Android app for remote torrenting

For all you pirated material lovers out there, torrenting has gotten even easier. After Androidandme launched it's "Android Bounty" which is a "contest" that gives people incentive to build torrent apps in order to collect bounties from people, Alec Holmes came up with Torrent Droid, an app that scans UPCs with the built-in cam of an Android phone, finds the torrent on a major torrent host site and automatically starts downloading it on your home computer. Pretty impressive eh?
Only downside is that it only works on the Android platform of G1 phones but will hopefully be ported soon enough to Windows Mobile and the Iphone. The app has not yet been released to the public but Alec said that it will only take another month at the most to finalize this project. To get an idea of what this app is all about take a look at the video below.

Ski-jump (dump) bathroom stall

I love how Japanese people always come up with intriguing ideas that are certain to get people hooked. This is a bathroom stall meant to be a Coca-Cola ad at a ski resort in Japan and the idea behind it is both thrilling and dangerous at the same time. Thrilling because it looks like a real ski jump and dangerous because, captured by its realism, you might find that you're throwing yourself off the seat only to notice that you were not completely finished, if you know what I mean. Nonetheless, props to whoever thought this up. It's sure to get quite some attention and profit both to the ski resort and to Coca-Cola

EVGA implements Loaner Program

So the guys over at EVGA thought it would be practical or just good for advertising to start out a "loaner program" that works somewhat similar to the well known software trial idea. This Loaner Program as they called it gives people the chance to sign up and randomly get selected by EVGA to receive products for reviewing and testing. Like the "random" part won't get people skeptical enough, they thought it was a good idea to impose a rather harsh time limit on the loan. To be more precise, you only have two weeks before you have to send your product to ther participants chosen by evga. Also, at the moment they only have two programs available: one for their new X58 Classified motherboard (which I will talk about in a separate article pretty soon) and one for a Samsung 22-inch 120Hz LCD monitor with Nvidia GeForce 3D Vision glasses. The motherboard sounds like a rather delicious hookup but only if either you already have all the X58 setup parts but haven't decided on the motherboard or if you are just not satisfied with your current motherboard. Nonetheless, this sounds like a good deal for reviewers or for people who enjoy playing with the latest in technology for free. Don't lose this opportunity as you might be amongst the first ones to review the new Classified motherboard.

To sign up or get more information, click here

Samsung releases a Q2 portable media player

If you are looking for a media player that will last you a whole (long) weekend, look no more. Samsung has recently anounced this amazing little PMP gadget that has up to 50 hours of audio playback on only a single charge. Great for a very long trip or if you are just too lazy to constantly plug your choice media player in for a recharge. With a QVGA 2.4" display, microphone, FM radio, 8 or 16 GB of flash storage and a few other small features, this new PMP is bound to be your new take-it-everywhere gadget. However, for those internet aficianados, I'm sorry to burst your bubble and tell you that it lacks WiFi and Bluetooth. As for the pricing, there is no word out yet, however it is expected to come out for a pretty decent and affordable price due to it's lack of wireless features. Hopefully, Samsung will add a pricetag to it's newcomer PMP soon so we can get an idea if it is worth it or not.

Kepler leaves in search of other Earth-like planets

The Kepler spaceship left our planet on Friday, March 6th from Cape Canaveral, Florida for its three and a half year long trip to find other planets in our region of the Milky Way that resemble our own. In one of its reports NASA said that the main objectives of this spacecraft are to:

• Determine the percentage of terrestrial and larger planets there are in or near the habitable zone of a wide variety of stars;
• Determine the distribution of sizes and shapes of the orbits of these planets;
• Estimate how many planets there are in multiple-star systems;
• Determine the variety of orbit sizes and planet reflectivities, sizes, masses and densities of short-period giant planets;
• Identify additional members of each discovered planetary system using other techniques; and
• Determine the properties of those stars that harbor planetary systems.

For those of you out there that are keen on astrology and love to see rockets and satellites get blown into orbit, here's a video showing the launch of the 2200lbs of fuel per second burning Kepler spaceship.

