Archive for: May 19, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Not fairly certain what’s up with the recent influx of bicycle-related DIY jobs, but nevertheless, we’ve another one on our hands here with Mike’s Flying Bike. Essentially, Mike utilized a SunSPOT as well as a plethora of other sensors in order to modify his mountain bike …

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Gadgets

IE7Pro is a must have add on for Internet Explorer which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier more useful secure and customizable With IE7pro you may switch proxy set agent identification block ads and flash apply super drag drop refresh tab automatically recover session crash manage tab history view page information save image files quickly and more
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Changes in IE7Pro v2 3 RC2
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3 MiniDM https support button support vista now

There’s a lot of homebrew games and applications coming out for the Apple iPhone lately, and really, we aren’t complaining - most games and apps are useful and entertaining. We’ve come across another game for the iPhone made by Brooke, and it brings loads of fun and nostalgia. Pieces, currently on v…

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Apple

Look out! The world’s ugliest UMPCs are all getting the SSD treatment, or so it seems. Just five days after Raon Digital added a 32GB solid state drive option for its Everun S32S Dic, WiBrain has introduced a SSD-equipped B1. Starting nowadays, users can seize one of these devices with an 8GB, 1…

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Handhelds

After careful deliberation, we can only assume Vosonic’s VP5700 is some profile of portable media player, but considering just how unsightly it is, the actual nomenclature is probably a non-issue. Nevertheless, that unit features a 3.5-inch display, way too much plastic, a weird looking control …

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Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video

The primary season hasn’t ended, but Democrats have already begun the online battle against Republican presidential nominee John McCain with the launch of McCainpedia. The site is a wiki about McCain, but it’s funded by the Democratic National Committee. The goal? To “centralize research fabric, all…

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Web

Google has launched its personal health portal, Google Health. It’s a clear and straightforward hub where users can store their medical info, and look up data on conditions and medications relevant to them. See the video for the pitch from product manager Roni Zeiger, a physician who left his pra…

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Web

We’re not precisely hurting for wireless, USB-sharing options right about now, but when it comes to devices that let us yank another cable from our desk, we’re all for a bit of excess. that latest one comes to us from IOGEAR, which opted for the sharing-over-network method with its new Net Sha…

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Networking, Peripherals

Before faraway, hardware-laden undergarments will be a necessity in life. After all, we’ve already seen underwear that fends off cellphone radiation, and now Philips is looking to create a pair that actually monitors one’s blood pressure continually. A recent patent application from the firm det…

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Gadgets, Wearables

When photo journalist John McDermott covers a World Cup Soccer event, he can capture more than 1,000 images a day. And since his editor needs his best shots the very same day, McDermott needs to edit his photos even more quickly than he took them. Watch the video now playing on the Aperture site and…

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Apple

Apparently not one to let a tacky trend pass him by, Bill Gates has commissioned 100 mother of pearl-clad Xbox 360s to be used as additional special gifts, the first of which was given to South Korean President Lee Myung-bak earlier that month, prompting a response that we can only assume to b…

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Gadgets, Gaming

Google - now with more ads!

Google Image Search will soon produce picture-based ads, Google announced Monday. Just as web searches from Google.com produce text advertisements on the right-hand side of the results page, ads will also be incorporated into Image search results.

There is a "direct connection" between image search and commerce, R.J. Pittman, product management director, said at an event held at Google's Mountain View headquarters. "If we can align the nature of the images from the advertisers with the nature of the images from Image Search, it will help users find more of what they're looking for. You'll see that these renderings show a fairly seamless user experience rather than just a stack of ads across the top."

No word on when the ads will debut, but while I was checking Image Search this morning to see if the ads were showing up yet, I found a nice little way to waste time.

Google Image Labeler is a game of sorts that consists of nothing more than looking at images and suggesting possible keywords, but Google pits you against other users and alerts you when you've matched on certain terms, making it oddly addictive. It actually launched back in 2006, but I only just stumbled on it.

Even more bizarre are the actual images Google presents. My first picture, for example, was a romance novel-esque drawing of two naked women massaging a bulldog on a bed. No joke (see below). Google will alert you to obvious word that are "off limits" as suggested keywords (like "naked" for the dog lady photo) but then you'll have two minutes to suggest as many keywords as ...