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Barcodes on your mobile

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Image via Wikipedia My mate Andy today showed me a really cool 2D barcode that can be read by your mobile phone to give you a URL to a website. It’s a cool technique that can be used for a number of different applications, from advertising to touristic attractions. He had some software installed on…

My kingdom for a watch

Image via Wikipedia I’m a big fan of watches, especially if they have some sort of high tech features. My previous watch actually could display videos and play MP3s, but unfortunately, the watch part of it was rather poor, taking around 20 seconds before it would display the time. So I shelved that, and now…

Looking for a TV stand

We’ve just got back from a great week in Edinburgh and stayed in an apartment with an LCD TV, which got us thinking that we really should upgrade our TV to something a big funkier and flatter. The TV in Edinburgh was mounted against a wall, but our room isn’t quite right for that, so…

Wind-up gadgets

I bought Arthur a wind-up torch the other day. It only cost a couple of pounds and I’m sure we’ve saved the amount in batteries already. The problem with a 2-year old and torches is that it’s a bit difficult to enforce that the torch is switched off when he’s finished with it, especially if…

I need a Google G1

It was great to finally see Google’s new mobile OS finally launch after lots of talk and speculation. The Google G1 looks to be pretty cool, though there do seem to be a number of initial flaws and rooms for improvement. Still, it’s relatively new so I’m sure a number of the shortcomings will be…

Record yourself with YouTube

Well, that was my first experience recording a video like that with YouTube. To tell you the truth, I’ve always just uploaded videos to YouTube, but I just found out that you can actually use the website to record a video directly from your webcam. It doesn’t matter if you want to talk about seagulls,…

Cellphones in planes

Have you ever wondered why you can’t use a mobile phone when you’re on a plane? Well, I came across an article today that talks about it, so here’s a snippet for your information: An airplane contains a number of radios for a variety of tasks. There is a radio that the pilots use to…

Do you play with Remote Contol Cars?

I can’t wait for Arthur to get a little bit older so I can get him a couple of remote control cars. Well, he has some remote control toys already, but I mean the real deal, scale models of real vehicles with real engines. I was reading a bit about them on Igor Presnukhin’s blog,…

What a shock!

*cackle* I have to get one of these shocking pens for the office. I keep finding myself lending pens to people and never getting them back. This way, I probably won’t be asked for a pen ever again .. at least not twice by the same person We used to play with these when we…

Printer Ink

We’ve recently fitted our mail printer with a continuous ink system, exactly like the one in the picture in this post. The idea is that it’s supposed to be more economical to fill up the ink this way, then to keep buying cartridges at extortionate prices. It was fun to fit it, but it’s more…

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