"This is the biggest and most adhesive honor 'The Simpsons' has ever received," said Matt Groening, the creator of the cult television show. The US Postal Service actually approved five Simpsons stamps with each family member’s featured in each of the stamps. So it doesn’t matter if you like Homer, Marge, Maggie, Bart or Lisa, you have a stamp bearing each of them. I wonder whether this implies that the Simpsons represent a perfectly dysfunctional American family. Well, atleast...
Bringing back the masculinity to phones, Samsung’s A657 will sing the AT&T anthem all along as it marches successfully through various hurdles. The phone is built in accordance to military standards, to brave shock, moisture, temperature and other challenging factors that most other candy bars would melt down to. It’s got a cool flashlight that brings you light in the dark. To make sure you don’t stray away into the woods, it’s also got GPS. Besides all the attributes that...
What you see above is 'Book Time' a robot developed by Electric Machine works Japan. This ingenious invention has won the robot of the year award for the year 2008 in the medium category. The robot has found use in old age homes and public reading libraries where old patrons can easily read through newspapers and heavy books. [Impress]...
Isao Machii holds two Guinness records for his Katana skills and after watching the video you will know why. Watch him cut through a baseball shot at 70 mph to a bullet fired from a gun using a sword....
Images of the Zune HD or the fourth generation Zune have leaked to Engadget. It has been confirmed that what you see here is not some Fanboys imagination but design concepts actually produced for Microsoft. Sources close to the Zune's development team confirm that the Zune HD is for real and it is a bit smaller than the iPod touch with competitive capabilities. The name gives away that the display will be "HD", whatever that means. The most advanced...
The iLuv iSP100 Mini Portable Stereo Speaker features stereo sound via what the company calls jAura™ Echo Soundcell Technology. It also mentions 360 degrees X 2 dynamic stereo sound, so either there’s some marketing message confusion or there’s a lot of tech in a small package. The package comes with its own carrying pouch and quick start guide. It features a 3.5mm jack to connect to iPod, iPhone 3G, 2G and other MP3 Players. The speakers themselves are capable...
The iPod does have a decent battery life but just incase need some extra juice perhaps this tiny steam engine could give that extra push. This steam powered iPod charger is a rigged out Lego steam engine with a USB connector to power up your iPod or any other device. The only hurdle I see is the amount of noise it generates to power your devices, nevertheless you can be sure your music player is charged come what may...
The A-DATA SSD X25-M series is co-logo'd with Intel, which means that the drives have been tested on Intel-based notebook and desktop platforms. Featuring Intel Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash Memory, the A-DATA X25-M series Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drive (SSD) are constructed by 10 Parallel Channel Architecture with 50nm MLC ONFI 1.0 NAND. The A-DATA X25-M series SSD achieves read speeds up to 250MB/sec and write speeds up to 70MB/sec with 85 microsecond read latency. Compatible with 2.5" SATA...
Verizon has just unveiled its new promotional video for the new Casio Exilim C721. The video shows a curvy girl taking a shower and answering her boyfriends call. The device is a clamshell handset with a 5 megapixel camera, and as the video shows, is obviously waterproof for snapping a few showering photos if that’s your choice, and is destined for Verizon Wireless. There is still no word on its pricing or approximate arrival on store shelves. Via [MobileWhack]...
Ford finally showed its two developing technologies, the Active Park and MyKey at 2009 New York auto show. MyKey has been covered extensively before, so well talk more about Fords new Active Park for now. The system works by pressing the park button in the center console; as you drive past a line of parked cars the system uses a long range ultrasonic sensor to measure empty spaces and decide if the car will fit. When it has found...
If you are the ultimate star trek fan this new line of PEZ dispensers may be right up your alley. This 8-piece Star Trek Pez dispenser consists of USS Enterprise and its crew: Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, Chekhov, Hulu, Boxee, and Xubuntu. It is a limited edition gift pack available on eBay until April 27 for the low price of $17. better hurry because after that you will have to shell out $20 for it at your...
If you’re lucky enough to have two iPhones lying around your home, the first one just left there after the new 3G came out, perhaps you could put it to good use. You could gift it to a new born baby, not to make calls but rather to play a new iPhone app called the iPhone Pacifier 1. This new app feature bright colors and simple games to allow kids to learn basic cognitive, vocabulary, and counting skills. The...
Currently doctors find it difficult to figure out the nature of an asthma attack and therefore a comprehensive solution is never achieved. An asthma inhaler laced with a GPS device may sound like an unnecessary luxury but thanks to this device doctors can now relay the detail of an attack as soon as it occurs, also enabling the doctor to understand the reasons that trigger an attack in a patient. It’s not hard to see that in the future...
Nokia’s licensing of Immersion's VibeTonz technology in 2007 has finally given us all something to really look forward to. It’s a technology that, besides a superior touch experience, gives users the delights of haptic feedback systems (that produce rumbles and vibrations on handheld devices). This stretches our curiosity as to when will this technology actually be available with a Nokia phone, and which phone would this possibly be on. The answer is Nokia’s Ivalo that is set to come in...
Yes, no kidding, Bluetooth 3.0 is on our doorstep! It’s just a matter of time before we unveil the incredible prowess of this stunning technology. Bluetooth 3.0 will be unveiled by Bluetooth Special Interest Group on April 21st. There have been tall claims by the makers who were quoted saying, “Transferring an entire music library, a complete DVD, a vacation's worth of photos, all within seconds at the touch of a button and wirelessly will now be possible." They...