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USB credit card launched in South Korea USB credit card launched in South Korea Shinhan Card, a South Korean company, unveiled a new kind of credit card yesterday. A USB credit card. It functions as a contactless credit card in stores. To use it online, you just insert it into your USB port. It enters your credit card information for you. Added on Dec 28, 2007 Panasonic intros world thinnest  [ Read More ]

Nintendo of Australia makes one little girl’s Christmas extra-special Everyone likes an uplifting story during the holidays, don’t they? Heck, we like to read or hear about them any chance we get. And this story is no different, as one little girl in Australia suffering from arthrogryposis, a degenerative muscle disease, recently got a wonderful gift fromNintendo. Supercharge Your Scheduling with GCal There’s no better time to develop your scheduling  [ Read More ]

Apple To Lower iTunes TV Prices? Technology website gizmodo.com is reporting today that Apple is pushing TV networks for a lower episode price of $.99. Currently, TV episodes on iTunes are $1.99, a price that hasn’t changed since Apple began offering television downloads. According to the article there’s no word if the networks would accept such a deep cut into they’re iTunes profits, but the articles [...]

Google Makes Advances In Online ApplicationsYesterday, Google made ‘Google Gears’ available for open beta testing. An open source browser extension, Google Gears lets users access online applications even when they’re not connected to the net. Currently, Google Gears works with Google Reader, Google’s RSS feed aggregator, and will presumably soon work with Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Gmail. Google Gears tackles [...] Surf Anonymously With TORSometimes there are legitimate reasons you  [ Read More ]

Wind-Up Toys Help the RainforestsChico Bicalho has created these spiffy wind-ups for your desktop. Chico’s and artist and designer who also works hard planting trees in the South Atlantic tropical rain forests. You can support him by buying one of his wind-up toys. Part of the money goes to fund planting trees and the rest keeps him going. And the toys, they’re [...]

Flying boat? The one thousand and one question that comes into my mind is “Why do you need a boat that flies? Isn’t it a boat supposed to sail on water?”. Whether you like it or not, New Zealand inventor Rudy Heeman has created a flying boat that basically flies at a level of 1.5m above water instead of sailing on the water. The guy spent about 800 hours in  [ Read More ]

Facebook is so last year – welcome to the hit websites of 2008 For many in the dotcom world, 2007 was dominated by one story: the rise of Facebook. The success of the social networking service has increased optimism about the internet industry. After all, if Microsoft is prepared to buy a 1.6% share for $240m ( 121m), there is evidence that good ideas can be worth a lot of  [ Read More ]

I was on the internet today for the whole day and I came across a few good blogs that I’d like to mention here . Fantasy Be Real is a blog totally about science fiction books and is actually reviewed by bloggers from around the world. This is a very good site for those who would like to read the review on the latest science fiction book, movie or even  [ Read More ]

Yes, the need for speed! It’s no joke. A remote controlled car isn’t kid’s matter anymore! This gas-powered RC car can reach speeds of 60MPH. Such a high-speed toy seems to be inappropriate to classify it as a toy or perhaps it would be more appropriate for you instead of for your kids. To control such as a high-speed RC car surely needs some skills or at least with firm  [ Read More ]

Pakistan’s Bhutto assassinated in gun, bomb attack Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto waves as she leaves a rally in the city of Rawalpindi in this TV grab December 27, 2007, shortly before she was killed in a gun and bomb attack. (REUTERS/Reuters TV) Email|Print| Text size – + By Augustine Anthony December 27, 2007 RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on Thursday as she left  [ Read More ]