Is This the Cheapest, Most Wacky-Looking Gestural Interface in the World? Borrow your Mum’s rubber gloves, customise them a bit and switch on your web cam. All set! Definitely hot.
You snore. So what – doesn’t bother you, right? But if your significant other is on your case, you could call their bluff and use the app that proves your partner snores to prove it was their issue all long. Or not. Not so sure this is good for anyone other than the non-snorer… so a ‘not’ from me.
New iConji language for the symbol-minded. OK, so maybe texting has a language of its own (LOL), but can I be bothered to learn a brand new text specific language that’s like Egyptian hieroglyphics – just to ask if someone fancies a pint watching the footie? Frickin’ noooooo.
On the internet in a trice – Mark Shuttleworth, the first African in space and the entrepreneurial force behind Ubuntu, has a new mission in life: to give Windows users a chance to be surfing the web within ten seconds of turning on their computers – using Ubuntu of course, for the lightweight stuff and Windows for the heavy duty tasks. However it’s for OEM’s only, so gets thumbs down from me.
Brazilian Rainforest Study Could Yield New Model for Environmental Research – data collected from deploying sensor networks into the rainforest will help researchers visualize how the rainforest connects with the earth’s atmosphere, which is important for our understanding of climate change. Big ol’ ‘hot’ for this one, methinks… bit like today’s weather, yeehah!
