NewScientist: New Technology & Science News

Science and technology news featuring dancing robots, amazing optical illusions and the latest on depression research from NewScientist.

Trusted Tours & Attractions: Honolulu Relaxation

The tech industry has grown in Hawaii, with more companies understanding that a happy employee is a hard-working employee. As a tech employee myself I really enjoy visiting Honolulu, it is relaxing and I forget about all the responsibilities I left behind at work.

While in Hawaii I participated in sightseeing tours from Trusted Tours & Attractions. We enjoyed a luau, learned how to hula dance, and got to see a first hand look at the Thurston Lava Tube. Also interesting to see was the Pearl Harbor tour and the history of Oahu's Pacific Aviation Museum. It was difeinatly a good trip and a vacation I will take again. Next time I want to take a helicoptor ride around the different Hawaiian islands and see some volcanoes and waterfalls.

Honolulu Tours
The Trusted Tours & Attractions offers great opportunities to wine and dine your clients. Taking them on a Honolulu tour of the different islands will help seal the deal. Honolulu tours are also a great sales incentive or vacation spot for tech employees.

Visit Trusted Tours & Attractions to win a handheld GPS by signing up for the newsletter. The newsletter includes a lot of specials for tours in many different cities around the United States including New York, Washington DC, and San Diego. If you win the handheld GPS you will be able to find your way around any city and take a guided tour of your own.

2008 CES Best In Show - Motorola Rokr E8

Motorola Rokr E8, announced at the Wynn Hotel during a late-night press conference the E8 is one of two handsets Moto is announcing at CES 2008.

Motorola Rokr E8 features include a Linux/Java OS, support for Windows Media Player 11, a large (2-inch) 262,000-color display, 2GB internal memory, stereo Bluetooth, USB 2.0, Moto's CrystalTalk technology, an external memory card slot, a 2-megapixel camera, a digital-music player, and a full HTML browser.

Game O Love: Valentine's Contest Oh LA LA!

Are you ready for Valentine's Day? Have you picked out a present for your sweetheart? Do you want to win your present, something exciting from Overstock.com?

Valentine's day is an American romantic holiday that most men can't skip. If you are a guy and have a girlfriend, you really need to get something nice for them on Valentine's Day. Whether it is candy, flowers, or jewelry from Overstock.com, you have to get them something. If you don't you will be in the dog house for weeks to come.

Good Valentine's Day Gifts
You can go with a ring, tennis bracelet, or necklace. You can get a DVD of your valentines favorite movie or TV show. If you are into music you can purchase an MP3 player or iPod. Whatever you choose make it unique, don't get the same thing two years in a row. Overstock.com has a lot of great presents, electronics, DVDs, jewelry, and clothing.

Play the Game O Love contest from January 25th to February 11th at Overstock.com to win Valentine's Day presents from your sweetheart.

I want to win an iPod and load up my "mixed tape" for my valentine. I signed up for email alerts on the Overstock.com's "Game O Love" Website. I hope I am a winner! Sign up for this contest and win something really cool even if you don't have a valentine.

Jerry Yang speaks at 2008 CES

Enjoy part 1 of this talk with Yahoo! CEO and Chief Yahoo! Jerry Yang, from 2008 CES Tradeshow Monday, January 7, 2008, Las Vegas Hilton Theater.

SweetIM: Instant Messenger Icons, Sweet!

Do you enjoy adding smiley faces, funny pictures, and sound to your instant messages? Do you want to add funny emoticons to your forum and blog avatars? SweetIM is free to use, and safe of any spyware and adware.

SweetIM is an add-on for various instant messengers, webmails, forums, blogs and spaces. Enhance your communication with fun, cool, hilarious content emoticons, Winks, Sound FX, games, glitters and cool nudges. SweetIM for IE enhances Internet Explorer by including a toolbar allowing you to add your favorite icons to any web based application including Hotmail, Yahoo! mail, Gmail, Web forums, blogs, and other web based applications.

Community Forum
SweetIM has a forum where you can share information, announcements, news, free emoticons, sound FX, games, and smileys. Talk with other SweetIM users about music icons, love and relationships, sports, games, automotive, and other topics SweetIM users may enjoy.

SweetIM Links
Offered is a list of links and resources for additional messenger add-ons, emoticons, avatars, and fun icons to add to your instant messages. Learn about messenger news, MSN messenger applications and add-ons, new emoticons, avatars, skins, and more gadgets for MSN messenger.

