While air conditioners are taking a more important role in the lives of many these days with global warming and heat waves, the traditional fans aren’t yet going out of fashion. Dyson thought why not come up with a unique idea and design and get people to start noticing the cost-effective, conventional method of cooling – fans. This one though, has no blades and looks like a huge ring. The Dyson Air Multiplier Fan uses the technology from the...

Tweeting is the next FB-ing (FaceBooking you know). After we heard and read about all sorts of weird things getting to tweet these days, this new entry isn’t that surprising, but amusing nonetheless. It is the Lufthansa Airlines flights. They have set up a new service named MySkyStatus which automatically posts the current position of your flight to Twitter or Facebook allowing your friends to know where exactly you are at. Like for example, you are flying to Japan...

To have some fun from mundane employment life, why not try these on a day of board meeting to work? These are called the Pop Up Slippers and are made in Japan. They are very fun looking and insanely crazy. They are simple ovals cut to allow the edges to be folded over your feet and secure with a hole and a metal stud. All you need to really have to make one of these on your own is...

Yay! Its another flash drive – a funky, cool and brilliant one! Imagine having your very own Star Trek flash drive! Wicked! But only a few lucky ones gets these as these are limited version 4GB Starfleet Insignia flash drives. The digital copy of the new Star Trek movie will be on it and you can play it on any of five registered devices. The movie will only be around 1GB which means the rest is for saving all...

This is an interesting eco-friendly concept. It is very intelligently called as Wattson. It is defined as is an energy consumption reader and is designed by DIY Kyoto. It comes with a sensor clip that attaches to the electricity cables from the home's meter to the fuse box and a transmitter that sends the information to the display that will then show how much money you are wasting or saving. It also has colored lights to show how much...

Wikipedia is the second most site visited after Google I am sure. It is almost like a daily bite of bread and butter these days. So imagine how wonderfully gleeful will people be, those who are obsessed with Wiki, when they hear of this wonderful new gadget? It is the Wikireader by Openmoko - a portable Wikipedia without the need for a smart phone. It puts three million Wikipedia article readers without an internet connection. You can even get...

This is slightly spooky but also really creative. With the idea to use modern technology with modern art, namely DNA art, French Company Helys came up with a striking idea – a DNA wallpaper for your iPhone. Yes, your very own DNA display to prove it IS your very own phone – your own genetic image. The company sends a DNA test kit to you through mail which includes a mouth swab to collect your saliva genes. Then they...

This should be used by the CIA and the likes I would think, but no, a common man and civilian can also use these shoes to get help if attacked. Isaac Daniel Compass and Blue GPS shoes came up with a great shoe with a Bluetooth. You can let everyone know wherever you are any time of the day if they possess a phone with a Bluetooth. This is a great idea to get back to your ex-boyfriend and...

With technology comes the good … and also the evil. Hence proved, with this USB Computer Prankster. What it can do is allow a cyber saboteur to sneak to your computer, plug the USB in a not-too-obvious USB port, roll back the time delay, engage the switches, and wait to sadistically watch the fun as you go insane with your crazy machine. You wouldn’t lose any of your work, they would be around somewhere on your PC but it...

Medicines aren’t apparently the only curers of illness, specifically swine flu. Even a suit can. That’s what Japanese menswear company Haruyama Trading says after unveiling their new anti-H1N1 suit that will help keep you disease-free. It is coated with titanium dioxide, a chemical commonly used in toothpaste and cosmetics, which helps in breaking down when reacting with light and kills the virus upon contact. Also, the suit will retain its protective capability even after being washed multiple times. It...

Kempler & Strauss has announced a pair of 3G WinMo devices and a watch phone. The pair is Billionair B6 and B7 which are full touch and portrait QWERTY WinMo devices currently running on 6.1 version. Plans are on however to have an upgrade to 6.5 will be available by the end of the year. The B7 also features the combo portrait keyboard/QVGA touchscreen. Both phones cost $300....

Everyday is a surprise at Google. They come up with the craziest, most unimaginable things to surprise us too. Well, the latest is Google Suggest which is a little pop-up box of search suggestions that gives you answers to some really odd questions – random things. For example, if we put in ‘Mac users are’ it would come up with a list of answers like ‘Mac users are annoying’ or Mac users are snobs’ or ‘Mac users are retards’....

With anticipations high on the launch of Windows 7 end of this month, Belkin has unveiled the Easy Transfer Cable offering a fast and convenient manner to migrate files, music, photos and user accounts from a computer running a copy of Windows to a new Windows 7-powered computer. It will be used with the Windows Easy Transfer utility from Microsoft making transfers easy and uninterrupted. It is going to be first released in North America and later on next...

Fun ATM machine this is, and green too. At the Nebraska Furniture Mart in Omaha, you can recycle your phones and get an in-store trade-up coupon or gift card. This self-serve e-cycling station electronically inspects the phones and then assigns them through real-time a secondary market value followed by providing you an in-store payment. If it’s worth something, you will get a voucher but if it isn’t then is gets recycled or refurbished. The kiosk is set up by...

This is SO cute! Imagine literally having a bear hug. No, not the real bear – that would be a gory sight with them acting all grizzly. But this one is a grizzly bear bean bag looking as cute as you would imagine! It was designed by Chic Sin Design and looks like a hibernating bear. If you want it (hell, yeah!) save $135....