Man’s need for speed is well touted about. While roads don’t allow for cars to go over 200 mph, automakers continually push the boundaries of speed, so we know they can. These cars don’t fail to impress with their racing engines, design element and price-tags. Here’s a look at the top 10 cars that are expected to burn the roads this year. At a speed of 267mph topping this list is the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport followed by the...
Why you would want a pair of sneakers belting out your music, I will never understand. But for those who like to stock on quirky little inventions, this one will knock the sneakers out of you, (pardon the pun!) as Nintendo NES has managed to cram a pair of sneakers into a shoe. The Sneaker Speakers, clichéd but aptly named, were made by high-end sneaker customizer Nashmoney at the recent Inspired Ingenuity creative competition for Havana Club. The speakers...
Australian designer Flynn Talbot has unveiled an interactive light experience at his first solo exhibition at Helmrinderknech in Berlin. Talbot has introduced a brand new interactive light product called X&Y, the White/Gold edition, which allows people to touch and control the power of the light allowing the user to choose their own desired lighting effect. The object takes its name from the X&Y axes - the horizontal 'X' axis controls the colour and the vertical 'Y'axis the brightness and...
There is no dearth of all-in-one entertainment devices in the tech town, but Archos still managed to garner attention with its new portable device laced with a good feature pack. Hailed as ARNOVA,it is a small web radio and TV with Wi-Fi capabilities. It offers access to as much as 12,000 internet radio stations, and also 1500 web TV channels and podcasts. It also enables the users to stream their media content directly to the device through its internal...
Vuzix Corporation had partnered with NS Solutions to dole out a HMD which will aid workers at manufacturing sites. These full-blown Augmented Reality Glasses comes with optical transmission based on the visual filed of naked eye. It also billed as the world’s first consumer optical transmission type HMD with basic AR functions. If you dig inside, you’ll find ultra small and light guiding lenses with which holographic films can be seen. It just weights 116g and has been proved...
Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 has been a constant topic for rumors and leak these days. It was also the Dell 2011 Roadmap that spoke of smartphones running on this latest Windows OS which further heated up things. The tech giant has now unveiled a video demonstrating their radical UI which could possibly be the headline feature of Windows 8. The UI here makes graphical icons a thing of the past and incorporates bubbles that interact with files and sorts....
Nintendo 3DS debuted in Japan just last Saturday i.e. 26th February and hackers have already started to work their charm around this handheld device. They have created a tool that lets the player use R4 cartridges on 3DS. The hackers here have tweaked the ‘whitelist’ built into the device which contains the name of all games that can be played on it. So by modifying this list, they have enabled it to run their flashcard but ordinary users cannot...
Apple’s offerings have usually given an inferiority complex to other gadgets in the market. So we generally find others mimicking their most celebrated features. But it looks like as if the tables are turned now. It is now developing their iOS to incorporate the new gesture-based lockscreen that resembles Android’s dots lock screen feature. So instead of punching in numbers, the user needs to feed a pattern and use the same one to unlock his phone. This new feature...
NFL Combien players will be made to wear an Under Armour shirt equipped with an accelerometer as well as heart and breathing monitors, that will let trainers and scouts view more than just their appearance on the field. According to Wired, the Under Armour E39 shirt is made from the same material as its other compression gear, and weighs less than 4.5 ounces -- even with the bright yellow puck stitched just below the chest. An addition is the...
The Verizon iPhone comes similar antenna issues to its counterpart on AT&T, according to Consumer Reports. The publication claims that, internal tests of the Verizon model have revealed the same attenuation issues. After calling it "grip of death" to "Antennagate" by bloggers and reporters, the issue took a grim turn for Apple, who were forced to make a public statement and provide free bumpers to all iPhone 4 owners. According to Consumer Reports, just like the AT&T models, the...
What we’ve really not gotten tired of is gloating about the incredible prowess of the HTC brand to roll out so many good and novel handsets in a span of time that actually got us all wondering. If not announcements then it was at least a word of much-appreciated caution that’s got us all hyper. The HTC Merge seems to be the next best thing to be happening with a spring promise in sight. It will come with Android 2.2...
What inspires these gifted few to come up with ideas as brilliant as this is mystery and shall remain so. But what we gather from the fact that someone actually went on to convert his old Mini Cooper into a rigorous gaming chair. David Gawthorpe put in a hard-work-ridden two years of effort to get this whole thing together. The front end of the Mini Cooper used thus is quite a spectacle. The pride of London seems to be rigged...
MSI are giving the WindPad another shot and this time, their offering, the 100A tablet, will be driving Honeycomb into the heart of it all. Not being a non-sense, frail attempt is underlined by the fact that the tablet will arrive with features to match the possible tall claims. Besides the novelty of Honeycomb, it will also add a powerful dual-core Nvidia Tegra processor, a 10.1-inch display screen, Wi-Fi and 8 hours of usage after a full charge. So, is...
Whatever you do with the software, you laptop speakers just cannot live up to the pressures of good music output. So, we have speakers like Edifier that sound good, do not occupy more space and simply clip on to your laptop. They connect via microUSB and are available as two different sets. The first being the clip-ons mentioned before and the sound bars that emanate some heart-warming tones. Together, the all-in-one package is labeled as Sound To Go. If you...
HTC are on a roll with new, exciting releases all over the world in the last few days. This busy week sees the introduction of the HTC Incredible S in European territory that for now spells, UK. What really gets to us is the fact that the phone, which had relatively good expectations to meet will be coming with Android Froyo, rather than Gingerbread. There may be a Gingerbread upgrade in the near future, but really, who wouldn't want it...
