Repelling magnets keep the Hoverit lounge chair levitating above its base. (Credit: Hoverit) If you like to feel that you’re above other people, the Hoverit lounge chair might just be for you. Using repelling magnetic forces, the Lounger lifts you up as it levitates above the structure’s base–just a few inches up, but up nonetheless.
Most interesting camcorders of CES 2009 All things considered, this year’s CES had a surprising amount of innovative–or at least interesting–tech for cameras and camcorders, beyond the usual bigger/faster/cheaper we’ve come to expect from the show. Though each manufacturer took a different approach to pumping up its HD camcorder lines, they all …
(Credit: Sony) I’m sure there are still people out there that want to record standard-definition video directly to DVD. Sony, however, has made its latest DVD Handycams sort of bridge products between the past and present. The DCR-DVD850 (available in February for about $430) is a new “Hybrid Plus” ..
The Motorola Surf is a tablet device with a phone. (Credit: Motorola) Motorola got a jump start on CES when it announced its new crop of phones two days before the show opens. The most high-end of the bunch is the new Surf A3100 smartphone, which offers an expansive touch ..
PC World – Michael “Monty” Widenius, original developer of the open-source database MySQL, put a damper on Sun Microsystems’ recent release of MySQL 5.1 with his now-infamous Nov.
Reuters – Want to optimize your looks without radically altering them? An Israeli team of computer scientists may have the answer.
CNET – A teenager lay dying in bed after swallowing a lethal does of narcotics while his suicide attempt is being broadcast to the Web. A group of concerned viewers attempted to save his life by alerting the authorities.
Down banhammer BT has banned all future discussion of Phorm and its “WebWise” targeted advertising product on its customer forums, and deleted all past threads about the controversy dating back to February.…
AP – Digital picture frames were a big item last Christmas.
Reuters – LinkedIn, the career-oriented social networking website, on Wednesday will unveil an assortment of applications from big names like Google Inc and Amazon.com Inc in a push to integrate LinkedIn’s platform into the daily workings of corporate life.
