Public transportation in the Philippines gets a huge facelift as the Electric Jeepney (E-Jeepney)--Southeast Asia's first public transport of its kind--debuted yesterday on the busy streets of Makati City.

These electric-powered jeepneys are designed to run without the use of fossil fuels,

helping mitigate climate change and keeping air pollution and solid waste at a minimum.

"Don't play video games because it will make you violent!"

"Playing video games is bad. Period."

Ever since the dawn of Duke Nukem/Doom/Wolfenstein/Quake/CS, a lot of people (including your parents) say that playing video games is bad for you. Not only that, people have been "connecting" the violent actions done by some teenagers to various video games like GTA. Of course, there will still be people who don't really care and still continue to play their favorite video games as a form of catharsis.

If you say that everything about video games is just wrong, think again.

Trivia time! Can you guess what the picture above is?

Hmm.

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Ready?

It's actually a dish with bacteria....

Now, the real question...

Do you know where they got this bacteria from? 

Well, you'll never guess... Until you read the story that is...

From all of us here in Hardwarezone Philippines, We would like to wish all our readers a very, Merry Christmas!

May god bless all of you and keep you safe in this coming year.

Watch out for 2007!

Regards,

The Hardwarezone Philippines Team

Take a look at the mask above. Is it 3D rendered, or is it real? What do you think? Take a wild guess.

If flying is your thing, this might be a good start to appease that inner desire of yours: meet the Micro R/C Helicopter from Think Geek. It won't take out hours of your time just to assemble it together, nor will it crash right after it takes off the ground. It's small and light enough that it can use a person's palm as its landing pad. However, just like other RCs, the remote controller requires 8 AA batteries! Well, no matter, today's rechargeable NiMHs can go up to almost 3000mAh in capacity, and they're a whole lot more affordable too.

TIP: Go play Battlefield 2 first and experience some virtual copter flight training.

Interested? More info here.

We have grown accustomed to the habit of placing our loose change in our ever dependable piggy banks. Now, wouldn't it be nice to have a bank that is "tamagotchi" in nature.

Here it is. Introducing the Bank of Life.

This bank holds up to a whopping 100,000 Yen.

But hold on, there's more...

Yes. Mickey Mouse now needs your fingerprint everytime you enter his domain, Disneyland. For the longest time, the administration recorded onto the tickets of visitors their own fingerprint geometry and shape to avoid fraud and reselling of tickets.

I am a man of the future. I do not need to wear a watch anymore as I can easily look at the time with my nifty Nokia phone. Those who wear watches just wear them either to show-off or create a fashion statement. The concept of time will never be the same again...

Cooler Master has come up with a rather spiffy way to market their latest products. If you go their Summer Promotion site, you stand a chance to win a Mystique 631 PC Chassis, an iGreen Power 500W PSU, an X-Craft Storage and a BLUE ICE PRO Cooler.

I hate my phone. Forget the model and brand. Let's just say it's crapping out on me and I absolutely hate it. Leave it alone and it makes ghost calls to the most recent number in my text inbox. I wake up in the morning and find out that I've made thirteen calls ... (More)

NVIDIA has given us DIYers the go signal to create our own Quad SLI boxes with the official release of their latest ForceWare 91.45 drivers. So what do else do you need to build a PC that can probably run your electricity bill as fast as your hot iron?