iPad Comparison

The popularity of tablets cannot be denied. This infographic compares Apple's three tablet offerings: the original iPad, the iPad 2, and the New iPad. Find out more about the typical iPad and tablet user, and which one is right for you. Also interesting are the amazing initial figures from sales of the New iPad.

Microsoft Unveils A New Logo

This week, Microsoft unveiled a new corporate logo, its first logo redesign since 1987. The logo has two components: the logotype and the symbol. For the logotype, Microsoft is using the Segoe font which is the same font they use in their products as well as their marketing communications.

The BikeCharge Dynamo Lets You Juice Up Your Devices While You Cycle

This is definitely one of the greenest ways to get around the neighborhood, where you not only save money as you do not burn precious fossil fuel, you also get to enjoy a decent workout in the process.

With the BikeCharge Dynamo installed onto your bicycle, this mounted DC generator is said to be compatible with majority of the smartphone brands out there, and a full charge would more or less require approximately 2 to 3 hours of pedaling.

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Top 10 Ways To Boost Your Home Wi-Fi

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Wi-Fi is one of the most useful and important parts of using a computer, and yet it's also one of the most frustrating. If you're plagued by slow speeds, bad reception, and other Wi-Fi issues, here are 10 ways you can power up the Wi-Fi in your home.

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Do We Have Milk?

We've all been there. You pour a bowl of cereal, or a cup of coffee. Go to the fridge. No milk. Or maybe you're already at the grocery store in the dairy aisle and wonder, 'How much milk do I have left at home?' What if you could take a peek into your fridge anytime, anywhere? What if you could get an alert on your phone reminding you to get milk while using your current location to map nearby grocery stores?



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Microsoft To Drop 'Metro' Name For Windows 8

A potential trademark dispute has forced Microsoft to drop the Metro name for Windows 8's blocky, tile-based interface. Talks with an 'important European partner' have brought about the change according to internal memos seen by tech news site The Verge.

The partner is believed to be German retail giant Metro AG. Microsoft is currently working out what to call the interface and said the new name would be announced soon.

The Radome - Amazing Hi-Tech Radar Umbrella

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They look as if they might be home to families of extra-terrestrials recently arrived on Earth from some sort of galactic cataclysm - and they are everywhere and increasing in number.

Yet there is no need to call in the Air Force just yet if you spot one of these on your travels. Your average radome may look like it is from a science fiction novel but its real purpose is much more down to earth: it is a kind of umbrella.

Rare Pixar Computer Selling On eBay for $25,000

There are less than 2 days left to drop $25,000 on a rare Pixar Image Computer, which cropped up on eBay this weekend. The 'museum-quality historical artifact,' which was originally developed in the 1980s by Lucasfilm's computer division, carries a hefty price tag, but costs $105,000 less than its original sale price.

The tombstone-modeled matching monitor and tower, engraved with the Pixar logo, was made commercially available in 1986, when Steve Jobs bought the company. But regular consumers weren't expected to plunk down $135,000 for the machine - it was intended for high-end visualization markets like medicine, geophysics, and meteorology.

Creepy Robot Will Be Your Kiss Messenger

Long distance relationships just got a little easier, or a little odder, depending on your feelings about a make-out session with 'Kissinger.' The part kissing-, part messenger-, part blob-creature - created by Lovotics - lets users send virtual interactive kisses.

The lips are made up of pressure sensors and motors which take an imprint of your kissing style. The lips then wirelessly transmit the kiss, in real time, to your significant other, reproducing the same motions and movements your mouth made on the robot.