When it comes to freaky, funny, useless or eyecatching gadgets, then they’re
mostly from asia. The newest gadget is a iRoomba for your smartphone or
tablet PC. Setting up the little cleaner, it cleans the suface of your tablet in
8 minutes or then smartphone in 4 minutes. For 15 US$ it is obtainable.

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Some people never learn when to behave. For instance when being at court
for a felony. In this case, a young girl was sentenced to a penalty fee of
5000 US$ for possession of Xanax and B.A.R.S. – both pharmaceutics are
categorized as drugs as they can make you dependent of them quickly.

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Ever wondered how solid wood can be? Well, an austrian architects team has
planned an office building with 24 metres height and 7 floors over ground.
The building today is now operating as usual. Not only is the construction of
this building less CO₂ emmiting, it also is of regeneratiing materials.

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After 14 months it seems as if the small family cafe in Bonn, Germany finally
can stick to their logo without having to fear the wrath of the computer
and smartphone primus Apple. In October 2011, the owner of the small café
in Bonn got a not-so-friendly letter from Apple’s attorneys at law.

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The USA and Barack Obama have ratified an agreement to raise the debt
limit as long as needed without any upper limit. This way, the USA is trying
to ensure it’s full liquidity. However there’s some stale taste with this as the
actual 16.4 trillion DS$ debt equals 100% of the annual US economic power!

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Unbelievable: What looks like a plot for “Hidden camera: Fun with you” is in
fact the bitter truth for a clerk in Tel Aviv who parked her car on a free
parking lot. However the city authority of Tel Aviv was a bit consternated
about her parking there and decided to make her an official parking violator.

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It has been one of the most criticized traffic optimization projects: Stutgart
21, formerly known as the new central station allowing train pass through
instead of a terminus. Now it seems as if the projected costs of 4.5 billion €
cannot be stuck to and are recalculated to up to 6.8 billion €.

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Long time, iOS6 was claimed to be the first unjailbroken iOS for the iDevices.
But Evasi0n seems to have made the impossible come true: Evasion has finally
jailbroken iOS6 family (and even in Untethered mode!). So while most of us
iDevice users are just fine with the basic iOS, experimenting users can rejoice.

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It seems as if Apple has an internal problem with the Spell checking routine that
is serving many programs in OS X to use the correct words. However a simple
string may crash exactly this routine as the string ends up in a procedure that is
not supported properly and thus crashing every application using Spell checking.

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In New York, one of the biggest train station is now 100 years old and still
withstanding old and new age. With 67 tracks of which no far-distance trains are
leaving, it is for sure the biggest suburb-connecting train station. Opened on
February 2nd, 1913 at exactly 12:01AM it marked a new train traffic era.

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Remember my post about Gigabit WLAN (a.k.a. WLAN 802.11ac standard)?
The problem was that I couldn’t get hands on a gigabit adapter to connect with
802.11ac standard. But already the a/b/g/n performance is already freaking!
272 MBit/s is possible with the builtin WLAN of my notebook. Fast already.

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Long time it did not work out well for RIM according to the last smartphone
sales. However the new Z10 smartphone with the new Blackberry OS 10 is a
highly anticipated device. Now it seems as if the new gadget will be available
soon. But how does the new smartphone perform. Can it outwit the iPhone?

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So while the rest of the world has already been cartographed and also made
available with satellite images, North Korea was a simple plain white spot as
there were no satellite pictures allowed or cartographic material made in the
past. Now North Korea has also reached the digital cartographic age.

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HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies), which became a division of
Western Digital in March 2012, has announced that SAS-based server disks
in the 2,5″ form factor section have now a capacity of 1200 GB which equals
a doubling of space to the actual maximum capacity disks available.

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Seems as if cell providers in the USA had it with their “cheating”  customers.
According to a new law that will be active from January 26th 2013, SIM-
unlocking is considered a felony and will be punished after a trial period of
90 days. Penalties of 2500 US$ or even up to multiannual imprisonment!

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It seems as if the Nokia Lumia 920 is a big success. Based on this, Nokia is
most likely presenting a successor completely aluminum-hulled. The only
problem of the aluminum hull might be theGSM/UMTS/LTE signal, NFC
and induction charging. But for now, nothing else is known about the tech.

