Archive for December 11th, 2007
Wrapping firm Fujimori Kogyo and researchers from the Toin University of Yokohama have gotten together to create a new dye-sensitized solar cell, making this solar battery unique as it looks like a piece of paper and yet is capable of yielding enough power to juice up various devices such as notebooks and MP3 players without the use of extremely expensive silicon. This polymer printed cell will sample in February 2008 and features three layers - each measuring 0.4mm thin. Should this new kind of solar cells actually take off, it would be interesting to see what kind of products embrace this future technology.
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Posted by: in Bollywood news
Well, this is what the public thinks half way through the movie “Aaja Nachle”.
As usual our producers have come up with a script, which is unoriginal, copied and based on the Brazilian musical “Xuxa Requebra “.
What they don’t understand is that what works in a foreign country will not work in our country.
There is so […]
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Filed under: Computers, Video Games
 This 12 year-old Norwegian boy saved his sister and himself from a moose attack using skills he picked up in the online role playing game ‘World of Warcraft.’
Hans Jørgen Olsen and his sister got into a spot of trouble when they encroached on the territory of one of these antlered cold weather staples (otherwise known as a moose). When the beast went on the offensive, Hans knew the first thing he had to do was taunt it so that it would leave his sister alone and she could run to safety. “Taunting” is a move one uses in World of Warcraft to get monsters off of the less-well-armored team members.
Once he was a target, Hans remember another skill he’d picked up at level 30 in ‘World of Warcraft’ — he feigned death. The moose lost interest in the inanimate Hans and wandered off into the woods. When he was safely alone Hans ran back home to share his tale of video game-inspired survival.
Make fun of video games all you want, but if one can teach you a skill that saves your (and your sister’s) life, then we’d say that was a video game worth playing.
From Internode Gaming Network
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Filed under: Top Lists, Man / Woman Who Has Everything, Features, Holiday Gift Guide
As far as computer ports go — and technologies in general — USB has got to be the friendliest. Not only does it lovingly accept almost any kind of gadget imaginable, it also generously parcels out power to those gadgets so that they don’t need to be plugged into a wall. As a result, it’s quickly become the de facto interface for our printers, scanners, digital cameras, iPods, thumb drives and every other techno-majig we’ve come to rely on. However, this ubiquity and good will has led to the misuse of the USB port, which is increasingly being used to juice products that have no business being connected to a computer. In the following pages, you’ll find the 10 dumbest miscarriages of the USB port we could find. These doodads are either the hilarious joke gifts for the right person, or useless wastes of plastic and metal that will go right into your gift recipient’s trash bin.
 Thanko USB Ashtray
Do you smoke at your desk? Do you often mix up which Red Bull can you’re drinking from and which one you’re ashing into? Then, it’s a lucky thing there’s this $16.50 ashtray, which employs a USB-powered motor to suck up the smoke from your nicotine log. Once it hoovers in your smog, the ashtray passes the smoke through two built-in filters to keep your workspace from being damaged by the very same toxins and poisons you’re brutalizing your insides with.
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Posted by: in Celebrity news
 Courtesy RoseandRadish.com
Just because the techie in your life likes his gifts practical doesn’t mean they can’t also be fun. We’ve rounded up the coolest portable memory sticks out there to let him compute on the go — and in style.
These gadgets made from actual twigs give new meaning to the term memory stick.
Indulge his nostalgia for Star Wars with a thumb drive in the shape of Princess Leia, Han Solo, or our favorite Chewbacca.
Sony’s Pocket Bit Mini is the tiniest flash drive on the market.
A flip out drive gives this Swiss Army Knife a modern, techie twist.
Housed in an old-school cassette case, this is one mix tape he will definitely appreciate.
Get in a treat with this drive in the shape of the junk food snack. There are doughnuts and pizza too.
Turn work time into playtime with drives that look like stackable Legos.
