Gadget Master

Apparently so.

The jury's still out as to whether these guys have way too much time on their hands, or if this is simply a case of viral marketing, but this duo seemed to have answered the age-old conundrum of what to do with that empty Pringles can lying around the house: just turn it into a WiFi antenna. As you do.

We are glad to report it is now no longer necessary to run into the nearest Starbucks to hook up to a WiFi hotspot (Not that there's anything wrong with Starbucks - in fact, there's a Starbucks in Gadget Master's HQ building and we just can't imagine starting the day without a Starbucks cappuccino). These practical yet fashionable pieces of tin make excellent WiFi antennas one can just pop straight into a laptop satchel, backpack, or similar.

And please note, it appears empty Salt and Vinegar Pringles cans make better WiFi antennas than Original Pringles cans do.

As part of its new "Ovi" web service, Nokia has unveiled plans to include social networking sites such as Facebook, Flickr and Youtube with the OS for the Series 60 Smartphone.

"Forknife 2" is the robot macpoddotnet built to show off "some of the cool things you can do with open source software and hardware".

Stanford students are demonstrating the potential of NFC-based hackery with a number of projects "showing how NFC-equipped phones and televisions can work together". Very impressive it is, too.

The five applications - running between their NFC-linked Android phones and a TV - include:
* displaying photos in a slide show
* rigging up a collaborative whiteboard
* sharing a slide show presention
* playing a game of online poker and
* streaming Netlix videos...

Apparently, the TV components are done in Javascript and HTML, and the Android apps were written in Java, as is standard for Google's mobile platform.