Oh dear. Now I know why my sixth sense never allowed me to buy a phone with GPS. According to certain sources, we may be facing the end of GPS systems all over the world by early 2010. There will be much chaos during this time, including blackouts and wrong information. Just imagine the predicament that would follow after this happens. We have countless systems, organizations and individuals who totally depend on GPS for their day-to-day activity. However, there...
All thanks to this little surprise from Chevrolet, we now have something that will make you wish all the more for a car that you always wanted. The Bumblebee Camaro will be available with an option of V6 or V8 power engines. The links between the designs of this car is reminiscent to the bots in Transformers. The difference being, the Bumblebee will be of the typical Camaros Rally Yellow. It’s got a couple of racing lines along its...
Eco-friendly batteries juice up gadgets and vehicles with every other substance like ethanol, corn, water, etc. except fossil fuels. However, the latest green news is that a cell can run on air….which can be translated as a battery that breathes like human body. Based on STAIR, St Andrews Air technology, this battery sucks in oxygen and reacts with carbon inside. Such a super cell can open up new possibilities to charge the new generation of electric cars. Also the...
Korean based mintpass is launching the mintpad 2.0 which is a multimedia network device. It will be released later this year but apparently no more news is given of it. Some of the details we do know of this is that it has an integrated GPS and WiBro, a metal body, and a touchscreen display that won't exceed seven inches. The current mintpad sports a display of only 2.8 inches. Then again no one knows of the new one...
Imagine what technology can do for you. Bluetooth, let me tell you, who ever invented this must have never realized it would be used to open garage doors. Yes people, it can now be used to open your garage doors! The Blueguard Self-opening Door is a handy little contraption that uses a Bluetooth signal from you cellphone to open the door when you are approaching. My first concern was what if I just walk past in any of my...
There could be a late entry on T-Mobile. A device codenamed as Morrison is expected to be available between early November and the end of the year. No details of the phone are yet available but there are possibilities that it will be sporting a touchscreen and also a QWERTY keyboard. This device added to T-Mobile’s arsenal would further cement the company’s role as one of the largest backers of Android in the US with atleast 2 HTC devices...
Apple has just put up a support page in response to claims by users that they are getting electric shocks from the Apple’s iPhones and iPod ear buds. It’s a small and quick shock but that is enough to warrant an official issue by Apple. It seems that in areas where the air is dry, it is easy to build up static electricity and is possible for your ear to receive small electrostatic discharge from the headphones. Apple has...
If you are playing multi-player games, you will realize that communication is the key to team work and for communication Skullcandy Gaming Series G.I. is the key. This 40 mm power driver give you full realistic sound in a comfortable long haul design. It has a maximum input power of 400mw and comes with OF cable. It is 1.2 meters long and has 3.5mm gold plated plug. It cost$ 79.95....
As I had mentioned before, USB flash drives are awesome as they can come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, colours, styles and designs. This new one goes back centuries again mixing modern day with the vintage sights. It is the Steampunk Copper Jump Drive made up of vintage gears and has a capacity of 4GB. It has been handcrafted using a vintage clock and watch gear and then wrapped in copper. Jazzy isn’t it? You just need to...
The International Contemporary Furniture Fair is exhibiting its new ideas this year and one particular item stood out. It is Designer John Pomp’s table luminaire. It looks like skyscrapers of light rising out of a fog, or from further away a giant lit snow globe made of bulbs. Also in his exhibit were hand blown glass spheres made at his studio in New York. It’s really creative and kudos to this dude for going through the effort to give...
With all the goodies that we have previously seen, bearing the name of the famous flick, Transformers, including the Transformer’s phone and the Transformers USB Hub, we have another addition to the pack. This times is a cool USB drive that can convert into Ravage, a fierce jungle cat that defines power. What’s sad is that this drive has just 2 GB of memory in it and has to be pre-ordered, so most fans will end up seeing it...
With the appearance of the Samsung S5200 in the company’s Italian website’s ‘coming soon’ section, we can start hoping to see more of it in our midst. The phone is a pretty new dash to the typical Samsung slider design that we have seen in countless handsets that they have come up with in recent times. The S5200 will come in dimensions of 103.6 x 48.7 x 10.9 mm, which indicates that the sliders are pulling down on size....
Beyond the imagination of any Nokia fan who owned the original 6600 phone, the all new 6600 Slide is more than a good looker. Here’s more on what we once covered, rather ambiguously. It has a 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, so that you can go clicking even on the darkest nights. The brushed metal coat gives the phone the familiar gleam that we saw in the N96, N81 and other phones of the era. It has...
Though it’s fairly palpable we can get some hope from the fact that the iPhone 3.0 will have something to look forward to. However, the specs mentioned hereafter are claimed to be from the detailed specsheet of the phone. Well, since we are at that point where any news is good news, we shall here more. The iPhone 3.0 will have two versions 16 GB ($199) and 32 GB ($299). It will have a 3.2 megapixel camera, FM, built-in...
If you don’t have very pleasant memories from the bad bot in the sci-fi flick, Ghost in the Shelf then this is going to be very bad news for you. Spotted in Japan, is a real, movable Tachikoma that moves around. Though the number of limbs is quite debatable, the work put in by San Kougie to design this transportation device in the shape of the defamed robot has to be appreciated. This replica will shed some light on...