SweetIM News
Learn more about SweetIM and the opportunities to enjoy a better instant message experience. Learn about SweetIM 1.1.0.162 released to support Windows Live Messenger 8.0, and other news about SweetIM.

LG Watch Phone: 2008 CES Gadget

Watch this video about the LG watch phone from CES 2008. If you missed the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year, check back and see videos from the tradeshow.

Get Paid on 100% of Traffic

Do you want another option to Google Adsense? Are you a trend-setter and want to take advantage of the next big trend in paid advertising?

Net Audio Pay-Per-Play advertising is an audio-only advertising channel backed by one of the bigger search engines. Like PPC advertising, the System works on a bid management system similar to Google AdWords and will compensate publishers just like Google AdSense, however publishers will earn revenue on 100% of their traffic, no click-through necessary.

The System is a way for advertisers to serve a 5 second audio advertisement to website visitors, and target their 5 second audio ad to specific interests, demographics and geographic locations. Only one 5 second ad is played each time a visitor navigates to a website participating in the PPP system to not annoy the website's visitors.

Net Audio Ads has been around for over 2 years, with over 60,000 advertisers and over 550,000 websites responsible for up to 43 million audio streams (impressions). Net Audio Ads has a lucrative affiliate program that will end as of February 1, 2008. After February 1, 2008, the program converts to a "Host Only" model, meaning you will only make revenue from the ads placed on your own site.

If you want to participate in the full affiliate program and reap the rewards sign up before February 1, 2008.

2008 CES Walkthough

Did you miss the Consumer Electronics Show CES 2008 Tradeshow? Here is a quick roundup of all the electronics you missed.

Take a walk with Tiernan Ray of Barron's Online, as he reviews the top new technologies at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Yawpbox.com: 15 Minutes of Fame

With the success of YouTube and user-generated video, many Internet users are looking to streaming video to entertain them while they relax, commute, or want to watch TV. I only see an increase in user-generated video uploading and viewing as the mobile Internet and the success of the iPhone increase the options users have to enjoy streaming video on the go.

YawpBox TV
At YawpBox you have the opportunity to create your own user-generated content and upload it to the video, audio, and picture sections of the Website. If your life experiences are interesting, Lex & Terry will include it on YawpBoxTV.

YawpBoxTV is a 30 minute weekly "magazine style" show, filmed before a live studio audience. YawpBoxTV will be the first TV show where the content includes only user-generated video from a social networking site. To host this show, YawpBoxTV picked Lex and Terry to contemplate popular user-generated videos from YawpBox.com and introduce the people behind the videos.

15 Minutes of Fame
It is amazing how so many ordinary people can be entertaining, take LonelyGirl15. Before LonelyGirl15 posted a video on YouTube, no one knew this user and had never heard of LonelyGirl15. People started to watch this user's video more and more and they became YouTube celebrities. So many people enjoyed their videos that it perpetuated the Blair Witch Project syndrome to the next level. Anyone could videotape themselves and host it on the Internet, and get their 15 minutes of fame.

Lex & Terry Challenge
If you want to get your 15 minutes of fame, Lex & Terry offer challenges to the YawpBoxTV viewers to come up with a video on a specific topic, the best one will be included on the Lex & Terry show. Some of the initial challenges include; best tattoos, do whatever you can to be a star, and have you ever had a mullet.

Just upload your story to YawpBox.com and who knows you many be the next LonelyGirl15.

2008 CES Tradeshow: MP3 & Portable Video Players

The iRiver W7, an MP3 player with GPS capabilities. With the iRiver W7, you have the option to buy a car mounted cradle that adds the GPS functionality. The player can stay compact and impressively thin for "on-the-go" use, while still offering a handy GPS navigation while in the car.

Dry Shampoo: Cleanse Your Hair On The Go

Last month I was getting ready go to a work party and didn't have much time to get ready right after Survivor. I jumped in the shower and ended up being late for the work party, and missed the speech given by our CEO.

The next day I had to hear about my tardiness from everyone. They kept razzing me about how I was late for such an important speech. If only I had a bottle of Salon Grafix spray power shampoo. Now I keep a bottle of Salon Gafix dry shampoo for just those situations where I need to get ready, take a shower to wash my hair, and get to a party.

Have you ever been out clubbing all night, your hair is full of hair spray and you need to go directly to work. If you used Salon Grafix dry shampoo, you can clean your hair and style it for work. Salon Grafix dry shampoo also helps with color matching, so if you have roots to touch up, use Salon Grafix dry shampoo in between normal shampoos when you are on the go.

