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Take a look at Captain Kirks communicator and you have to notice the similarity with a flip top smart phone. In fact load up the Skype app onto an iPhone, make a video call, and it is hard to see the difference. Plagiarism? Copying? It gets worse.   Take Captain Pickard’s PADD from Star Trek new generation -see here, and it isn’t just the device that has an uncanny resemblance to [...]

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 [...]

It could be the perfect tool for bewildered tourists lost in a foreign city. A remarkable new iPhone app has been developed that instantly translates words viewed through the phone’s camera from Spanish into English, and back again. WordLens uses the iPhone’s inbuilt camera to recognise text that is viewed through the lens. At the moment it only works with Spanish but further languages [...]

Apple stores are always full of Apps and Games of its particular products. Some of the games are thrilling, adventurous and number of other small applications that provides the user to navigate between different apps in its particular charm. We have listed down few best of the games of iPhone that appeared in 2011; that would help the user to decide the choice of play. Here we start with: Angry Birds Dangerously [...]

To become famous, you need to be associated with something really good; to become infamous, you have to be connected to something really bad. Endless lists count down history’s favorite vehicles — the cars that changed manufacturing (Ford Model T), that became icons (Volkswagen Beetle), or thatstarred on TV or in the movies (the General Lee, Herbie the Love Bug). Few media outlets have dared [...]

This article on iPad 2 buying advice is not for you. You’re welcome to read it, of course, but it’s really intended for my friends and relatives who’ve been asking me since last week whether the iPad 2 is worth getting, or whether they should wait for something better. Even though it’s fun to declare one tablet superior to another, the question of which tablet to buy really [...]

There are millions of people in the world, who are really uptight about making websites, and developing internet to their knowledge, but among those millions, more than half of them don’t know how to create a website, a webpage, a blog, or a static web template or simply a forum. Most of them usually prefer to spend as much less money as they can. So, they search for Free Web designing, web [...]