Well, I have played my share of racing games, NFS being my all time favorite. I have also used mapping services here, most commonly google maps. Now, what if the race car view of cars was integrated into a mapping service? So, that you could virtually drive though streets with photographs of the localities to get yourself comfortable with landmarks ( Read more... )

In Internet Explorer. Goto this place, and scroll down. Amazing amount of details is captured at this site.


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Spark offers a virtual reality based fitness program. You can cycle virtually in the Alps, or race against your friends. Wow...Would make a trip to the gym more like a trip to a video game arcade. How long before this becomes mainstream?


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Choose prospective seat mates when you fly...from networking with people, to match making, to similar interests....to anything else...u mention what kind of person you want to be seated with.. and they (the service) try and match you up....Interesting.....Could save a lot of the boring time you spend in the air...Especially for people who travel ( Read more... )

I heard of an interesting new service named SiteAdvisor. They surf the web, signup to various sites, download files, add their email addresses to sites, and then built a rating system for various websites, their shopping areas and other aspects. Users of this service would then be told of the potential harm/good/spamminess of various areas of the ( Read more... )

Slashdot had reported that the original iPod was lame! Coz ...'No Wireless, Less space than a nomad'.

If ever there had to be an example of the gap between geekdom and consumerism...this illustrates it best.


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This article talks about how a site which was known to be pilfering a lot of content, was then attacked by a denial of service (DoS) attack. The said site was the target of a number of hackers, with tutorials making rounds on the web, on how to launch attacks. All of this, was the result of a huge amount of bad taste that the site generated for ( Read more... )

Intel P4 processor overclocked to 7.1 GHz using liquid nitrogen!!


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