There are oodles of text to speech applications out there but here is an interesting service I stumbled upon recently. Have you ever wanted to create a podcast for your blog but had no idea where to begin? Perhaps Talkr is for you.
This online service will convert any text-only Atom or RSS feed into an [...]

Interesting item from Slashdot. Evidently a team of ham radio operators arrived in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to setup the areas first ham radio station 2 weeks before the tsunami hit. Once the disaster was well under way, the operators, relying on car batteries, became the main link to the outside world. Talk about [...]

Technology Review reports,
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota next week will begin issuing a first-of-its-kind driver’s license designed to thwart counterfeiters — an issue that has taken on greater urgency since the Sept. 11 attacks.The licenses have a security feature in which a reflective image appears to float above and below the card when the [...]

Technology is great until it becomes a pain in the you-know-what. But then someone inevitably comes up with a solution for the pain in the you-know-what and technology is fun again. Here are a couple of really cool items we’d love to get our hands on - a keychain remote that allows the user to [...]

I know that many people just hate turning on that bright bathroom light in the middle of the night when nature calls. So, what to do, what to do? In response to this most confounding of dilemas comes the Lav-Nav Nightlight. Lav-Nav, short for Lavatory Navigation, is basically an illuminated toilet. It even features [...]

Getting away from politics for a moment, here’s an interesting item about school kids and computer chips. Electronic giant Fujitsu has partnered with an elementary school in Tokyo to launch a trial program in which students carry tiny computer chips.
The chips are tracked by radio and send signals to receivers located at the school’s gates. [...]