Tue
Oct
07

2008

My new best friend - Nokia E71

People who know me know I love gadgets and geeky stuff of all kinds.
But I need to feel they have a constructive purpose and usefulness, and not just be a piece of frippery.
So mobile phones fit in nicely to this category – packed with geeky features, but productive as well…

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Wed
Apr
30

2008

A gift for geeks

The ideal gift for baby-boomer geeks?

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Sat
Aug
19

2006

A day at the races - Holden blimp

One of the more interesting sideshows at last weeks V8 Supercar races at Oran Park, was the Holden blimp.
Well, not the blimp itself, but rather the 914 inch display screen on it’s side!

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Wed
Jun
28

2006

A digital TV trap

Digital TV is great: wide screen, no ghosting, crystal-clear picture – unless you stuff up your choice of transmitter!

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Sat
May
13

2006

Geek Heaven

Nothing like a new gadget for a geek to blog about. Our new Topfield PVR is definitely a gizmo to wax lyrical about!

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Sun
Mar
19

2006

Top Gear - Ariel Atom

The Ariel Atom

‘Top Gear’ (the best car show on TV anywhere) absolutely raved about a bullet of car called the Ariel Atom. Now we have a link to a Quicktime video of the segment on the show. Well worth a watch…

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Thu
Mar
09

2006

Origami Revealed

The worse-kept IT secret of the month is finally made official:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/umpc/default.mspx

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Wed
Mar
08

2006

Rocket powered VW

Now why didn’t they have this when I had my VeeDub in the 70’s?

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