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Temps en version mobile et avec la réalité augmentée en bonus. Un gadget ? Pas
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An anonymous reader writes "Gadget lovers are used to punishing upgrade cycles but now it seems
that the British ID card could be replaced with a 'super' ID card just a couple of years after the
first one was released. The new card could be used to buy goods or services online, or to prove
identity over the web. It's a bit of a kick in the teeth for the people who have already paid
£30 for a 1st gen card that can't do any of these things."
An anonymous reader writes "Gadget lovers are used to punishing upgrade cycles but now it seems
that the British ID card could be replaced with a 'super' ID card just a couple of years after the
first one was released. The new card could be used to buy goods or services online, or to prove
identity over the web. It's a bit of a kick in the teeth for the people who have already paid
£30 for a 1st gen card that can't do any of these things."
The world's
second Internet of Things Conference is scheduled to take
place at the end of November in Tokyo. The deadline for papers was just extended to June 1 -
which gave us an idea. Conference planners have put together a list of suggested topics for papers. We took that list and then rounded
up our ongoing reporting and analysis for each of the eight topics as a way to help you
understand how vast and far reaching IoT will end up being.
Sponsor
'Green by Internet of Things / Green of Internet of Things Technology'
Our recent list of
6 Ways to Better Living: Inside an Internet of Things Home, looked at the IoT from a domestic
standpoint. From handling toxic waste, to watershed management, to building design, to
transportation, to the smart energy grid, a whole new green way of thinking is going to be made
possible by IoT.
'Future sustainable technologies linking the physical and virtual world'
Different industries have have
already been able to increase the efficiency of freight shipping by using sensors to tell
them the location and condition of their product in real-time. This includes FedEx's
SenseAware, which is designed to constantly keep track of the vital signs of all its
packages. In future posts we'll be covering IoT-driven growth in the fields of virtual factories,
digital cities, agriculture and forest management.
'Novel services and applications to facilitate environmental responsibility'
Did you hear about the guy who wired
his house up to a Twitter account so that it alerted him whenever an appliance was used?
Following that experiment, Matt
Morey figured out a way to use iobridge to turn that one-way Twitter alert system into a
two-way system that makes it possible to turn appliances on and off via Twitter. These ideas,
which may seem novel at first, signal the direction towards the development of whole new
industries.
'Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes'
Companies as large as
IBM have invested heavily in IoT. It has a website called Smarter Planet, which is dedicated to "smarter solutions," of
which they say they've already developed 12,00 hundred. We've also written about ThingD,
which is creating a registry of things, as well as REZZ.IT, which is building a business based on
the idea that "things have a network and their own audience."
'Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT'
Pachube is the IotT business that has earned the most coverage and analysis
from us. Pachube is a service that stores and shares real-time sensor
data from objects, devices, buildings and environments. MQTT, which stands for
Message Queuing Telemetry Transport, is also noteworthy. It is "a platform-agnostic system which
can connect almost any networked object to the wider world." More recently, Google launched an API for
PowerMeter, which allows device manufacturers to create PowerMeter-compatible devices. Also
worth mention is our
article on Arrayent that aims to be the "Cisco of small things" - which is basically
middleware for companies wanting to connect their products to the Internet. In particular it's
targeting smartphones.
'Experience reports from the introduction and operation of networked things in areas such as
healthcare, logistics & transport'
IoT is still so new that we have only just begun to see the results of research. But with RFID,
for example (which is one of the more mature IoT technologies), we've reported on how there
have been enough challenges to limit predicted growth. There also a range of user experiences related
to IofT location-based services.
'Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens'
From preventing
lost luggage, to the latest IoT
gadgets, telling the story of what a person's everyday daily life is an integral part of IoT.
Most notable is the presentation by Carnegie Mellon professor and ex-imagineer Jesse Schell, who
describes
how sensors in everything may one day mean the sensor in your toothbrush gives you online gaming
points if you brush for the full three minutes. He also envisions sensors that track if you are
watching TV commercials and again rewards you with online gaming points. Core to Schell's ideas
is the belief that these incentives may seem a bit creepy, but they have potential to help us
create a less corrupted, more accountable and ethical world.
'Social impacts and consequences: security, privacy, opportunities and risks'
In our What The Internet of Things Means For You series we covered privacy issues related to the
use of RFID and barcode readers. The latest reports show
how advertisement, RFID and geolocation have combined to raise serious privacy concerns.
