Here’s a quad rotor drone that will fly at full speed, even in confined space. This quadricopter is actually in development at the Pennsylvania University, at Grasp Laboratory. The progresses made during the last 5 months are simply amazing. Its maneuverability and extreme speed makes it a perfect tech-gadget for military use. A video made [...]
Microsoft announces that the record for the best single-day sales has been broken with the release of its new video game Halo: Reach. Count in some 200 millions of dollars sales for the first 24 hours as it hits the United States and Europe. Still it doesn’t match the performance of Activision, with its Call [...]
Right after Google Instant, YouTube Instant and other style-like websites, here’s the iTunes Instant created by a teen named Stephen Ou. Besides the buzz created on the online community, this American teenager of 15 years old (check out his baby face, it’s amazing) who defines himself as a “teen entrepreneur”, is a genius in making [...]
I’ve just checked out the auto promotion system used by Gizmodo on its blog and I must say that I like it very much. They have created a presentation video and put it in at the end of each article together with the links to their Facebook fan page and newsletter. This will definitely promote [...]
Bloglines, the RSS aggregator, will close down its website on the 1st October. Created in 2003, Bloglines was sold to Ask in 2005 for 10 millions of dollars. Facebook and Twitter has contributed to its end. If you want to change your RSS feed reader, I will advise you Google Reader or Netvibes. (Put any [...]
Introducing the laser drone from Laser Motive. A futuristic gadget that seems to come directly from a science fiction movie. That’s a quantum leap in technology, after the Parrot Ar Drone that can be remotely controlled via an iPhone or the DraganFlyer X8 for the professionals. The Laser Motive society actually carries out researches and [...]
Introducing the new Twitter.com. An improved version Twitter as stated in its blog. Here’s a list the updated features: – A redesigned (dual-pane) interface for better readability; the right column will changed upon clicking on tweets and complementary tweets are also listed. – The @replies, retweets, searches and lists are now on the top of [...]
Introducing the Power Laces 2.0, a new type of smart shoes which tie up its shoelaces on its own. If first model was somehow rough with an external engine at the back, the 2.0 version comes with better esthetic and has some real potential. Its creator is now trying to raise some funds on the [...]
Google Blogs (via the Google.com homepage’s) has just added an interesting feature in its search engine: the possibility to search a list of blogs in a particular domain in contrast to the actual situation where you are only able to carry out searches among the news found on these blogs. This integrated new tool to [...]
Google has just released a new feature for Gmail : the Priority Inbox or the automatic sorting of your important emails. Gmail grounds itself over an algorithm which takes in account the persons to whom you send messages, the frequency, most used keyword /filters, etc… to set the priority emails. Over time, the algorithm tends [...]
This is a great concept from Design Boom, a mobile home vehicle for the nomad bloggers. The Bufalino has been conceived by the German industrial designer, Cornelius Comanns. This extremely small and nice camper is mounted on a three wheeled Italian Piaggio APE 50. You are able to cook food, hang up the washing, move [...]
Here is the Draganflyer X8, a professional drone. This is the new trend, in the world of radio-guided toys; flying vehicles, same as the Parrot Ar Drone…. Well that said! A drone equipped with an onboard video camera can be pretty fun. If you are concerned about keeping some privacy on websites like Facebook, don’t [...]
Facebook has just launched its new service Facebook Places, in the U.S , a location-based application for mobile phone allowing you to notify the area where you are (e.g. restaurant, museum, cafe, etc. …) to check your friends whereabouts and what are the nearby events or shops. Right now Places is available only on the [...]
Here’s a nice decoration that will definitely find its place in any gamers’ house: A Playstation controller table (or workstation?). To love it.. (or not), you must be a fan of video games. The same principle can be applied to other type gaming joysticks or any geek gadget. More info at: overclockers
Facebook Ads is the platform providing the advertising models such as PPC and CPM over Facebook. On the whole, it runs on the same basis as Google Adwords, but boasts some additional features which you will have to master. By the way, what really works on this platform? According to Shoemoney and John Chow: – [...]
Is there any possibility to have some great rate of return over social networks? It seems to be the case, at least that’s what this video published 9 months ago, makes me think ! Well, not everyone might boast such a success and you should have a solid strategy before taking any decision. Otherwise, you [...]
Google now offers new Adsense advertising format for its Leaderboards (728X90, 300X250 and 336X280). For the 728X90 banners: the heading, the text and URL link will be on the same line. The font size has been increased. For the 300X250 and 336X280 banners: the URL link and the title should be on the same line [...]
Lycos, the search engine and web portal has just been sold again for the amount of 36 million of dollars. This time, Lycos goes to India’s Ybrant Digital. Lycos has been around, on the cyberspace since 1995. Comprising of all the features of a web portal, phone directory and search engine, the trademark (regrouping Hotbot, [...]
At some points, Google did have some failures. Even if, its search engine will definitely have its place in history as being the most revolutionary of its kind during the modern era of the Web (like Yahoo Directory and Dmoz featuring among the “online directory” category of their time), the Californian company has known quite [...]
China is working over some crazy high-tech project: a bus that will hover off vehicles traffic on the road. It is not such a foolish idea since it is a good method to reduce traffic congestions. This 4.5 m high electric bus will normally work on rails and move at a speed of around 60 [...]