Monthly Archives: February 2010

While the yellow submarine pictured below doesn’t get marks for pretty looks, put it in the water and the miniature submarine makes up with performance. It’s a powerful remote control beast which also boasts an onboard camera. While it’s not … Continue reading →

Back in the early 1900s, Fritz von Opel, grandson of Opel founder Adam Opel, was enamored with rocket propulsion. As the company’s director of testing and the man in charge (of) publicity, Opel had quite an outlet to fulfill his … Continue reading →

If you’re unhappily married, you might as well be single: At least if your goal in life is to have it all end via a fatal stroke. It’s just a meeting abstract with an accompanying press release, but the results … Continue reading →

Sony has launched its first range of TVs in the UK with an integrated Freeview HD tuner. The new Sony Bravia Monolithic range comes with a Freeview HD Tuners integrated, online access to You Tube and Sony’s Internet Video Wide … Continue reading →

A classified review of the United States Secret Service’s computer technology found that the agency’s computers were fully operational only 60 percent of the time because of outdated systems and a reliance on a computer mainframe that dates to the … Continue reading →

A critical cog in the machinery that drives the theory of global warming is a small white box not too far from where you live. Inside the box sits a thermometer that tracks the local temperature, which in turn becomes … Continue reading →

Well, it didn’t exactly seem like these were nearing an imminent release when they were introduced earlier this month, but Corsair has now pulled a pleasant surprise and announced that its new Nova and Reactor SSD drives are available right … Continue reading →

On Wednesday, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based start-up introduced the Bloom Energy fuel cell, which is designed to be stacked into small blocks and housed in a unit about the size of a refrigerator and sold as an alternative to electricity from … Continue reading →

The round steel object, with a 7.5-meter diameter and with the number 02728 on it, that fell from the sky in Buren soum of Tuv province on February 19 was most possibly a dead satellite, according to experts in the … Continue reading →

A California start-up launched a TigerText iPhone application that lets people kill embarrassing text messages after they have been sent out. Tigertext.com for the iPhone is a text message trail-covering application and versions are to be available by the end … Continue reading →

Google on Saturday quickly activated an online “person finder” tool to allow relatives and friends to find loved ones following the huge earthquake in Chile. The “Person Finder: Chile Earthquake” from the California-based Internet giant is located at Chilepersonfinder.appspot.com and … Continue reading →

With a veritable wealth of video games in existence, one doesn’t often spare a thought to those that didn’t quite make it, but a recent interview with game developer David Jaffe provides some insight into what could have been a … Continue reading →

The presence of one of the world’s pre-eminent environmentalists at Apple’s shareholder meeting Thursday was the subject of much of the morning’s pointed discussion. As expected, Apple’s attitude on environmental and sustainability issues was one of the main concerns of … Continue reading →

“The ultimate all-in-one. Now with the ultimate display…Faster processors…Faster Graphics…” Apple’s description of its new iMac, first released in October make it sound like every computer user’s dream machine. Unfortunately, that dream fast became a nightmare, when iMac purchasers discovered … Continue reading →

Typically, natural disasters come with little advance notice. But after a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile early Saturday, much of the Pacific coast, including Hawaii, came under tsunami watch over the course of the day. That makes this was one … Continue reading →