A cute invention!  This may just win a "cute-see" award soon.  The idea is described below.  While this may well be a "noble" process, for city-planners/engineers this may be a nightmare.  If this does spread flower power in the city, all the randomness would soon be a mess.  But hey, I like the idea... Perhaps this is much suited for the country instead?  I just think that cities are much better off with "pocket gardens" or "rooftop greens". Seeds are co-mingled with a bubble mixture and upon pedaling to your destination , you release the floating seeds which land in cracks and crevices throughout the city streets. Over time, the seeds grow into flowers and ...
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Here's a good case made by the GeekSugar.com blog (http://www.geeksugar.com/1550696), and is exactly what I have thought of regarding Apple's mighty mouse.  I've contemplated on getting one unit for 6 months already, but everytime I see a great deal from ebay.com, amazon.com, bestbuy.com or even apple.com I just can't seem to click that "BUY NOW" button.  I ended up (three times) getting an A4Tech mouse for both my brand new Macbooks. Yeah, I did give the Mighty Mouse a good try, I liked how it fits my hand.  I also liked the small scroll button (although I know I'd get tired of it soon), but over all, i'd give it a fair mark.  I'm ...
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I was strolling in a mall while listening to Leo Laporte and Amber McArthy on Net @ Night.  They were discussing about technology and how it has evolved many many times over.  I was quite struck from strolling to steps as Leo was clever to relate that his son was saying he was a geek.  Knowing who Leo Laporte is, I also said "yes, Leo, you're a geek" (in my mind of course).  But Leo went on to a light-bulb statement.  He said, "You know, my son says I'm a geek dad because I can do sooo many things.  But you see, he's geekier than me, yet he clearly doesn't admit it.  I had to learn ...
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Often this blog tells you about the latest and greatest gadgets and gizmos that are either just hitting shelves or soon to be released. Well today I need YOU to give me a better understanding of something... Recently, I listed my home with a real estate agent. Part of the selling process is taking pictures of each room to be posting on a Website. None of the rooms are humongous, and I found myself having trouble capturing multiple walls with my point-and-shoot digital Canon. What I needed was some type of wide-angle lens. Since I don't to shell out the money for (or learn how to use, for that matter) a camera with interchangeable lenses, I figured there ...
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As I write this, I'm running Windows on my laptop, here at the dinner table. It's been almost a year since I worked on Windows, meaning actually running it for a few hours and doing real work with it. With my computers usually running some flavor of Linux or Mac OS X, Windows has mostly only been run only in those rare instances I need to run Windows-specific software. My most recent acquisitions, being an Asus Eee (running on Linux) and a Mac desktop, have brought me farther away from Windows, I was almost tempted to wipe it out from my laptop. And yet here I am. I've booted up good ol' Windows XP because my wife wanted to ...
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  This is not a review, neither is this a rave or a rant.  I may just call this my way of just passing time.  But don't worry, i'll somehow bring this back to the tech talk we like here at gadzooki.com . Sunday afternoon, it was my time to just bum around in a cafe.  Brought my macbook with me to see the podcasts I've missed viewing this week.  After getting my fill from http://mahalodaily.ning.com and http://www.geekbrief.tv , I fired up Mail to check if there's something in my inbox. Well, got the usual junk stuff of course, but before I was able to hit the delete key the graphic above caught my eye. I was ...
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I was just lurking around on PhilMug.ph today and I saw a thread on the speculations of who will succeed Steve Jobs. I came across the name Jonathan Ive one time here on Gadzooki, I think, or was that on ZDNet, and when they said that he was the one who was behind all these sexy breakthroughs in computer and gadget designs, I did realize that the speculations of his succeeding the Apple Inc. throne are not too far off the mark.
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Notebook designers and manufacturers have long searched for the holy grail of power efficiency. For this reason, the architecture of portable computers has evolved so much since the advent of laptop computers. And one of the main ways to conserve battery life is by reducing hard disk spinning. Recently, the trend is going towards solid-state storage. This means drives that have no moving parts. Most popular of these is flash memory. They're cheap, durable, and can hold data even without power (unlike volatile RAM, which loses data when power is off). Since flash memory can allegedly reduce consumption caused by spinning hard drives, some manufacturers have switched to using solid state drives for their ...
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It was widely reported yesterday that the popularity of computer games are being blamed for a drop in the reading skills of primary school pupils, according to a new report. The Reading Literacy Study studies 45 countries in a variety of ways in order to come to some sort of understanding of the level of reading skills across the spectrum. England has moved down from 3rd in 2001 to 19th in 2006 – something which has shocked many, but not others, who feel that the education system in Britain is currently suffering – which is why there has been all manner of suggestions including keeping children in school until they are eighteen (for those who don’t know, you can ...
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While not very uncommon in the Google universe where products and services are in a perpetual state of beta, Google Talk sticks out like a sore thumb in contrast to the adoption and improvements other products have seen, such as Gmail (where frankly, the only thing missing is IMAP support and I'll be a happy boy) and Google, the one search service to rule them all in the Web 2.0 world, that not so long ago implemented "integrated search results" where links, images and video all appear in the same search results page without having to go to Google Image Search and Google Video separately. Google has made enough truckloads of money to cover acres and acres of ...
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