Friday, November 30, 2007

Self-destruct button USB hub is back

Self-destruct button USB hub is back


And in a smaller form factor to boot! The designers took the original and thanks to the power of miniaturization, managed to squeeze it into a much smaller size. Unfortunately, you will lose all semblance of its big brother's USB hub functionality. Instead, pressing the big red button in the middle will invoke an explosion sound for kicks. This cellphone charm has been slapped with a rather ridiculous €19 price tag. I suppose you're paying for the novelty factor more than anything else.

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Monogrammed Heated Stadium Seat

Monogrammed Heated Stadium Seat The Monogrammed Heated Stadium Seat is perfect for stadiums as well as other open places during the cold, cold winter. It comes with a lithium ion battery that is capable of keeping your rear end warm for up to four hours in a row, and more importantly, it will feature your name emblazoned across the back. At $99.50 each, I will probably think twice about this as I don't think that I would sit too comfortably in a stadium - after all, part of the fun includes standing up and making yourself count for the entire team, screaming your lungs out to support your favorite player who is currently on the pitch.

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Razer Pro|type Keyboard Review

Razer Pro|type Keyboard Review



TechwareLabs has published a review of the Razer Pro|type Keyboard with iPod dock. Here's a clip from the coverage:

The Razer Pro|Type keyboard is an ultra slick, backlit, and thin profile keyboard that comes with about every feature you could possibly need and an iPod dock as well. We hooked this beauty up to our rig and took her for a test drive. Overall, the Razer Pro|Type keyboard is an excellent keyboard solution for gamers that like to listen to music while they game or those that love listening to music as they multitask. One press of a button and your music is playing and from there you can increase or decrease the volume, shuffle your playlist, or mute the sound.

Sounds like this has gotten the thumbs-up from folks at TechwareLabs!

 

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Dell simplifies enterprise search

Dell simplifies enterprise search


Dell will be selling the Google Search Appliance and the Google Mini that helps simplify enterprise search. The Google Search Appliance boasts a distinctive bezel and yellow chassis, targeting larger enterprises while the smaller blue Google Mini is meant for small and medium business markets. Both of them aim to deliver relevant search results from information sources within a company’s firewall. In addition, companies have the liberty to design their own interface without compromising existing corporate security requirements. The Google Search Appliance and Google Mini starts from $30,000 and $1,995 respectively, and the price can only go upwards. Warranty and support services are provided by Google themselves.

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Google Maps simulate GPS on phones

Google Maps simulate GPS on phones The new version of Google Maps boasts a beta feature known as "My Location" that was specially designed to simulate an actual GPS experience on cellphones as well as handheld devices that do not come equipped with GPS hardware. It does so by taking information broadcast from mobile towers that are nearby non-GPS equipped cellphones, approximating the device's current location on the map with an accuracy of about 10 city blocks. While that isn't as precise as an actual GPS system, it is as good as it gets currently. The My Location feature is currently available for the majority of Web-enabled handsets, including Java, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Nokia/Symbian devices. Unfortunately, iPhone owners will have to sit out on this one.

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Moody Sensiblog concept

Moody Sensiblog concept


The Moody Sensiblog is a unique concept device that records and broadcasts your readings to a blog, giving all and sundry a chance to read it. The main thrust behind this idea is like Twitter - an addictive and popular social community module that lets the whole world know what you're doing currently. Imagine the scenario of indulging in a game of football, where the electrical sensor detects changes in the skin while the microphone records moments where your heart races wildly, and all these will be posted to your blog and folks who drop by will then be able to drop a word or two of encouragement - granted, you can't read those until you actually sit in front of the computer. Guess the Moody Sensiblog concept will take quite a while more before it can actually take off.

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YHM-PMP 678 loves the sun

YHM-PMP 678 loves the sun


Now the YHM-PMP 678 PMP from Yahee Technologies is one unique portable media player - it boasts a couple of solar panels as a method of charging its batteries, although DC charging is also made available for those who shun the outdoors. Features of this clamshell device includes AVI, MPEG-4, MP3, WMA, WAV, ADPCM and AMR file format support, an e-book reader, voice recording functionality, an SD memory card slot, and support for 8-bit and 16-bit games on its built-in emulator. Hopefully the plastics used to construct this will be able to withstand the strong heat of the sun, especially in hot places like Vegas. I surely wouldn't want to find the entrace to my SD card slot melted beyond recognition after I've lost my life savings at Caesar's Palace.

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Non-Leopard users get no Boot Camp

Non-Leopard users get no Boot Camp


From next year onwards, Apple will no longer allow customers to run the Boot Camp dual-boot solution unless they make the jump to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Boot Camp first debuted in April 2006 as a beta software for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, and it will expire officially on December 31st this year. Apple has thanked users for participating in the program, and for those who want to continue the Boot Camp experience, they will have to make the leap to Leopard. Will this "forced move" see more Leopard sales?

