Fill up with hydrogen at home
They say that using a hydrogen fuelled car is a lot better than using conventional fuel like petrol or diesel, but buying an hydrogen powered car is one thing, filling it up is a completely different story as there are hardly any places where hydrogen can be bought.
But now a company from the UK, [...]
June 30, 2008Spotting fake paintings
There is one major problem with buying paintings, the fact that it may be fake! This is not a new problem, but artists these days are becoming so sophisticated and they have so many resources available to them, that the potential for buying a fake painting is really high.
But this could be a [...]
June 25, 2008Microsoft fears the rise of open source
If there is just one thing that the top execs at Microsoft fear it’s the threat from the success of all of the open source projects that are springing up all over the net. That is according to Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Architect, who was speaking at a conference in New York.
Most people [...]
June 24, 2008Huge screen TV costs £60,000
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June 13, 2008The Prius is the most searched car
It has been a long time coming but the world famous eco friendly car the Toyota Prius has finally made it to the number one spot in the searches made by potential buyers, according to the car site cars.com.
The top ten searches in the US are as follows:
Cars.com Top Ten New Car Searches [...]
June 12, 2008Space trips price could be cut in half
With the prospect space travel for tourists getting closer every year, it seems that the one thing that is not being questioned is the price. But this is because of the sort of people who will be using the service at first.
However its ok running an exclusive service but eventually you are going to [...]
May 14, 2008Paying by fingerprint
It is a belief by many shoppers that with a few years they will be able to pay for their goods and services by simply placing their thumb or finger print onto a biometric pad, they also believe that this will be coming by the year 2015!
But there are even more revealing ideas for [...]
April 18, 2008Intellect available soon to buy
Could we be soon going out shopping for some extra memory for our brains? Some people may say that the human brain is far more complex than any computer in the entire world and they would be right. Yet a computer can memorize and recall anything that is inputted into it, whereas humans cannot.
So [...]
April 4, 2008Trapster fights speed cameras
Normally if you are driving along and someone flashes their headlights, it means that they either know you or that there is a police speed trap down the road, this friendly warning system is ok. However naturally not everyone is going to let you know, but there could be a new system that works like [...]
March 27, 2008Paint on solar power
Many people would like to have solar panels on the roof of their house, but in reality the cost of installing this type of product is just too expensive for everyone to afford. In fact the capital outlay takes such a long time to be recouped, that there are questions as to whether the whole [...]
February 22, 2008Firefox downloaded 500 million times
Great news for fans of Firefox the browser has been downloaded over 500 million times, it is just amazing to think of that many computers out there all running Firefox which is and always will be the best open source browser out there at the moment.
As if that was not enough the Firefox 3 [...]
Rumour has it Blu-Ray has won
It would seem that battle for the domination of DVD has not been the battle to end all battles. This is sad day if the rumours are true, but Toshiba the main backer of HD DVD has apparently pulled out of the race, this has effectively given Blu-Ray the title and with it the right [...]