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Nanodots are small but strongly magnetic balls ideal for playing and building shapes. About 5 mm across, they're incredible tactile and once you start playing with them, it's very hard to stop. They're surprisingly heavy, but great stress relievers. New to the UK, Nanodots come in a range of four colours - original, silver, gold and black - but they're
This is a simple concept - a search engine that returns Google image results for the same search term from countries across the globe. The results are pretty compelling. Be forewarned - you could end up losing a decent amount of time to this site once you get started. This Cultural Difference Image Engine (the site itself lacks explanatory info,
TP-Link had a large stand at The Gadget Show Live with a huge range of different products on show. Switches, ADSL modems, wireless routers, IP cameras, Powerline adaptors; you could easily build a complete home IT infrastructure using only TP-Link products. What caught my eye was a range of portable mini wireless routers, "nano routers", that were smaller than paperback
The National Broadcast Association (NAB) show ran from April 14-April 19 in Las Vegas and Geek News Central was there to cover it. The NAB is a lobbying or advocacy association for America’s broadcaster. It works to advance the interest of radio and television in legislative, regulatory and public affairs. It also works to educate and promote innovation so that broadcasters can
While news reports have been scant, there was a major cosmic event over California and Nevada this past Sunday. A meteor weighing approximately 70 tons rocketed across the sky at a stunning 33,500 mph and exploded in the atmosphere. The meteor sighting was reported by residents of both states and those in California also reported the explosion, which rattled house
Yesterday Sony released word of their new DA5700ES audio-video receiver. The ES is the flagship line from Sony and the latest addition to it doesn't disappoint. The new receiver comes with pretty much every feature a user could possibly think of from great sound quality to enough connectors to power an over-the-top home theater, and it can even be controlled
Whether he knows it or not, Mark Zuckerberg fired the starter’s pistol when he reportedly single-handedly spent more than $1 billion on photo-sharing app Instagram earlier this month. The Facebook CEO apparently cut his board of directors out of the picture and decided unilaterally to purchase the relatively small Instagram for a universally huge sum of $1 billion-plus. Nearly two
There were two article that came across my RSS reading list the past week. The first was an article about a meeting of the NSF Science & Engineering Messengers in New Mexico and the second was an article in the April 23 issue of Ars Technica How Science failed during the Gulf oil disaster . The two articles have one
I think you will find the audio on this on the road show much better than past episodes. Enjoy the show, one more road show and then back in Hawaii for a while. Download the Audio Show File For all the links to the stories referenced in this podcast [Click Here]
Western Digital's TV Live series of media players has been around for a couple of years and they've gained a sizeable following with over 3.5 million devices sold. The 3rd generation WD TV Live has been released recently and Daniel Mauerhofer was kind enough to give me an interview at The Gadget Show Live. The new WD TV Live model
Last week, at the 11th annual NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) show in Las Vegas, Adobe unveiled the CS6 version of Production Premium and Creative Cloud. The official launch is scheduled to take place tomorrow, April 23rd, and Adobe has an event planned to commemorate the occasion. Adobe has planned a live webcast that begins at 10am (Pacific Time) which
To be honest, I'd never heard of JayBird headphones until I came across them on the DAD Audio stand at Gadget Show Live. However, having listened to their pitch, I'd consider a pair for use at the gym or during sport. Why? Because JayBird specialise in headphones and earbuds that are sweat-proof and difficult to dislodge. On show were two Bluetooth
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