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Ingenious Little Thing to Apply Gaffa Tape

http://digg.com/video/if-youre-a-filmmaker-you-need-this-ingenious-little-thing This looks like a cool device. I have used enough many meters of gaffa tape years ago that I know how much this kind of device can potentially help. Making applying gaffa tape over cables easy will speed up system setup, help safety because you would not try to get without taping cables and

Audio jacks evolution to confusion

In the portable electronics market, cell phones and MP3 players have greatly expanded the use of headsets for listening to music, making phone calls, and watching videos. Connecting headphones to the 3.5 mm plug used to be easy some years ago when headphones were just headphones (still then you might sometimes need to check sometimes

Funniest person in the world comes from Finland

Last week Laugh Factory had a Funniest Person in the World competition. The results that came out this week was that Finnish stamp-up comedian Ismo Leikola won the competition clearly. Is Ismo Leikola the world’s funniest person? The winner of the Funniest Person in the World competition is a brown-haired, slightly rotund stand-up comic from

TI Sensor Tag

I had a very quick hands-on with Texas Instruments CC2541 SensorTag last week. The CC2541 SensorTag is Bluetooth Smart development kit focused on wireless sensor applications targeted for smart phone app developers. The SensorTag can be used as reference design and development platform for a variety of smart phone accessories. CC2541 based SensorTag has practically

HTML5 is now a W3C Recommendation

Developers, browser vendors and the press have been talking about HTML5 for many years. In reality, however, HTML5 has been flux for a long time. But just yesterdays W3C Declares HTML5 Standard Complete as W3C today published its Recommendation of HTML5 — the final version of the standard after years of adding features and making changes