Tab Candy To Give Expose-like Powers To Future Firefox Builds
If you’ve been tormented by workspaces having too many tabs or just want to navigate those tabs in a more efficient manner, the solution to your woes is at hand, almost.
HP Prefers webOS Over Windows 7 For Its Smartphones
HP Personal Systems Group VP Todd Bradley confirmed to CNBC on Friday that webOS wins out over Windows 7 for the tech giant’s upcoming line of smartphones.
University Brings Down The Hammer On The Motorized Couch
Decades from now in the far off green future we’re currently struggling to reach, statues of Nicholas Homer will adorn state parks and public spaces. Or not.
The college student best known for his motorized couch has just been banned by Brigham Young University from using it to move around campus. The student was motivated to build the motorized couch so he can pick up burgers and willing females with utmost convenience.
Alternate History: The PC Circa 1960
In case you didn’t know, there weren’t any PCs in the 60s. People in offices then went about work with typewriters and pens and all sorts of archaic artifacts.
Despite this fact, it didn’t stop Jeffrey Stephenson from taking up the challenge of building a functional PC for the 60s. He even went so far as to ask, “What if IBM had invented the PC 20 years earlier?”
From India, The World’s Cheapest Tablet
Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal had good reason to be smiling last Thursday when he presented the world’s cheapest tablets during a press conference.
The still unbranded prototypes, of which Sibal showed three designs in the conference, were developed by the IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) together with the Indian Institute of Science (IISC).
Boxman Is a Solar-Powered Party in a Box
If you truly want to be hip these days, you not only throw parties in style. You also need to celebrate in an eco-friendly way. Boxman Studios caters to both of those ideas by turning old shipping containers into swanky, “green” party spaces.
The Boxman certainly looks stylish, with a marble countertop bar and recessed atmosphere lighting. It uses bamboo flooring and every outlet is powered by solar panels for minimal environmental impact.
Autonomous Vans from Italy Set Sights on China
Four bright orange vans decked out with enough hardware to impress the Autobots will travel from Parma, Italy all the way to China beginning this week.
As an epic experiment in autonomous driving from a team of Italian engineers led by Alberto Broggi, the journey is supposed to reveal the perils faced by attempts of non-human driven cars across vast distances
GK Vessa Camo Sunglasses are Shades on Steroids
Whoever designed its color scheme may have been watching too many war movies. But you must agree that the features crammed into the new GK Vessa 313Camo sunglasses are really impressive.
It has 4GB of storage space, a built-in MP3 player plus a 1.5 megapixel cam for photo/video indulgence. Oh, and it keeps the sun from hurting your eyes—these are still sunglasses, right? The only thing missing is WiFi connectivity.
StressEraser Helps You Calm Down, Avoid Strokes
Are the walls closing in? Veins bulging on your forehead? Instead of taking some aspirin or some over-the-counter concoction, whip out the sleek silvery StressEraser Portable BioFeedback Device and just slide your finger to get your heart rate instantly.
The Budget Tool Gives a Cold Hard Reality Check on Your Money Situation
Designer Hampus Edstrom created The Budget Tool, a device that measures a person’s financial status using 3 dimensional cubes. It works by inputing data on the PDA screen that calculates and transmits to the corresponding box whose cubes form solid, physical graphs indicating income minus expenditures.
The design is very minimalistic (which is characteristic of Scandinavian design) with no colors, no text – just rising and falling bars.
Last Chance To Win A Speck iPad Case
Just a quick reminder to all our readers, there are just over 24 hours to enter this weeks Geeky Gadgets giveaway. This week we are giving away two speck iPad cases, one each to two lucky winner.
The contest is completely free to enter and open to Geeky Gadgets readers from anywhere in the world, just follow the instruction over at the contest entry page from the link below.
Onkyo Offers World’s First 3D Ready THX Certified Home Theater System
Onkyo is huge in the home theater market, the company has offered up what it claims to be the world’s first 3D ready, and THX certified home theater system called the HT-S9300THX. The system is a home theater in a box set up with all the speakers and the amp needed.
The receiver has four HDMI 1.4a inputs that are ready for 3D content. The device can upscale video from any source to 1080p. Other features of the amp include lossless Dolby and DTS high definition audio processing and more.