Additionally, location-based data can be a threat to personal privacy in the context of how the
U.S. congress has started to
draft location-based privacy protection laws.
Are you going to the Tokyo for Internet of Things Conference? What do you hope to learn there?
Let us know in the comments, or by emailing tips@readwriteweb.com, what we should be discussing in the
months leading up to the event.
It’s always nice to see when technology takes a cue
from nature. In this case, the Bloom Light.
The Bloom Light is the creation of Patrick Jouin. It is merely a concept for now, but it could
very easily be something that I would put in my reading room. This would be assuming that I have
a reading room, which I do not.
As you can see, it is something that looks like an ordinary bulb, at least at the beginning. And
by the word “bulb”, I mean something like a flower bud. I think “bud” is
probably the best explanation as the light blooms like a flower. This allows the light to be
spread out amongst the room, and I’m guessing that it makes some pretty patterns.
Maybe if it spins, it can become something like a disco chandelier. It sort of reminds me of the
“primary weapons” on the big honkin’ motherships in Independence Day.
I suppose that if the Bloom Light was a chandelier, I might get nervous that it was going to
incinerate me.
Still, I like this design, and would love to have it on my ceiling or post lamp. It is not for
sale now, but it will be on display at the International Furniture Fair in Milan.
If there
is one thing that I hate, it is lawn mowing. Perhaps I should get one of those remote control
lawnmowers, like the GOAT. I know that
can’t afford a riding mower, and don’t have that much of a lawn to use it with. What
I wouldn’t give to have this riding scooter.
The Lawn Mower Scooter is designed by Vicky Petihovski, and I believe that it is a way of making
America’s least-liked chore more fun. According to the specs, it has an electric motor that
can drive the blades and scooter.
That means that you can ride the scooter while the blades are doing the work. It can reach up to
6 kilometers per hour, and it can collect the cut grass inside of it. There is even a transparent
window so you can see inside of it, and tell when it is time to be emptied.
Speaking of empty, I don’t really see a place where the engine will sit. I also don’t
see where to put the gas, assuming that it runs on liquid fuel.
If you ask me, this lawnmower scooter looks like it is meant to be a toy, and it reminds me of a
Radio Flyer wagon. However, would you feel comfortable giving a child a lawnmower? I mean, I
would feel comfortable letting a teenager mow the lawn, but seeing Dad playing with the lawnmower
scooter would definitely inspire a child of any age to want to join in the fun.
I loved seeing Parrot’s
AR.Drone at CES, and I had just as much fun watching the video of this quad-copter, created
by the Robust Robotics Group at MIT.
It would appear that this Robust Robotics Group took this thing a step further, but it still
requires some sort of iPhone to maintain control. The AR.Drone wasn’t able to take vocal
commands.
You can see from the vid that the operator speaks “fly past room 124, then face the windows
and go up”. There must have been some speech to text on iPhone, and it would appear that
the helicopter can transmit this text into actual commands.
The video has a man simply speaking commands like “up” and “go to the
elevators”. It does obey those commands as well, even though these orders are pretty vague.
I mean, how does the copter know how high to go up, or what area around the elevators to go to?
I suppose that this could be use as sort of a mini-predator drone, one that is vocally
controlled. Hopefully it will know how to obey the order of “get out of there”.
Well, usually anything that is being worked on at a University is concept tech. If they perfect
it and market it, then that AR.Drone has some serious competition.
In that sleep of death, what pageviews may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil? A
beautiful piece of experimental prose by our former colleague Joel Johnson, formerly of Boing Boing
Gadgets and now of Gizmodo, about ghosts in the cloud: mortality and connectivity, and how internet
permanence might change memory of those who pass, after they're gone. Snip: Chances are we'll each
be lost to time. 100 billion people have been born before us. Most of them no longer exist as
individuals in our memories. No names. Faces only reflected in our own and not in any way that
really matters. But not us. We might be remembered forever. All our Twitter updates, our email, our
Vimeo movies, our Xbox Live profiles, our wormy FourSquare maps. They won't be important. Not to
most people, anyway. But they'll be there if the sysadmins take care of us, if the corporations and
machines to whom we've entrusted our records do not fail or are not destroyed. We won't matter to
most. But our memories will be cataloged, indexed, made available along with our stories, our
names. $viewcount++. Raiding Eternity (Gizmodo)...
Not everyone can afford a personal assistant to reschedule their meetings, but we
can all use Smart Rescheduler. The new Google Calendar Lab gadget automatically works to suggest
the best times to reschedule a calendar event.
