November 2010

Interesting tech for 22 to 26 November 2010

The Beast hybrid bicycle

25 Tech links I found interesting in the last week. Jungle ATV; Set The Timer For 10; Octosnake; Less Smoking; Knitting Buildings. Supersized Dish; Noise Cancelling Sonar; Go To The Light; Fabric Shock; Touchdown. Score; Spinal Book; The Universe In Our Heads; Heavy Metal; Ring Around The Moonbase. Down The Wire; Beastly Bike; On The Grid; Cutting Edge; Old Blood. Less Is More; Dumbphone; 44Yeqj; UAE Coast; Eyes Right.

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Win a free Platform9 laptop stand (review)

Side view of the Platform9.

The Platform9 is an innovative laptop stand from New Zealand. Read how you could win a free stand for yourself.

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Save interesting links to read later

Save links for later reading

There’s a lot of interesting stuff to read on the Internet. But some of it may be work related, while some is for fun. And then for some you need to read and work with it on a computer; while other items are most suited to an iPad or smart phone. These 2 services help me keep it all organised.

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Tiakina ngā hono whaitake hei pānui ā muri ake

Save links for later reading.

There’s a lot of interesting stuff to read on the Internet. But some of it may be work related, while some is for fun. And then for some you need to read and work with it on a computer; while other items are most suited to an iPad or smart phone. These 2 services help me keep it all organised.

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Could you crowdsource?

Crowdsourcing: the Old Weather project.

Crowds of people can help you with projects where automation falls down. The Old Weather project, for example, asks human volunteers to grab a few numbers from handwritten ships logs and enter those numbers on a web page. Think about how volunteers could help you online.

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E āhei rānei i a koe te rōpūmātāpuna?

Crowdsourcing: the Old Weather project.

Crowds of people can help you with projects where automation falls down. The Old Weather project, for example, asks human volunteers to grab a few numbers from handwritten ships logs and enter those numbers on a web page. Think about how volunteers could help you online.

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