Author: Swaroop

  • Magician Preaches the Truth about Lies using iPods [Video]

    We’re seeing a lot of magic tricks involving technology. Here’s another one and *ahem* and this time you’ll learn a thing or two about lies in this one. A round of applause for the magician Marco Tempest, he’s got great sleight of hand to pull this off so perfectly with 3 iPods. That’s magic fellows.…

  • Google Street View Soon In India, First in Bangalore

    So the cars we spotted earlier across India may not really be the "Street View" cars, they could have been just collecting WiFi triangulation data only. As reported on the Google India blog today, starting today tomorrow (27th May 2011), the Google Street View cars and a few Google Trikes (modified indian rickshaw with a…

  • Location Privacy And All The Fuss Around It

    Social check-in services have a secret agenda. They’ve grown to keep their user’s engaged by awarding them “new badges”, they make money by signing up deals with the famous places. If every one wins, what’s all this fuss about “Location Privacy” that’s on the news last week? I would classify the end-users who are “affected”…

  • How Green Is the iPhone Anyway

    So the big question is, how green are the gadgets that you use/used? When we’re talking about green/eco-friendly, what we’re looking for is How high the emissions are during production and  gadget usage. What material the product is made of (are those eco-friendly?) And how minimal paper/plastic the gadget package comes with. Is your gadget…

  • Glasses Free 3D on iPad2

    While wearing 3D glasses to watch immersive 3D videos in an IMAX movie theatre is fun, it’s dorky if you need to do the same on your phone/tablet while you’re on the move. Glasses Free 3D is the perfect (till we have 3D holograms) solution till then. It was introduced commercially on the recently released…

  • Google Street View Could Soon Be Real In India

    We’ve cited the Google Street View cars in various major cities in India before. Now we’ve recently captured them going around the streets of Hyderabad. Here’re some pictures up close. From what we hear, they’re running this operation right from Maharashtra (MH license plates).  

  • Leaked iPod Touch Shows A Capacitive Touch Button [Rumors]

    Thanks to the underbelly of the world, we have new rumors to chase every day. The latest amongst them is that of a leaked iPod Touch’s "blurry snap" showing a capacitive touch button (like those you see on the new Android phones) in the place of a hard button.

  • Doodle Jump is More Fun Now with Multiplayer mode

    If you have an iOS device and haven’t played Doodle jump yet, you might as well give your device away to an even dumber friend. Yes, we love Doodle Jump more than anything.

  • Firefox 4 Final Available For Download Now

    The most awaited browser release of 2011 is here (No M$ fans, I wasn’t waiting for IE9) What’re you waiting for? Head over to Mozilla’s FTP server to grab your copy ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0/ Directly jump here for Windows EN-US build and here for Mac. Mozilla doesn’t want people to download using these FTP servers which can’t…

  • Kinect Becomes Skynet, Destroys The World [Humor]

    Isaac Asimov developed the 3 Laws of Robotics for nothing. This video is a proof of what could happen when an unsuspecting software programmer develops a self-aware computer program that’s connected to the internet (has wealth of information) eventually moves on to destroying the world. I’ll leave saving the day to John Connor, while you…