A dollar sure isn’t worth much these days…until you cut it up into bits and and get out the glue. Mark Wagner, co-founder and president of The Booklyn Artists Alliance and x-acto master, makes the most of his money. His portfolio of currency collages goes up at Pavel Zoubok Gallery Sept. 4 to Oct. 4. (533 West 23rd Street).

His site is laden with cool collages made from one dollar bills and, this time, there’s no laser cutting involved. This extract is from his site:

“The one dollar bill is the most ubiquitous piece of paper in America. Collage asks the question: what might be done to make it something else? It is a ripe material: intaglio printed on sturdy linen stock, covered in decorative filigree, and steeped in symbolism and concept. Blade and glue transform it-reproducing the effects of tapestries, paints, engravings, mosaics, and computers-striving for something bizarre, beautiful, or unbelievable… the foreign in the familiar.”

Since the advent of computers, more and more companies are opening up with new hardware upgrades comparing to the traditional ones. Even simple things like mouse and keyboards are having new designs, 3D models and who knows what. The price ranges from about 20 bucks apiece over to about 600 bucks, with increased functionality.

Would you think that there would be a mouse out there, which would have its own LCD screen? Well there is one, by 3Dconnexion. The mouse’s name is SpacePilot Pro, and it has a LCD screen, lots and lots of buttons, ranging from buttons for various isometric views to navigation settings. If even that wasn’t enough, there are more buttons for various applications, including an applet for checking out your mail on MS Outlook.

One drawback of this device is that it doesn’t come with drivers for the popular Mac. However, it has drivers for Windows XP and Vista, Solaris 8 and 10, and Linux. This mouse is available in the market now, for a price of $499. You might think it’s a bit high, but you should look at what it has to offer. Following are some features of 3Dconnexion’s Space Pilot pro which will determine it’s worth and abilities:

Ø The key feature is the smooth 3D navigation, thanks to the patented six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) sensor. This sensor has 4 times the precision of the previous sensors, and has the capability to detect input as small as 4 micrometers.

Ø The Cap on it has the function of panning, zooming and rotating. It practically feels like stretching your hand in the screen itself, and holding the model in your hand.

Ø The QuickView Navigation Keys allow the user to have one-touch access to 32 standard views, enabling the power of viewing the model from any angle.

Ø The 90-degree rotation key rotates the view by 90 degrees.

Ø It has Two Isometric Views, ISO1 showing the model with the top/front/right sides facing the front and ISO2 showing the model with the top/back/left sides facing front.

Ø The LCD screen, provides visual feedback on all the function keys, so that you can have quick access to important information without interrupting the work user is already doing.

Another feature of this mouse is the mini applets that run on your computer and display on the LCD. So you have increased functionality with the mini application, which ranges from office functionality tools to feedback on the key assignment functions. The following applets are supported and installed on the mouse by default:

Ø Function Keys,

Ø Outlook® Mail,

Ø Outlook® Calendar,

Ø Outlook® Tasks,

Ø RSS Feeds.

The name of this device may sound familiar to you, but it’s only due to the reason that this handset was released out by T-Mobile last year too, and it was simply labeled as Sidekick. This year, following the success of Sidekick last year, that carrier is again bringing in the same brand name, but it is totally changing up on the hardware.

Basically, Sidekick LX contains some additional features as well as some modifications and up-gradations. Following are the specification of T-Mobile’s Sidekick Lx:

• GPS Navigation
• 3G Data
• 3.2 inch full widescreen VGA display
• Integration with Facebook, twitter and MySpace
• 3.2 MP Camera with LED flash
• MicroSD expansion available (1 GB external memory card included)
• Quad band EDGE

Release Date:

It will be available to the general public from May 13^th 2009.

Price:

You will end up paying about $199.99 after rebate.

Other Information about the Product:

Any one of the Sidekick users by Motorola or Sharp is really in shock with the advent of this one in the market. They agree that this is by far the best Sidekick ever made, and it actually does look like semi-professional and very aspiring at the same time. It would be safe to say that every other sidekick looks like a toy in front of this one, when compared to design, materials and build quality of the whole product.

