http://www.techwishes.com Cool Stuff You'd Love If You Could Get It! Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:39:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, CLC has a great grass-roots campaign to promote affordable high speed internet for America. Take their speed test which will instantly measure your download and upload speeds and give you a comparison with the rest of the country and the other connected nations. (According ... http://www.techwishes.com/3g/take-the-speed-test-write-your-congressman/ Did you forget to turn off the water and gas when you left home today? Did you leave your curling iron plugged in? The All Seeing Eye can help. The All Seeing Eye is a new, cell phone-sized device, which allows you to know what is happening at home ... http://www.techwishes.com/crazy-talk/whos-watching-your-house-your-cell-phone-is/ From the French Telecom giant ORANGE comes this press release. Roland Garros 2008: sporting innovation This year for the very first time at Roland Garros, Orange is going to film and broadcast live its first 3D sports contents for it guests. The trial will take place on Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 ... http://www.techwishes.com/big-broadband/forget-hd-frances-orange-offers-3d-tv/ A press release today ushers in a new era of streaming TV technology..... LOS GATOS and SARATOGA, Calif., May 20, 2008 – Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX), the world’s largest online movie rental service, and Roku, Inc., an innovator in digital media streaming technology, today announced the introduction of The Netflix Player ... http://www.techwishes.com/open-airways/unlimited-movies-streamed-to-your-tv-for-9-a-month/ Many Americans are oblivious to the new technology known as Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP). What is it you ask? How expensive is it? How do I install it in my home? Is it even something worth find out about? Well how about making all ... http://www.techwishes.com/open-airways/americans-oblivious-to-free-voip-phone-services/ PC World weighs in on all the rumors about the new features and a release date for the updated iPhone. They believe that with the SDK (Software Development Kit) and support for enterprise emails (multiple email deletes at last!) the lack of 3G coverage in the US is going ... http://www.techwishes.com/3g/3g-iphone-june-9th-but-little-3g-coverage-to-support-it/ According to Boy Genius, Sony has announced a new addition to the Playstation 3 which will let users record TV shows and wirelessly transfer them to their PSP. Bound for Europe as early as July 2008, the PlayTV should cost about $120. The unit will support HDTV and ... http://www.techwishes.com/crazy-talk/playstation-3-to-record-tv%e2%80%a6in-europe/ Just ask Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs. In a Wireless Week interview earlier this month, Jacobs affirmed that the wireless telecommunications industry is making a fundamental shift into new, media-saturated territory. (You can check out the complete article here.) It’s no secret that as mobile users, we're demanding more and more ... http://www.techwishes.com/skypephone/mobile-skype-phones-are-changing-the-wireless-landscape/ The Far East continues to lead the way in terms of robotic innovation, with a host of major companies investing in R&D and investigating potential applications. This video on YouTube features a series of robot prototypes, including a violin-playing humanoid robot made by Toyota. There is much to marvel over in this ... http://www.techwishes.com/robots/do-music-robots-dream-of-playing-in-nashville/ Last month, the European Union took a major step in the development of Mobile TV by adding the Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld standard (DVB-H) to its List of Standards for telecommunications across the EU. According to Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for the Information Society and Media, "For Mobile TV ... http://www.techwishes.com/mobile-tv/dvb-h-becomes-the-standard-for-mobile-tv-in-europe/