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• Tie your mother down – and your laptop

  

  Posted on 21 Mar 2011 by Alan Burns

  Apologies to Freddie Mercury for appropriating his song title. I’m really talking about tying your laptop down. I sometimes do my work in a public library. I have my laptop open, connected via the library’s free WiFi, and listen...read more

• He built a better shucker

  

  Posted on 11 Mar 2011 by Alan Burns

  I like it when someone examines an old tool and figures out how to make a better one. Toronto seafood restaurateur Patrick McMurray has done just that with the oyster knife. A four-time Canadian oyster shucking champion, 2004 North American...read more

• 2011 tablet market heats up with iPad 2 launch

  

  Posted on 03 Mar 2011 by Alan Burns

  In an article I wrote at the beginning of this year, I asked if 2011 would be the year of the tablet. Even this early, it appears that 2011 will be huge for tablets. 17 million tablets were sold last year, and analysts expect at least two t...read more

• New MacBooks hit the street

  

  Posted on 24 Feb 2011 by Alan Burns

  ? Apple today released its new MacBook Pro laptops. There is a 13″ using Intel’s integrated graphics, and a 15″ and 17″ that use dedicated AMD graphics cards. As with many new laptops from competitors, these feature ...read more

• New iPad rumours

  

  Posted on 12 Feb 2011 by Alan Burns

  The Internet and media rumour mills are buzzing this week. Pundits and fan boys are speculating about the anticipated next generation iPad. No less a voice than the Wall Street Journal is helping to spread the rumours. The newspaper cites p...read more

• Fingertip Optical Mouse

  

  Posted on 10 Feb 2011 by Alan Burns

  Here’s something different: a mouse that sits on your finger. Mouse buttons are on the left side, and are pressed with your thumb. There is also a thumb-operated scroll wheel. The tip of this device contains the optical sensor, which ...read more

• Colour changing laptop

  Posted on 06 Feb 2011 by Alan Burns

  Toshiba’s new Dynabook Qosmio T750 has a lid that changes colour. The metallic colours appear in a range from turquoise to deep blue and purple, depending upon your angle of view. It sounds rather like iridescent silk fabric. Toshiba ...read more

• Intel delays Sandy Bridge processor rollout due to flaw

  

  Posted on 01 Feb 2011 by Alan Burns

  Intel announced yesterday that it must delay production of its new Sandy Bridge Core family of chips for desktops and laptops. Intel quality assurance engineers found a “design issue” in the Cougar Point chipset that communicate...read more

• Microsoft’s Kinect game controller is a winner

  

  Posted on 31 Jan 2011 by Alan Burns

  Microsoft’s latest financial results show that it’s new gaming product is a hit. Back in November I wrote about the launch of the Kinect system , which is an add-on to Microsoft’s Xbox 360 platform. Kinect allows users to ...read more

• Spray-on clothing

  

  Posted on 12 Jan 2011 by Alan Burns

  Have you heard about this? Clothing in a can!  Point the aerosol can at someone, press the button, and out comes a spray of fibres that cling together on the recipient to become clothing. Once removed, the clothing can be laundered and...read more

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