The experimental addition was added to Google Calendar today and can be enabled via the Labs section. Upon
installation, the feature will appear alongside users’ calendars and allow them to select
individual events to reschedule.
Here’s how it works: Clicking “Find a new time” prompts the gadget to check the
calendars of scheduled attendees, allowing it to recommend the best dates and times to reschedule
based on Google’s search ranking algorithms. Users can select from any of the returned
results or fine-tune the suggested options by adjusting event parameters around date and time, or
by marking attendees as optional.
The Smart Rescheduler is a simple utility that should make the busy day-to-day lives of Google Calendar users more organized and less
chaotic.
I’m one of those people who has a tough time trying to schedule meetings. What’s
worse is that times change, mostly because of the ever-shifting deadlines that come with
blogging. That’s one of the main reasons my calendar constantly descends into chaos. I
turned to professional help, but if you are both like me and are a Google Calendar user,
scheduling help could now be as simple as turning on a feature inside Google Calendar. The new
gadget, available in Google Calendar Labs, is called Smart Rescheduler.
Once turned on, you can select an event and click “Find a new time.” David Marmaros,
creator of the gadget, writes on the Gmail
Blog:
[W]e decided to apply some of Google’s search experience to the problem of scheduling. We
experimented with using ranking algorithms to return the most relevant meeting times based on
specified criteria like attendees, schedule complexity, conference rooms, and time zones. Just like
Google search ranks the web, our scheduling search algorithm returns a ranked set of the best
candidate dates and times. [...] You’ll see ranked list of possible times for your meeting.
By investigating the calendars others have shared with you, Google Calendar can make some educated
guesses about how easy it might be to reschedule a conflicting meeting and even find you a
replacement conference room nearby. This process is 100% automated [...]
I just tried it out, rescheduled a meeting, and yes: it works as advertised. For once, I am not
going to complain about a Google product. :-)
Google est vraiment partout !
Le géant du web et Intel se sont associés avec Sony pour développer une
plate-forme appelée Google TV qui va permettre l’intégration du Web dans le
salon grâce à une nouvelle génération de téléviseurs.
Le principe, l’idée de base serait de ne pas intégrer idiotement un
navigateur internet sur votre téléviseur mais plutôt une version
adaptée à une navigation simplifiée. L’utilisation d’un
système de widgets serait plus que probable.
Logitech serait également de la partie pour la fabrication d’une
télécommande adaptée.
Pour Google, c’est une occasion de plus de promouvoir sa plateforme Android
déjà disponible sur mobile et tablette. C’est également une solution
pour étendre sa plateforme Google TV Ads déjà présente sur une
poignée de satellites.
Le projet est en cours depuis plusieurs mois mais pour le moment, les porte-paroles de Google,
Intel et Logitech ont refusés tous commentaires. On aura droit comme d’habitude
à beaucoup de rumeurs sur le web.
La web-TV est un marché immergeant sur lequel Apple et Microsoft ont déjà
fait leurs marques. Connaissant Google et Intel, on peut imaginer que la plateforme ne se
limitera pas aux seuls TV Sony, sauf si finalement, ce projet ne devient qu’un gadget de
plus.
UYUNI, Bolivia--"Gray gold" may be the key to a future filled with hybrid or electric vehicles.
That's because lithium is the most important ingredient in the batteries that power these cars.
Even without many electric cars on the road today the lightest metal on Earth is more and more a
mining target of multinational companies as lithium ion batteries power an increasing array of
electronic gadgets. [More]
Ya os adelantamos al presentar la tecnología Nvidia Optimus
los equipos de Asus que la integrarían. Incluso os adelantamos datos del uno de los
modelos estrella, el
Asus N71JV, del que ahora os podemos contar todos los datos finales y precio de cara a su
puesta a la venta en España.
Los nuevos portátiles multimedia de la serie N de Asus se llaman N61JV y
N71JV. Ambos equipos destacan por integrar la tecnología Nvidia
Optimus que monitoriza las aplicaciones y calcula la carga y recursos necesarios para
llevar a cabo las tareas consumiendo en todo momento el mínimo de energía posible.
Para ello se vale de una gestión inteligente de las gráficas, encargándose
la dedicada de las tareas de mayor intensidad gráfica, como juegos y aplicaciones
multimedia, y la integrada en placa de otras más básicas como la navegación
web. Lo bueno de esta tecnología es que el usuario no tiene que intervenir si no quiere en
esas decisiones.
