Sony has released a new retro style audio system called the Sony CFD-A110. It is a combination of a cassette tape, a CD player and a radio tuner. With a sleek wood-like finish and old fashioned design. Coming out on the June 21st 2010.

[via Techfresh]

Ever wanted a computerized door latch to control your pets in-and-out of the house, and at the same time preventing the big rat from coming in too? Well its time for you to rejoice, as the peeps at Quantum Picture have implemented face recognition system into the door latch to only allows your cat to come in, and locked out at other rodents, or even your own pets if they have rodents in their mouth too.

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It seemed like, with every trend comes a bad worm. Well the bad boys certainly have been hooking up with the trends of Apple’s successful iPad sales. Using a method known as “spamindexing”, or in layman’s term “poisoning search results”, cyber criminals manage to trespass our computers that are not properly secured. Read more…

According to Time, the site recently imposed a restriction on its ‘trending topics’ feature which barred tweets deemed ‘perpetually popular’ from the section. Due to this, Justin Bieber, who has topped the list for months, was shot down entirely.

Despite the ban, fans of the 16-year-old wonderboy found a way around the restriction by using ‘cute’ ways to misspell his name. The names “Twieber” and “Jieber” both hit the top spots on Sunday and have stayed there since.

[via DigitalSpy]

Things used to be simple when apples and blackberries were just fruits. But now it seemed that both would be clinching their horns (*if they have any) over market shares. No, not fruit markets, but mobile phones!

Now, many corporate distribute mobile phones to their employees for easy communications among themselves, and for all these while Blackberry has been given the icon of ‘corporate phone’. However, according to Reuters, Standard Chartered, a bank centralized in the UK, is starting to switch its corporate mobile device from RIM’s Blackberry over to Apple’s iPhone. Now, this is no small fuss, as Standard Chartered as an estimation of 75,000 employees globally. This is a rough estimation, and moreover not all will have the privilege of holding on to a corporate phone. But still, it is not a small amount. Read more…

Now let’s assume that everyone had watched Iron Man 2. Yeah it’s awesome, but anyway. Ever wondered how those cool gadgets Tony Stark used come by? Fancy idea isn’t it? Something that we can only dream off at present. Check it out after the break. Read more…

HTC Wildfire is powered by Qualcomm MSM7225 processor running at 525MHz and comes with a 3.2-inch QVGA touchscreen, a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, 802.11b/g WiFi, GPS/AGPS, Blueooth 2.1+EDR, 512MB Flash and 384MB of RAM, and microSD expansion. It should be in the store around Q3. More pictures after the break. Read more…

This is the blank and folded paper art done by Simon Schubert. He created the art by making some folds on the paper.

“The first attempt was not really so successful, took quite a white to get the technique perfect.” said Simon

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ZTE has released a new V7 MID in Shanghai today. This mobile internet device is powered by 806Mhz Marvell PXA310 processor, running on Maemo OS and comes with QWERTY keyboard, a 4-inch (800×480) WVGA display, a 3.2-megapixel camera and a 1800mAh battery. It measures 120mm x 85mm x 12.8mm and support EVDO 3G connectivity. No word on pricing and availability.

[via TechFresh]

A Bristish man named Tim Cotterill has created a 200mph monster trike and called it the Road Rocket. It measures five meter long and weighs 1225kg, powered by 1000bhp engine. The handlebar is so wide that it took engineers twenty three attempts to come up with a steering mechanism that worked for it.

“I have to say it really has exceeded all my expectations and fulfilled my wildest dreams,”
“I did get it up to 160mph on a straight stretch of road in the high desert and actually deployed the Simpson parachute just for the heck of it.” said Mr Cotterill.

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