Authenticity and old world classicism will certainly take a beating. And Bob Dylan wouldn’t be too happy about it. However, when there is a built-in synthesizer in your guitar, you have no reason to complain, do you? A band called Guitar Zeroes have...

Technology is evolving at a feverish pace. If you do not wish to be left behind in the stone age, you definitely need a lightning quick RAM for your PC. A 4GB DDR2 is precisely what the doctor prescribed and OCZ takes the honor for introducing the...

Opulence has its own advantages! If you can shell out a little in excess of $3500, you never need to learn strumming the hard way. For all you lazy guitarists, there is some good news. Your tuning struggles are over as Gibson has unveiled its latest...

The premise: New Zealand is the place to be in if you wish to leave nosy parents out of your personal life. Funny to the extent of being slapstick at times, JWT Auckland has managed a coup for Education New Zealand, with a satiric take on parental...

How would you like it if you get to know that a ‘cold’ is round the corner? Prevention, they say, is better than cure. However, it wouldn’t come to that if you actually get to know how vulnerable you are. Navigenics has developed a ‘Personal Genome...

For those of you who roll a mouse for over 7 hours and end up with sore wrists, there is some heartening news. The traditional mouse will now go ‘aerial’. The state-of-the-art gyro-based mouse will rely on freespace movements and gestures to empower...

A gaming table that suddently gyrates and transforms into a mobile phone...well, that’s Viacom’s latest farcical excuse for an ad, which is conveniently named ‘Shake Ta Life’. Shakes logic and sensibility, I would say! Cringe-evoking, the ‘in your...

If it’s football, it’s gotta be Brazil! This time around, the legendary Maradona would battle it out with Brazil’s own ’son of the soil’ Biro Biro from the Corinthians. And for once, fizz is not synonymous with disappointment ‘coz this virtual...

PETA and the veggies couldn’t have been more pleased! ‘Ikkeno’ (Is that really the artist’s name?), has conjured up a Moby (KFC!) with his visual depiction of a ‘cow in distress’. Nothing can be as stomach-curdling as switching roles with an animal...

There have been few instances when parodies failed to hit the bull’s eye. Thankfully for Metro, the Pope’s hand of grace was sufficient to veer their creation to the majority league. The only regret, even if superficial, would be the fact that Metro...