Cases of expired products in supermarkets are not unknown and checking expiry dates is a continuous concern. Naoki Hirota has designed a very helpful freshness label that not only shows the expiry date but also makes the barcode non-scannable after expiry by using a non-toxic pigment that promptly covers the bars. It sounds like a [...]
If you haven’t yet upgraded your Wordpress installation to version 2.7, just run and do it. The screen above is for new posts and it is all the money.
Finally! We can use screen estate for new blog entries without wasting it with the terrible design of previous versions.
Finally! Tags are again on the right of the text [...]
The Tokyo station of East Japan Railway company is installing a cool system of passive energy generation. It consists of piezoelectric floors that conveniently convert pressure from passengers walking over them to electrical energy. It is expected that this system will generate 1400KW daily, an amount that will keep some machinery at the station working without [...]
We are talking serious Wall-E obsession here, who would dare eat such beautiful food? [Flickr via Gizmodo]
It might be surprising to learn that portable CD player sales are taking off again in the UK. I cannot think of low pricing being the only reason (about 15 GBP), because nowadays you can have similarly cheap MP3 players or you can even have MP3 files on your mobile telephone. The official explanation is that many [...]
Surely the 50GB that Blu-Ray discs have to offer is a nice large capacity. It is a shame that all of it goes for just a single HD movie. Is there a more practical use? As we store more and more stuff in our hard discs, it gets very tempting to go beyond DVD for archiving [...]
The N97 is all over the Internet today and everybody is trying to guess how it compares to the iPhone or the Blackberry Storm. Well, as long as data plans remain limiting (the case in the majority of countries) the combination of simple mobile phone plus netbook for Wi-Fi Internet access stays unbeatable.
The Nikon D3 remains a formidable DSLR and there is no need for its owners to upgrade. However, the attraction of many megapixels still remains and the pressure from Canon and the medium format cameras forces Nikon to respond. The new D3x is a D3 on steroids, it offers 24.5Mp, the highest count for full [...]
Shield holders are great for GPS and mobile phones. The way things go, a twin version looks very logical indeed [Red Ferret]
