Posts Tagged with ‘gadgets’

Facebook’s ploy to allow advertisers to target the site’s users through personalized marketing tactics might be a drive by the social networking giant “to earn big money,” but there’s a crucial component to site’s planned advertising mechanism that might just inhibit Facebook from getting to that place - the place where it gets mega rich, and where its presumed valuation starts to make a bitty-bit of sense.
That crucial component? Its user base. You know, all the college kids, the [...]

Yesterday Google announced the release of Google Desktop 5.5 Beta, and along with it come new features for its personalized homepage service, iGoogle.
Google Desktop has made it very easy for users to personalize their desktop with gadgets that show the latest news, weather forecasts, and various other information, but according to Google, people want to be able to also put those gadgets on their iGoogle homepages.
Now, with the new version of the Desktop software, Google has added this very feature [...]

First Cigarettes, then Blow, now Gizmo! Are you addicted to technology?
The avalanche of technology that has rolled down the dusty hills towards us, may prove to be our greatest addiction yet. There are growing fears that people are becoming overwhelmed and overcome by their gadgets and gizmos.
Our 24 hour fascination and utilization of technology has become all consuming to many of us! How many cell phones can you remember seeing at someone's ear today alone? I wonder if every [...]

In an article by Michel Marriot I learned of an innovative and rather fantastic new toy that incorporates the most advanced technology. A robotics company called WowWee plans to release a mass produced functional ornithopter (a device that flies like a bird). The device is a radio controlled toy that mechanically flaps its Mylar wings and flies as a bird does. This is the latest and greatest in a whole line of mechanical marvels to be released this year.
The inspiration for [...]