Koloroo Come Up With a Pair of Widgets for Your iPod
Two gadgets for your iPod from newbies Koloroo. The $4.99 TipKalc can work out how much you need to leave for that nice waiter who spat in your soup after you complained it was cold (my tip for that is a fat zero and a slap in the chops). It can also calculate how to…
Plustek D28 Office Scanner: Small, Fast, Comes with Free Spectacles
Plustek’s high-speed compact scanner looks quite a cutie, but beneath that slight exterior lies a capable machine. Weighing in at 960g, it can scan a sheet of A4 paper in 2.2 seconds, as well as plasticized stuff – card up to 1.2mm thick, driving licenses, ID cards, embossed cards. You can customize it (you can…
Chapit Domestic Robot: Looks ‘Armless, May Deny you Your Greatest Pleasures
I don’t want to bust a robot’s balls on his first day in civilization, but the Chapit could be removing one of the greatest pleasures that we gadget monkeys have – namely, turning our gizmos on and off. The sensation I get from sticking my finger on the ‘Power’ putton and applying gentle pressure makes…
CeBIT ’07 Mod Contest Demonstrates Some People Have Way Too Much Free Time
Hello, I am a PC. Really, I am. I mean, if I were a Mac, I would probably be a New York cheesecake. With a T-shirt. Or a black turtleneck. Actually, this… thing is one of the entries for the PC case-mod contest celebrated at the World Cyber Games event, in CeBIT 2007. Weird stuff…