Tech Skipper

Calculate how rich you are!

People are always wondering how rich they might be in this world of 6 billion people. Statistics reveal that riches accumulate the first 5% of the total world population. The millionaires are billionaires are found in the fraction of the top 1%. The website globalrichlist.com has come up with a brilliant idea; they have developed this web tool which calculates how rich you are based on the figures released by World Bank. A person earning a million dollar an year would be the 107,565th ric...

Pirata Boat Race games use both PC and iPhone/iPod Touch

Pirata Boat game has been created by ‘Pirata London’ and features to use iPhone/iPod Touch as a remote to play the game right on your PC screens. It is a virtual boat race game in which 5 persons can board a single boat and race with other contestants. The iPhone/iPod Touch is to be used to row the oars. That certainly reminds us of a Wiimote.The gaming activity produces a strange gesture of the players unless someone knows they are actually playing a game. The game application can be downlo...

Protect your kindle from water with KlearKase

Ever heard of a water proof casing for Kindle? Well, here we are with a transparent casing that can protect your Kindle from being water sick. The polycarbonate case only weighs 6 ounces, so you’ll merely feel an increase in weight. Don’t overestimate the effectiveness of this casing; you might not be able to plunge it into water since it is only splash proof. However, it can save your electronics unless Kindle is a reader of your choice after an iPad buzz. KlearKase

Hopscotch Calculator brought back those old memories

I certainly remember the days when I was a kid and used to play hopscotch with my friends back then. In the beginning, I was not able to make it through to the last box though; I practiced it enough to be a hopscotch champ. Well, its time to pull those memories back with a calculator keypad designed with the hopscotch play arena in mind. That’s just a 8-digit calculator offering basic math operation and smart enough to carry it around with great ease but wait a sec, my math is not that poor,...

Cool Way to get rid of static discharge

Static Discharge is a real enemy of mine. Whether they are metal doors or other metallic objects, I am almost always freaked out by the shock they embark upon me. Apart from metallic stuff, sometimes this thing happens when making a hand shake with people and the spark is often visible; how worst it can get than that. However, here is good news for people who face the same shocks in their daily life; ‘Mickey Head Static Discharger’ is something that we need to avoid such situations. This...

Swipe a finger and get as much light as you want

Why does people use light lamps except for the reason for not disturbing their room mate? Well, there is a little philosophy behind it; the lamp allows you to concentrate on your study book, saving your precious time which you would spend staring around otherwise. This philosophy looked so promising that I started using light lamps back in my university life but sadly this didn’t work out for me; the darkness always seems to creep me out. So, I rejected this idea but that just popped up ag...

Evolution Of Apple iPHONE

It seems like Steve Jobs is thinking big now-a-days. A few years back, the release of iPHONE was a great success and till now no other phone has killed it. Then, recently iPAD came into being which seems nothing but a bigger version of iPOD but still it has made a success in the market right from the beginning. So, the bigger the better? Now the question is what’s next? As mentioned earlier, Steve jobs is thinking big. So, here is a clue to what we will have out of Apple in next 4 or 5 years...

Measure your heart beat rate with ‘heart beat watch’

That’s a life saving gadget! You can actually measure the heart beat if you find something abnormal about yourself and call the emergency in time. The watch uses no electrocardiogram system, rather it is embedded with a series of LEDs which are used to show the EKG spiking with respect to time. Heart Beat Watch has 2 modes of operation : 1) “Normal LED watch mode” will show the time for a few seconds by pressing the button as a normal LED watch. 2) “Always On” mode will keep the light...

TaskSwitchXP – Smart way to Switch between the programs

Last night, I was doing multiple tasks. Hence, there were about 20 files and apps opened at the same time on my laptop. I felt quite frustrated while making a switch over between the programs since Alt+TAB gave a little text description of the document and that’s all. So, I made my Google adventure to find a software that could really help me out in my mess. In searching through a dozen of sites, I came across this little beauty called ‘TaskSwitchXP’ that does exactly one wants for a program swi...

Yellow Switch – A solution to confusing Control Boards

It happens a lot that when you go to someone’s home or office, you get confused if you have to turn on the light, a fan or any other electronics. That’s because the control board has all the switches with the same color and shape and doesn’t tell you which equipment will be affected against each button. So, you might end up turning on a fan instead of energy saver. Now, according to the design presented by Heo Jaesik and Lim Hojoon, we can have a wired diagram of all the electronics on th...