Archive for July, 2011

Latest snaps of our distant neighbour | Image: NASA Here’s a little science factoid that might bake your noodle for a moment: It has been one year since the planet Neptune was first discovered. Specifically, although the distant icy world was initially spied in the night sky back in 1846, it has taken 164.8 years for it to complete one solar year, which is a full orbit of the sun. And to commemorate [...]

HTC phone ‘Status’ is AT&T’s version of the ‘ChaCha’ that was released for European markets a little while back. Dubbed the “Facebook phone”, the Status makes it easy to update and share things to your Facebook account thanks to a dedicated Facebook button below the keyboard. We managed to get a unit to look at during AT&T’s event last night [...]

A British woman has painstakingly created a miniature version of Bag End, Bilbo Baggins’ house from “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings”–from the round front door and porthole windows right down to the Middle-earth maps and the barrel of pipe-weed. Maddie Chambers, a 30-year-old mother of young twin boys, started the project in March 2009 when she was taking [...]

If you’d like to enjoy the outdoors today, we suggest you stop reading right now. What follows are five iPad addictive games that maximize screen real-estate with luring graphics, break ground in the handheld gaming sector. They ultimately exemplify whyApple’stablet device is such an impressive device for gaming. These games will capture your imagination, demand your attention, and may ultimately [...]