The AirPatrol Crew is actively looking for designers to create a
controller casing for the latest model of the AirPatrol heater and air
conditioning control device. They’re ready to reward up to five
designers for their efforts, with a cool $750 going to the top case
design…
The rumored Thanksgiving release date for the Lumia 929 from Nokia has come and gone, and now we’re seeing a new possible release date. This time word has it the 5″ phone will be released in mid- to late December. There’s also new photographic evidence of the phone’s existence. Windows Phone fans (and observers) are […]
Panasonic’s ST/VT/ZT plasmas are the best televisions on the market, and they won’t be on the market much longer
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You’re sitting in a coffee shop sketching the layout of your new apartment for your friend. Okay, here’s the living room. Couch and coffee table are here. Chair here. I want to put a smaller chair over here. And then your almost incomprehensible chicken scratch turns into life-sized furniture before your eyes.
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A report on AllThingsD this weekend made a case for Tony Bates to take outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer‘s title. Bates is currently the EVP of business development, strategy and evangelism at Microsoft and formerly oversaw the Skype division (Microsoft took over Skype in 2011.) It would appear at least a dozen Silicon Valley “tech […]
If you’re filthy rich and happen to have a huge expansive library in your very own home, then you might have some use for this reading net. Otherwise, all you can do is stare at it longingly like the rest of us. Because while the net itself probably isn’t expensive, what’s the use if you don’t have a library to hang it in and complete the concept?
As you can see, the reading net is exactly what its name implies it is: it’s a net where kids can lie on while they do some reading. What makes it extra special is the fact that it’s meant to be hung over the first floor of the library.
[The Reading Net is] a meshed fabric suspended from the architecture of a family library, that acts as a second-level reading range. the hanging web is tautly attached to the railings of a lofted path, and — as both children and adults climb onto the woven expanse — they can both lounge and learn on the buoyant surface.
The reading net was designed by Playoffice.
[via Boing Boing via designboom via Geekologie]
With travel ramping up over the holiday season, we thought it wise to bring you a taste of Ostrich.
The Ostrich pillow, to be exact.
It’s a clever little pillow that slips over your head and covers everything but your nose and mouth. Though it doesn’t offer much by way of neck support, you can lay your head down and slip your hands in the holes on the top for a nice desk-style nap.
Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we’re using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment.
What? You thought we were done covering the next-gen …
This article was written on February 20, 2008 by CyberNet.
Web hosting is a big industry these days with so many people and businesses running sites of their own. Royal, which is Pingdom’s official blog, recently took a look at web hosting now versus 10 years ago. It’s actually amazing to see the changes in storage space offered, and the increases in data transfer between then and now. What’s interesting though is that while so many things have increased, one thing hasn’t, and that’s the price. The cost of web hosting has managed to stay exactly the same, if not lower, than what it was back in 1998. Take a look:
First of all, notice that the average price for web hosting back in 1998 was $16.28 per month while 10 years later in 2008, it’s actually lower at $12.95. You’d think with inflation it would have at least gone up some, but it didn’t. Of course back in 1998 there weren’t as many web hosting options out there. These days there are so many that they all compete for your business and do so by keeping prices at a minimum.
Next on the chart above is storage space. Back in 1998, companies on average offered 153 MB of storage to their customers. Today it’s 171,000 MB which is quite the difference. That increase in storage space is due in part because of the advances in the hard drive technology. With the increase in storage space came the increase in data transfer – 4GB back in 1998 compared to 1,770 GB today on average. As Royal points out, obviously network capacity isn’t keeping up with storage space because the increase wasn’t quite as large.
So what can we make out of all of this? Well, obviously people today are getting a bigger bang for their buck. More importantly though, the changes we see in the graph above from 1998 to 2008 seem natural. There’s been a natural progression in technology and of course storage space and data transfer are going to increase drastically over time. After seeing the changes that occurred over the last 10 years, what do you think storage space and data transfer will be like 10 years from now?
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