The Aston Martin One-77 is the sort of car that will have the nation’s car reviewers brawling in the street as they attempt to be the first to drive it. Already its snapshot appearance at the Geneva Motor Show has whetted the appetite. The car is going to be super exclusive; only seventy seven will be built, hence the name. At a cost of £1.2million ($1.2million), it will be a first come first served for the world’s richest people to aim for. However, already there have been over two hundred and fifty expressions of interest...
Microsoft has officially announced that Windows 7 will be released “in time for the holidays”. There’s supposed to be a very good handful of new features that will be part of the release and the full program is now in its final (though perhaps toughest for the engineers) stage of development. No new features are likely to be added but bugs, glitches, problems, and a few more optimised bits and pieces will be added before the expected October release. Additional features will instead be reserved for future updates to the release. Advances...
Carl Zeiss has recently been ploughing a lot of time and effort into the creation of Nokia lenses and the such, but that’s not all they get up to in the world of optics. One of the more recent additions to the Carl Zeiss portfolio, in fact, is the Cinemizer Plus headset; compatible with iPhone, iPod, and several other handheld devices it can replay video footage into the headset (also known as glasses) and the two tiny plug in ear phones offer audio accompaniment. Wearing the headset and watching footage over it is, apparently, the...
When it comes to incredible, if sometimes pointless, gadget designs clocks tend to perform pretty well with designers turning their hand to creating some of the most unique and unusual mechanisms and displays in order to help sell their wares. In the shape of the water clock, we’ve got perhaps one of the most innovative and definitely cool looking clock designs – like many of these designs, it isn’t cheap and it might be best not to use it next to the bed in case you inadvertently choke on the hour hand when you reach for...
If you’re on the look out for cheap, popular music then the relatively fledgling Amazon download store is apparently the place to hit at the moment with the price of a single currently cheaper than that of a single more than 40 years ago (none of the “good old days” nonsense this time around, eh?). While the music industry at large might try to tell us that this is a bad thing, and it will certainly mean less and less royalties for the artists, what it means in real terms to you and I is that we can purchase singles from the...
Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, has announced that it is taking another step into the creation of different chips. The computer chip manufacturer has recently undertaken the relatively new and upmarket task of creating chips for servers, in the shape of its Opteron chip set and is now set to move to the creation of smaller chips that are designed very specifically for integration into gadget type products rather than full on computer and server products. The energy efficient chip may only register at 533MHz but it is believed to give Via...
Quite often there comes a time when we find ourselves diving (quite literally, in this case) into the weird world of weird art and this is certainly one of those times. What’s more, if you ever visit Mexico (and, indeed, if you’re ever allowed to visit Mexico) then you too could be diving into the weird world of weird art too thanks to the quite unique sculptures of British artist Jason de Caires Taylor that will be sunk to the depths of one of the world’s most visited sites in the National Marine Park of Cancuna. Between...
For people that are always on the move (or those of you that are too lazy to get up and plug your laptop in the power socket) the modern day net-book could be the essential tool to keep you connected to your work, colleagues, email and social network sites like twitter or face-book. The problem with many netbooks is that they lack the features demanded by their target market. However there are a few new ones on the market that seem to deliver all the required spec. The Samsung N1110 netbook is a compact laptop which manages to pack...
You can just imagine all the suits in Dell sat around a huge desk in the boardroom brainstorming when some bright spark threw in ‘lets launch a special Dell site for girls’, much nodding of Dell executive heads ‘and call it Della’, much more nodding of heads ‘we can make the girls feel like they are really included’. At this point (if there had have been a woman in that meeting) someone should have said ‘do you not think that people might see it as a little bit, well, sexist?’ You have to admire Dell for trying to appeal...
Vodafone appear to have the edge over the other mobile phone networks this year by announcing that they are scrapping international roaming charges, well for the summer anyway. This means for all Vodafone customers on monthly or pre-pay tariffs that they will not be saddled with a huge bill when they arrive back in dear old blighty, just standard rate charges. If you happen to have free minutes or texts in your Vodafone allowance package that you haven’t used, then you will be laughing as it won’t cost you a penny to make (or for that...