If you are, take the wrist ball (a.k.a. power/strength ball) for a spin to prove your mettle. How does it work? Just attach and pull the red cord, and rotate the little gadget in your hand as fast as you can. The faster you spin it, the heavier it will seem in your hand and… Read More »
The rise in gadget popularity has prompted the invention of words such as technosexual and Crackberry. This article from The Sydney Morning Herald discusses what gadgets really say about the people that own them. Wonder what it would have said about owners of Jesus phone or Superman phone. Technorati Tags: Sydney Morning Herald gadgets Crackberry… Read More »
If ever there is an inappropriate item for business travellers, this must be it: a clock that looks like a bomb. Made by Banpresto (you’ve guessed right, a Japanese firm), it is called “Danger Bomb Clock” but fortunately doesn’t cost a bomb. Instead, it wakes you up with a ticking noise and a flashing light.… Read More »
WLL – that’s the acronymn for a favourite Singaporean expression: wait long long (or dang gu gu in Hokkien). ANALysts have been harping about converged devices for as long as I can remember, many of them focusing on how devices will converge – PDA and mobile phone; mobile phone and MP3 player; mobile phone and… Read More »
Before you dismiss this hilarious Groen Brothers video as a silly joke, it’s worth noting that someone has already filed a patent for a mobile phone application (“wireless communication device with integrated defibrillator“) that could enable a mobile phone to deliver an electrical charge to someone’s heart in an emergency situation. However, the safety of… Read More »
Apparently CrackBerry addicts have a difficult choice to make in life. According to a post on Gulliver, Economist’s business-travel blog, 35% of BlackBerry users who responded to a survey conducted for Sheraton Hotels & Resorts “would pick their BlackBerry over their significant other if they absolutely had to choose one to live without”. More worryingly:… Read More »