Techotic

CITA 2008 is kicking off this week, so expect a lot of coverage on mobile phones. LG unveiled their 3 new Smart phones to the public.

The 3 LG Smart phones being shown are:
-LG-CU920 (LG Vu) will be available with AT&T in May 2008.
-LG-VX9100 will be available in the USA in April 2008.
-LG-AX830 a slider touchscreen device.

An 11-year-old student named Jon Penn took over a small private school’s network when the IT support person suddenly quit. Ben’s mother Paula initially took over the role as an IT support, adding another responsibility on top of her already heavy workload as the school’s librarian.

Lisa at TokyoMango found Puppy the World whilst walking her dog in Tokyo, Japan. Apparently Puppy the World is a disturbing dog rental store, where you can choose from a variety of dog breeds to rent for $19 USD an hour or $100 USD for a whole night.

Over at Worth1000 they’re running a Steampunk Photoshop contest which is ending today 31/03.2008.

The rule of the game are thus: Create fantastical steampunk imagery. Special thanks to philgtaylor for giving us an idea of what a steampunk mobile phone might look like!

Becker Autoradio has been one of the best European car radio manufacturers since the 50s. Their new model the Becker Mexico 7948 may look like a bad 70s mono radio. Apart from the fact that it includes all these non-70s features like trendy turn by turn GPS navigation, an MP3 player voice recognition control, iPod interface, and internet access. All this doesn’t come cheap at around $3000 USD.

Now here is a spooky game Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn. Basically, you’re an old woman walking around the graveyard and if you have the full version of the game, there is a chance that you might die.

Talking about the amount of memory needed for a PC. ‘640K ought to be enough for anybody’

‘DOS is ugly and interferes with users’ experience’

‘I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.’

I was fortunate enough to have stumbled upon an Arty bar in Old Street, Central London, UK. I don’t recall the name of the bar, but it was about 300 yards from Old Street tube station.

There are no shortage of USB hubs on the market these days, but most are just so boring to look at. The USB Star Hub II is a four ports hub with very colorful design, the kind that would brighten up any dull PCs.

I have found the perfect tent for this year British music festivals. If you are a regular British music festivals goer, you’ll know everything about rain and flooding.

Good thing about Treepee is it can be hung on a tree, a cross between a tree house and a tent. There are four tethers, one on each corner, preventing the Treepee from swaying from side to side.