Thou i personally would recommend using your mobile and feed reader to handle your sms and feeds, French designer named Jean-Louis Frechin came up with idea, what about a digital shelf which can display SMS messages and news items from RSS feeds.

WaSnake, as the product is called, is made from wood and an elastomer material. The non-flexible houses clusters of colored LEDs and optical fibers which makes a display which lets you displaying everything from RSS feed headlines like a stock ticker, to SMS messages.

If you are considering torn down your shelves of living room and setting this up, Best of luck then!

Apparently a company called SIMable has come up with a little chip that they call the “10-second solution” for unlocking carrier GSM handsets(wow iPhone porn again). According to the folks with this unlocking method you won’t risk screwing with your warranty only thing you may require to do is just punch a hole in the sim and stick the chip, you are unlocked!

For certain 3G phones 8GB Nokia N95, Nokia E51, Sony Ericsson W200 or others you may need to do some hacking and slashing. The chip will cost you around £16.99 a piece + £2.95 and comes with a handy hole-puncher , no word if SIMable is shipping to the US, but its highly likely importers will book there shipments soon.

One of the most popular Linux Distros Ubuntu, gets the latest release numbered 8.04 and code named “Hardy Heron,” available for download and upgrading. Lots of cool features like, revamped user interface, new version of Xorg , hot-switching of display, enhanced default photo manager, better default video player and tons of other great features.

Ubuntu 8.04 is a free download for any system with a 32- or 64-bit Intel or AMD processor, but you can also request to have free CDs shipped to you. Only thing I have to do, is wait for a long time for the download to complete. For those who have ultra fast connections, grab the download link below.

Western Digital supersedes the old Raptor harddrive with there latest and fastest Velociraptor harddrive. It uses the standard 3GB/s SATA and comes with a 300GB storage. It spins at 10,000RPM is actually a 2.5″ hard drive with a massive “Icepack” heatsink that makes it large enough to fit in a 3.5″ bay.

In the initial tests by Maximum PC with a preproduction unit Velociraptor scorched each and every thing the competition threw. Just thinking about RAID 0 setup with these Velociraptor drives makes my mouth water.

Last night i wrote about free applications and my experience with homebrew Mac box. Interestingly Pystar a shaddy little company over at Miami, Florida came up an idea of selling Mac clones.

The OpenMac as they say comes with an Intel 2.2GHZ Core 2 Duo processor, a 250GB hard drive, 2GB of RAm, 4 USb ports, integrated graphics and it runs OSX Leopard. If you think inbuilt graphics isn’t so charming foran extra US$110 you can slot in an NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT graphics card.

Since the release of the expansion pack WoW: The Burning Crusade, millions of people around the world have gone crazy around it. Most because of the great storyline and importantly already huge fan base since its first release back in June 2005.

The9 has announced officially that Blizzard entertainment’s World of Warcraft has achieved a record of 1 million players in China alone. This MMORPG (Massively multiplayer online role playing game) has scaled heights of which many other MMORPG’s of today can only dream of.

Recently we have seen many incidents where exploding batteries wrecking your latest gadgets!  German scientists over at Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research have came up with an idea to replace inflammable organic electrolytes with a non-flammable polymer, being a solid substance, the electrolyte cannot leak out of the battery.

“We have succeeded in replacing the inflammable organic electrolytes with a non-flammable polymer that retains its shape,” says ISC team leader Dr. Kai-Christian Möller.