Go-Sim: Stay connected while Globetrotting

If you’re a constant globetrotter, what’s your biggest worry, apart from picking all those language CDs and books? The means to stay connected right? With the humungous prices that your local carrier would charge to put you on roaming, you’re better off buying something wherever you land and then using it right? Then of course, you know that’s not always easy in a country that doesn’t speak a lot of English. So basically, you land up at the gorgeous country and you love everything about it, but your sweating angry when you try getting a card to use on your phone to reach your loved ones. Looks like that won’t be a problem again, if you use Go-Sim, an International pre-pay card that you purchase before you leave and then top it up just like any other prepaid card. Read more

The Multibook: The traveller’s convenience Bible

It’s not always that you come up with stuff that’s meant to make a weary traveller’s life easier right? Considering the ever-increasing number of security scans, you’re obviously not too used to being passed through all those checks without a pinch or two here and there right? That’s precisely what the MultiBook, which is essentially a book-shaped toolkit for travellers, except that this one has some really useful tools. Read more

Gem-embedded flash USB: See the sparkle in her eyes

Okay, so there have been a dime a dozen USB drives out there, each one outdoing the other in terms shape, size and overall design. But then in the gold-and diamond-studded style culture of today, it’s not been untill now that these little useful devices have had their fair share of the pie right?

What you see up there is yet another wierdly designed flash USB, except that is one is gem-studded. Of course, it makes for some great looks and yeah the stylish ones can team it up as a chain on their neck, the only difference being that this one is a useful one. Read more

Amazon’s Kindle: A revolution in archiving your favourite read-ups

Of all the technology that we keep hearing about these days, eBookreaders seem to be the things we hear most about. But no technology reaches its peak of recognition untill a major techno-giant launches one of its own right? Maybe that’s what Amazon’s new eBookReader would do to the market segment.

The Kindle, that it is officially known, was announced today. What does it have to offer? 30 hour battery life, direct download with Sprint ( no computer would be required) and weighs just 10.3 ounces. Read more

Using your cell phone as your credit card? Sounds spooky yet cool

Remember all the hype and hoopla about someday being able to use your phone as your credit card, your bus ticket purchases, security door opener et all? Looks like time has passed swiftly coz from what we see, those days are hear already. The Nokia 6131 NFC, although not the most attractive phone is already using such great technology to help you crunch your whole world into your cell phone. Read more

Voice-controlled blender: For those lazy types

For the chauvinistic men in the world for whom women are nothing more than mere maids at home, this might be a good reason not to get married. What we have here is the Voice-controlled blender. Yeah, you heard it right. So going back to the topic of chauvinistic men, if all kitchen appliances became voice-controlled someday, you can imagine men naming them after every woman they’ve slept with, and calling out to them to perform those cooking and cleaning functions that these appliances are meant to do. Alas, for them, it’s not that much of an ideal world yet. Read more

Momail: For whom checking emails round the clock is an indispensible practice

So we all love meebo and orgoo when it comes to sneaking into your personal priorities while behind the firewalls at work. But that doesn’t keep us satisfied, does it? For those amongst us who are always on the go, checking their emails is as frequest a need as checking their smses. Momail might take care of that. Well, Momail is basically a free open source application that lets you check all your emails on your cell phone. Yeah, and it gives you all this in a single inbox, so that you’re not busy juggling between a thousand windows punching that scrawny keypad of yours. It has other cool features like a certain sending function that lets you keep track of all the addresses to whom the emails have been sent, just so that you can make sure. Read more

Automatic Water refill for dogs: See em smilin!

If you thought the muffy hairy friends of yours ( no I’m talking about the dogs please) cannot do without your love and consistent care, think again. Looks like they’re the next ones on the bandwagon to independence,and why shouldn’t they. Their latest partner in this would be the automatic refill dog bowl that can simply be attached to a simple garden hose and will provide them with fresh water at all hours. I’m sure they’re happy. They’ll save some strength barking off your lazy ass for water every now and then. But then again, we know we’re happy too right? It means a little less attention to pay to atleast something in life. Talk about the age of convenience. Priced at $29.99, it’s not too expensive for you to not do that for yourself and your fluffy buddy. Read more

Hulger’s unconventional lightbulbs: Rebelliously attractive

If you thought life was all about vanilla and boring straight lines, think again. Someone would ultimately break the jinx right, and for now it looks like that pioneer is Hulger, the English company that makes those funky retro cellphone addons.Having had a fair share of that pie, it’s now all set to revolutionize the looks of the otherwise boring yet useful invention, the Lightbulb. Read more

Research: The internet to get choked by 2010?

If you thought that the internet, one of the so-called biggest boons of present times was only going to keep getting better in the long run, think again. As per a recent research by Nemertes Research Group, the internet tubes are likely to get clogged and overburdened by 2010. As per their study, $137 billion would need to be invested by then to meet the growing demand. So when they talk about reaching the internet to every nook and corner of the world, you know what’s coming apart from the “making the world a smaller place” phrase right? Read more

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