Bottle caps haven’t been touched by the few innovative heads we have around us. The last I saw was the domination of really cool openers and corkscrews. However, we have a major breakthrough in the art of designing bottle caps, for pills, to be more specific. These cool new bottle caps that are around the corner will be able to send SMS alerts to us, reminding us about the medicines that we have to take at a particular time, should...
Sharp have done their part for this year’s Ceatec. With the revelation of the NetWalker, I’ve already done my share of getting to know what to gift my geek cronies this holiday season (plus the import from Japan if that may be). The NetWalker comes in as a smaller-than-usual notebook with a 5 inch touchscreen, Ubuntu OS (nice!), USB, Wi-fi, 4 GB memory, microSD expansion and a battery that has enough juice to last 10 hours....
Come 2012, you will no longer have any qualms about owning a million cell phone chargers for the zillion phones you own. Pardon the exaggeration, but it surely gets on my nerves as I carry those painfully tangled chargers that tend to make life a living hell. Hark! Hark! The CTIA has announced a new initiative that gives us the warm assurance that everything that will be purchased from the US will have a microUSB port and a 3.5...
The best thing I liked about this cool iPhone accessory is that it will get the interest of even the hard-hearted Hell’s Angels. It’s a cool mount for your iPhone, on your wrist, so that you don’t have to stop aside every time you receive a call or a message. You can simply receive your calls, check GPS updates on the route you’re taking and also listen to some good music and control playback without pulling over. It may...
There are a million applications to speakers that happen to be as thin and flexible as paper is. Thanks to the concept of the fleXpeaker, we can now look forward to a great new means of entertaining ourselves in the near future. It is being developed at ITRI in Taiwan. Imagine having these placed all over the theatre walls and inside your car without jutting out like bothersome boobs....
We were teased with the screenshots some months back and now is the time for a teaser trailer. Max Payne 3 is coming and it sure looks very promising. The reel included a 30 second teaser trailer for Max Payne 3, featuring slow-motion bullets, a mysterious masked woman, appropriately crisp sound design and a highly implausible release window of "Winter 2009." Thinking the video was just a fan project made to bolster an artistic portfolio, we thought little of...
Alarm clocks seem to be the talk of the gadget town nowadays. Maybe everyone’s finding it real hard to wake up. Designer Tan Weihao Rios has introduced the DOoP Multi Sensory Alarm. As jazzy the sound as is the style, shape and features. This alarm is real fun too as it allows you to o wake up or catch a bit more sleep. It will tell you how many hours you have been sleeping and how much you actually...
Winter going to set in real soon and GE's latest heater will come very handy, especially since its hybrid and the concerns for a greener earth is on the rise. The digitally controlled GE hybrid water heater is the first standard water heater to be listed on US Department of Energy website as complying with the Energy Star Rated standards. Why? Because the water heater pulls heat from the surrounding air and transfers it to the tank creating the...
Sony has taken a liking to limelight at the CEATEC with its flexible, 0.2mm thin OLED display which can be bent back and forth, while actively showing content on its surface. It is almost tangible and since that is the talk of town these days, Sony needs to find ways to keep up in the market with competition soon going to tighten. [Video after the jump]...
Yamaha Japan has come up with a new iPod dock called the TSX-W80. It has features apparently that will not make you sling it across the wall when it cries out in the morning to wake you up. It has AM/FM radio and features a 2.1 speaker configuration with dual 4-watt speakers and 8 watts on the low end and also a AirWired Cradle that allows you to connect you iPod to wirelessly stream iPod audio and music to...
The gaming world is never going to rest. It has to constantly be on its toes to provide the best effects and pleasures of gaming. Nintendo hence has announced its latest range of new products including Pokepark Wii: Pikachu's Big Adventure to be released in Japan on December 5. This includes some fun games where the Pokemans are performing in events at a theme park. Aside from this there are the hardware bundles for Tales of Graces and Samurai...
After their Leaf electric car, Nissan will showcase its second concept called Land Glider at the Tokyo Motor Show. The car is meant to be an urban runabout with two seats and would be fully electric. It is made in such a narrow way that it can squeeze through congested roads and traffic also making it easier to find parking at any time. Inside the car, the driver can be seated in the front centre of the car behind...
Contrary to the economy the mobile market is showing no signs of slowing down. In fact it continues to grow at an exponential rate. According to the Semi-Annual wireless survey by CTIA, 276 million consumers now use wireless devices, up from 262 million in 2008, and use a total of over 1 trillion minutes. Two years ago over a billion text messages were sent per day the number has now quadrupled to 4 billion messages per day. Over 740...
LG Korea has expanded its line up of LED TV's in its home market with the SL95 and SL90 series. To be made available in 42 or 47 inches the TV's are 23.3mm thick. They come equipped with LG's proprietary EYEQ Green technology which reduces power consumption by a good 70%. Like the WiiMote the remote control has a built in gyroscope which allows you to control the TV's 3D interface by waving, shaking or rotating the remote....
When the hell can we ever make it to a party without the bother of parking and unparking. The latter is a tad more of a problem since we’re mostly under the influence by the time its time to do so. However, with the Python car there isn’t much left to complain. If you cannot find a good enough place in the parking lot simply drive this one into the lake. The amphibious machine comes packed with a V8...