Salon Grafix also has a large array of beauty and health products including shaping hair spray, freezing hair spray, instant volume, travel size hair spray, non-aerosol hair spray, weightless gel & mousse, gigahold, and M professional beauty products.

CES 2008 Tradshow: Best In Show - Emerging Technologies

The Bug Labs platform, described as "the Lego of gadgets" by Webware's Rafe Needleman, the Bug Labs platform starts with a minicomputer, the Bug Base, where you can snap multiple modules, including a digital camera or an LCD screen. You can then program your own software to run your custom gadget. You can also download software others have written from the Bug Labs site.

With four modules to snap on your BugBase, you have four gadgets in one. Hopefully the first of many more innovative consumer electronics from Bug Labs.

VistaPrint Postcards: Hit The Bullseye

Are you looking for an inexpensive yet visual way to increase sales through targeted marketing? Postcards are a great way to introduce new customers to your products and services, and to remind your loyal consumers about your brand. You can include promotions, coupons, or other advertising on each postcard. Postcards are a great way to target local areas right to their mailbox. Postcards are the least expensive way to reach your customers by mail.

VistaPrint offers full color custom postcard printing and business postcard design options. With over 70,000 free stock images to help create your custom postcards and hundreds of postcard design templates, you can design the postcards that will increase sales.

New Postcard Mailing Services
VistaPrint will not only create your postcards but they will fulfill your postcard mailing. You can choose from targeted mailing lists or upload your own mailing list. VistaPrint offers discounted postage rates since they work in bulk.

With VistaPrint you can order color or black and white postcards, customize them with your own pictures or choose from hundreds of templates and thousands of pictures. You can purchase mailing lists or upload your own, and VistaPrint offers bulk postage discounts. The best option in postcard targeted marketing is VistaPrint.

CES 2008 Tradshow: Best In Show - Computers & Hardware

Did you miss the Consumer Electronics Show this month in Las Vegas? This is the first installment of the best of CES 2008.

Lenovo has announced a whole new brand of consumer-oriented laptops and desktops, called IdeaPad and IdeaCentre. The new computer lines are intended to complement ThinkPad and ThinkCentre.

The IdeaPad offers touch-sensitive media controls above the keyboard and a bright orange button, called the Shuttle Key, which can be used on its own to control volume or in combination with the touch controls for additional functionality. Every IdeaPad comes with a built-in 1.3-megapixel Webcam, VeriFace software for biometric security via face recognition, and a Novo key that provides quick system recovery.

Live Fire Training Units: Training to Save Lives

Are your firefighters ready to protect the lives of your communities? With all the budget cuts on police, emergency response, and fire departments, your firefighters can use FireBlast 451 to purchase portable training units.

Fireflash series provides a full range of training options with the latest technology. The training series fire fighting equipment comes with on-board propane supply, on-board generator and smoke machine, color screen with data tracking, password access levels, gas, and temperature monitoring, and other features designed to meet the requirements of NFPA 1001 and NFPA 1403 standards for live fire training evolutions.

Also available at FireBlast 451 for portable training, fixed training, training props, and structural retrofitting to improve your fire safety training unit.

Pre-Patent Protection: Invention Insurance

Informational video produced to help inventors protect and market their inventions, the founder of the Inventor's Assistance League (IAL). IAL teaches inventors how to "pre-patent protection" so the inventor can discuss their ideas with the market under controlled conditions to determine if the idea has market value.

If you have an invention and want to get it to market, you have to see the video about pre-patent protection.

The Science of Dieting and Carbs

Are you eating good carbs or bad carbs? Do you feel tired and hungry after you have a meal with simple carbs; white rice and white bread. These foods have been processed, they are too easy to digest and all the nutrients have been stripped from them, all you get are bad carbs.

Bad Carbs
If you eat carbs that digest quickly, they can turn into sugar quickly and spike your blood glucose and increase insulin as a response. The body digests the nutrients and the excess calories become body fat.

Good Carbs
Good carbohydrates are found in nutrient-dense foods that provide vitamins and essential nutrients that help protect your heart and prevent diseases. These are considered complex carbohydrates and are found in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, tea, coffee, dark chocolate, red wine, and oatmeal. Not only will good carbs not turn into sugar quickly, they will also keep you feeling full. No more overeating of simple carbohydrates because your stomach and brain tell you that you are hungry.

Chefs Diet delivery offers prepared meals right to your doorstep. Get moderate-carb diet meals from Chefs Diet and no more counting carbs, just eating and enjoying the food. Everything in moderation, including carbs.

