The Ashes

Osteoporosis, a bone condition affecting, according to the International Osteoporosis Foundation, over seventy-five million people in the U.S., Europe, and Japan, has been dominating headlines. Recently, the Canadian Medical Association Journal published a study stating that older people who break a hip have nearly a 25% chance of dying in the next five years, with [...]

The developer turned financier is backing RockMeIt, a mysterious startup staffed by two of his close associates, according to reports. Could a new browser further complicated SMB Web efforts?

VMWare’s VMsafe program is bringing more security options to the world of server virtualization.

Corundum Corundum is the form of mineral from which sapphires and rubies are derived. The mineral is naturally clear, but can have different colors when impurities are present. Transprent corundums are used as gems, and if they’re red, then they’re rubies, while all other colors are called sapphire. The word corundum comes from the Tamil [...]

Well known for offering stylish, consumer-friendly home products, Electrolux has come up with Oxygen Ultra with PlasmaWave features three-stage filtration, an odor sensor to automatically detect odors and PlasmaWave technology to neutralize viruses, bacteria, chemical vapors and gasses in the air. Boasting a sleek design, Oxygen Ultra by Raymond E.Clepper also provides almost silent operation. [...]

Based on a hotwheels car called the “nitro doorslammer” designer Kyle Houchens in collaboration with James Iida came up with one novel car shaped clock named snore slammer that is sure to be the next buy of auto-freaks. Using the Rhino 3d and the Universal Deformation Tools, the designer took original tiny car model, scaled [...]

Ever wished you could control your entire house with just a flick of the button? Well, no more just a wish! Dragging would do the needful. How? The CRISTAL(Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems) touchscreen interface coffee table is one giant universal remote. Just touch the appropriate part of the screen and control your gadgets, it’s [...]

Natural fibers used with carpet are produced either by insects, animals, or even plants. The fibers that are produced by insects or animals are known as protein fibers. Those that are made by plants are known as vegetable fibers. Vegetable and protein fibers share the common disadvantage that they are both very absorbent and will [...]

The same reasons you’ve turned to cloud computing to handle your business’ IT functions also apply to unified communications. So what’s taking the sector so long to catch on?

Conrad Chu, Design Director at Ask.com, thought he needed an image compression tool better suited for designers and front-end developers (compared to smush.it) and scratched the itch with pungpng. punypng is serious about image compression — it handles 8-bit PNGs, 24-bit PNGs, JPEGs, GIFs and animated GIFs. It also leverages dirty transparency techniques to further [...]