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LTO to implement RFID tags on motor vehicles

Published by: yuga under: Curious , Tech Toys & Gadgets. 91 replies

posted: September 24th, 2009

News about the Land Transportation Office (LTO) implementing RFID tagging on all motor vehicles this October has been making the rounds of the evening news today.

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Cyber Clean: Cleaning Compound for Gadgets

Published by: yuga under: Curious. 22 replies

posted: August 3rd, 2009

Got intrigued by this jar of gooey compund which claims to be able to help clean devices and gadgets on the fly. So I bought one and tried it at home.

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Free Gadget Magazines: Do they work?

Published by: yuga under: Curious. 30 replies

posted: August 2nd, 2009

The Mobile Philippines magazine has been offering subscriptions for free in the last 8 months (at least) and I only found about it today.

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HP’s User-Generated Ad

Published by: yuga under: Curious. 18 replies

posted: July 10th, 2009

For companies like HP, user-generated ad is much better than user-generated content. This awesome ad was created by students, Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth.

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Post-It Stop Motion

Published by: yuga under: Curious. 8 replies

posted: June 24th, 2009

Some of the most interesting and inspiring viral videos take some skill and a whole lot of patience. Just take a look at this stop-motion video of a bunch Post-It on a wall.

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Convergence: Your Sofa and PC

Published by: yuga under: Curious , Personal Computing. 13 replies

posted: February 6th, 2009

While lot of the convergence happening in the tech industry makes a lot of sense, some just falls under i-have-money-to-burn. The Athena Sofa PC simply falls under that category.

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Lex Nokia: Monitor Employee Emails for Leaks

Published by: yuga under: Curious , Mobile. 7 replies

posted: February 2nd, 2009

Nokia has submitted a proposed law in Finland allowing them to be able to legally monitor incoming and outgoing emails of their employees in order to determine who are leaking trade secrets. The proposed bill is dubbed Lex Nokia.

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Clone your pet dog for $155,000

Published by: yuga under: Curious. 10 replies

posted: January 31st, 2009

This is something I’m particularly interested in — the first commercially cloned dog was featured on Fox News yesterday. See video clip from YouTube to learn more about it.

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Home-made Video: Thundercats Trailer

Published by: yuga under: Curious. 21 replies

posted: January 20th, 2009

Anybody still remembers the Thundercats back in the late 80’s? At first glance, this home-made video of a Thundercats trailer looks pretty convincing.

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BDO ATM on Command Line

Published by: yuga under: Curious. 25 replies

posted: January 10th, 2009

While making a withdrawal in one of the BDO ATM last night, the screen suddenly popped up showing a command line window. I was able to quickly take a quick snap shot below.

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What I want to see in 2009?

Published by: yuga under: Curious. 22 replies

posted: January 5th, 2009

This is more like a wish list rather than a prediction for the year 2009 with specific focus on the Philippine tech landscape. Hopefully, we’d be able to see some of the items on the list become a reality before the year ends.

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Smart Car: Swatch Mercedes ART

Published by: yuga under: Curious. 13 replies

posted: December 12th, 2008

smart carDid not know Swiss watch manufacturer Swatch was also making cars for some time now. This tiny, compact car I saw the other day is the most parking-friendly car I’ve ever seen.

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What if The Matrix ran on MS Windows?

Published by: yuga under: Curious. 9 replies

posted: November 27th, 2008

What if The Matrix ran on Windows? Check out this nicely done video parody after the jump.

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Check out Senate Bill 2150 and House Bill 3306

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere , Curious. 10 replies

posted: October 11th, 2008

These two new bill (The Right to Reply Bill) has recently drawn some attention as it recognizes the rights of persons to reply to media reports or commentaries that are erroneous, unfair or biased against them and injurious to their reputation.

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SM MOA installs hi-tech parking monitors

Published by: yuga under: Curious. 9 replies

posted: September 24th, 2008

Just this week, SM Mall of Asia started installing parking monitors on its multi-level parking section. The 3rd floor parking level is still closed for the renovation and i took pictures of the finished job on the 4th floor.

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GPS Film: Location-based Mobile Cinema

Published by: yuga under: Curious , Mobile. 1 reply

posted: September 23rd, 2008

Imagine watching a “choose-your-own-adventure” movie based on where you are located or where you are going. In Singapore, they’re doing the GPS Film, a location-based mobile cinema.

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Senate Bill No. 2464: The Anti-Porn Act of ‘08

Published by: yuga under: Curious. 22 replies

posted: September 14th, 2008

A member in the forums posted about this Senate Bill concerning the proliferation of obscene and pornographic materials both in print, digital and online.

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Kick-ass Special Effects Production by Filipinos

Published by: yuga under: Curious. 26 replies

posted: September 2nd, 2008

If you been watching some of the recent Pinoy TV shows and movies, you’d notice that most of the special effects aren’t that good, even decent. So this comes as a huge surprise to see something like this (see video after the jump).

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Trouble with BDO Credit Card terminals

Published by: yuga under: Curious. 15 replies

posted: August 22nd, 2008

This was sent in by BPI Express Online to all their customers today. Apparently, there were some problems with Banco de Oro credit card terminals that erroneously reported charges in dollars instead of pesos. So don’t be shocked if you see a $5,000 charge in your bill instead of Php5,000.

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Philippines ranked #8 on Worldwide Porn Revenues

Published by: yuga under: Curious. 23 replies

posted: May 28th, 2008

With about $1 billion in annual revenues, the Philippines is tied at No. 8 with Canada and Taiwan for the largest revenues from pornography in 2006. This is according to the Internet Pornography Statistics report by Jerry Ropelato of Top Ten Reviews. For a poor 3rd 2nd world country, that’s something, huh?

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