Just a couple days ago Google released its own version of a web browser, dubbed Google Chrome. This is exciting news, because it now increases the pressure on Firefox and Internet Explorer to be all that they can be. It’s even surprising, considering that Google and Firefox were business partners in advertising. Just a while ago Google Adsense was paying people for referring people to Firefox.
Google Chrome has a unique minimalist look that easily separates itself from other browsers. The browser bars are not cluttered full of different options, menus and toolbars, instead it only features your most used browser features, like the back and forward arrows, bookmark button, bookmark toolbar address bar, go button, and two pull down icons for page settings and internet options. Read the rest of this entry »
The Circle Phone by designer Jin Le is a cell phone with rotary dial and only 3 buttons power, connect, and disconnect. Read the rest of this entry »
Finger Touching, a device developed by Samsung, turns your fingers into the buttons on a cellphone, so you can text faster — or at least on bigger buttons. It’s “easier and lighter in mobile circumstances corresponding to the 3.5G, 4G communication standard.” Basically it projects the letters onto the three segments of each finger, and you push what you want. I think this is a pretty clever idea, but I don’t need one. Because I don’t have a cell phone. Or a land line. I have two rusty soup cans and a very long string. Which is ultra high technology. Read the rest of this entry »
The Palm Phone Jammer is a cell phone jammer than can effectively shut down GSM 850-, 900-, 1,800-, and 1,900-MHz cell phone calls in a 30 foot radius. Oh happy day! The unit costs a paltry $166, which is a steal. My old cell phone jammer looked a lot like me waving a gun and yelling obscenities, so this might not only jam calls, but lower my blood pressure. Two birds stoned at once. Although gun waving is fun. I doubt you’re going to get anyone to shit their pants with this thing.
Just a couple days ago Google released its own version of a web browser, dubbed Google Chrome. This is exciting news, because it now increases the pressure on Firefox and Internet Explorer to be all that they can be. It’s even surprising, considering that Google and Firefox were business partners in advertising. Just a while ago Google Adsense was paying people for referring people to Firefox.
