hours here are a couple of other notable things we saw today on our never ending journey through the wild, Wild web. High-Tech Electronics Dressed Up to Look
Old so what’s the attraction of the latest electronics, packaged in a retro design, such as full-size jukeboxes that really $ 4000 iPod docks and manual typewriters reconfigured to work as u.s.b. keyboards? Has anyone ever said, “it’s a nice Ferrari, but it would be cooler if it saw as a covered wagon look like?”
Silicon Alley Insider dug up an old Newsweek holiday gadget shopping guide of 1997, filled with gems such as the original Sony PlayStation ($ 149), the PalmPilot Professional ($ 369) and the ‘Austin Powers ‘ on DVD ($ 25). [From: Silicon Alley Insider]Wired traces the evolution of the holiday twinkle light. [From: Wired]
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22 December 2010, it seems that Kobe Bryant is taking his talents to Facebook. According to a press release from social gaming Publisher 6waves, the spiky Lakers star set to star in a “revolutionary” new game of Endemol USA–but it is not yet clear whether these game basketball will involve.
lot 31 linguists believe the old “African click languages” hold the key to understanding the origin and evolution of human language. About 30 cultural groups speak still active languages, who take dozens of “click consonants.” These clicks remained largely a phonetic mystery, as linguists usually find it difficult to determine the specific vocal actions required, including the direction of the air flow, the narrowing of the mouth and the actual articulation techniques.
22 december 2010 forget nuclear warheads and long-range missiles. The most powerful weapon in North of Korea arsenal might be the fax machine.
35 A Norwegian newspaper claims she has achieved approximately 250,000 of WikiLeak of classified diplomatic cables, although it’s not exactly clear how it gained access to the documents. OLE confirmed Erik Almlid, managing editor of the Oslo-based daily Aftenposten, to CNN that its publication does indeed hold of the whole file had gotten, but not how it had done so, or, more importantly, would say whether or not WikiLeaks had even the leak sanctioned.