The timing of T-Mobile on this one was just perfect, because the new Twitter just came out, and T-Mobile launched a device with the full fledge twitter integration in it, because most of the users out there were searching for something with a little bit of twitter support in it too. Also, the Microsoft Live search and the GPS monitoring abilities of this device is completely outstanding, and therefore an ideal choice for many. The phone could be physically large for some, but you can’t say it’s impractical because of the amount of features included in it. Its display is really crystal clear and crisp, and it is better then any handset that have been used in the United States yet. The graphics are so perfect, that you can actually distinguish every visible pixel on there, and this really enables the user to get the most out of its Sidekick.

This is a major breakthrough for the trend setters of handsets that have been out in the market, and now one can be sure that more intriguing stuff is coming your way very shortly.

An Apple iPhone 3G made of 18 carat gold and encrusted with diamonds is laying claim to the title of the world’s most expensive phone. It was coming wasn’t it! Where there’s gold, diamonds are sure to follow.

It’s become a familiar pattern, as we saw most recently with an 18k gold Shuffle that was soon followed by a diamond encrusted version. So it was time to start an office pool after a 24k iPhone began making the rounds a few weeks ago.

In classically over-the-top fashion, the U.K. purveyor has adorned this limited edition with 420 diamonds totaling 5.65 carats set in 18k white or yellow gold, with a choice of white, black or pink sapphires. Decisions, decisions! With a price tag of $41,225 price, it laughs in the face of the credit crunch.

Designed by Austrian jeweller Peter Aloisson the customised iPhone is priced at £1.6 million. The handset is surrounded by a white gold line encrusted with a total of 138 brilliant cut diamonds of the best quality.

But the most prominent feature of the “Kings button” phone is its home button that features a rare 6.6 carat diamond.

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Even though you might be well-aware with the LAN based multi user gaming in your PC/Notebooks, but still let me have an insight into it. Normally you connect each of the computers to a LAN network using either a physical HUB or Switch and then you can enjoy playing games with others in the same LAN network. Hub is the interface/device that connects all the devices in a LAN Network.

But if you want such a thing i.e. multiplayer LAN based gaming in your Wi-Fi based devices like Wi-Fi enabled mobiles, IPhone, Notebooks, etc. then you need to connect all these Wi-Fi devices wirelessly to form a Wireless LAN network. So here our master gadget G-FI VS comes into picture. It’s a wireless HUB which can be used to connect several WI-FI devices to form a wireless LAN network and you can play all the multiplayer LAN based games in your Notebooks and IPhones just in the same way you do in PC with physical wired connection.

The G-Fi VS from PosiMotion is not only a normal wireless Hub, but a wireless gaming hub in fact the world’s first such gaming hub, so you can use it hassle free to play multiplayer network games on WI-FI/WLAN. This G-Fi VS hub being light weighted (at 70 grams) is handy to carry with you every time and at your favourite place you can enjoy playing multiplayer games with your friends who need to connect to the hub via Wi-Fi present in their gaming devices. The built-in lithium ion battery is powerful enough to ensure - your gaming spirit remains high every time. The battery lasts 6 hrs. of continuous gaming and can be recharged any time using USB chargers.

Coming to the technical specifications of the G-Fi VS wireless gaming hub, the 802.11b/g Wi-Fi standard is supported and maximum distance/range in which the devices can connect to this Wi-Fi hub is of 100 Ft. About 200 Wi-Fi multiplayer gamers can connect to this G-Fi VS hub simultaneously and play with each other using their Wi-Fi phones, PDAs and Notebooks. Besides being crafted to support multiplayer online Wi-Fi gaming the G-Fi VS hub can also be used for normal Wi-Fi connectivity between several Wi-Fi enabled devices and you can share files, media etc. like you did in LAN with a physical hub. With this wireless router you can connect to any Wi-Fi devices via Ad-Hoc if you could not connect directly.