Nuevos Asus N61 y N71, potencia multimedia bajo control de Nvidia
Dado que se trata de portátiles con muchas aspiraciones multimedia y de
videojuegos, los nuevos Asus N61 y N71 no podían venir sin los
procesadores Intel Core i3, i5 e i7, además de gráficas dedicadas de última
generación (nVidia GeForce GT 325M y ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730).
Pero no son esas las únicas incorporaciones de nuevas tecnologías. El
novísimo puerto USB 3.0 también llega a estos portátiles, consiguiendo
alcanzar velocidades de transferencia de 5GB/s, ideal para mover contenido multimedia en alta
definición de forma ágil. Eso sí, para aprovechar esa velocidad
necesitaremos que el disco duro externo, la memoria o lo que conectemos a este puerto sea
también compatible con el USB 3.0. Para los que suelen cargar sus teléfonos y
gadgets en los USB de sus ordenadores, esta última versión soporta mayor intensidad
(900 mA), reduciendo el tiempo de recarga de los dispositivos.
Tamaño de pantalla y características para la reproducción multimedia
Tanto el Asus N61 como el N71 cuentan con pantalla de tipo LED, de 16 pulgadas en el primer caso
y de 17.3 en el segundo. La salida HDMI no falta en ninguno de estos equipos
para que podamos conectarlos a una pantalla más grande si queremos ampliar la experiencia
multimedia. Diseño avanzado para una experiencia multimedia total que incluso
aprovechará los DVD gracias al software Video Magic que se encarga de reescalar a 1080p su
contenido.
El sonido, que no suele ser algo que cuiden los fabricantes de
portátiles, sí que tiene protagonismo en estos nuevos equipos. La tecnología
se llama Asus SonicMaster y nos permite ajustar la energía sonora, el
ruido, volumen y el rango dinámico, además de minimizar las interferencias
ambientales y la distorsión, y mejorar la separación del sonido.
La tecnología viene acompañada de unos altavoces de la marca Altec
Lansing con subwoofer integrado y la tecnología de sonido envolvente SRS Premium
Sound.
Asus N61 y N70, modelos, características y precios
Los nuevos modelos Asus N61 y N71 de la gama de portátiles multimedia de
la marca se compone de seis modelos diferentes cuyas configuraciones y precios
podéis ver en las tablas siguientes, yendo de los 900 a los 1.200 euros:
XP est actuellement l'OS majoritaire, et il a encore de beaux jours devant lui. Tous ceux que je
connais qui ont voulu tester Vista sont revenus à XP, moi le premier. Je ne sais pas ce
que vaut Seven, mais je ne suis pas prêt à dépenser une fortune pour passer
à un nouvel OS qui ne m'apporterait rien de plus que des gadgets. Et qui en plus
réclame toujours plus de ressources. Tout ça pour quoi ? On dit que c'est comme
ça, qu'il faut le faire alors on le fait sans se poser de questions. Très peu pour
moi. Je continuerai à utiliser XP jusqu'à ce qu'il soit usé à la
corde. Après je passerai à Linux.
Et la fin du support d'XP n'amènerait pas plus la disparitions des pc zombies que celle du
support de windows 98.
Nothing will ever make you look quite as cool as owning a handgun flash drive. Sure,
you can’t take it in most places, due to the stir it might cause. At least
you’ll look tough though. With your jet black drive, I’ll bet you only
store the toughest of your information on the drive. I haven’t the faintest
idea what kind of information would be called tough, but I’ll bet you figure it out.
The drive itself won’t shoot anyone, but you might be able to fend off the dumbest
criminals of the world. Hidden within the handle itself is where you’ll find
the USB port you need. On that drive you can store up to 4GB of pictures and
documents. That’ll give plenty of room, especially for the price you’ll
pay. The drive will only cost you $22 through USB Geek.
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There are plenty of squishy and even oddly shaped wrist rests out there to alleviate the pressure
off of your wrists. Yet how many actually have lots of little massaging
balls. With this your wrists will receive a miniature massage every single time you
slide the mouse around. Of course you may prefer the squishy feel of the other
rests, but for those that would like to try something new, this is definitely different.
The Ergoroller is pretty basic stuff. It’s just a few metallic balls attached
to a plastic base. The base holds it there, but the balls themselves are free to
move around. Is anyone else failing miserably at stopping themselves from snickering
about balls that massage you? I was just wondering, not that I’d find it
humorous. That’s just childish. You can purchase the massaging
balls for $25.
