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Sega Back Into Gaming Business After 10 Years, Launches Urine Powered Games

May 9, 2012 0 Tassavur

Well, there was a time when the gaming hardware business was a very lucrative business with room for a lot of players. It is when; Sega was one of the established players in the gaming industry. But the market became…

Tech Industry News

Scratch-n-Sniff to Never Wash Your Jeans Again by Naked & Famous

February 1, 2012 0 Tassavur

Now this might come as a relief for all those folks who do not have the bandwidth, to regularly wash their clothes or are averse of the idea of washing their jeans regularly. Naked & Famous have come up with…

Nokia Paints Jet Airways Plane with Lumia Colors

January 10, 2012 0 Rahul S

It is no secret that Nokia has spent tons of money on promoting its Windows Phone devices worldwide. Closer home, we have seen concerts being held all over India, Lumia branded vehicles roaming the streets of our cities and TV…

Wayward Asteroid Narrowly Misses Earth

June 27, 2011 2 Rahul S

A giant asteroid that will pass “too close” to the earth’s surface will be visible from the southern hemisphere (mostly southern America) tonight. What’s however, more significant (and alarming) to note is that celestial body will pass just 11,000 miles…

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Are Mobile Phones Killing Bees?

May 13, 2011 1 Rahul S

According to a recent by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Mobile Phones could be playing some part in the decline of the worldwide bee population observed over the course of the past few decades. The study, which…

E-Cigs by Blu Makes Sure You Never Smoke Alone

May 13, 2011 0 Tassavur

Trying to kick the butt? Try an e-cigarette to wane off yourself from that harmful tobacco. This solution can leave you lonely at times when your smoking the e-cigs. Well in the age of social networking where not only ordinary…

Apple

An iPhone that costs almost EIGHT MILLION dollars!

October 18, 2010 0 Nimish

All right, we went and broke the editorial style sheet rule that states that thou shall not use all capitals in a heading, but truth be told, we could not actually help it. We always knew that the iPhone 4…

Ayn Rand On The Globe

August 13, 2010 3 Annkur

One man drove 12,238 miles and across 30 states in the U.S. to scrawl a message that could only be viewed using Google Earth. His big shoutout: “Read Ayn Rand.” [Giz] Thank you for introducing me to The Fountain Head

Google

Google testing Microdrones, flying bots for mapping

August 9, 2010 0 Annkur

Google is all set to take mapping to a new level with the purchase of hi-tech flying drones fitted with camera. Apparently Google has sourced these from a German company based Microdrones (reminds us of the 3 Idiots toy). These…

Apple

Did I just get a free bumper case without having the iPhone 4?

August 1, 2010 3 Annkur

Now this was unexpected, but it seems that I somehow managed to accidentally get a free bumper from Apple without having an iPhone 4 with me. So what exactly happened is that I purchased an iPhone 4 from Radio Shack (yes they are the only…

Apple

Believe it or not: the iPad was predicted in 1999

July 19, 2010 0 Annkur

Now thats weird! After all the drama over the Apple tablet last year and the half dozen names that were given to the unannounced product it turns out that a Wired report had predicted the Apple ‘iPad’ way back in…

Geek wear: iPad suit

May 31, 2010 1 Annkur

It looks like someone took my comments on the iPad handling (non pocket-able) issue seriously. If there is anyone taking your craze for Apple products to the sky, its Mohan Tailors. A custom suit pocket to carry the iPad! Wonder…

First non-Latin website goes live, foxes browsers!

May 10, 2010 0 Tassavur

After ICANN approved non-Latin names for URL’s last year, the Egytian Ministry of Communications has come up with its own Arabic website. The url for which reads like this (Ahem! While you are trying to decipher; it reads right to left…

DSP presents landline phone powered by Android OS

March 4, 2010 1 Annkur

Debuting at CeBIT is the DSP Multimedia Handset that saves you some embarrassment for ditching mobiles in favor of a landline. The DSP Multimedia Home phone sports a 3.5? touch screen and runs the Google Android OS ! Yes you…

Tech Industry News

Is original the new fake? Ghost shifts at work

February 18, 2010 0 Annkur

We have heard it since long that components and spares for MNC products sold in India are sourced illegally (or perhaps a better term is “Jugaad”) from company manufacturing units itself. The vast manufacturing hubs that China houses are not…

Videos

Leech Plug! You plug, it unplugs (Video)

February 17, 2010 0 Tassavur

At OG, we have always been a fan of power saving technologies. Hence here we have the Leech Plug. Whats so fascinating about this one? It is an outlet regulator which unplugs itself once the required energy is obtained, just…

Concept / Educative

Neon Green Soular backpack

February 11, 2010 0 Tassavur

While onlygizmos has been covering a lot of green technology of late. Here, is another one that has caught our attention. This one looks like a normal backpack (durable more importantly), but upon closer inspection, you might realise that it…

Nokia

Think only the iPhone can do magical things? see the N900

February 10, 2010 0 Annkur

For all the cheer that iPhone fans had all these years with all the geeky hacks on the Jesus phone, well here comes N900. Yes that’s a Nokia N900 running Windows 95! We know that the Maemo 5 that N900…

Meet the geekiest auto driver in town!

January 2, 2010 5 Annkur

Sandeep Bachhe is by far the most hi-tech and geekiest auto driver around. A step into his autorickshaw and you would wonder if its 2050 already. A resident of Bandra, Mumbai; Sandeep has a fully loaded ride that assures its…

Tech Industry News

No mobile for Kids under 16 in India?

September 13, 2007 1 Annkur

Karnataka Government has planned to ban the use (sale!) of mobile phones for children up to the age of 16 years. The reason for this ban is its adverse health effects. This comes almost 2 years after mobile phones were…