Strange Bicycle Models

This is awesome. I stumbled upon something on the net (yes... I'm starting to become addicted to that Stumble! button) and my preference settings in SU are set to humor/odd/bizarre so you can just imagine the kind of things I get to stumble upon. Just now I was going through it and found some interesting bicycle models.

Well it IS rubber after all

The picture above is just one of my favorites. If you look at it, it makes perfect sense really. The bicycle itself sends a funny but logical message. Being a bicycle, it can take you to places faster than walking so the shoes kind of symbolize the fact that if you use a bicycle, you'd practically be using several pairs of feet. See how I can put art into everything? Awesome right? LOL.

There are more examples of strange bicycle models in the website I stumbled.

More at this website: http://thehomebased.com/?p=89

iPhone 3G: battery life

Much has been said even before the iPhone 3G came out and now that it's ready for consumption, people have been doing a lot of test-drives that pushes the phone's limit. Just to make sure it's worth your money. Apple said that the iPhone 3G can last five hours for talk time and people have been groaning about it. Is it really that bad? Now since I'm not exactly a big Apple fan (not a Microsoft baby either) I would still want to know how long I can use it. If it's going to be an all-purpose phone and with 3G, I would want something that can last me especially with the price it's asking me to pay.

So I came across this post on comparing iPhone 3G's battery life.

source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9992887-1.html

3G talk time (in hours) of GSM phones
(Longer bars indicate better performance)

LG Vu

3.16

LG Shine CU720

3.68

Nokia N95

3.5

Nokia N78

8.5

Nokia N75

2

Motorola Z9

3.16

Motorola Q9h

4

HTC Touch Dual

3.2

AT&T Tilt

3.5

Apple iPhone 3G

4.95

Palm Treo 750

3

Pantech Duo

4

when you look at it like that... it doesn't seem so bad now, does it?

Gadget for the Ladies: Pink Laptops

When laptops started to come out, they looked like big bulks of heavy gray books. Hence the term notebooks. Most of the early releases were unbelievably heavy and had a functional (but not stylish) design. As the years progressed, laptops started becoming smaller and their designs got more intricate. People flocked to buy laptops for various purposes and the age group of laptop users started getting younger and younger.

So it's only natural for laptop manufacturers to start making their designs and their functionality more suited to a wider market.

Here's two companies that took this to heart and started making pretty pink laptops:

Sony Vaio CR

The Sony Vaio CR series has most of its appeal resting on its delicious colors. It also comes in white, red and dark blue. When I first saw these babies I immediately thought that they'd be prone to defects and early death. Something that pretty can't be that durable right? And besides it's Sony. I've had my fair share of sad stories from Sony laptops.

Rundown of its features: It has WXGA screen, a built-in webcam, built-in wifi-adapter and an integrated graphics card. Definitely not the laptop for you if you're a hardcore gamer as this will probably die on you during the loading screen. However, if you're going to use it for light work then it's okay. Oh and of course ladies would love the color.


Dell XPS M1330

This particular design of Dell is the thinnest in its class. So you don't just get something pretty and pink, you also get something thin too. Now isn't that what every woman is aiming to be at the very end? Okay, I was just kidding. No need to kill me now.

Anyway the Dell XPS M1330 besides being pink, performs pretty well considering its size. It's processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (2 GHz); RAM installed: 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM; Weight: 4 lbs

Not bad, not bad at all. Though still not for gaming. As most laptops usually aren't. No surprise there. But it does perform good for a (pink) laptop.

Ladies take design and style into consideration sometimes taking up a bigger priority so I guess these companies are now catering to much more specific needs by putting design first. They are probably recognizing the fact that they aren't just making these gadgets for the tech geeks but for normal people too who want to tug a long a laptop when they have coffee in Starbucks.