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Bar of Soap prototype

Bar of Soap prototype


The Bar of Soap prototype is one interesting device that functions according to the way you hold it. Should you pick it up and hold it like a camera, it will function like one. Hold it like a cellphone and it will function otherwise. The many iterations include a TV remote and an MP3 player among others - although in theory there is a limit to how many ways you can hold different gadgets that differentiate one from another. The unit consists of a plastic block, a touchscreen, an integrated accelerometer, 72 touch sensors and Bluetooth connectivity. Function-wise, it doesn't amount up to much at this point in time as it is still coming to terms in the grasp classification concept. I wonder what happens to the Bar of Soap for those who're about to beat the crap out of another person with it.

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Peugeot smart A/C system

Peugeot smart A/C system


Peugeot wants drivers to keep their air conditioning system running all year round, regardless of whether it is winter or not. The main reason behind this idea would be maintaining the effectiveness and efficiency of the A/C system by keeping the internal refrigerant pressure stable. It will push forward this new initiative by equipping all new Peugeots with a thermostatically controlled A/C compressor that monitors the ambient and set temperatures to only run the compressor when it's actually needed to minimize the load on the system.

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VertiPod is Segway of the sky

VertiPod is Segway of the sky The VertiPod carries you about in a similar manner as the Segway… except for the fact that this device keeps you afloat between five to 15 feet above the ground and boasts a top speed of 40mph. Steering it is pretty easy - all you need to do is lean towards the right direction and you're good to go. Each purchase comes as a self-assembly kit, so it is time to break open that hardware box in your home.

The VertiPod comes with a $10,000 price tag along with a petrol or ethanol engine. No idea on when it will be commercially available though, but should the VertiPod get popular in urban areas, it is time for the local municipal council to rewrite traffic laws? Do they count as a motorist or pedestrian?

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USB Cup Warmer and Hub

USB Cup Warmer and Hub


Brando has a new USB Cup Warmer that not only keeps your favorite drink hot at all times, it also boasts an integrated 4-port USB hub and clock functions. It measures 96mm x 104mm x 22mm, making it fit comfortably onto just about any desk. Unfortunately, it is connected via USB 1.1, which means all your other devices connected to the USB hub had better not involve fast data transfer. Price: $24.

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Neverlate Executive Alarm Clock

Neverlate Executive Alarm Clock Getting to work on time can be quite the challenge for most folks, especially in today's high pressured dog-eat-dog world. The Neverlate Executive Alarm Clock does its level best to keep you on time, featuring reminders for different tasks thanks to its "Daily Reminder" log up to seven times per day. In addition, it also boasts different alarm times for the weekends as well as his and her schedules. Sounds as though this alarm clock has it all - the only thing missing would be preparing a nice hot cup of Joe as well as your lunch every single morning. See other stories on alarm clocks here.

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Luxurious bed comes with TV

Luxurious bed comes with TV


Check out the Hollandia Platinum-Luxe Elite sleep system (great, so a bed these days is called a sleep system). It definitely teases the senses with a high end design accompanied by a 32" Sony Bravia HDTV that has been integrated into the bed's footboard. It sits approximately 80" away from the headboard and boasts a brightness level that adjusts itself dynamically in order to reduce viewer eye strain. In addition to the Sony eye candy, your aural needs are provided by a Sony Bravia theater system that includes a five DVD/CD changer, a five speaker surround sound system, a subwoofer beneath the bed for a complete hi-end experience, and an iPod docking station. The bed itself boasts up to a dozen individual massage programs to knead the day's stress away. After all, if you can afford a bed, er, sleep system such as this, surely your job must come with a proportionate amount of stress!

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Power Conscience

Power Conscience


We all know that every little bit of energy saving counts, and this is where the Power Conscience concept comes in. This device provides you with the latest information on your energy usage while calculating your current electric bill, and it does so in style. You don't get the standard numeral depiction of your bill, but instead the Power Conscience uses LEDs that form a floral pattern - the more you use, the more light is emitted. Sounds as though the opposite should happen instead, since the less energy you use, the world will be a much greener place.

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Micron intros RealSSD range

Micron intros RealSSD range


Micron has announced its RealSSD range that will come in a wide variety of form factors and densities, targeting computing, enterprise server and networking applications. These new RealSSDs boast native SATA II interface, low power consumption (less than 2 watts when active), and a rugged, lightweight plastic casing that makes it the perfect candidate where storage solutions in an ultra mobile PC is concerned. The 1.8" and 2.5" RealSSD solid state drives for both notebooks and desktops will come in 32GB and 64GB densities, with mass production to begin in Q1 2008.

