Monthly Archives: September 2008

Next Gen GenPets

Next Gen GenPets

If only they were real – the GenPets is an artistic attempt to get us conversing on the positives and negatives of bioengineering. The GenPet website talks about the pets as though they are real, …

24Hr Laptop Battery Life

24Hr Laptop Battery Life

Not only do Solid State Drives (SSD) sound like something incredibly cool off Star Trek (yes, that is possible) but it is actually being implemented in ways that show off what it was designed for. …

Sensoglove Golf Grip Training Aid

Sensoglove Golf Grip Training Aid

If we’re going to be frank about this, there are some crap golf training aids available that have no genuine reason for being useful. We’re not really sure whether the Sensoglove falls into that category …

The Big Bang 2 – Big Bang’s Revenge

The Big Bang 2 – Big Bang’s Revenge

As far as experiments go, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland has had its doubters and its detractors. The fact that it’s taken two years longer to complete and cost four times as much …

The KeyPad Pen

The KeyPad Pen

How often have you been sat at work writing in your daily planner when you remember that you haven’t done your morning’s brain training? Yep, it happens to us all the time too and bran …

The Inconvenience Of Memory Sticks

The Inconvenience Of Memory Sticks

Stories of government and MoD data loss aren’t exactly difficult to find. It seems that there’s more classified USB memory sticks circulating in the general population than there are within the MoD, who have reported …

Apple Announces… Not Very Much

Apple Announces… Not Very Much

Apple has unveiled the new iPod Nano, along with a couple of other update releases, and the biggest news is really that it’s a bit thinner and comes in lots of colours. To be fair, …

Apple Announces… Something Tomorrow… Probably

Apple Announces… Something Tomorrow… Probably

Tueday 9th September may prove to be a historic date in the calendar of Apple lovers around the world, or it may turn out to be a bit of washout with very few new ideas …

Bletchley Donation From IBM And PGP

Bletchley Donation From IBM And PGP

The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley has been given a much needed financial boost of £50,000 jointly by IBM and PGP. The museum looks likely to close unless it can raise the £7m that …

Google Newspapers

Google Newspapers

Whatever else you might think of them, Google is certainly not afraid to move forward and offer new products. One of the most recent examples is the already popular Chrome open source browser designed to …