The guys over at touchmods.net have proven it possible to use your iPod Touch as a phone - no lie. Using the iPod’s wifi it can connect to a free SIP- VoIP and make phone calls.. to anywhere. See their proof below.

What’s interesting? Well, aside from the obvious, the fact that it’s free is pretty cool. It’s almost like having the iPhone, but no service plans, and a cheaper device. It still seems a bit unpractical, but cool nonetheless.

I had always thought paying $99.99 for my lighting fast internet was expensive, but recently a woman by the name of Krystyl checked her mail only to find a bill for the amount of $14,062.27, all for her Go Anywhere Sprint Wireless Service. What makes matters worse is she was on a 30 Day Free Trial… for “unlimited” internet access for $59.99 a month. Unfortunately for Krystyl, this wasn’t the beginning of her problems. Just see her YouTube Video:
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has released RIM’s (Research in Motion, makers of BlackBerry) latest patent which details their idea for a new keyboard. It features it’s keys at a 45° angle with a split directly down the middle. I know personally when typing up e-mails and SMS texts on the current keyboard design gives the user particularly sore thumbs and wrists.

The new design is ergonomic and fits the hand quite well. You won’t have to reach across the device or twist your thumbs/wrists to get to the next letter. It doesn’t appear that the key assignments will be much different, although there possibly will be 2 letters per key on most such as the BlackBerry Pearl. Which brings up another point, other then that small triangle in the middle, there doesn’t seem to be much room for the beloved trackball that we ‘CrackBerry’ owners have come to love.

I’ve received a few messages from new bloggers or website owners asking about the tax system when it comes to filing with your Google Adsense earnings. Especially now with Tax Season on the horizon. The biggest question most people bring up first is, ‘Do I have to report my Google earnings when filing my taxes?” Very simply put, yes. However, the deductions involved, and the taxes owed to the government varies depending on the user.

In this little informative guide I will give you all the run-down on how taxes are managed with Google Adsense, and other revenue services on the web. I will touch on subjects such as what is taxable, how to determine how you should go about filing, and much more useful information including how to get your cell phone paid for, get some gas money, and get any other expenses like computer purchases covered by the government!

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Today, you traditionally get 21 gears to choose from on a mountain bike. Leonardo da Vinci, back in the 1400’s, sketched out a transmission system that utilizes ball bearings and discs to set an infinite amount of possible gear ratios. A knob at the handle bars controls the angle of the ball bearings within the wheel hub. You pedal to rotate one disc, and the other disc transfers power to the wheel. The bearings have a wide range of motion, which gives you very precise control over the energy being put in, and the speed coming out.

Within four years you can expect to see this technology in cars, wind turbines, or anything with need for a transmission system. It will dramatically decrease the amount of energy needed to be mobile, and will reduce wear and tear on engines (or bikers). The system is called NuVinci to credit the genius behind it all. Visit http://www.ellsworthbikes.com/ for more information on the bikes. Sketch of transmission after break.

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Hans Olsen, 12 year old Norwegian boy, saved his sister during a Moose attack (very common these days…) with skills learned from playing the ever so popular World of Warcraft. When him and his sister wandered into the forbidden territory of one of these creatures, they suddenly were on the defensive side of an attack from the Moose. Hans knew exactly what to do! Use Taunt, a skill he learned in the game where he made himself the target by shouting at the animal, allowing his sister to run free to the safety of home.

Hans on the other hand had to think quick. The noble 12 year old thought of another skill his Hunter learned at level 30: Feign Death. As Hans laid there, pretending to be dead, the Moose simply lost interest and wondered along without a care in the world. Once Hans was safely alone, he was able to scamper off to home to tell his tale. Well done Hans.

The 81 year old British Queen Elizabeth had announced this week that she will be posting her traditional Christmas Day broadcast over the popular video viewing site YouTube. The Queen has said that she is always adapting new technologies to try and reach a much wider audience then before. For instance, last year her broadcast was actually a podcast as well.

YouTube is also catering to the royal family, and has set up the royal family channel on their website. http://youtbe.com/theroyalchannel There you can view the original broadcast from 50 years ago back in 1957 on television. She had talked about how the technological world was so fast moving, and that it was a miracle that they could all see her on the ‘tele’.

BlackBerry has always been a household name. Everyone knows if you have a BlackBerry, you’re obviously a business man/woman whose on top of things. But recently more and more people are making the purchase, whether it’s for office/business use or personal use.

Until recently, it wasn’t very common to see more then a handful of people with an RIM device, but if you look at a group of people now, regardless of profession, chances are at least one or more of them have a BlackBerry hanging off their hip. This is funny as well, since just a few weeks ago I received my first BlackBerry for free from Amazon, and I noticed other peers making the same move. As a result, RIM gained over 1,650,000 new subscriber accounts, and also shipped over 3.9 Million new devices. All this tallied up to a doubling in RIM’s earnings.

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It’s not uncommon in nature for a species to have a false look of security and strength about them. So why should us humans be any different? I can remember when I was a kid I always made it look like my computer was recording your every move when you entered my room whenever I was away. I gave my many sisters something to fear about my room, and me that false sense of security.

Well now we don’t have to rig anything up, apparently you can get your very own security camera… well, at least something that looks like one! Feel safe and ward off wrong doers with this little gadget that could fool even the purchaser. it even sports a little flashing LED too add even more to the reality of it all. TG has plenty in stock! But hurry, they’re bound to go fast with all of us security hungry Americans out and about