There's a way to get your device to be the ultimate one of all time. The Starbucks Card Mobile iPhone Application makes it possible for you to pay for your coffee from your already useful iPhone. 74 billion locations of Starbucks are all set to start accepting the new technology, though currently, only few of them have made room for it. Starbucks has announce that it will be taking payments in this mode from over 1000 stores all over the...
We're well aware about the harmfulness of overuse of cellphones. There's the radiation and brain damage that's been taken care of but hey, there's another disease called 'Cellbow' that affect the elbow and arms. Jabra has capitalized on this and made it a selling point for their Bluetooth Headsets. I wonder if we will soon see something that can out do this idea....
ID, those gaming geniuses, opened up their Quake II engine as Open Source paving the way for developers to go nuts. So some guys down at good old Google decided to bring that on over to Javascript using the Google Web Toolkit and have opened up the game to played directly within wither a Google Chrome browser thanks to HTML5. This set up now offers online gamers 30fps gaming complete with file saving and multiplayer support. Firefox sadly doesn’t...
Meet the Gigiway Piano and Violin Learning Pen. It is capable of reading musical note. All you have to do is point the pen on the paper that has the notes written and it will play the piece for you. This isn't just the work of geeks and geniuses but also a collaborative effort by professional musicians. Users can also control the tempo of the soundpiece that is being played. It also has built-in speakers and connectivity to headphones...
Here's a way you can enjoy the match and fill your stomach with some really delicious chicken at the same time. The cool Fifa 2010 PC case mod we have here kicks in from the German Case Modding Championship. It sports an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, socket 775 motherboard, an ASUS ATI 4870 Grafkkarte with 1024MB RAM, 4GB Corsair TwinX RAM, a 1000MB hard drive, a DVD burner, Windows Vista Home Version and a lot more....
Sharp has endowed us with a fantastic 2D/3D switchable screen. It is said to be similar to the screen that comes along with the upcoming Nintendo 3DS. It would help you enjoy 3D action without the use of those annoying glasses. It achieves this awesomeness with the help of the parallax barrier system and CG-Silicon technology. You can expect this device to come with a cool, compact 3.4-inch size screen (480 x 854 pixels resolution), 1000:1 contrast ratio, and...
Here’s one more of the clone-kind handsets that may not be anything like the original under the hood but it’s gimmicky all over. This one is an iPhone clone, well, not one you’d easily figure to be so though. At first sight it looks like an ordinary, scratch that, jazzy looking handset like the ones that come from the far eastern continent with a regular keypad small display and such. Flip it open however and hidden underneath is 3-inch...
Here's a chance for you to invest some money into the fads and fantasies of tomorrow. The all new OLED Wallpaper concept is likely to spring to life in the near future. Just when you thought that screens were getting to be ultimately awesome you have something better on the platter. An OLED Wallpaper. It serves a dual purpose of lighting as well. The best part is that you can add a whole new look and feel to the...
Hyundai’s has decided that the their next latest luxury sedan, the Equus is going to do for owners what no other luxury car has done before... break out the drum roll, they’re going eco friendly by doing away with the old fashioned paper manuals and going with Apple’s soon to be coming, already sold out, iPad. How cool is that. In addition to your fancy new car you’ll get a fancy new internet tablet as well. The wireless services...
With regards to the much awaited Nintendo's next gen handheld console, the 3DS, word is that Hitachi and Sharp are the masterminds behind the small, you-don't-need-to-wear-weird-glasses-to-play 3D display on the portable gaming console. It's going to be a 3.4-inch LCD (480 x 854 pixels) that will be using a parallax barrier system to give users a portable 3D gaming experience. This kind of system creates a 'sense of depth by using a series of vertical slits in an ordinary...
The researchers at the University of California are totally aware of the lack of househelp housewives get these days. Instead of making a robot that fetches your beer or pleases you in bed, they came up with one that successfully folds towels into neat bundles. They used a Willow Garage's PR2 humanoid robot and described its cloth grabbing capabilities in an ICRA 2010 paper. It comes fitted with four cameras that help detect the corners of it. The time consumed...
It's good to see a line of alarm clocks that have come along in recent times that will wake you up in a more serene manner, rather than shake you off your sweet slumber in the most inhumane manner possible. Following this line of positives we have this cool alarm clock that will not work on the decibels for a change. The Verilux Rise and Shine Natural Sleep System will put you to bed with a dimming light and some...
If you're out by the toll booth and there's no light in your bag, car or the rat-hole toll booth then you may well end up overpaying or underpaying and embarassing yourself in the process. So we have this awesome concept that has currency notes that glow. How cool is that? If will make Uncle Scrooge's room look like a bio-waste plant with all the glowing green....
How far can you go with things of this manner? The temptations are out there and well, multiplying in number and you photography vice seems to have no room for escape! So you may well dig the sexy new 14megapixel Slice digicam from Kodak that comes with a 3.5 inch touchscreen display, 5X optical zoom, 720p recording, 2GB on-board memory, microSDHC card slot, scene detection and face detection. It's said that the sharing feature in this one kicks some serious...
What makes USB Chillers so good is that they cool your drink using some inexpensive, portable techniques but hey, when will these guys ever get bored of showcasing these chillers. Anyway. We have a new one here and this time it's a semiconductor and carbon construction that promises to make your drink freeze up to -10 degrees in just five minutes! Totally a trick from out of the book but if this happens then this one's in the record books....