Un
adage populaire dit Parisiens têtes de chiens, Parigots têtes de veaux.
Bien qu’il ne m’ait pas été donné d’expérimenter
pleinement la véracité de ce postulat, je possède, pour être
installé dans la capitale depuis quelques années, une certaine expérience du
Parisien.
De ce que j’ai pu en apprécier, Paris recèle une véritable douceur de
vivre et une réelle humanité pour qui prend le temps de la découverte.
Las, quelques Parisiens méritent malgré tout leur réputation. Pour les
quelques-uns parmi vous tentés par le côté obscur du comportement
capitalistique, voici la méthode pour atteindre les sommets et adopter un vrai
comportement de parisien :
En général
Prenez un air blasé de tout.
Extasiez vous. Trouvez toute nouveauté géniale, même si elle est
d’une nullité crasse.
Soignez votre look sans être excentrique.
You are the best ! Votre leitmotiv : « Etre, c’est paraître
»
Au restaurant, au bistrot
Ne dites jamais merci
Parlez fort
Soyez ostentatoire
Dans la rue
Marchez vite.
N’oubliez jamais vos lunettes de soleil, même en hiver
Au moindre rayon de soleil, vautrez-vous sur le premier carré d’herbe à
portée. Si vous avez une fontaine à proximité, trempez-y vos pieds. Les
verrues adorent.
Dans les commerces et services publics
Râlez dans les files d’attente et, si vous êtes en forme, engueulez la
personne du guichet
Votre vie n’intéresse personne, parlez fort aux personnes qui vous accompagnent.
Dans le métro
Equipez vous d’un walkman, un accordéoniste peut s’introduire dans votre
rame à n’importe quel moment.
Ne retenez jamais le portail d’accès pour la personne qui vous suit
Ne souriez jamais.
Prenez un journal, un livre ou un truc à lire pour ne pas avoir à relever la
tête quand les mendiants passeront dans les rames
Si le métro est blindé, appuyez vous contre la barre du métro ou courez
pour récupérer un siège ou un strapontin
Bousculez les gens pour entrer dans la rame
Prenez un air occupé et agacé
Ne regardez personne
Si vous possèdez un gadget dernier cri, exhibez le fièrement
Râlez si quelqu’un vous bouscule par mégarde.
Dites « Pardon » 3 fois et de plus en plus fort pour sortir de la rame tout
en forçant le passage. N’oubliez pas de râler lors de votre avancée.
En voiture
Klaxonnez
Doublez où vous pouvez et comme vous pouvez
Insultez les passants
Insultez les autres automobilistes
Brûlez les feux orange, pilez aux feux rouge
Ne démarrez jamais immédiatement après que le feu soit passé au
vert (voir condition du dessus)
Forcez le passage
Je crois avoir fait à peu près le tour de la question. J'en ai oublié ?
For those of you that are big clean freaks, you might not entirely like this
concept. I’m not even obsessive about germs and dirt, but this still
doesn’t entirely sit well with me. Most washing machines wash your clothing
and then send the dirty water down the drain. As far as the green aspect goes,
that’s a huge waste of water and therefore a bit of a bad thing. This Mr.
Klein concept does something a little different with that water. After it cleans up
your dirty underwear, it will save the water to be used again for another load.
I know I should be excited about a concept that reduces my water usage, but I’m just
not. It of course uses a filtration system that will take all of the contaminants
out of the water before it uses it again. Which means it’s perfectly
safe. I think I could handle it if I could just somehow manage not to think about
it. If only there was an off switch for your head. Right now this is
still a concept though, so you don’t have to feel guilty just yet for not rushing out and
getting one. We’ll just have to keep sending our dirty water down the drain,
even if it is a bit shameful.
Windows 7:
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WeatherBar is a simple app that puts the weather in your Windows 7 taskbar, offering quick access
to the forecast.
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WeatherBar is a simple app that puts the weather in your Windows 7 taskbar, offering quick access
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Shopper enthusiasm for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 may not have been as fervent as for Modern
Warfare 2, but DICE's shooter has gone on to break a record of its own, becoming the best-selling
March release on record in North America and Europe.
Released in the first week of the month, Bad Company 2 has now sold over 2.3m copies - according
to EA's internal counter.
