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 Blu-ray Disc drive

Panasonic intros world thinnest Blu-ray Disc drive Panasonic today announced the development of world thinnest (9.5 mm height) internal Blu-ray drives. The firm made such a thin drive by using couple of exclusive technologies such as spherical aberration compensation mechanism, 2-lens actuator, low-profile and an optimized optical design for CD, DVD and Blu-ray disc laser. Added on Dec 28, 2007

Water Powered Calculator Blows My Mind

Water Powered Calculator Blows My Mind How many of you hate changing the battery in your calculator? I know that I would, were they not as a majority, solar-powered. Apparently someone has decided that light is a resource that we are using up far too quickly, and thus designed a calculator that runs off of water. Added on Dec 28, 2007

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 habit than the start of a new year, and few tools are as easy to pick up and get productive with as Google Calendar. [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 Applications
Yesterday, 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 TOR
Sometimes there are legitimate reasons you want to keep your surfing private which don’t involve nefarious activities or pornography. Maybe you’re shopping online while at your favorite coffee shop while surrounded by twenty-something cyberpunks’ with Linux laptops. Or perhaps you work with government or corporate information that must remain secure when transmitted over the Internet. [...]

Wind-Up Toys Help the Rainforests
Chico 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 building this flying vehicle boat. And he’s been recklessly testing this flying vehicle boat. Anyway, this flying boat or vehicle doesn’t need you to have a pilot’s license to fly it , as it can’t rise above what’s called “ground effect” and is considered to be a maritime craft and falls under maritime law. That’s why it should be called a flying boat, and also it uses an air cushion which relies on water. The best is it definitely lets you travel in much higher speed than the boat that sails on water, as this flying boat can reach a speed of 98kmh.

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 money. It is no surprise then that investors are looking for the next big thing - and these are some of thefavourites.

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 article.

BabyOpus is a blog by a nutritionist that writes her daily journal on how to keep her baby healthy and happy. This is more of an info blog for those who are expecting and parents alike.

The Wishfull Thinker is a news blog that gathers news from around the world. this blog is updated nearly every hour with the latest news on everything you wanted to know even gossips about celebrities.

 Try out these blogs today. From the owners of the blogs I found out that these blogs have a dofollow relation and will pass PR with your comments. So also do comment as much as you want.

I noticed that these blogs are new thus they do not have PR yet but a backlink check shows that they are linked by high PR7 blogs and websites. I think the next PR run would increase their ranks tremendously.

So what are you waiting for start commenting.

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 and steady hands, which I think it’s simply not so easy for kids.

This RC car is a 1 to 5 scale replica of Ford GT. A Ford GT is well known for its speed on the road, which can reach a top speed around 200MPH or more. But this 1 to 5 replica is almost touching one third of the top speed of a real Ford GT. This RC car comes complete with an assembled chassis, 3-Channel FM Radio with built-in Fail-Safe mode. The car also sports 23cc engine, a 450cc fuel tank and a 15kg metal gear ratio. The 2WD and disc brakes make for better stopping. This RC car runs on a mixture of unleaded gasoline and 2-stroke oil.

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 an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi, putting January 8 polls in doubt and sparking anger in her native Sindh province.

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State media and her party confirmed Bhutto’s death from a gun and bomb attack.

“She has been martyred,” said party official Rehman Malik.

Bhutto, 54, died in hospital in Rawalpindi. Ary-One Television said she had been shot in the head.

News of her death brought a swift and angry reaction from supporters in Sindh and its capital, Karachi, where fires were set, shots fired and stones thrown.

“Police in Sindh have been put on red alert,” said a senior police official. “We have increased deployment and are patrolling in all the towns and cities, as there is trouble almost everywhere.”

President Pervez Musharraf condemned “in strongest possible terms the terrorist attack that resulted in the tragic death of Bhutto and many other innocent Pakistanis,” the state news agency said.

“The president convened a high-level emergency meeting … soon after the tragic development.

“He urged the people to stay calm to face this tragedy and grief with a renewed resolve to continue the fight against terror,” the APP news agency said.

HUGE QUESTIONS

The assassination, 13 days before an election which Bhutto had hoped to win, throws up huge questions for this nuclear-armed U.S. ally already struggling to contain Islamist violence.

Musharraf, whose popularity has slumped this year, could decide to postpone the vote and reimpose a state of emergency that was only lifted on December 15 after six weeks.

“It does cast a shadow over the election and it raises some concerns over how the government might deal with any popular reaction to this,” said Jennifer Harbison, head of Asia Desk at Control Risks, London.

“There is the potential that her supporters could take to the streets and that is something that will be difficult for the government to address without at least considering a return to emergency rule.”

Police said a suicide bomber fired shots at Bhutto as she left the rally venue in a park before blowing himself up.

“The man first fired at Bhutto’s vehicle. She ducked and then he blew himself up,” said police officer Mohammad Shahid.

Police said 16 people had been killed in the blast, which occurred during campaigning for the national election. A Bhutto party spokeswoman, Sherry Rehman, was hurt in the attack.

“It is the act of those who want to disintegrate Pakistan because she was a symbol of unity. They have finished the Bhutto family. They are enemies of Pakistan,” senior Bhutto party official Farzana Raja told Reuters.

Bhutto’s father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was Pakistan’s first popularly elected prime minister. He was executed in Rawalpindi in 1979 after being deposed in a military coup.