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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 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.