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Main on January 13th, 2012 by Pingdom
No, we didn’t go to CES this year, but we’ve followed the action from Las Vegas from afar with great interest.
Today is the last day of CES, so we wanted to bring you a selection of what we thought were the most exciting new gadgets and technology coming out of Las Vegas this January.
So here’s our pick for the ten most exciting gadgets at CES 2012, in no particular order.
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Main on December 2nd, 2011 by Pingdom
Besides the pocket protector, every geek has to have a wristwatch. The problem is that it can’t just be any old watch. It has to be connected to the Internet, work as a calculator, show the weather forecast, and of course also tell time.
But of course only a small percentage of geeks will actually wear a wristwatch, relying instead on smartphones. However, we feel obliged to point out some alternatives should you choose to put a timepiece on your wrist.
We scoured the web to find 10 wristwatches that we think would work perfectly of you.
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Main on November 10th, 2011 by Pingdom
It’s interesting how quickly we humans start taking things for granted. In a fast-moving landscape like technology, especially IT, this becomes all the more obvious.
When you start thinking back to how things were just a few years ago, it’s amazing how different things were. So many of the gadgets, services and sites we all take for granted today simply weren’t around.
In that spirit, let’s take a few steps back in time and look what you DIDN’T have a few years ago. We’ll jump back five years at a time.
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Main on December 11th, 2009 by Pingdom
We often think of computers as a very modern phenomenon, but there were actually plenty of computers around 50 years ago. They just weren’t an everyman commodity, instead limited to goverment and corporate use. And they certainly weren’t small. Some of them had imaginative names like Whirlwind, Colossus and Pegasus, while others were slightly less poetic with names like Z4, AN/FSQ-7 and ENIAC.
Below we have listed as many as 19 examples of computers from the early days, pioneering efforts that although cutting edge in their day now look lovingly retro.
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Main on November 3rd, 2009 by Pingdom
This April 1st the guys at Wired Magazine put together a great April Fools’ joke: A dedicated mobile device for Twitter dubbed the Wingman.
Check out this video introduction to the (then) totally fake device.
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Main on August 5th, 2008 by Pingdom
(We would like issue a warning to sensitive viewers. This can be hard to watch. ) The iPhone finally launched here in Sweden this July and some of us at Pingdom have already bought one. We love our iPhones. So we can only image what it must feel like to have your shiny new iPhone [...]
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Main on July 28th, 2008 by Pingdom
Google-branded merchandize shows up from time to time, and we here at Pingdom were kind of wondering where people outside of Google get hold of this stuff. And lo and behold, Google has its very own online store, GoogleStore.com. There is some pretty neat stuff in there, so here is our (highly subjective) pick of [...]
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Main on May 30th, 2008 by Pingdom
Having just one screen per workstation is enough for most people. Everyone in the Pingdom office has two screens per workstation. We find that that is a nice sweet spot, with a good deal of screen real estate without taking up too much space. But there are people out there who think having two screens [...]
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