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Nokia are getting a lot more cliché with their designs. We have the Nokia 7705 Twist (that lives up to its name) that has been announced by Verizon. The squarish body seems pretty well balanced on the QWERTY keypad over which it twists. It comes with a 3.0 megapixel camera (flash + autofocus), VCAST video and music services, Media Center, direct blog posting facilities, built-in mirror (bleh!), Bluetooth and a cool Habitat Mode that helps users organize their calls...
LG has given us all a relieving dose of its HDTVs with these wire free wonders. The LG 55LHX and the LH85 will use a media box to transmit video without getting it compressed in any way. This means that you can end up with a mighty clear 1080p HD video. They can receive wireless feeds from up to 30 feet away. The 55LHX has LED backlighting (ooh…) and 5,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio (aah…). An insanely unreal refresh rate...
Now you’ve all been through that rugged day at work. Sweating it out in your unkind coat and tie doesn’t help your nervous sweat by even a small bit. So you trudge through the bloody boardroom, slip off your coat and behold! There lies the answer to all your problems dangling from your neck in place of that boulder of a meeting. It’s an opener! Yes, it’s true. This can happen. All you need to do is get your...
Get a hold of this all you wannabe Hell’s Angels. The cool Harley-Davidson Chair can get you gyrating in your thoughts and imagination as you sit comfortably in the safe, cozy confines of your living room. The chair features headlights, taillights, mirrors, flames and a cool footrest that, when kicked out, triggers the speakers in the chair to vroom. The mirrors can be quite helpful if you want to keep a check on when your wife steps in. It...
Now that we’re at the height of communication using various mediums, both wired and unwired, everything suddenly seems to be pointing at the distant past for inspiration. Take this IT company from South Africa that claims that their pigeon messengers are faster than the contemporary methods of communication there. It’s already well known that the Internet speed in African nations is quite dismal because of expensive setups required and low bandwidth. According to a report a pigeon (called “Winston”!!!)...
The Marathon Pedometer uses an accelerometer to track your footsteps, the distance covered, calories burnt and also the time. It can be worn around your neck or strapped to any part of your body. It also allows you set challenges and lets you know how long you will take to finish a marathon. It looks nice and trendy and also comes with a LCD screen but the price is a little over-priced compared to the other solutions that are...
If this works out well, you could be looking at the new tires of the future. No more checking air pressure and no more danger from flat tires too! At least that is what the military thinks it can do while they testing out the airless tires for their military vehicles. But it will take a lot of scientific research to get the proper material that can carry the weight of a multi-ton military vehicle. So till then back...
Pioneer has brought out their new line of bookshelf speakers, which are already available in Europe a week before. Both the XW models are single-unit speakers but they have tried to make them stand out in the crowded market of speakers by giving them a 2.1 channel and a digital 60W output. Apart from that, the speakers come with Bluetooth, which saves you from physically connecting your iPhone or iPod Touch. XW-NAS5 comes in black and red and also...
There is a new Walkman S series in the offering and the model S740 was seen at the Sony Dealer Convention in Japan. We don’t have much on the specifications and other stuff but by the looks of it, the Walkman has an industrial design with beefier earbuds and no stereo speakers. They also come in capacities of 8GB and 16GB capacities. [Engadget]...
Lego is such fun! People have created so many wonders out of this wonderful invention like buildings, homes and so on. For Lego lovers, this is one really fun toy – Lego patterned walkie-talkie. It has a range of up to 3000 foot and includes volume control and push-to-talk functions. The walkie-talkies have got a clip on the back with which you can attach to your belt. It comes in sets of two and comes with a use guide....
With everything available on the internet, namely movies, music, series, etc people often prefer to watch their favorite movies at home than in cinema halls nowadays. To enhance the feeling of watching it on big screen, electronics giants are always racing to create better and more convenient home theatre technologies. Zvox has come up with a new system called the IncrediBase 575 putting five high-performance speakers into a 133-watt amplifier with dual 6.5" long-extrusion subs inside one small cabinet...
Most of us have been not very lucky when it comes to winning that multi-billion dollar lottery. There are some of us who collect them and do not give up at all… they keep buying with the hopes that they WILL one day win. Jean Chin did the same but then she got fed up after eight years and thought why not put all that lotto tickets into something better, like maybe a city of discarded scratch tickets! The...
Money invested in education is money well invested. A £78million high-tech science facility, the Darwin Centre, has opened by the Natural History museum to encourage the public to quiz leading researchers. It has an eight-storey Cocoon that houses 17 million insects and three million plant specimens. The facility is made of curved white concrete, steel and glass the 214ft-long structure. Public can have a 'Cocoon tour' where they can watch and talk to scientists at work in new laboratories....
Panasonic today announced the first-ever landline telephone that enables users to transfer their cell phone contacts (up to 600 names and numbers) to its built-in directory via Bluetooth. To transfer a cell phone address book of up to 600 entries, simply select the Phonebook Transfer option from the Panasonic KX-TG9382T’s menu screen, and then follow the instructions for phonebook transfer onto a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone. The Panasonic KX-TG9382T’s menu screen displays each entry as it quickly and automatically transfers...