The list of devices that are supported and can be connected using this hub are – IPhone, IPhone 3G, IPod Touch (1^st and 2^nd Generation), Mobiles-PDAs running Microsoft Windows Mobile and Notebooks/Mac books/Anything with Windows Vista/XP or Linux or Mac OS and all the devices that supports Wi-Fi Ad-Hoc connectivity. The mechanism with which the wireless hub operates is quite simple – The hub which is also a wireless router assigns logical IP addresses to the Wi-Fi devices that connect to it and using the IP address the data packets are routed from source to destination. The G-Fi VS wireless gaming hub is available at $149 which may not be cheap because we know how cheap the physical hubs are priced. A USB power adapter, mini USB cable and user guide comes with the G-Fi VS and are helpful. So its really a very interesting piece of gaming device that you would love to use.

Nokia 5800 is a high-end smartphone from Nokia which was launched recently. The phone which is also considered among the IPhone Killer has a sound multimedia capability and even has beat the luxurious and famous IPhone 3G with its sensational features. Nokia 5800 XpressMusic edition has extra ordinary music and video capabilities with a quality display and sound. Besides it has all the features present in IPhone like Wi-Fi, WLAN, GPS with Maps etc. and other features like Bluetooth, FM Radio, some innovative applications and sensors that the Iphone is missing. The camera present in 5800 is much better also than its market rival and the mobile comes unlocked – so you don’t need to pay double call charges like people did in Iphone 3G which came with AT&T.

Being codenamed Tube the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic edition is based on series 60 5^th edition platform and runs with Symbian OS. The phone costs about $350 in USA and has 3G support, while the price in Asia is about $415.

As the name signifies, being an XpressMusic edition phone, 5800 plays music and videos with extra ordinary quality. So being highly multimedia capable it is thought to be another Protable Media Player plus Phone. The multi touch screen of 5800 is of 3.2” and the quality display which is of 360 x 640 px resolution (Aspect Ratio - 9:16) supports 16 M colours (24 bit). The quality display with touch screen is the other feature that has made it a true Iphone killer because the quality of videos and images are matches that of its rival. A number of video file formats like FLV, 3GP. MPEG4, Real media, WMV etc and several audio/music files belonging to Mp3, AAC, WAV, AMR, MIDI and RM formats can be played in the mobile using the default Music Player application which is provided. You can have video ring tones, make video calls and also video and photo editors can come handy.

The supported formats for image files are JPEG/GIF/PNG/Bitmap. You can have either 8GB or 16GB of storage using MicroSD memory card of desired size. Then on you can store all your favourite videos, music, pics and even movies in a fly. Just use the data cable and USB port to connect with any PC/Notebook/Mac and sync i.e. exchange media files and other stuffs like contacts b/w mobile and PC. The stereo sound quality and speakers have been improved a lot from previous Nokia phones. The stereo FM radio and a 3.5 mm head phone jack have been provided. A multitude of applications like the Nokia Maps and several games are prebuilt into the Nokia 5800 and the apps are useful ones.

Like the Maps are quite helpful while travelling. Since the mobile runs Series 60 platform – Symbian OS, you can download and install any of your choice games and software into the 5800, because a lot of them are available in Internet for Symbian OS. Now let’s discuss the last but not the least feature of Nokia 5800 – Ya it’s the excellent camera we mentioned before in this article. The 3.2 mpxl. Camera comes with flash and sports the technically best Carl Zeiss lenses. The self timer system and flash makes it far better. Videos can be captured at 640 X 480 resolutions (Max. Frame rate - 30 Fps)

In this case the cheat button will try to release a chocolate for you, even if its not the proper time to do the same.The compartment where you will fill with the chocolate will stay cool, and wont melt. But on the other hand you should be equally careful so that the chocolates doesn’t make the compartment warm. The compartment can hold 30 pieces of chocolate which can give you almost 30 chocolate hours. It will happen until you hit the cheat button again and again.

