When money is no bone of contention, then naturally you are entitled to indulge in a bit of fancy gadgets, even though they don't warrant such extravagance. Take for instance this fancy flash drive. The job is to hold important info in its belly and any lowly mortal of a drive would do. But because you have the dough, it's fair enough to indulge in the Incrudo Ruby Flash Drive. Made from titanium, yeas the same material use in...
Scientists have done some tinkering on the good old design of our trusty TV screens and fashioned an ultra-thin, flexible screen that can be literally folded up and slipped into your pocket. It boasts of being less than a millimeter thick and could be used in televisions, computers and phones. Who knows one day it could even be used as an e-paper. Working with Sony, researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany have created the design, which could...
The wires are abuzz regarding Apple's new iteration to be revealed next month. Many feel that codename Brick will be a new form of the Apple TV or an updated Mac Mini. Some suggest that "brick" refers the procedure of building the product and not the product itself. 9to5Mac.com say that the code name has to do with a manufacturing process for Apple's MacBook and MacBook Pro lines of laptops. Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer's words "new product...
Unpredictable, that's what you call life on the fast lanes of the Stock Market. Reflecting this emotion is the Tee from Neatorama that describes our emotions/earnings/lives at the stock exchange. From the plunge to the rise and then to the unknown, you see it all on this cool Tee. Available for $9.95, I wonder how many of us actually have any cash to spend on it, considering banks and markets have left us grasping for air!...
Bad news! Nintendo has confirmed with Eurogamer that the company's upcoming handheld console the DSi will be region locked meaning that European software will only work on European consoles, and more importantly US and Japanese software won't. Previous DS handhelds, Gameboys etc were not region locked meaning you could play the latest Pokemon release from Japan in USA or Europe. Nintendo has reasons for locking the DSi "because DSi embeds net communication functionality within itself and we are intending...
Unlike others who paint, write or use clay to express themselves, an artist in Manhattan Nathan Sawaya, uses toy building blocks to make beautiful art. His work sells for tens-of-thousands of dollars. For the record, he spends more than $100,000 on Lego’s each year. With more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his New York studio, Sawaya’s sculptures take many forms, and now you can have your very own full-size scale Lego replica of yourself or a loved one...
The amount of water wasted as we get our desired temperature for a shower is a cause for concern in today’s environmentally conscious times. Designers Frattini have come up with a unique solution to counter that problem, the Electronic Faucet. The purpose of this faucet is to dispense water but not just like every other faucet. Using a touch screen, you can set the desired temperature of water before stepping into the shower, and even turn off all the...
The contrast ratio of the projector is as high as 1.1 million to one. It is intended to be used for displaying 7,680 × 4,320 pixel images called Super High Vision, which is defined by the ITU-R BT.1769 and SMPTE 2036 standards. JVC developed it in collaboration with Japan Broadcasting Corp. The device has a contrast ratio of 20,000:1 and has a response time of 4.5ms. The prototype projector is mounted with four micro displays, which are three 3,840...
A digital photo frame on the desk has become all the rage now, with its stylish looks, smooth transitions and not to mention falling prices has made the digital photo frame the must have gadget in a gift shopper’s list. How about a wooden frame that looks like a digital screen, you heard right, this nifty little gadgets is the traditional photo frame with one simple exception. It looks like a Photoshop window, when blank it shows a pattern...
Looking for a superfast memory? Check out Lexar's Crucial Ballistix Tracer. The latest addition in Lexar Media's memory line up is a high performance DDR3 PC3-10600 (DDR3-1333MHz) low-latency memory module. The memory is targeted towards computer enthusiasts who likes to have fun with their system, and doesn't mind shelling big bucks to satisfy their hunger for best performance hardware. The most interesting thing about this memory is its activity-indicating Light-Emitting Diodes (LED)....
The Aluratek Internet Radio Jukebox is designed to let you have a plug-n-play experience in which your laptop or PC could have a user interface providing access to over 13,000 Internet radio stations. It lets you search for audio programming via the top ten channels by region, by genre, by specific artists, or by songs, as well as a host of other custom search criteria. USB Internet Radio Jukebox delivers by giving more than 33 million U.S. adults listening...
The Blusens Blu Brain is a versatile multimedia center that acts as a complete entertainment terminal for your home and even when you are out of town. This device has thrown away the optical drive and in its place, it is betting big on digital distribution of content via the internet. This device is the Apple TV concept brilliantly implemented. It is capable of playing most digital video formats like, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4, XviD or H.264, VCD or SVCD....
The device has transportation services as the main target, and comes with a fixed mount so it stays steady on a vehicle. It has integrated 3.5G GSM HSDPA WWAN as well as 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi and when you speak of transportation and logistics, you must have some way of telling where your fleet is. Therefore, Motorola VC6096 also has a SiRF Star III GPS receiver. Oh yes, there is Bluetooth too. Since the VC6096 has both GPS and high speed...
Most of the first person shooters out there are just Doom on a grander scale. Spore could be perceived as a bit of innovation, but the jury even seems to still be out on that oft-touted title. It comes as a surprise, then, to hear about Aptus Games’ new line of Mini-Motion games that make use of clever-looking USB peripherals. The skateboarding game, for instance, will come with its own skateboard controller, which looks a lot like a Tech...
Technology has not advanced to that level. But we can all imagine. [Geekstir]...
