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Archive for February, 2007

Make your own multitouch projected table

Chris Davies, Feb 28th 2007 Discuss [3]

Multitouch, it's all you bloody hear about these days. If another person stops me in the street or blocks my car in just to shout "Apple have invented a multitouch cellphone!" into my face, I'll scream. Okay, so a huge company spent over two years developing a compact screen that could respond to more than one finger jabbing at it. So what? What's far more impressive to my mind is this four-day project to make a multitouch table: [youtube 9eS4L5avQqM] Read The Full Story

ASUS deny Aura parentage

Chris Davies, Feb 28th 2007 Discuss [0]

Earlier on this month those people who get quiet shivers of glee from fancy-schmancy cellphone concepts had another rendered thrill with what was said to be a design from ASUS' studios. Called the Aura, the most striking thing - aside from a deeply slender pop-out keyboard - was a sliding control bar that could be positioned at various points along the display. Read The Full Story

Stake out your children from the stove

Chris Davies, Feb 28th 2007 Discuss [0]

Perhaps years of being warned by the media of the "Paedophile Menace" has made me overly twitchy, but when UK kitchen retailers brand their latest high-tech intrusion into the room of food a "kiddy cam" then I start to wonder who exactly is peeping at your children. Read The Full Story

WiFi upgrade for Treo 750

Chris Davies, Feb 28th 2007 Discuss [0]

While I had to send back the Treo 750v I reviewed in January, it looks like Mitchell over at Gear Diary is keeping his. Sounds like we shared more than just the same handset, though; one of the concerns I had, and that Mitchell echoes, was that relying on the cellular data rather than having any sort of WiFi option would be a) slow and b) expensive. In my own experience it turned out to be plenty fast enough, and the convenience of not worrying about whether I was in router range made it all worthwhile; Mitchell on the other hand has been looking at other ways to get his 802.11 fix. Read The Full Story

Every alcoholic’s best friend

Abby McVay, Feb 28th 2007 Discuss [0]

I know some of you think it is no big deal to walk over to the mini fridge and get a pop, beer, or whatever, however, it is a big deal. I mean first you have to get up, which is just awful, then you have to walk (I mean who does that). Then of course there is the horrible bending and opening the fridge, then you have to walk all the way back. Read The Full Story

Customizable tissue box-it leaves you with that “ewwie” feeling

Abby McVay, Feb 28th 2007 Discuss [0]

Every single time I look at this tissue box, it creeps me out. So, me being the kind person that I am I felt the urge to pass on the feeling to our readers here at Slashgear. This tissue box doesn’t just come with a baby; you can put your own pictures in there, exciting isn’t it. I’m sure some of you look at it and think that it’s cute, but it just looks unnatural. I agree tissue boxes do need to be updated and brought back to life with something besides a “cozy”. I would rather we just leave them as is than create them to look like this. Normally something like this would make me chuckle a bit, but for some unknown reason it weirds me out. Read The Full Story

The reincarnation of the light bulb

Abby McVay, Feb 28th 2007 Discuss [0]

I’m sure all of you live in a super chic household with not a single thing out of place. However, I don’t, shocking I know. Well for all of you the love chic look this lamp is definitely for you. Although, the design I’m sure sounds silly, it actually looks really cool. Read The Full Story