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Filed under: Gaming
 We’re not exactly sure what’s with the sudden resurrection in arcade obsession, but hey, we’re not complaining. On the radar today is a showy Metroid arcade console that was apparently created from the ground up by one astoundingly diligent fanboy. The exterior primarily consists of plywood, lights and paint, while a home-built PC resides within to handle the emulation duties. There’s also a built-in sound system with subwoofer, a 17-inch Samsung LCD and a clay-based Mother Brain to keep things genuine. Click on through to check out an (admittedly lengthy and unnecessarily dramatic) video after the break, and don’t even pretend that you don’t long for one just like it in your abode.
[Via Joystiq]
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Posted by: admin in Health
Filed under: Television/Film, New Products
We don’t normally get a lot of video game news in the food world other than the occasional release of something like Cooking Mama, so imagine how we felt when we heard about the latest foodie-inspired game idea to come shooting out of your wireless joystick controller. Hell’s Kitchen is going to be a video game.
We weren’t exactly sure how this tv-tie in was going to be translated into a video game, but when we found out that it’s basically going to be “the fun of the kitchen boot camp experience,” like it is for the contestants on the Fox show, we got it. Players will subjected to Chef Ramsey’s four-letter infused screaming while trying to turn out some of the Chef’s recipes (which will be included with the game).
The game will ship next year in conjunction with the premiere of the 4th season of Hell’s Kitchen. We are hoping to get a chance to play.
[via: Joystiq and TVSquad]
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Filed under: Action, Casting, Sony, James Bond, Remakes and Sequels, Daniel Craig
 It still doesn’t have a title, and it still doesn’t officially have a Bond girl, but according to Empire magazine, Bond 22 has found its villain. Of course, we don’t know the character’s name nor anything about him, except that he will be played by French actor Mathieu Amalric (Munich). The casting of Amalric was actually announced a few weeks ago by Fox News, but it couldn’t be confirmed until Empire today got it out of the actor himself. He did hint at one loose detail about the movie, that it would be about childhood. Now, in the context of the quote, it actually appears that Amalric is saying that the desire to play a Bond villain stems from his childhood, but Empire understood his words differently, or at least spun them so that it seems like he said Bond 22 will focus on 007’s childhood (as if James Bond Jr. and Agent Cody Banks weren’t bad enough, now we may get a precocious young Bond). Empire also points out that Eva Green has dropped hints that Bond 22’s villain will be her Casino Royale character’s boyfriend, which would make sense now that we’ve heard Green will not appear in the next film, though photos of her character will.
This news would indicate that the Denver Post was wrong in claiming Robert Knepper would be playing the next Bond villain. Unless, of course, there’s multiple bad guys — a trend Hollywood has been a fan of lately. Either way, Amalric is an excellent choice to play the (or a) Bond baddie, and not just because he has that same foreign creepy look that Casino’s Mads Mikkelsen has. The actor is receiving rave reviews for his starring role as a paralyzed sufferer of locked-in syndrome in Julian Schnabel’s critically acclaimed new film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Fans of Amalric’s need not worry that because of Bond 22 he will be more sought after for big Hollywood movies (as if any Bond villain actor ever was). The actor told Empire that taking the role is simply funny to him, it’s not necessarily what he wants to do with his career and he will continue doing “very small French film[s] for free with [his] friends.”
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Filed under: Internet, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Marketing and advertising, Technology
 Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will be rolling out new tools and services soon to encourage more internet advertisers and producers to create better online ad campaigns, the software giant said this week. Naturally, the new tools will work with Microsoft’s adCenter and Live Search environments. With competitor Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) collecting the lion’s share of online advertising revenue, will these newer tools make a dent in that empire?
Perhaps a little. Nothing new here — Google and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) tools are designed to work with their own search engines and related properties as part of an advertising customer recruitment and retention strategy. But, from looking at these tools, I’d hardly call them revolutionary.
One of the newer tools, which is being described as an “adCenter Add-in for Excel 2007,” allows search ad customers to research the effectiveness of ad keywords by reach and targeting efficacy. If this just imports adCenter data into Excel, then this is a non-product. If the product imports adCenter data into Excel and performs a huge massaging of data to give specific suggestions to the Excel-using adCenter customer, then this is a good thing.
But it will take more than that for Microsoft to burst through the 10.3% market share stat it gleaned in September, compared to 57% for Google.
[Disclosure: I own MSFT shares as of 12-4-07]
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