Where else? The British have decided that they need to use bomb-proof garbage cans, that not only won’t allow terrorists to attack the city starting with them, but will also feature LCDs (bulletproof?) that stream travel info and news. How about the stock market?

I can’t find that clever, no matter how I twist it, but I do understand why they decided to take such a decision. Apparently since the mid-80’s, Londoners stopped seeing rubbish bins in subway stations, but that’s about to stop after producer Media Metrica will install their totally indestructible one ton bomb-proof garbage cans.

They say it can an absorb heat from explosives, prevent shrapnel spread, and extinguish “fireballs” but I wouldn’t count on it if they’d bring a couple of these things in Bucharest. We have great savagers that would be great testers.  - via Times Online

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Be it cars or new technology, the Brits always seem to get their hands on these things among the first. That’s not the exact case with the new Nokia N85 that is going to hit UK stores tomorrow : October 31st, which is later than other European countries for example.

The Finnish dual slider is actually a multimedia powerhouse that is supposed to replace the N81 with a modern and compacter design. But it’s not only the design that gets the attention because it has quite some qualities inside. First of all, I’m impressed with the 2.6-inch OLED display (16M colors, 240 x 320 pixels), features an accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, has a Touch-sensitive Navi wheel, HSDPA 3.6 Mbps, GPRS & EDGE, Wi-Fi b/g, Bluetooth, a microUSB 2.0 port, email client, a headset jack and FM radio, plus an interesting 1200 mAh Li-ion battery.

Early reviews make it look like a winner. We’ll see how things are exactly …

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The success of the T-Mobile G1 is why new cellphone makers decided to release new Android handset. That’s the case with ASUS, who’s been invited by Google to join the Open Handset Alliance, and in return they’re going to come up with an Android mobile phone by the first half of 2009 (more like summer).

ASUS is also expected to ditch the Ericsson Mobile Platform (or EMP) in its phones and go for the Qualcomm and Marvell platform. Wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that Ericsson is not yet a member in OHA while the other two, are!

Good game Google, on making the cell phone market even more crowded that before and on making people play by your rules. - via DigiTimes

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I’m not sure about you, but I sure love a glass of good wine from time to time. However, it’s not my drinking habits that you may want to know about, but the fact that the new European Union trade rule forbids all wineries to use the words “PORT” unless they’re from Portugal. Pretty stupid if you ask me, so that’s why California’s Peltier Station Winery decided to mock them up. The USB wine that they’ve been released, has a very interesting label designed by 6 West Design who’s fill-in-the-blanks on the back of it, like “an im____ant agreement” or “in your ____folio.”

I really think they did the right thing, don’t you think? - via Wired

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Casio and the Japanese from KDDI AU, have been working together these days to release the new EXIFILM-series W63CA flip phone that might just pack the best camera on the market. It’s a 8.1 megapixels that features a nine-point autofocus and wide angle, has a 3.1-inch OLED display (480 x 800), face detection, anti-shake technology and a YouTube mode that records VGA video at 30fps to a microSD card.

Apart from being a great camera, the less than 0.7-inch thick EXIFILM W63CA is also featuring Stereo Bluetooth, has an integrated dictionary (Japanese to English) and will go live in pink, white gold or green, early November. - via Akihabara

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