E-Paper Watch

Japanese company Seiko will release a limited edition of 500 units of their Spectrum SVRD001, the first watch in the world that uses flexible e-paper or Electrophoretic Display (EPD). The design of the watch is similar to a bracelet and the body is made of stainless steel and a black & white e-paper.

It will weigh 134g and will be 37mm thick and cost around Euro 1900. It will be available worldwide in January 2006.

A car that can jump over obstacles

A childlike grin spreads across 76-year-old Amar Bose's face as the vehicle does something most can't: jump over the board, like a cat bounding over a fallen log.

The sedan's experimental, Bose-designed suspension, driven by four electromagnetic motors, had quickly pulled each wheel up, then down.

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The End of Copyright?

"I think we are witnessing the beginning of the end of a major era in world history. It may take fifty years, it may take a hundred, but the age of copyright is drawing to a close. I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it’s inevitable."

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The Whereabouts of Dr. Einstein's Brain

Dr. Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955 at Princeton Hospital in Trenton, New Jersey. In accordance with his wishes, he was cremated without ceremony on the same day, and his ashes scattered at an undisclosed location.

But the body that arrived at the cremation oven was not quite complete… it was lacking its brain.

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Samsung's Laptop-Desktop

Samsung has released the M70, a hybrid PC, with a detachable 19" screen, so you can use your laptop as a desktop too.


It boasts of a 19" WSXGA+ (1680x1050) HDTV compatible screen, Pentium M770 (2.13GHz) CPU, 1Gb of DDR 533MHz RAM, 100Gb HDD, Wireless LAN, alongwith other "usual" stuff. My birthday is around the corner, anyone listening?

Call Conference Using GoogleTalk

Within days of release of Google Talk, someone has found a way to enable conference call using GoogleTalk.

Check it out: http://lpahome.com/call.html

Windows 95 Tenth Anniversary

Today is the tenth anniversary of the release of Microsoft Windows 95, the first version of Windows to include the Start menu. To commemorate this date, here is a collection of all versions of the Start button, up to Windows Vista.

http://www.wesbran.com/archives/2005/08/windows_95_anni_1.html

Penguin-suited activists crash Microsoft's Berlin parliament presentation

Activists from the youth chapter of the German Greens party and the Berlin division of German hacker association CCC showed up in penguin suits and with a big 'Alt+F4' banner. They even managed to sneak in a PowerBook and deliver an audio stream via UMTS mobile internet connection.



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Index Dot CSS

All CSS tags in one page. Period.

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Collection of Microsoft Humor

Hehehe... this guy has collected some good photos and videos of Microsoft, its founder and its products goofing up.

A must-see for anyone.


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Is There Life After Oil?

One guy has developed a mechanism using which anything can be converted to oil. ANYTHING!!!

Though, he is looking at recycling waste products, it can actually convert any thing containng Carbon to oil.

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7GHz Pentium!!!

A Japanese man has managed to overclock a 3.8 GHz Pentium 4 processor to run at speeds of 7GHz.


The processor in question is a Pentium 4 670 Prescott, whose speed was designed by Intel at 3.8 GHz. The system used by the Japanese to push things to the limit is built around an ASUS P5WD2 motherboard with two 512 MB RAM CORSAIR PC2-5400UL modules of memory, and the cooling system was ARC Pot Revc.12.1xe LN2; the operating system installed on the system was Windows Server 2003.

After the preparations were done, the Pentium 4 670 Prescott processor reached 7132.82 MHz (375,4 MHz FSB x 19).

For further info, check this: http://blue.ap.teacup.com/applet/memesama3939/20050809/archive.

Barcode to my Heart

This has to be cool. East Asians are using getting barcodes tattooed, which contain their personal information.
If that wasn't enough, PC-maker Asus has already come up with a phone which can read all those personal information off those barcodes (known as QR codes) !!!

Yahoo! Launches Audio Search

Yahoo! has come up with an audio search engine. It is still in Beta stage, though. It can be used to find sounds/music files from all over the web. Hmm... interesting.
http://audio.search.yahoo.com

Though there is already such a search engine, FindSounds (http://www.findsounds.com), Yahoo! could just make this whole thing popular.

Oldest Domains

Wow... this list looks amazing. I never knew that first domain was registered waaaaay back in 1985 !!!

whoisd has compiled a list of the 100 oldest domains (that are still currently registered!). It's here: http://whoisd.com/oldestcom.php. According to the list, the oldest domain name was Symbolics.Com which was registered on 15th March 1985.

God knows how the pages looked back then !

Google takes to the Moon

Recently hogging the technology limelight, Google Earth, has now gone one step ahead... to map the surface of Moon !!! This screenshot shows the lunar landing sites (I never knew they were so close!)

Check it out here: http://moon.google.com. Btw, don't zoom fully or else the whole thing will get CHEESY !!!

Windows Vista Coming Soon

The wait seems to be over soon. The most awaited Microsoft Windows Codename Longhorn is probably going to see the light of the day somtime in 2006.


It is no longer named Longhorn, but instead has been christened 'Windows Vista'. Here is the official site: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx. According to the website:

It enables a new level of confidence in your PC and in your ability to get the most out of it.

The Beta 1 version, targeted at developers and IT professionals, will be available by August 3rd 2005.

Keyboard from the Future

Wow.... *drool*.... this is IT!

This OLED based keyboard is supposed to be launched sometime in 2006. They say that it is going to cost less than a good mobile phone.

Err... how much is that? > Rs. 20,000/= ?

Whatever it is, I'll surely get one for myself. Check it out here: http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/

Use GMail to bring back visitors

A great idea struck me (maybe has struck others too!) of keeping my visitors glued to my site using GMail... yes GMail it is.

Once you sign up for a GMail account, you'll be getting free invites to invite your friends and family. You can also invite people who visit your site. Now, in order to do so, we'll require the email address of those visitors who want an invite to be mailed to them.

And once we mail the invite, we'll be actually getting two email addresses of the same person, which can be added to our mailing list and a mail sent to them whenever there's something new on the site... Great idea, isn't it?

Btw, please don't use this idea to send spam... I, myself, hate spam and wouldn't want this idea to go wasted in sending lots and lots of junk, unnecessary mails to innocent people.

Tech-a-Tete

I am starting Tech-a-Tete to use it mostly like an online archive of technology related news that I find all over the Internet. Usually all these interesting sites and cool links that I find gets lost amidst tons of Bookmarks and Archives... hope to keep them alive here :)