30. Read on here

Salesforce ties up with Google Apps

Read on here and maybe you want to watch the product tour vid below.

Catch the print version of the Times of India publications, online

Ever wanted to catch up with the news online but miss the print version. Here is a good place to catch up with the' online' print version of the Times of India publications...check it our here

Apple's Safari browser for Windows comes out of Beta..

Last year, Apple had raised a few eyebrows when it launched a beta version of its Safari internet browser for the Windows platform. The browser was considered to be one of the best in the world but had previously been available only on the Mac OS platform.

What Safari brought to the table was a very cool interface and well, a very decent dose of speed. There were some murmurs about its stability, but then it was supposed to be a beta.

Well, the beta tag came off a few days ago as Apple launched its first ‘proper’ version of Safari, version 3.1. Read on here

First living thing was not sponge..

Earth's first animal was the ocean-drifting comb jelly, not the simple sponge, according to a new find that has shocked scientists who didn't imagine the earliest critter could be so complex.

The mystery of the first animal denizen of the planet can only be inferred from fossils and by studying related animals today.

Now Locate Stolen Notebooks, thanks to Micro Technologies

Mumbai based Micro Technologies Ltd has made announcement about the launching of India’s first laptop tracking system, which will locate stolen laptop computers.

The newly launched software known as “Micro LNTS” (Lost Notebook Tracking System) can be installed on notebook hard drives where it subsequently works in stealth mode.

In case of theft, it permits systems to be tracked as soon as they are connected to the World Wide Wed (WWW). The users can log into their Web-based personal tracking and monitoring page via www.microlnts.net in order to trace from where the laptop has been accessed. Read on here

Nokia announces an iPhone contender..the Tube

Nokia is gearing up to follow the leader and position its new phone Nokia Tube 5800. With the same look, size and shape of the iPhone, the Nokia Tube packs along a 3.1 MP camera, quad-band (850/900/1800/1900Mhz) GSM/EDGE radio with 3G UMTS/HSDPA and TV-Out port for a wide-screen view. The touchscreen phone supports Bluetooth, WiFi connectivity teamed up with GPS and 3.2 inch touchscreen display with 16 Million colors. Read on here

LHC to unlock secrets of big bang

Scientists are all set to unlock the secrets of exactly how the universe began by using one of the world's largest and most expensive science machines -- the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

They will utilize it to recreate the conditions that existed just a fraction of a second after the big bang, that is the birth of universe, by smashing pieces of atoms together at high speed.

The 4.4 billion pounds new particle accelerator, which is buried 300 ft beneath the alpine foothills along the Swiss French border, is 17 miles long and up to 12 stories high. It can generate temperatures of a trillion degrees centigrade. Read in here and here..

The 'Grid', 10,000 times faster than the net is on its way

The birthplace of the Web, Cern, which is based near Geneva, is now busy working on "the grid" that boasts speeds nearly 10,000 times faster than a typical Broadband connection, and that may soon render the Web obsolete.

The grid computing project was started around seven years ago by researchers at Cern. They claim "the grid" is so fast it is capable of sending the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds. Read on here