Tired of practicing your vocal capabilities in the shower? Well, a certain Japanese firm has come up with the perfect way to help you croon away to glory without embarrassing yourself in public. Called the 1Kara, these single-person karaoke booths in Tokyo come with a chair, a microphone, headphones, and a small screen upon which the lyrics are displayed in a sound-proofed area, so that your voice, irrespective of how good you think it is, doesn’t carry out. Also, the...
There are more than a few social-networking individuals around us today, who prefer having their moods and emotions being broadcasted around on their Facebook status messages and Tweets. If you’re one of those, who simply loves all the cyber attention you get every time you suffer from mood-swings, the Affectiva Q Sensor 2.0 mood-sensing wristband is the perfect accessory for you! Sporting Bluetooth wireless capability, the wristband measures electrodermal activity and sends your emotional changes to sites like Facebook and...
Google seems keen on enveloping the better half of the technology world with its Android system and the open-source Android 4.0 operating system developed for smartphones and tablets has now moved spread across a wider area, porting to x86 processors that could make it functional on netbooks and low-end laptops! Also, this could lead the way in the development of tablets with Android 4.0 based on x86 chips, with Google and leading x86-manufacturer, Intel, working close at hand. As for...
Take an eMac shell, add a pinch of Twitter, a dash of Arduino and your pet cat, and you’d probably come up with something like this. Created by designer Samuel Cox, the eSleeper seems to be a perfectly amusing DIY way to have your feline friend fall asleep. The eMac shell is hooked on to an Arduino Ethernet connected to an IR sensor. With LED lights doing the job of creating an ambient glow on your kitty, the eSleeper triggers...
V-MODA has long been in the business of providing state-of-the-art audio accessories like headphones and earphones. Their latest addition to the Ear Armor range is the V-MODA Faders tuned earplugs which are made out of top grade metals as well as featuring medical-grade silicone fittings. These ear plugs will protect your hearing through reduction of harmful noise by 12 dB evenly across the frequency spectrum. You’d be wrong to assume this one as a party-spoiler for it will allow you...
It’s just been three days since we heard of an iPhone 4 combust on an airplane in Australia and now one of the users on the XDA-developer forum has reported that Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket too exploded in his friend’s pocket. Though the user wasn’t injured but these instances do serve a chilly reminder how gadgets can turn out perilous sometimes. The smartphone user heard a sound followed by a burning sensation on his leg which is when he...
The 2011 Tokyo Motor Show hasn’t been anything less than a heavenly delight for automobile connoisseurs. While we saw Nissan and Honda trying to put their best ‘green’ foot forward, Toyota seemed to have pursued an altogether different passion here with its “Fun-Vii” concept. The concept car has exteriors which serve as an external rolling display and interiors too can be adjusted to fit the driver’s mood. The executives of the Jap automobile giant conceded that this car concept was...
Verizon has finally confirmed that it will be launching 2 4G LTE Droid Tablets in December but no amount of specific information was given in the same context. The Droid Xyboard aka Xoom 2 is expected to arrive in two sizes, 10.1-inches and 8.2-inches, and feature a thinner design than the original Motorola Xoom. Also the design cues here look heavily inspired from the Motorola Droid RAZR that was released earlier last month. Driven by Android honeycomb, both tablets will...
The Guinness Book of World Records has acknowledged the Koenigsegg Agera as the quickest 0-300-0 kmph, 2-seat machine. By machine I mean production car. Definitely, this is leagues ahead of its time since it managed the whole stationary to top speed to stationary run in a stunning 21.19 seconds! The video after the jump will prove to you how awesome and effective the car really is. The climb-down from 300 kmph to a standstill was the devil’s very own, 6.66...
Without creativity, even the Gods wouldn’t be decorated as well. Just why we keep looking at the Wang Zi Wons Cyborg-Bodhisattva sculptures over and over again. This South Korean masterpiece collection brings the beauty of Buddhism closer to reality, better than anyone else. The artist himself has the finest taste for twists in the way he goes on to describe his works. He cooks up questions like “Can an ‘I’ cloned from my genes be considered a human being?” “Is...
Not often do we see graphics enhancers making their wares available in limited editions. But that's just what the Zotac GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 cores are talking about. The 448 CUDA cores come packed along with a 320-bit memory interface, a 756MHz GPU clock, a 1530MHz shader clock and a whopping 1280MB of GDDR5 memory that is set at 3800MHz. Other features include a dual-slot, single-fan cooling system with DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort outputs....
When there's a cool gust of wind taking you down, you know that there's just one thing to do. Cuddle up in bed, listen to your favorite song and sip some coffee. To make it even better, try on the Urbanears Plattan Quilted Edition Headphones that will keep you warmer and comfortable. It's got the same quilted treatment for the ear muffs that the jackets do. Armed with 40mm homemade drivers that proffer enhanced sounds and provide a frequency response...
I hate peeping toms. Just what may have inspired this discrete monitor-viewing effort. The effort being this amazing trick that makes all the contents of your monitor visible, only to those using these cool glasses. LCD monitors use a polarized filter to block that isn't supposed to be shown. Now, if this filter wouldn't exist, all you would see is plain white on your screen. To make this possible, all you do is take this filter out and make yourself...
What would you give if you could have the magic of three worlds in one? The Gigabyte T1132 is a hybrid combination of a laptop, tablet and desktop. It has a basic notebook form with a screen that can fold back to serve as a tablet. Then you can go on to close the lid and add the Booktop 1132 with a monitor, keyboard and mouse to have a desktop system, right there. The specifications include a 11.6-inch display screen,...
Ambient light can change the way you entertain yourself. This was well explored by Philips' Ambilight TV range. Now that ominous glow is here for everyone. The Adalight Kit comes to you with the same magic that the Philips original managed. So we have the kit that uses and Arduino board, along with a strip of RGB LEDs. This is arranged at the back of your display to create the desired effect. On detecting the average color on the borders...