Terminator 4 Trailer

Even though I am not a big fan of the whole Terminator franchise I have to admit: Terminator Salvation otherwise known as Terminator 4 looks like the series' saviour. The repeating plot and theme in all three of the first movies had most people and critics somewhat skeptical about this new installment. However, this new Terminator seems to take a different approach. Finally, after his numerous battles with the robotic assasins from the future, John Connor(Christian Bale) comes back in this movie to finally lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of robots. The trailer is trully breathaking and to be honest, it's got me really worked up. May 21st seems quite far away but I guess I'll just have to wait it out. Nevertheless, Terminator Salvation has a very high chance of being one of 2009's best movie releases

New Music Player Added To The Side

Well I figured sometimes it is just too boring to look through other people's blog entries or read a whole 2 page review on something so I was thinking about a way to spice it all up a bit so I said to myself: how about some music. Thankfully, the guys at grooveshark.com had just the thing. They let me customize my own music player and even let me add the music I wanted to a playlist which then you, my faithful visitors can use to select whichever song you want to hear. I hope you will all enjoy it and will come back later for more reviews and news. Thanks and leave a comment with your opinion on this new addon.

Asus's new Eee Keyboard Scheduled to hit the market this summer

We've all heard about the Eee PC craze a while back and some of us were interested enough to try them out. Nothing too crazy about them except for their rather small size and cost. After all they were netbooks which serve the purpose of mainly surfing the webs and doing some other low profile jobs such as word processing and instant messaging. After having died down, Asus is trying to re-initiate the Eee craze with its new Keyboard PC. Yes! You heard right! It is a netbook stuffed into a keyboard. The specs are quite okay as well. With a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, a choice between an 8GB or a 16GB solid state drive for your files and storage, Bluetooth, WiFi as well as a 5" touchscreen display where the number pad once resided, the Ee Keyboard PC already has a ton of fans. On top of the aforementioned specs, this new form of PC will have VGA and HDMI support so if the little touchscreen doesn't really do it, you can still hook it up to your big monitor. Like all that isn't enough, you have the option of connecting your screen wirelessly through the HDMI port. As for prices, this new PC will come in two flavours. The wired model will come out for about $400 while the wireless one will cost about $600. Make sure you check back on this product closer to its release date in either May or June of this year as prices might slightly change.

Moron smokes a bong with his cat inside

Ok so this is what happens when you frantically surf the webs in search of news and stuff to review: you stumble across idiotic things like this. The news of Acea Schomaker, an unemployed man living in Nebraska who put his cat in a bong as many as 3 times and smoked marijuana out of it has been madly circulating the internet. After being questioned as to why he did it, the 20 year old man answered by saying that the cat had been really hyper and scratched both him and his girlfriend and he only did what he did to calm down the cat. Police removed the cat from his custody and charged the man $400 but that is not it. He also faces a list of drug and misdemeanor animal cruelty charges. For those animal lovers out there, I am pleased to tell you that the cat was not hurt physically, however I cannot comment on the damage done to its mental abilities. One of the cops also reports that the cat did not move an inch while in the passenger seat of his squad car on its way to the humane society. After being thoroughly lectured by animal specialists, Acea told officials that he learned from his mistake and apologized for his conduct.

The release of office 14 now delayed until 2010

As you could probably guess from the title, Office 14, whose release date was hinted a while back to be sometime near the end of 2009 when Windows 7 is expected to be released, has now been delayed further to 2010. After an interview with a couple of Wall Street analysts, Steven Ballmer bluntly told them that “Office 14 will not be this year”. His quote coupled with the rumors that a Release Candidate version of the new Office is not planned to hit the web before this summer, all hopes of having a final version of the suite have been shut down. This might not seem as much of a problem since at the moment we have Office 12 otherwise known as Office 2007 that we can rely on. However, if we take into consideration the fact that in the past Microsoft has released most of its Office suites either at the same time they released a new OS or within a week or two of that particular OS's release, it is probable that Windows 7's date will also be pushed back in order to be put out on the market simultaneously with Office. Lets hope that this time Microsoft will act out differently and will release the new Windows before the end of the year as promised.