2008 Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco

Are you ready for the biggest Web 2.0 Expo yet? The 2008 Web 2.0 Expo will feature 30,000 square feet of tradeshow goodness filled with exhibitors showcasing their tools, technologies, services, infrastructures, and other Web 2.0 information.

The Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco happens April 22-25, 2008 at Moscone West in the heart of San Francisco.

Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco Tracks:
- Strategy and Business Models
- Marketing and Community
- Design and User Experience
- Focus on Mobile Web
- Focus on Web Operations
- Focus on Social Platforms

Register by March 20th for the Web 2.0 Expo and receive a savings of $200 for the Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco. Another great Expo and Tradeshow from the O'Reilly organization.

Temperature Room Sensor: Tom Cruise would be proud

Do you want to reinact the scene from Mission Impossible where Tom Cruise is hanging from the ceiling and a bead of sweat falls and sets off the ambient air temperature sensor?

Or do you have better ways of using a room temperature sensor? Maybe you are a small business owner and you have a server room that you don't want to overheat. Do you live in Arizona in the summer and want to make sure your computer doesn't overheat? Maybe you are doing an experiment and want to keep track of the temperature of a room by sending yourself emails rather than taking temperature checks?

There is a product that sends out email alarms if the ambient air temperature falls below or climbs above the range you set, from Temperature Alert. Pick up one now and save your company money by not overheating your server room.

Top Retro Science Fiction Movies #21-#30

I know, more science fiction movies but if you are reading this blog it means you like sceince fiction movies as much as I do. More science fiction movies you should rent at Hollywood Video.

21) The Last Starfighter
22) Imposter
23) Solaris
24) Mission To Mars
25) Pitch Black
26) Alien Nation
27) Flash Gordon
28) Sphere
29) Black Hole
30) Time Cop

I think I have exhausted the subject. I have a few more movies to add but I will let you the reader the ability to vote for your favorite retro sci-fi movie.

No Don't Delete! Recover Your Deleted Files

Did you just delete all of your clients information from your computer? Do you have a big presentation that was lost right before you finished it? Did you delete your 2001 tax documents and just get audited by the IRS?

If you need to recover files on your computer you can use file recovery software from File-Saver.com. As featured on CNN, File-Saver can recover deleted files with the world's smartest undelete tool. Whether you emptied your recycle bin or a computer virus wiped your computer clean, use File-Saver Software to quickly recover hundreds of deleted files.

View screenshots of the software in action, recovering your deleted files and updating you with the instant image preview, enhanced recovery algorithm, folder structure restore, and full support for any drive.

Retro Science Fiction Movies #11-20

I have so many more science fiction movies to add to my top list I have included this list from #11-20. These are some of my favorite sci-fi movies that you should rent on Netflix.

11) War Games
12) Robocop
13) Contact
14) WestWorld
15) 2001: A Space Odyssey
16) Total Recall
17) Stargate
18) The Fifth Element
19) X-Files The Movie
20) Galaxy Quest

This is the #11 to #20 list of retro sci-fi movies I love to watch and recommend for you to rent on Blockbuster.com. More to come, enjoy the nostalgia.

Online Prescriptions: Faster, More Secure, and Cheaper

Don't you hate going into a pharmacy and ordering prescription drugs that you wished no one knew about? Want to keep your privacy but still get prescription drugs quickly and securely? Ready to purchase your prescriptions from an online pharmacy?

Buy-Pharmacy-Online allows you to select the medicines and prescription drugs you need, fill in our medical questionnaire, and submit your order. Their U.S Licensed Physicians will review your order and issue your prescription. Their U.S. Licensed Pharmacies will dispense, and FedEx your order discreetly in 24 hours.

Get safe and secure prescription drug ordering, keep completely private, and work with U.S. licensed pharmacies and physicians to get your medicine online.

Top 10 Retro Sci Fi Movies To Watch

Do you like science fiction movies? Can't get enough of the sci fi genre? These are 10 top retro sci fi movies to watch and enjoy.

1) The Matrix
2) Runaway
3) Tron
4) Cherry 2000
5) The Terminator
6) Blade Runner
7) Logan's Run
8) Robot Jox
9) Star Wars Trilogy
10) D.A.R.Y.L.

I think I will do a part two later, because I have so many more movies that I would like to add to this top 10 list of science fiction retro movies. Is your favorite not on this list? Add it to the comments with a link to the official website.

Be Wize: Millions of Opinions. One Score.

With almost every electronics company making DVD players it is important to know what you are buying, is it the best dvd player? Has it been reviewed by users and experts in the industry? Are you getting a good deal?

