Archive for February, 2010

Eye-control headphones clearly the best invention of Mobile World Congress

Leave it to the Japanese. I’ve speculated before about what kind of creative sensors you could load in to a mobile device. How about headphones that pick up the tiny electrical impulses emitted by your facial muscles when you move your eyes? Here is a live demo of a Docomo volunteer controlling a cell phone [...]

Why and how to ditch your slow-ass hard drive for an SSD

The setup: Putting it to the test: The Results: SSD are the single best upgrade you can give your computer. This one a Runcore device is even compatible with older 1.8″ PATA drive systems found in common ultra portables like my Dell D430 or the Macbook Air. Remember when Apple was trying to sell SSD [...]

Why it’s Google that needs a Twitter too, more than twitterers need some new g-twitteroo

So what’s the deal with this new Google buzz thing. Google’s core premise is the googlerank, that uncanny linking metric that derives all its notions of web page authority from what other pages and links of authority link to such pages. But, these days, with 90% at best of pages and links on the world [...]

Forget the SuperBowl, the America’s Cup is on

Tonight, right now is the eve of the 33rd America’s Cup. Now two years late, this race is a culmination of 2 years of legal battles between Larry Ellison and Ernesto Bertarelli over the rules, venue, boats and every other aspect you can imagine. What it’s resulted in however is something spectacular for sailing and [...]