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Archives for October 2010

Interesting tech for 26 to 29 October 2010

20 Tech links I found interesting in the last week. Augmented Glasses; Mars Watch; Print A Scent; The New Tough; Sweat The Small Stuff. Onya Bike; To Each Their Own Map; Bye Bye Tangles; Rhino Alarm; Down To The Dog. Robocup; Tuwrong; Small Scale; Airhead; Kindle Rising. Bag Hand; Light Mark; Growing Green; Malibu Emily; Tanktop.

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A dead Time Capsule drive lives again

A dead Time Capsule drive lives again

A dead Time Capsule, lost photos recovered: a small story of success in the face of failure.

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A free GST calculator app – thank goodness

A free GST calculator app – thank goodness

A recent change to the Goods and Services Tax has made it very hard to do the calculations in our heads. But, of course, there’s an app for that.

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Look again: is that domain notice a scam?

Look again: is that domain notice a scam?

Scammers abound, especially when it comes to domain names. Take care out there.

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Interesting tech for 18 to 22 October 2010

25 Tech links I found interesting in the last week. Wake up driver; Cars with no driver; Diminished reality; Robots; Self Balancing Unicycle; Rail tunnel; Windstalks; Armenian gondola; Hydrogen power; Carbon Zero; Phone germs; Indian neutrinos; Shoe bomb scanners; Dead Sea Scrolls.

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The happy steel stingray

The happy steel stingray

A local artist made a very happy looking stingray from steel and copper. It now graces our walls.

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Why, phone books, why?

Why, phone books, why?

Somehow the number of phonebooks we receive in Wellington has grown. I think it’s time they weren’t delivered automatically at all.

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Cruise or Navy?

Cruise or Navy?

It’s a busy Harbour today in Wellington. 3 Navy vessels and a huge cruise ship.

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Interesting tech for 11 to 15 October 2010

25 Tech links I found interesting in the last week. 16 megapixel phone; the world’s smallest gyroscope; autistic children and iPads; VSS Enterprise; jellyfish power; blow-up military decoys; Trev the Australian 3-wheeled electric car; Portuguese eco-city; crowdsourced weather project.

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Kiwis gather your old computer stuff

Kiwis gather your old computer stuff

Kiwis gather up your old and broken computer stuff ready for the eDay collection on 6 November 2010.

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Interesting tech for 03 to 07 October 2010

25 Tech links I found interesting in the last week. Robot baby Harp seal; commercial space station; UFO shaped blimp; LEDs help paralysed people walk; China’s moon probe; circles for perfect vision; Apollo 11 moonlanding tapes; e-reader; rare earth metals; Census of Marine Life

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Enjoy DVDs on your Mac by ripping them

Enjoy DVDs on your Mac by ripping them

Ripping my DVD collection has its ups and downs.

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