Wize makes finding the right product easier and faster by gathering all the information and opinions on the Web and creating an easy to understand rank called the WizeRank.

WizeRank
Because of the huge amount of consumer opinion, reviews and ratings, it is extremely difficult to figure out the right product to purchase. Wize has created the WizeRank to help save time. A seller with a WizeRank of 90 or above means users and experts agree that this is a great product, and there are almost no negative reviews for this product.

If you are looking for the best cameras, camcorders, electronics, computers, video games, health & beauty products, and home & garden items; Let the WizeRank algorithm choose your next product from millions of choices, with millions of opinions.

The Wii Laptop?

It's the Wii laptop, check out the features; 16:9 widescreen LCD, 7-inch diagonal, stereo sound, gamecube controller port, built-in short range sensor bar, ports for using original Sensor Bar and A/V output jacks, built-in power supply and compartment for power cord. That's right a Wii laptop.

IP Address Cloaking for Wikipedia Changes

Do you browse on the computer at home or at the office and wish you could hide your IP address? Hide IP address with this software from Hide-My-IP-Address to cloak your computer and hide your tracks from other Internet users.

What is an IP Address
An IP address is the location of your computer, offering a geographic location that is specific to your computer.

One of the uses to hide your IP address, on the top of my mind, is to make changes on Wikipedia anonymously. Wikipedia keeps track of every IP address that makes changes to any article on Wikipedia. With this software you could make changes, and they will probably be changed back by an editor. However, you not get caught red handed because your IP address would be hidden. I

am sure someone will come up with an IP hide buster, but until then you can hide your IP address with this software from Hide-My-IP-Address.

Tracking Dependence in Microsoft Excel 2007

Want to use Microsoft Excel's full features and formulas? Learn how to tracking dependence in new Excel 2007. A quick and easy video on for Excel 2007.

Password-Studio: Excel Password Recovery Tool

There are many reason to password protect a spreadsheet. Most of the time I will password protect a calculation or formula that I don't want to lose or if the spreadsheet is shared throughout the office. It is a great way to stop the loss of important and intricate formulas and formatting.

Have you ever put a password on an Excel spreadsheet to lock the cells from being changed? Have you ever forgotten the password?

I inherited an Excel spreadsheet from another colleague after they had moved to another job. I opened the password protected spreadsheet Password-Studio's Excel password recovery tool. In seconds I was making changes to this locked Excel spreadsheet.

Never get locked out again from an Excel password protected spreadsheet, use Excel password recovery from Password-Studio.

Agile Software Development: Pays To Know

OutSystems explains the reason why Agile Software Development projects make economical sense. Watch this video to get an overview of the advantages of Agile Software Development.

Free Airport Parking = One Night at Airport Hotel

Parking can cost an arm and a leg but you can save money. The secret is if you book a night at a hotel in the city you are flying out of you can request free parking while you are away on holiday or business. Not only do you get free parking, you are refreshed and not driving to the airport first thing in the morning. Where can you find these hotels near airports in the UK?

Airport-hotels.co.uk lists every airport hotel in the UK and then compares the prices to find the cheapest from all the major providers. Heathrow airport hotels include the Comfort Inn, Crown Plaza, Marriot, Hilton, Holiday Inn and many other high quality hotels near the Heathrow airport.

Also available is airport information, airport services, whether the airport has disabled access, and the level of business support. You can also check the cost of airport parking to compare it to parking at a hotel near an airport.

With Airport Hotels you can save money on airport parking and get a good nights sleep for your holiday or business trip.

PS2 vs. PS3: Hype or Hot?

Do you want to know the difference between Playstation 2 and PS3? Why would you want to upgrade to a Playstation 3? Watch this video from e3 2006. Playstation 3 is the next generation Sony Playstation, now available at your local video game store.

Scales Etc: Digital Pocket Scales

Are you a professional cook or need a state of the art digital kitchen scale? Are you on the South Beach Diet and need to weigh your food?

Scales Etc. offers kitchen scales, digital scales, food scales, digital fish scales, and digital pocket scales. New products include Escali kitchen scales and Red Palmscale 6.0 digital pocket scales.

Digital Pocket Scale
The MyWeigh Palmscale 6.0 is a digital pocket scale that can weigh grams, ounces, carats, troy ounces, and pennyweight. The LCD display is backlit and easy to see in low-light and in restaurants.

If you are looking for a scale that fits your kitchen decor or a pocket scale that is handy in a pinch, Scales Etc. has the scales you need at affordable prices.