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So Tina Turner finally has decided to get the swiss passport and also become
swiss citizen. Living for over 20 years in Küsnacht (Zurich), Tina Turner has
enjoyed the decent respect she got in Switzerland. No picturehunters at her
doors waiting for a shot. And swiss fans didn’t bother her every time.

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The fate of Apple being big, is better to se than ever before. While Apple has
presented outrageous good balances, shareholders still punish the company
by selling shares in masses. The result is a 10 percent loss within one day!
So while the Apple share valuated 514.18 USD close on Wednesday…

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AMD has hit the honeypot. It seems as if both, XBox Next and Playstation 4
are using the new 8-core Jaguar Processor from AMD. Reasons for their
decision may be that the processor has much lower heat dissipation, easier
manufacturing process as the processor can be built in many foundries.

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Travelling can be dangerous. Especially into regions not as evolved as the
modern industrial states. In this case, a british housewife has to fear the big
consequences of smuggling drugs. What’s perfidious, is the fact that the
woman got oppressed to smuggle the drugs as her children were threatened.

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Ain’t no good day for Serena Williams as she got kicked out of the
tournament by a 19-years-old player. When she lost the game, she decided
to destroy her racket. Seems as if she can’t cope with losses. A dropout in
a tournament is annoying, sure, but short tamper is not the right path!

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Not one year without new gadgets for technic enthusiasts. So is 2013 also no
exception and the first gadgets have already been shown on the CES or at
least announced. So let’s start: The Huawei Ascend Mate, a smartphone-tablet
with a 6.1 inch display will hit stores approx in March 2013.

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So while the order of my new Horizon box has disappeared, I have reordered it
and with it the fast internet line Fiber Power 150. While the Horizon Box is still on
way, my new bandwidth seems to have already been applied. Puzzled to see
that my downloads boosted to roughly 17 MB/s I checked my line for speeds.

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Where the Mozilla project has dropped the 64bit support on
Firefox, a small team of developers has picked up the idea
again to release the newest version of firefox in 64bit. This
Firefox fork has the Social API included.

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It seems as if the USA have only one option to evade the debt crisis. Allow
more debts. The republicans have proposed, that the debt border line shall
be expanded with no limit until May, 18th to buy more time to find a way out
of the debt crisis. Is this the right way? Interesting is another passus.

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Ain’t no good day for the big three. Lucy Koh has ordered the three CEOs
of the respective companies into court so that they can state against the
charges of several IT businesses in SiliconValley. As the statement says,
There were llegal price fixings among the three concerning employment.

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Just few weeks after the massacre in Newtown where many people lost their
lives, another massacre hit Albuquerque, NM. A teenager aged 15 has shot
five people with an assoult rifle. Just few days before, Barack Obama has
given out proposals that make it harder to obtain heavy weaponry.

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The winter is sort of strange. The temperatures are barely below zero degrees
celsius and thus it is raining black ice. What males it so dangerous, is the fact
that you don’t expect extreme weather conditions. But what looks like rain,
quickly turns into a thick shell of ice. The result: Extremely slippery floors.

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The iPhone 5 was not the big hope Apple has seen it initally. Sales of the
next-Gen iPhone are rather mediocre. And this has already been reflected
by the Apple stock shares as they have lost about 20% of their highest value.
Apple has to do something to be back on tracks. Is the iPhone 5S the answer?

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There are lots of crazy news to read these days. But when it comes to absurd
things (things, normal people won’t do, usually!) then it makes me think what
could have moved person XY to do such a silly thing. In this news the
person has died shitting between platform and train and fell into the track.

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machines can be nasty during operation. in this case, an escalator in the New
York subway system went berzerk and just switched the direction while
people were on it. The chaos was programmed. But not only the direction
change was a problem, also the speed of the scalator changed to faster.

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It seems as if the EU had enough of all the wild west shoots from the US rating
agencies (Moody’s, Fitch, S&P). Since every new re-rating in the past year had
affected the european currency in a very negative effect, it seemd that the ra-
ting agencies took every news as a chance to re-rate european countries.

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