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Sound Leaf Plus Bluetooth headset

Sound Leaf Plus Bluetooth headset


Bone conduction technology has been used to great effect with a wide array of gadgets to date, and this time we have the Sound Leaf Plus Bluetooth headset from NTT DoCoMo that features such technology as well. It functions just like any other bone-conduction gear, save for the fact that it hooks up sans wires to your Bluetooth-enabled cellphone for a truly hands-free experience. Unfortunately, you will probably feel its weight as the Sound Leaf Plus tips the scale at a relatively heavy 45 grams and is powered by a couple of AAA batteries which offer up to 15 hours of talk time. That's not very much when you think about it, so hopefully future iterations will be smaller, lighter, and last way longer. It will be released in Japan next February for $115.

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Exploding Phone Kills

Exploding phone kills man


This time, a 33-year old excavator driver from Korea. Mr. Seo was found lying dead beside his excavator in a stone quarry by his friends, with a cellphone in his pocket that had a severely melted battery, resulting in a burnt and fractured chest. Judging by the image, this is most probably a Samsung handset. There are not a lot of options to avoid this, but putting the phone in a pouch/case might give you some precious seconds but in reality this is a somewhat rare occurence as battery are designed not to explode, but to melt (yikes!) when things go wrong.

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Cigarette box hides pinhole camera

Cigarette box hides pinhole camera


For those who are into all things covert, this cigarette box is right up your alley. It features a cool wireless pinhole camera that has been fitted into a silicon rubber casing for hiding which can be placed in just about any standard-sized cigarette box in addition to a wireless MP4 receiver. When fitted correctly, it is all but undetectable to the naked human eye. Unfortunately, the $236 price tag makes it out of reach for most curious folks - so only the serious need apply. I'd suggest you get an empty local cigarette box lest the Chinese wordings on this one gives the game away.

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OLPC XO laptop sued

OLPC XO laptop sued


Who would've thought that even the OLPC XO laptop could be sued because of its multilingual keyboard? Lagao Analysis Corporation (LANCOR) has just filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the One Laptop Per Child project and its head Nicholas Negroponte over the multilingual keyboard design used in the OLPC XO notebook. The suit throws accusations that the OLPC project has infringed on LANCOR's design patent for multilingual keyboards as well as reverse-engineered the company's software drivers. A suit has already been filed in Nigeria, with another to follow in the US pretty soon. The initial suit has been filed in Nigeria, and say it plans to bring a similar lawsuit in a U.S. federal court. Surely the folks at OLPC were aware that LANCOR has had a pretty long history where developing multilingual, region-specific keyboards for European, African, South American, and U.S. markets are concerned?

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Amazon Kindle Hands-On

Amazon Kindle Hands-On


Yesterday, I had a chance to play with the Amazon Kindle, a connected eBook that is generating a lot of buzz. Here are my impressions:

Form factor
The general form factor is OK. It’s a little thick, but all in all, it’s usable and most importantly, it is *light*. The display size is “good enough” but depending on your tastes, you might want something larger (like a letter size). I’ve dropped a business card to show you how big the screen is. I don’t like the pouch/case, as it prevented me from using my left hand to type or click on the next/prev buttons. A vertical flip case would be much better.

Display
The e-ink display is very comfortable to read on, and that’s no surprise. It feels just like the Sony reader that we tested in Tokyo a couple of years ago. The refresh rate is quite slow (visible when flipping the pages), but it’s not a problem as pages are mainly static.

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$19, Cooler Master eXtreme Power 550W Power Supply
$56, Patriot Memory 8GB SDHC Memory Card
$99, XFX GeForce 8600 GT XXX Video Card
$139, Michelin X-930 GPS
$249, JVC GZ-MG21 20GB Hard Drive Digital Camcorder

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RAmos RM970 PMP

RAmos RM970 PMP


Here's yet another PMP from China, and this time it is the RAmos RM970 that will come under scrutiny. You get a fairly standard 3" 480 x 272 pixel display and is powered by a 200MHz ARM7 processor which is aided by a 200MHz Rockchips DSP processor. File format support includes the usual suspects - MPEG4, Real and AVI video files and MP3, WAV, WMA, Ogg, FLAC, AAC, APE. In addition, you will be able to snap imprompty images wherever you are with the RM970's 3 megapixel camera, although it won't come with any special optics like the Nokia N95. GPS navigation, DAB TV, TV-Out and -In and NES emulation rounds off the list of features. Pretty impressive, no?

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USB to SATA/ESATA with USB Hub

USB to SATA/ESATA with USB Hub


Talk about trying to cram in as many features as possible - the USB to SATA/ESATA with USB Hub not only makes any SATA/eSATA mass storage device into an instant external USB 2.0 drive, it also doubles up as a 5-port USB hub that provides extra connectivity options for your computer. The adapter is compatible with both 2.5" and 3.5" SATA hard drives, SATA CD/DVD drives and eSATA drive enclosures. This unique USB to SATA/ESATA with USB Hub currently retails for $33 at Brando.

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