Archive for February, 2008
Stovetop Smoker
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I don’t know about you, but I love smoked meat. Smokers give the meat such a great taste, and keep it juicy. Now you can smoke fish, meats, and vegetables right on your stovetop with the Stovetop Smoker. It comes with four types of wood chips for different smoked flavors, but you can use your…
DORmino Mouse Mooches Off Your Hot Laptop
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Laptops give off a lot of heat. And that heat seems to do nothing but ionize into the atmosphere. Here is a concept from Dormino. The Dormino Mouse.
“The DORmino mouse takes all of that wasted heat and uses it to potential a wireless mouse, utilizing silicon nanowires embedded in a pad that s…
H2 Pocket-Size Digital Audio Recorder
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This is Samson Audio’s H2 Digital Audio Recorder. And it will record in surround sound right from your pocket. It has four built in microphones for 360 degree sound recording, allowing you to capture audio in 5.1 surround sound. Perfect for recording live music. SD Cards store everything, and…
Task Force Will Seek Tools to Protect Children Online
A new Net Safety Technical Task Force will be led by the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for World Wide Web & Society. The task force includes World Wide Web businesses, identity-authentication experts, nonprofit organizations, academics and technology companies. Among the members are AOL, A…
More Chinese Dissidents Claim Harm by Yahoo
As whether Microsoft’s takeover bid wasn’t decent, Yahoo now faces two more lawsuits from Chinese dissidents. In November Yahoo settled with the families of journalists Wang Xiaoning and Shi Tao, who were jailed on data provided by Yahoo China.
Zheng Cunzhu and Guo Quan filed the suits in federal c…
Spammers Get Past defense Into Google’s Gmail
When you sign up for an e-mail detail at Google’s Gmail, you have to navigate past a CAPTCHA — squiggly words and letters that need to be typed into a box to prove you’re human and not an automated system looking to send spam. But in the war against spammers, CAPTCHAs are not holding up well and th…
Nokia Retains Lead as Mobile-Phone Sales Soar
Worldwide sales of mobile phones skyrocketed to 1.5 billion in 2007, according to research firm Gartner, a 16 percent increase from 2006 sales of 990.9 million. Sales at the end of the year matched a trend that has demand spiking in the fourth quarter. Fourth-quarter sales reached 330 million.
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