A recent article in CIO solved the mystery of where some of the most iconic tech brand names came from. Ipod – apparently this one came from Steve Jobs originally conceiving of Apple’s MP3 player as a hub to other gadgets. They hired a copywriter who...
I really don’t know how the new Moshi alarm clock will fair in the marketplace – it deactivates solely by voice control. Now that might be a great thing for the blind but for those of us who don’t wake up well its likely to be less successful. It...
A New Zealand based company, Hire Things, has launched a new marketing channel for hire and rental services. Its sort of an Ebay for renting goods. People register on the website, list and price items they have available for hire. You can choose...
Dubai looks set to start 2008 with a bang, and quite probably another world record, this time for the largest firework display in the history of the world. New York firework organisers ‘Grucci’ will be attempting to make it into the 2008 Guinness Book of World Records...
Ever since I worked on setting up the Sydney Harbour webcam back in 1998 (one of the first robotically controlled webcams around), I’ve been fascinated with how they can be used to generate interest.For the new millenium and the Sydney Olympics we did some...
About 8 years ago, robotic webcams which internet users could control, started to become the rage. This has now been taken one step further in Canada with am Ottawa resident developing a software programme which allows anyone on the net to control and programme...
