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You’re sitting on the plane 2 hours into a gruelling 18 hour flight to Singapore. With a jaded sigh you turn wearily towards the couple sitting next to you, hoping to relieve the boredom by starting a little conversation with your fellow passengers. Earlier they had seemed friendly enough, but now only a few complimentary G and Ts later, they’re […]
Continue reading »A while ago, in an article published by Lockergnome, we stated that 2005 would be the year of the laptop. We also reported that laptop computers had slam-dunked TV sales. Now we hear that notebooks have outsold desktop computers in the United States, for the first time in a calendar month. A report compiled by statistics firm, current analysis, revealed […]
Continue reading »One of the Biggest Brothers has finally arrived, and this time, he’s here to help us communicate — at least in Paris’ La Defense station, which services the transportation needs of 480,000 passengers a day. The RATP, the agency that operates Paris’ transportation systems, has indeed gone wireless, giving both employees and commuters real-time information, such as train schedules, timetables, […]
Continue reading »OK, I admit it, when I heard about this I had to check the date to make sure it wasn’t April 1st, but apparently these guys are no fools. A British firm is looking to use the established infrastructure of the many lamp-posts dotting around merry old England to produce a network, a web if you will, of easily accessible […]
Continue reading »Approximately 65 percent of people say that Wi-Fi technology helps them to better stay in touch with friends, according to a new study from the Wi-Fi Alliance. Another 68 percent say that the wireless networking technology helps them be more productive at home, while 61 percent of people in the survey say that Wi-Fi frees up more spare time. In […]
Continue reading »Whenever a person in a cartoon has an idea then, more often than not, a disembodied light bulb appears above their inspired head. I always wondered where does the power come to light that bulb? Well it would seem the answer comes from the boys at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as they have successfully powered a 60 Watt bulb […]
Continue reading »Laptops and teaching value is a fav topic at Laptopical, in large part because it is fast becoming a real issue in the educational world. Many teachers are out there improvising and innovating with notebooks on university campuses and in high school hallways. But many more teachers are terrified of wireless laptops. We came across an interesting discourse on this […]
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