I spotted this fuel cell technology and was impressed by the claim of having the same amount of energy as 1000 AA batteries.

The device is called the MiniPAK and is a palm-size universal portable power charger and power extender for ANY electronic device requiring up to 2W of power.
The fuel cartridge used in the [...]

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Having broken my snow chains this week I went looking for some new ones.  I have found a site that is worth a visit: RoofBox

As you will see on the site it is the simplest thing to find the kit that you need.  Simply enter the car make and model and it will [...]

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It was my first visit to Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport and I parked in the short term car park while attending a meeting at the Sofitel luxury hotel next door.  While waiting for the lift I saw this machine:
 
It gets you to insert your parking ticket in to the slot and then [...]

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This may not be immediately apparent but Google have launched a new look for the home page.  When you go to the Google home page all you get is this….

Until you move your mouse.  This is when the fade-in happens…

The rationale from Google is straightforward:
“Since most users who are interested in clicking [...]

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There is an interesting article regarding an EU project to develop “Road Trains” to help individual vehicles travel in an effective convoy along the motorway. 

It is thought that once a vehicle has joined the train and the computing power has taken over the individual cars that the drivers will be able to kick back [...]

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I have just been introduced to a really useful tool that has helped stop me from drowning in email.  xobni creates a sidebar on your Microsoft Outlook screen, where a wealth of information is displayed for every email that arrives.
Xobni is a San Francisco, California based startup that is revolutionizing the way people manage email [...]

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Arman Eshraghi, founder and CEO of LogiXML
With more than 22,200 software developers in 98 countries actively creating web-based reports with Logi products, LogiXML is confident that we have a solid foundation to expand our international business substantially in the near future and we are making an investment in that success with the establishment of the [...]

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LogiXML makes it into the SD Times top 100�for the 2nd consecutive year and is the only BI company to do so…Found under the Tools section…�Here then are the companies, tools and open-source projects that made December 2007 a far more productive and efficient time to code than January 2007:Tools
They’re the bits and pieces of [...]

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Everybody knows that the iPhone can make phone calls, play movies & music, surf the web, and a lot more. But, Will It Blend? That is the question.

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TomTom, the Netherlands-based navigation service provider, has announced that it has teamed up with Google Maps to enable its customers to send information directly from the Google Maps website to TomTom devices.
TomTom customers will be allowed to transfer business addresses from Google Maps to TomTom devices through the ’send to GPS’ option. Google Maps [...]

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