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Touch Bionics has designed the first comercially available bionic hand. The i-LIMB is a fully articulating prosthetic device with five individually powered digits. Amputees will appreciate the various grip patterns that the i-LIMB is capable of. The key grip for holding business card or keys, the power grip for holding large objects, the […]

Miro is a free internet TV video player that also functions as a BitTorrent client, media player, video downloader, and podcast client. You can search for videos from within the application and download videos from YouTube, Google Videos, Revver, Veoh, and a few more.
The application uses an embedded VLC player to play Windows Media, Quicktime, […]

This week’s designated time waster is Home Run Boy. The game’s objective is to hit as many home runs in 100 seconds against a pitcher that has some crazy throws. Use your mouse cursor to aim and left click to swing. The action is fast and you can easily miss a lot of pitches (like […]

Have you ever wanted to drive through the streets of San Francisco or Seattle without having to worry about hitting other cars and pedestrians? The Windows Live Local: Virtual Earth Technology Preview lets you walk or drive around downtown San Francisco and Seattle without having to obey traffic rules. You can even drive over cars(yes […]

The Answers Corporation has just announced that it has bought Lexico Publishing Group for $100 Million. Lexico runs Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com. Answers’ chief executive, Robert Rosenschein, said that they would earn more advertising revenue from Dictionary.com than Lexico did.
Rosenschein further stated:
“We are actually buying a business, It just happens to own a great domain.”
How […]

The new breed of wrist watch has come out. You won’t have to change batteries and it always tells the precise time. The NOW Watch will display the exact time every day no matter where you are. Going to a different country? No problem. You won’t even have to adjust your watch. Want to know […]

Most of us visit a lot of blogs everyday and leave comments on the ones we like. Some people leave comments on other blogs hoping to get noticed and possibly gain more traffic. Others leave comments because they want to participate and make new friends.
Both reasons are perfectly valid. What a lot of people tend […]

DownloadHelper 2.3.2 is a Firefox extension that lets you download videos from most video sites like YouTube, MetaCafe, Veoh, Google Videos, LiveVideo, Tv.com, Myspace, and a lot more. Once installed, the DownloadHelper icon will notify you of videos and images you can download from the site you’re on by showing you a menu.
If the page […]