Razer has been in the business of making a PC gamers life as comfortable and hardcore as possible even if means upgrading their mouse pads. They’ve just announced the Razer Scarab which is the update to the Razer Destructor. The Scarab is the next generation hard gaming mouse mat that features a Razer Fractal 2.0 surface coated in light grey. This means a smoother gaming experience as your mouse could literally feel like it was floating on air. It’s...
One upon a time, there were a couple of real genius like musicians, Daito and Masaki, who’s main goal seems to be making the human body just one giant musical instrument. This was not to be by having some inane talent of burping the alphabet or the National Anthem by flatulence via your armpits or whistling Dixi. They’ve devised a whole new way of human musical instrument integration. Using all kinds of myoelectric sensors they’ve managed to make the...
Exosuits have been in development for a long time and could mean making those with injuries or without limbs feel so much more comfortable. A Japanese company (who else?) called Cyberdyne (where have we heard of that name before? Could this mean the preliminary commencement of a Judgment day ending?) is working on an exoskeleton robot-like suit that will help invalids to retrieve most of their motor skills. The system is being called Hybrid Assistive Limb, or HAL (not...
Ahh Italy, you’ve given us so much – Pizza, Popes, cars, Spaghetti, the mafia, beautiful women and did I mention beautiful cars? Well the Italians are making a big statement with their upcoming special Tricolore edition of the famous Lamborghini Gallardo. Initially we heard of a two-tone Bicolore edition was going to make its appearance at the upcoming Detroit Auto Show, but it seems that the next edition i.e. the Tricolore is apparently also going to be out later...
Panasonic’s Viera range of HDTVs has just a new addition in the G3 series – the TH-L42G3. As usually, Panasonic has crammed the new device with quite a bit of functionality making choce just that much more difficult when you’re in a store. This latest 42-inch LCD HDTV is LED backlit, comes with Speed drive technology 2 that is designed to better control vertical / horizontal high motion videos to reduce blur tilted in all directions. It’s even using...
I’ve always wanted a pair of sunglasses that would eliminate glare but still offer me optimized vision, you know without the whole lens going black like it is with photochromic lenses. This is the best part about living in the 21st century, someone will always have the same want and someone will almost always find a way to get the job done, like Dynamic Eye. They’ve only recently completed the technology verification testing stage of its electronically controlled glare...
In the section of weird apps (I know there isn’t one but there should be), here’s one that’s sure to be somewhere in the top 20, it’s called ''Honey, it's me!''. The application that was developed for the iPhone by Nabix is for the lonely South Korean men looking for love or something like it. A cute looking 22 year old Korean model, Mina, was used for this ‘video-call’ application that has her saying all kinds of things (100-plus...
Looking to customize your Bugatti? No? Well chances are it’s because it’s a car that would require quite a few of us to scrimp and save for a few thousand years just to own it let alone customize it. But let’s just say you’re one of those artistic people and would simply love designing a custom Bugatti anyways, their Online car configurator is just what the doctor ordered. You can choose from a wide… wide range of colors even...
We met the Humanoid Bot who’ll fetch us beer and play pool, now Paris-based Aldrebaran Robotics will bring France into the elite club of countries engaged in developing advanced adult humanoid robots with their humanoid robot called Romeo being created to assist the elderly and disabled people. Scheduled to be unveiled in March next year, the 1.4-meter-tall robot will be good to walk about in the house, do household chores like fetching food from the kitchen, taking out garbage...
More on the CES 2011front is from the LG camp. They’ve apparently been offering sneak peeks in NYC for some of their upcoming devices. One of these is the LSB316 sound bar that’s equipped with Bluetooth functionality. The 2.1 channel sound bar is capable of 280-watt output, comes with a wireless subwoofer and features two optical audio inputs, one minijack input and a USB port for reading MP3 and WMA files. The sound bar is designed to be wall...
Disney’s upcoming Tron Legacy is generating quite a bit of hype as sci-fi fans are gearing up for what could be the biggest movie of the year. And Apple users are probably getting even more excited as iAd for iPad is for this very movie. This is the first and only iAd that will hit the iPad for 2010 since iAds have been showcased for just the iPhones till now. 2011 could see a flood of iAds hitting the...
Once in awhile you come across a product that you don’t know whether to classify as totally creative or totally crazy. I haven’t made my mind up about this the Century Sound Pillow, at least that’s the name the translation gives me. It’s either that or the iPod/iPhone Pillow Speaker. There are three models announced for a pillow that comes equipped with an iPhone or iPod attachment so you can soothe yourself to sleep with your favorite tunes. These...
Push notification services on Foursquare just got a totally handy or totally scary hack. A couple of developers Erin Sparling and Nicholas Hall have created an additional layer of utility for the social networking application that allows you to open the door to your apartment when you check-in at your address. Using the push notification service, Alpha 2.0 API coupled with an industrial web-enabled relay device and basic speaker wire these guys have devised on helluva key system for...
Here’s some more cool stuff for the Star Wars fans – Coloud has just announced a really cool pair of headphones fashioned to look like the worlds favorite little robot – R2D2. In fact they’ve got a whole Star Wars line of headphones that will also feature headphones with Imperial Stormtroopers, Darth Vader, or an X-Wing fighter on the ear cups. To make things easy and convenient for transport, Coloud has designed these headphones with a foldable hinge so...
The rest of the globe has already accepted the tablet PC with arms wide open and the trend is booming. What’s surprising is that Microsoft seems to be lagging behind in this field that they were responsible for starting up in the first place almost 10 years ago. The word is that come CES 2011, Microsoft will be showing off iPad killers (haven’t used that term in a long time). Companies like Samsung and Dell will be among the...
