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Really cool mobile phone add ons that replace the existing SIM card with an external board containing a SIM card and other circuitry such as tilt sensors etc Best bit is the price at $39. Maybe use one as a remote door lock device / intruder detector
I have decided to evangelise the companies on where I get good service. Todays two shining examples are Samsung and Cambridge Building Society both experiences are after bad service from other companies. I recently purchased a Samsung ML-1510 laser printer ( after the dire service and costs associated with the Epson C80 and trying to […]
What a great expression by Michael Dell : ‘We acquire our competitors one customer at a time.’ Should be emblazoned on every chairmans door!
An awesome tool created by Katharina Nussbaumer in Austria from an idea by Armin. It generates unusual visual images incorporating the text you have typed in. Ideal for producing business cards in my opinion. Especially since it uses the text to search Google Images for suitable photos to play about with. Ideal for those unusual […]
These guys have to be joking. stufffing loudspeakers into 4″ soil pipe and painting them red! and best of all flogging them for over $2000. OK, I’m off to the plumbers merchants now to buy some of these T pieces
Wonderful series of pictures off a ride powered by helium balloons – very serene and scary . Link taken from slash dot at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/02/1616258&from=rss
Interesting article on storing patient data etc her CHIME Events I like this “Health Records controlled by the patient may be the way forward, sidestepping some intractable issues around consent and confidentiality” which is central to the scheme Ihave been thinking about. Imagine having all your medical data stored in a USB key so you […]
Here is an article on the energy source of the future Physics Today December 2004- The Hydrogen Economy also what my friend Andy at www.huzarpower.com is kinda proposing for his flash external combustion engines.
A lesson in breast stroke – never realized importance of not moving and keeping the elbows flush with water surface – will try this later today