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If you are not well aware - iPod Touch or iTouch (many don’t like to call iTouch), the luxury class PDA type gadget from Apple is a portable media player like the Ipod Classic but with loads of features like the touch screen and a brilliant stylish design. Features like media player (Audio and Video), Flash memory, Internet (Wi-Fi), Applications n Games and the touch screen (which makes it stand out of all previous Apple IPods) make it a classified Gadget. IPod Touch was launched in around September, 2007 and it was known as the 1^st Generation Ipod Touch but recently since the launch, the 2^nd Generation Ipod Touch has become the world’s best and most beautiful portable media player that’s available at this price.

The 2^nd Generation IPod Touch with 32 GB of space and the Iphone OS operating system emulates a normal notebook system and lets you do most of the things that you could do in your PC and Internet. Yes you can install supported applications/software of your choice; also you can play the favourite games like the Quakes, Prince of Persia etc. You can download the software and games directly by connecting to Internet by Wi-Fi in the iPod touch itself. And not only that you download and watch only Youtube Videos, but any online video from the streaming video sites and you’ll be able to watch full size movies too.

Using iTunes installed in your PC/Mac just sync the favourite movies into the gadget via USB. Either you sync your iPod with your PC/Mac or you can connect iTunes Music Store and Apple’s App Store for availing the best software, games, music, videos etc. In this 2^nd Generation of iPod Touch the quality of Videos has improved a lot plus you can use the new sound controls (that has been added to left side of the gadget) in the video playback mode itself for sound adjustment. The default applications that are pre-included in this iPod Touch 2^nd gen include the popular Safari web browser, the Google Maps and an application each for YouTube Videos and Email besides the usual widgets for Weather, Calendar, Stocks, Note, Calculator, Stopwatch and Alarm. Now coming to the display, IPod Touch sports a display of 163 PPI (Pixels per Inch) with the supported resolution of 480 X 320 px with 3:2 aspect ratio in its screen of 3.5 Inch.

You can store your favourite photos, videos and music in your iPod Touch since it has a fantastic storage space of 32 GB/16GB. The inbuilt rechargeable Lithium Ion battery supports some six hrs. of video playback and about 36 hrs. of audio on a full charge which is one of the improvements since the 1^st generation iPod Touch. The ear-bud/ headphone provided with it is good tough not the best and people are normally purchasing quality head-phones either from Apple itself or Third Party Providers. The features that this Ipod Touch lacks seriously are presence of GPS System and a camera like that in the Iphone 3G. And why I said ‘seriously’ is because – Each of the Touch fans miss these features in their dream multimedia gadget. At last the best Ipod Touch feature which keeps you both Fit n Cool at a time is the Nike+Ipod Application (extra hardware is present in the Ipod Touch). Put the Nike+IPod sensor (which you need to purchase) in your shoe and the inbuilt-reciever in the Ipod Touch measures several of your work-out details. So you see how interesting this small wonderful gadget is all about.

Here you can find and buy Apple Ipod Touch 2nd Generation 32gb

We told you that ElcomSoft, a Russian software company, was using NVIDIA GPUs to crack many types of passwords, including WIFI access codes. They have just added support for AMD GPUs as well.

The idea behind these passwords is that it normally takes a long time to crack a password, making it impractical for hackers. The thing is: with hundreds of processing units, a GPU can crack a password a lot faster than traditional methods.

Elcomsoft presents its software as a tool to help administrators protect their network - by finding out how their networks defenses can be penetrated.

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Promotional Bag Coolers come in variety of design and a perfect promotional item. It usefulness make it perfect, it can be use in any occasion. Imagine an individual who go over places bringing the promotional cooler bags it can help you advertise your brand where other people have the chance to see you the Promotion Items. In short, it is not only the person who uses the bag who can see your logo or brand but those people who see the owner of the bag can also see your brand.

Most of these promotional bag coolers are made with inexpensive materials and others are those made in quality materials. But no matter how it is built, it should be eye catching so people will be attracted to the promotional item and get the chance to see your brand that was printed on the promotional cooler bag.

Promotional bag cooler can be in crowded places, one good example is when the cooler bag was taken to the beach or picnic park. Usually big cooler bags are being used on these places, the bigger the better because you can print bigger logos of your brand on it and a big chance to be seen by people on the place.