On Friday morning, owners of the Amazon Kindle e-book reader (only available in the US at the moment) woke up to discover Amazon had effectively walked into their living rooms, picked up their copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from the coffee table and left a cheque to the value of the books in their place.
It would appear an ...
Fancy some beans on toast for lunch at work but don't have a microwave and the canteen "don't do pov food"? Or maybe your cup of coffee has gone cold and you wish you could quickly zap is in the microwave, but alas, that thing would look silly on your desk and never pass the company "electrical compliance test" anyway.
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The name Alexey Pajitnov may not ring any bells, but his simple, colourful and maddeningly addictive game Tetris certainly will. Tetris turns 25 today; happy birthday Tetris.
It's quite amazing how such a simple game can be so addictive, so well recognized and available on soooo many different platforms from arcade machines to mobile phones. I don't think any other ...
Check it out, this week's EuroMillion's jackpot is sitting at a whopping £110 000 000!!! Yes, £110 MILLION!!!
Think about it, if you were incredibly lazy and just bunged the £110 million into a bog-standard savings account offering a measly 2% interest (you wouldn't do this as you'd then become the owner of your bank and you'd make more money ...
The UK government has announced that they'll give me up to £5000 towards my first electric or hybrid vehicle sometime in 2011. Very nice. Thank-you very much.
Of course, if I'm going to go green, I want to be sure it's 100% leccy and the only leccy car to go for is the Tesla Roadster (the red one) with its ...
Ever thought what would happen if you took a bit of Segway genius and mixed it with some of GM's desire to be green? No? Neither did I, but someone obviously did and come up with the P.U.M.A - Personal
Urban Mobility & Accessibility - prototype.
As you can see, it's essentially a 2 person Segway that goes further (up ...
Feeling particularly flush with the cash? Love me long time? Think I'm just a nice all round kind of guy? Well then feel free to show your appreciation by buying me one of these babies...
If you're impressed and want to send one my way, they're for sale at ThinkGeek for the tiny sum of $1589.99.
Warning: this is a bit of a technical post, but not quite technical enough for the hardcore (as they're all likely to have seen it on The Register already), but may be useful to those looking at getting a laptop/netbook/ultrathin/ultraportable/handheld computer, or those who've already got one and wish to categorise it correctly.
Thanks to the wonderful world of computing, ...
Yesterday I had the privilege of taking full advantage of one of the "training days" being offered to us at work. It's a whole day dedicated to doing online training courses but with a commute as long as it takes you to get from the bed to the computer, if you even need to get out of bed that is. ...
A British inventor has finally proven that the dream of a flying car really isn't as elusive as some would like to think, and you don't need millions and millions of cash to do it either.
He's basically taken an off-road racing buggy, stuck in a superbike engineer, strapped on a parachute and a jolly great big fan and in ...
