Blogs Continuing geek observations in Shanghai... Remember the days when China was famous for having hordes of bicycles on its streets? Possibly a sea of practical, standard-issue black bicycles as transport for the people? ...
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Blogs The other day, I went for a talk about changing world views. I learned that in the past, people did not consider it to be the Government's responsibility to provide welfare ...
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Crave The Orbis Urban Mobility Vehicle takes compact and portable to a new level.
I've always viewed the Segway as somewhat of a challenging ride. Firstly, strict road laws in Singapore ...
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Blogs I've lived my entire life almost in Melaka, Malaysia, an ancient city that's famous for chicken rice balls and the Straits Chinese culture. My primary school is smack in the middle ...
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Crave Looks like the ultra-cheap Tata Nano made in India isn't the only vehicle that's putting the populous nation in the limelight. A group of Indian engineering students have developed a bike ...
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Blogs I'm not much for predictions or speculation. I partake, but don't put much effort or faith in it. However, when I wrote in 2005 about my high hopes that China would ...
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Blogs More and more publications are reporting that temperatures on earth have stagnated or have even started cooling off. What if the global warming idea which has instilled fear that we're all ...
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Crave Postgraduate researcher Ryan Ladd helped develop Gymnobot at the University of Bath's Ocean Technologies Lab.
A robot fish developed at the U.K.'s University of Bath features a unique method of ...
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Blogs In the Story of Stuff, Annie Leonard gave an example of a cute little green radio she saw being sold for US$4.99. Could it really cost that little to make and ...
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Crave Via RipNAS announced its latest network attached storage devices this week--the Statement series--in solid-state drive and harddisk drive formats. The RipNAS Statement is purported as the first CD ripping NAS ...
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Crave A chemical used to make LCD televisions and semiconductors could cause more global warming than coal-fired power plants, a report warns. Nitrogen trifluoride is a "missing greenhouse gas", according to a ...
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Blogs The New York Times, my hometown paper and certainly one of the world's finest, most credible news organizations, has really taken to this whole Internet business (finally!). Nytimes.com has become a ...
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Crave Greenpeace released its latest Guide to Greener Electronics on Wednesday, revealing that promises aren't always kept. The Greenpeace guide, which started in 2006, ranks the top 17 PC, cell phone, TV, ...
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Blogs If there's one thing that makes me cringe, it has to be mosquito repellants. I certainly understand the need to have it--malaria is still a deadly killer in this part of ...
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Crave Perhaps in a sign of how the plague of social media has numbed us all to the value of legitimate human connections, the New Oxford American Dictionary has picked the verb ...
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