Players have amassed 81bn points during online multiplayer battles and unlocked 43m weapons and
gadgets. Also, more than 6m YouTube videos of gameplay have been recorded and the BFBC2 Twitter
account has 44,000 fans - the most of any EA game and more than Eurogamer's Johnny Minkley.
Amazon has just announced to the masses that they will be offering a new free application known
as “Kindle for Mac”, where this piece of software is able to allow readers worldwide
to enjoy books that were meant for the Kindle on their respective Mac computers. Just in case you
were wondering whether there are enough tomes to get you interested, you would be well pleased to
know that the U.S. Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore) holds more than 450,000 books at the
moment, and these aren’t dusty digital versions since they comprise of New Releases and 102
of 111 New York Times Bestsellers, making it THE place to look for some of today’s most
popular books in digital format. This means that Kindle books can now be read on the Kindle,
Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry, PC and Mac, as well as the upcoming iPad.
Guess there is no longer any more need to purchase a Kindle since you can experience the joys of
reading on your Mac alone, eh? Kindle for Mac will boast Amazon’s Whispersync technology
which automatically saves and synchronizes bookmarks and last page read across devices. This
means you can always be up to date with your reading without having to search where you last left
off even if you were dabbling with a plethora of devices to fulfill your daily reading quota. In
a nutshell, Kindle for Mac allows you to read some on your Mac, followed by some on your Kindle
later on, always pick up where you left off without missing a beat.
Some features of Kindle for Mac that readers can take advantage of include :-
Purchase, download, and read hundreds of thousands of books available in the Kindle Store
Access their library of previously purchased Kindle books stored on Amazon’s servers
for free
Choose from 10 different font sizes and adjust words per line
Add and automatically synchronize bookmarks and last page read
View notes and highlights marked on Kindle, Kindle DX, and Kindle for iPhone
Read books in full color including children’s books, cookbooks, travel books and
textbooks
Additional features will be thrown into the mix sometime down the road, including full text
search and the ability to create and edit notes and highlights. How has your experience been so
far?
Western
Digital is extremely well known for its line of storage devices where backup is concerned, and
this time round they have come up with something that targets folks who are running on the Mac
platform – we’re talking about the Western Digital My Passport SE for Mac. Available
in two capacities of 750GB and 1TB, the My Passport
SE for Mac is a portable USB drive which has been specially formatted before leaving the
factory to work in a Mac environment right out of the box, complete with Apple Time Machine
software compatibility.
These ultra portable USB drives are a snap to tote around, and since they do not require any
external power adapter as they derive juice by virtue of being plugged into your computer, it
will certainly go a long way in reducing the amount of weight that you would have needed to carry
on your travels. For those who are a bit concerned about security, fret not – these puppies
are equipped with 256-bit hardware encryption with password protection for that added level of
security, where a relatively small drive with such huge capacity should still let you sleep
peacefully at night since you know that your data will protected from unauthorized access or
theft.
Too bad this is still stuck in the USB 2.0 era, as we would have pretty much preferred to see
something much faster along the lines of FireWire 800 or USB 3.0. Well, at least the Western
Digital SmartWare software ought to deliver much needed calm whenever you make a backup since you
can see it as it happens, making sure that no stone is left unturned. Apart from that, continuous
backup ensures you will always have a second copy of whatever was just added or changed. Should
the unthinkable happen, you can always retrieve valuable data to its original location,
regardless of whether you have just lost the entire gamut of data or overwritten an important
file. The 1TB model is going for $199.99 a pop, while those who opt for the slightly smaller
750GB model will have to fork out $179.99 for it.
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It’s always nice to see when technology takes a cue
from nature. In this case, the Bloom Light.
If there
is one thing that I hate, it is lawn mowing. Perhaps I should get one of those remote control
lawnmowers, like 
I loved seeing 
Not everyone can afford a personal assistant to reschedule their meetings, but we
can all use Smart Rescheduler. The new Google Calendar Lab gadget automatically works to suggest
the best times to reschedule a calendar event.
Google est vraiment partout !
Le géant du web et Intel se sont associés avec Sony pour développer une
plate-forme appelée Google TV qui va permettre l’intégration du Web dans le
salon grâce à une nouvelle génération de téléviseurs.
Un
adage populaire dit Parisiens têtes de chiens, Parigots têtes de veaux.
Western
Digital is extremely well known for its line of storage devices where backup is concerned, and
this time round they have come up with something that targets folks who are running on the Mac
platform – we’re talking about the Western Digital My Passport SE for Mac. Available
in two capacities of 750GB and 1TB, the 
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