Archive for August, 2006

Listen to the Doctor . . . on Your iPod

Listen to the Doctor . . . on Your iPod, The Washington Post writes and lists a few sources here: Over the past year, health providers, medical journals, government agencies and a bewildering number of self-proclaimed health experts have begun to offer health news and information via audio and video podcasts. These prerecorded segments are […]

Artificial muscles light up TVs

BBC News reports here: Arrays of thousands of tiny "super prisms" controlled by robotic muscles could bring real colour to TV screens for the first time, scientists say. The devices, known as electrically tunable diffraction gratings, have been built by researchers in Switzerland. They manipulate light to reproduce the full spectrum of colours on screen, […]

The Digital Camera Fights for Survival

How do you keep customers buying technology they already own? The big camera makers need to find out fast, Time writes here: Digital-camera makers scramble in a shrinking market, but that could be a boon for buyers.

Casting Net For Better Airfares

Wired News reports here:  New websites claim to find the best airfares by mining airfare data and and reversing carriers’ own profit-maximizing algorithms.

Old records go in, CDs come out

The New York Times writes here about the TEAC GF-350 Turntable / CD-Recorder at News.com:  Are you over 30? Sorry to hear it. That makes you part of the Transition Generation, those who have witnessed the world’s shift from analog to digital recordings.
Product Description: Finally, there’s a way to burn vinyl to CD that […]

Court Blocks Order to Turn Off Dish DVRs

The Associated Press reports here at the Washington Post website: EchoStar Communications Corp. rushed to a federal appeals court Friday in a successful bid to avoid shutting down more than 3 million digital video recorders used by customers of its Dish satellite-TV service.

The Top Ten Memory Cards

The Top Ten Memory Cards in this week’s Bestellers List at Amazon, see The Top Ten Rated Memory Cards here for more info including some reader reviews in our online store (ranking as of writing of this article, might change over time)
The Top Ten Rated Memory Cards are:
• SanDisk SDSDB-1024-A10 1 GB Secure Digital […]

The Top Ten Balms, Creams & Gels

The Top Ten Balms, Creams & Gels in this week’s Bestellers List at Amazon, see The Top Ten Rated Balms, Creams & Gels here for more info including some reader reviews in our online store (ranking as of writing of this article, might change over time)
The Top Ten Rated Balms, Creams & Gels are:• […]

Top Rated Rolling Stones Songs

The Top Rated Rolling Stones Songs, BBC News reports here: I Can’t Get No (Satisfaction) is the UK’s favourite Rolling Stones track, according to an opinion poll. One in five of the 1,000 people questioned named the 1965 number one single as their favourite, knocking Brown Sugar into second place.
The UK’s Top Rated Rolling […]