To Apple, design has always been paramount. The products that come out of their collective creativity always carry a certain sleekness and simplicity that appeals to techie and non-techie alike. However, it is up to the modding community to come up with a creation that is equal parts cuteness and ingenuity, while still being guided by Apple’s two main design philosophies.

                                            The Mac Mini.

Only one in a thousand can be described as having “photographic memory”. These people are those who go to a place once and then can describe to you turn-for-turn how to get to the same place, what model car you drove, and even perhaps what clothes you were wearing on that day – even after a year. Well, perhaps that was a little bit exaggerated, but the opposite kind of person certainly needs no exaggeration.

It’s been a long time coming, but a quick peek through the internet air waves reveal that AMD is getting back on track after being sidelined by a crippled buffer – related glitch way back in late December of 2007 – an eternity in the computer industry. Perhaps this heralds more than the CPU getting back on track.

While it’s no longer the month of hearts, I bring to you something that’s worthy of a romantic February 14^th evening in a swanky restaurant – with a little geeky twist.

                                             A "traditional" marriage proposal (maybe with pants and leather shoes instead?)

I can’t wait for the science-fiction worthy day when communication devices and their related screens get transferred into our body / eyes through nanotechnology. But that’s not the topic here. There are many advantages to having everyone not peer down at their mobile device’s screen, whether texting, checking their schedule, or looking through some media.

                                             A sharp lesson is about to be learned.
 

Perhaps it’s no longer incentive enough for a gamer to beat a game and call it a day. Games are left half-finished, cheats are found, work-arounds taken advantage of. It’s a sad state of affairs. It is fortunate then, that there are more and more people who choose a living out of producing products that immerse the gamer in their respective game worlds. The MindWire V5 is the latest creation of immersion, if I may create a pun (sorry – couldn’t help it).

                                             It's a Taser for your game console!
 

Realism has long been an elusive goal for our games and game producers. It is true that many advances has been made in the visuals department of almost any game shipping today, and sound is a strong point of games, especially FPS types. While our eyes and ears are saturated, the rest of the body is left alone. With the FPS Vest, this no longer holds true.

                                             For the SWAT in all of us.
 

Forget GHz and MHz, forget RAM amount and how large your storage is. To measure the abilities of the user, there’s only a few numbers that we can easily refer to. Since geekiness is an unsubstantial quantity at best, we’ll settle for something more concrete, like typing speed.

                                             Where's the boost gauge?
 

Movie buffs and uber-geeks rejoice! The quintessential walking, “talking”, lovable movie prop is back, and it’s re-doing its more / most famous scene in the Star Wars franchise: serving as a projector. I am of course, talking about R2-D2.

                                             If it walks and "talks" and slots into a Tie-Fighter, I'll be all over this!
 

This post started out as a normal tech post regarding a malfunctioning toy and ran the gamut to turn into a personal rant about lawyer-addicted people and the hyper-sensitive parents. So as not to bore you readers to death or anything, here are just the highlights of how an increasingly high-tech environment causes misinformed actions and opportunistic displays to take place.

Strictly in the realms of “what will they think of next?” the Rinspeed sQuba vehicle gives the first ever submersible option to the car-buying public, at least in concept form. No simple modification, the sQuba is a result of a lot of developmental money from the ever-creative and industrious Rinspeed.

                                             There seems to be something wrong with this picture...
 

If you’re an avid reader of science fiction or simply someone who glanced at Time’s “look into the future” or gadgets issue, you know that robotic advances of recent years have made it more than possible to consider non-humans as possible substitutes in many normal human activities. What constantly amazes me is the speed of the developments and of the capabilities of the many robots coming out of the labs these days.

                                             Who would have thought it was this complicated to make octopus balls?

Regular readers may have noticed our tendency here at the HWZ offices to talk about anything Guitar Hero related, and this time things are no different: even when our favorite game is shrunk down to minuscule size. Enter the Guitar Hero Carabiner.

I am honestly unable to react in a “clear, concise” way (as my English prof told me a couple of times when I started to wander through multiple topics – and here I go again…) when it comes to this obviously Valentine – related product straight from China.

                                             It's a great idea, but something doesn't sit right with me...
 

Is there a particular person that you always call when you feel a hankering to talk to someone? Your girl/boyfriend, your barkada (one of the members at least), your wife or your mother?

                                             Is your family still trying to find you through the yellow pages?